Originally Posted by jaakfrans

Velosolex was famous for its bicycle with auxiliary motor,a small engine posed on the front wheel tyre.
Basically the smelly version of the electric bicycle now.It was a big success but not forever,in 1974 Motobecane took the Solex production over,Motobecane became MBK and was later taken over by Yamaha which halted production in 1988.There were not very successful later productions in Hungary or Slovakia.See the picture of a Motobecane Solex S3800.