The status of this souped-up bicycle is central to a case being played out in Wollongong Local Court.Velko Bozinovski, 40, of Cringila says it is a bike fitted with a 200-watt motor "to help get me up hills".Police who stopped him in Flinders St, North Wollongong on March 10 after recording his speed at 40km/h say it is a motorbike.They issued him with fines of $1000 for riding an unregistered and uninsured vehicle which he defended in court yesterday."I've been to the RTA and they say it's a power-assisted pedal cycle if the motor is 200 watts or less which means it doesn't have to be registered," he told the court.He said he bought the engine kit from the internet and the company literature says the engine is 200 watts.He told magistrate Michael Stoddart the fastest he'd ridden on the bike was 47km/h on the bike track at Cringila."Police said that a hair-dryer is 120 watts - and that there was no way it was 200 watts and then they gave me the fines," he said."If you were riding it at 47km/h you wouldn't need a hairdryer," Mr Stoddart said.He adjourned the case until September 2 for Bozinovski to get written documentation that the engine was 200 watts.Outside the court Bozinovski said he was a pensioner and used the bike to ride to Coniston to see his father in a nursing home."Most of the time I use the pedals but the engine is to get me up the hills," he said.He said to fill his tank cost about $2 which took him 100km."The magistrate thought 47km/h was fast but I've had heaps of racing bikes pass me when I'm doing that."About five of my mates have got them and nobody has been fined except me."