history of motor tricycles

Pedicab machine is a term used in Sumatra for the rickshaw which is driven by the engine, also known as a motor rickshaw. Pedicab this machine is a very popular mode of travel from door to door (door to door service).

Unlike in Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra rickshaw drivers are next to the driver so that the width of rickshaws and their nearly matching the car so that when the streets will make the street look full. For high speed machine because pedicab driver is required to use helmets.

History
Initially used in machine-made two-step German Rex is a simple small-sized silender mounted paddle rickshaw. then developed using a dikayuh Gobel moped to power it and a few other brands, is now used a lot of new production motorcycle sold in Indonesia to drive the rickshaw. The motorcycle used in Medan to be a motor rickshaw is usually a Honda motorcycle Win.

Slightly different Siantar town in North Sumatra, which is hilly in the 1940s and 1950s using a rickshaw with a large engine (350 cc to 500 cc), such as BSA, Norton, Java legacy of World War II, also known as Pedicab Siantar. Siantar Society [4] try to maintain the originality of public transport vehicles Siantar legendary for the community, city located 45 kilometers from Lake Toba.