[hnbear]

My father was gifted a pair of these for his 50th birthday, would have been 1989, in London.

Little ICE scooters. They were a lot of fun and not very safe. We had drunk guests damaging themselves in the street.

They became toys for my brothers and I, who had plenty of accidents but learnt to ride them reasonably.

The engines didn’t idle particularly well and had no gears. You had to pull start, hop on and go quickly while reving just enough to idle without it moving. It took practice. You could push start too with some practice, especially once warm.

Lots of fun, but mileage wouldn’t have been great for serious use and refilling a pain at a regular petrol station. Might have been 2-stroke, I can’t remember. Tiny engine, closer to a strimmer than lawnmower.

Huge fun though for just bombing around on as a tween and young teen.

[UniverseHacker]

Must have been two stroke, 4 stroke motors are too large and heavy for an application like that.

[Epa095]

According to Wikipedia

> The engine was an air-cooled, 4-stroke, 155 cc engine over the front wheel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped