Way back in the early 60's when I lived in France my mother would do
grocery shopping in the open markets riding a Solex moped. One of those showed
up on evilBay a couple of days ago:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/50536383513/in/dateposted-public/
These things had a two-stroke engine, and you had to mix the oil and
gasoline yourself. Every morning when people went to work there would be a
blue cloud along the streets as people went about on these. Fortunately they
did not use castor oil, as with the Le Rhone rotary aircraft engines in WWI.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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