I spent a little time working on one of these, an Italian Ape (Italian for bee IIRC). Had a 50cc engine under the body with an electric start (that didn't work) and a pull start in the cab (that had a broken cable). Push started fine. With the handlebar controls (clutch and gears on LH handlebars, throttle and brake on RH) that I recall from 60s scooters. Owner decided they didn't want to pay to have the body off to fix the electric start, or to source the piano wire required for the pull start. Don't know what happened to it.

No.

It isnt

Tuk Tuks are 2-strokes.

Hence the name

So if you take the engine out of a Tuk Tuk, what is it called?

Its called a silly question, unless the punch line is unusually funny.

No.

It isnt

Tuk Tuks are 2-strokes.

Hence the name

So if you take the engine out of a Tuk Tuk, what is it called?

We don't really have special words for vehicles with their engines removed (Though maybe the Thais do).

A Royce isn't a Rolls Royce without the wherewithal to roll. Even a horseless carriage isn't just a carriage without a horse. That'd be a carriage,

"Hulk" (as in the prison hulks at the beginning of Great Expectations) is the only example I can think of. It refers to a dismasted sailing vessel, but I THINK I've seen the term applied to other vehicles, particularly tanks, which also have "hulls", nautical stylee.

So you could have that. Hulk tuk tuk, or more succinctly, hulk-tuk

If you really neeed the engineless tuk tuk to have its very own term, kut tuk might work.

At least in English

Edited by edlithgow on 29/10/2022 at 16:01

If it was a four stroke, would it be a Tuk Tuk Tuk Tuk?

No.

Because four strokes exist. and they (AFAIK) aren't.

No need to be hypothetical

But the question should really go to HJ, who's been in Thailand more recently than I have.

I've been in Taiwan