Make your own motor-bicycle
As consumers of a capitalist society many of us placed a lot of trust in the corporate and political top echelons to steer our civilisation on a steady course. But since the world wide crash there is some are dissatisfaction with the management.
Such is the lack of confidence with our lords and masters ability to handle matters that with the looming presence of peak oil production many people looking for alternative ways to survive any shortfall in their qaulity of life. And some like Mr Jim Gallant are trying to reinvent the last 100 years of petroleum driven vehicular transport.
Hackaday: Home brew motorized bicycle is a super grocery getter
For any of you interested in following in Mr Gallant's footsteps Hackaday is a very good site full of tutorials on how to do all the tasks that one would need to build a motorised bicycle and has many articles, with videos, on this particular topic.