Solex

John's family got me a solex tour for my birthday. A solex is a bicycle that has a motor on the front wheel that can be moved up or down. They were pretty popular in the 40s around The Netherlands. We went for a 3 hour tour around Assen, a small city to the south of Groningen. We got to wear period outfits: a long leather coat and helmet.

Getting ready to ride: Marcel, Cor, Me, John, Jane, Ilse.

Getting some instructions on how to ride our solex's: Me; Jane; Solex guy, Marcel, and Cor

Jane and Ilse brought along some food for a picnic along the way. It was super tasty and quite a lot of stuff to choose from.

Here we are riding the solex's:

ACK!!!! it's a flasher.


Close up of the solex motor. The left picture shows the handle that you use to lift the motor up and down. and on the right is a picture of the start / accelerator lever (under the start arrow).

We stopped for a candy bar break. L: Cor and Jane R: Ilse and Marcel

And Jane coming back to the solex place after the ride.