Less and less will see on our roads a nimble scooter. This is not surprising: the main producers and their fates were abroad — in Latvia and Ukraine. So what else from this series is now sold in specialized stores, is cars. Accordingly, the price… To all that volatile MOTOmed gives the consumer a more convenient, more modern cars of the same class — scooters. Miniature scooters with 50-CC engine with automatic transmission and starter, can reach speed up to 80 km/h, providing comfort, who never dreamed of the owner of “Riga” or “Carpathian”.
A SCOOTER OR CITY BIKE?
Off-road amphibious all-terrain vehicle tires low pressure, built studente and employees of technology and economic faculty of the Vyatka state pedagogical University, in operation for more than ten years. During this time, confirmed the unique capabilities of the machine. The Rover moves steadily along any road, through thick dirty, snowy or swampy terrain of the area covered by tussocks and shrubs, overcomes water obstacles. Its own mass of about 250 kg, can carry up to 500 kg of cargo on water and land.
When winter comes and the snow is “fluffy blanket” covers the ground in many areas, the only vehicle able to overcome it “fluffy blanket”, it becomes tracked all-terrain vehicle or, more commonly, a tractor with a sled-scraper. Of course, you can buy a Japanese ski-goose-nicou Yamaha (though it is worth more than another car) or buy now rare a cheap domestic “Buran”. However, always need such a powerful machine?
The Russo-Baltic wagon factory (RBVZ) became the leader of Russian automobile industry in the early XX century. Founded in 1874 in Riga, is a large engineering company produced steam and horse threshing machines, seeders, plows, stationary oil and kerosene combustion engines, passenger and freight cars, trams, artillery limbers, and, later, cars and airplanes designed by I. I. Sikorsky. By 1912 the territory of the company, has a capital of 9.6 million rubles, was already 20 acres, and fifty shops of the plant worked 553 of the machine, which worked 4,000 people.