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MINE PARK believes the two-stroke MX-5 bicycle engine her
- North Vancouver import company brought from Korea is just
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A NORTH Vancouver import
company is hoping to arm the
burgeoning commuter revolu-
tion with state-of-the-art gas-
powered motors designed to
power the average bicycle

By A.P. McCredie

Automotive Reporter

Bosae Trading Ltd, a Pierard
Road company in North
Vancouver, has imported hun-
dreds of MX-5 engines from
Korea to sell to Lower Mainland
eyclists.

The 33 c.c. two-cycle engine
weighs just 6.7 kg (4.7 Ibs.) and
will fit on, according to the manu-
facturer, virtually any style of
bicycle. Top speed for the MX-5
is 50 kmh (31 m.p.h.).

“We've sold them to both rac-
ing and mountain-bike owners
with no problems,” reports Bosac
Trading’s Min Park.

With the flip of a handle-bar
mounted-switch, the engine can be
disengaged from the bike wheel,
allowing for greater flexibility in

switching from gas to people
power.

“In many parts of the world,
these kinds of engines offer a real
alternative fo commuters fed up
with fighting traffic and fumes to
and from work,” Park says of the
efficient little engine. “It’s a pret-
ty new concept in North America
though.”

So new, in fact, that Park and
her associates found that the little-
engine-that-could might require a
licence from the Motor Vehicles
Branch to operate.

“We still can't get a straight
answer from the Ministry,” Park
says of Bosae’s attempts to deter-
mine the definition of a motor-
assisted bicycle. “It's frustrating
when the government says they
want to reduce emissions and then
drag their feet on good alternative
ideas.”

The best advice a government
agency has given the importer is
to “continue selling them till
someone tells you to stop.”

Regardless of the bureaucratic
red tape, the company believes the
engine is just the thing for cycling
into the 21st century.

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