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The Pulse is the brainchild of the late aeronautical engineer Jim Bede, who designed the prototype that would eventually become known interchangeably as the Autocycle or BD-200, and later as the LiteStar and Pulse.

He was taking his beloved Pulse autocycle on a 15-mile spin from Bellevue to Battle Creek in August when he said he heard a police officer say over a PA system, ”‘Hey, I don’t have a reason to pull you over, but can you pull over so I can take a look at that?‘

The couple has logged most of their roughly 700 miles in the autocycle this summer alone.

According to a state Department of Transportation estimate, 1,030 vehicles that fit the autocycle definition are currently registered in Wisconsin as motorcycles for a $23 biennial fee.

The department projects it will cost about $160,000 to re-program computers to implement the $45 fee and create autocycle license plates.