Mister Gouzy, trained as an engineer at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (a famous engineering school in Paris), developed an electrical race bike in 1979. It functioned with batteries hidden in the frame, and a small engine.
The former regional cycling champion presented the prototype and described its functioning in detail. He explained that this bike was not meant for professional cyclists, but for amateurs who were lacking strength.
But honestly, if this invention occurred to him in 1979, we might ask ourselves if Gouzy’s success as a young cyclist did not rely on his brain, rather than on his muscles…
