After 27 years, The Moped Archive is closing down. The Globalnet webspace is hosted by Plusnet, who are backing out of web hosting. In its e-mails to us, Plusnet says we have two more years hosting, yet they’ve put a banner on the site saying it’ll go by October 2026. Who knowa what might happen. Anyway, we’ll be moving everything to the IceniCAM website. You’ll notice the list of articles slowly dwindling as the articles are moved to their new home.
The Moped Archive is a collection of articles about small-capacity machines and does not supply parts for them. When we get enquiries about spare parts, we usually end up directing people towards Mopedland.
The Moped Archive was started by Andrew Pattle [ ] in 1999 and now contains more than a thousand articles about cyclemotors, autocycles, mopeds and similar feeble machinery. Please remember, this is an archive, so the articles in it can be quite old and can, therefore, be out-of-date. Some articles are updated when new information comes along; usually this will be as a addendum to the unchanged original.
There was a companion set of pages containing photographs of these types of machines; this is now available on the IceniCAM website (this archive was running out of space).
If you want to download a manual for a Mobylette, the best place is Hardgravity’s Website.
If you want to download a manual for anything apart from a Mobylette, try the IceniCAM On-Line Library.
Andrew was one of the four founder members of the East Anglian Cyclemotor Club (later to become the National Autocycle and Cyclemotor Club) in 1981 and served as Editor of its magazine Buzzing for twenty years. Along with Mark Daniels, Andrew started up the Iceni CAM Magazine in April 2007; he also helped to revive the East Anglian Cyclemotor Club in November 2007. Articles from the EACC newsletter, The MAC, were added into this archive, but the EACC now has its own archive of back numbers. The Iceni CAM Website has its own archive of articles. Links to Iceni CAM are included in the list below and are marked ‘[IceniCAM]’.
All the articles are listed below but, if you’re looking for information about something in particular, using the search will be the best way to find it. The search finds articles on both this Moped Archive site and the Iceni CAM Magazine site
If the event you’re interested in is not listed here, try the IceniCAM events page.