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4 April 2022 [Stuff]
Four-wheeled
electric bike with windows is this 78-year-old's answer
to Southland's wind and rain
At 78, William "Bill" Blakie rarely
uses his car, instead all his travel is completed in
his own custom-made e-bike, which he believes is the
future of commuting...
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24 December 2019 [RNZ]
Invercargill man's homemade electric bikes go global
Bill built his first three-wheeler
bike prototype in his garage back in 1996. Since then,
he's has constructed over 40 VERY ECO bikes and shipped
them as far as Switzerland and Ukraine...
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14 December 2019 [Otago Daily
Times]
Home-made
motorised bikes sold worldwide
Southlander Bill Blakie reckons
it takes less energy to ride his three to
four-wheel motorised bikes than it does to boil
the jug in the morning...
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25 May 2002 [Southland
Times]
Quike
Cool
Is it a cart? Well, sort
of. Is it a bike? Yeah, kind of for the purposes
of this test drive let's split the difference
and call it a quike... |
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October 1999
Peddler
Power For Osteoarthitis Sufferer
For some years now I have
had, at times, a sore back. I suppose there
is nothing strange about that as I have abused
it a bit by either lifting things too heavy
or not the right way... |
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3 September 1999 [Southland
Times]
City
Man Designs Bike For Arthritis Sufferers
Invercargill man Bill Blakie
has won an AMP Scholarship for inventing a
recumbent tricycle designed to increase mobility
for arthritis sufferers... |
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21 September 1998
[The Press Christchurch]
Sit,
Put Your Feet Up, And Get Fit
Hip trouble convinced
Bill Blakie, an Invercargill engineer, that
he needed to start exercising. He got on
his bike, a 10-speed picked up at a garage
sale...
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