De voorgeschiedenis van de Cyclemaster staat beschreven bij Berini M13.

De eerste Cyclemasters waren 26 cc, evenals de Berini M13, maar later is dat 32 cc geworden. De gehele motor, inclusief tank en overbrenging, zat in een grote naaf in het achterwiel. In Engeland kon men een Cyclemaster los kopen (vandaar dat ik hem wel bij de hulpmotoren reken), maar bij ons in Nederland werd hij alleen geleverd met een speciaal frame.

De Cyclemaster heeft een handbediende koppeling, waardoor je de motor kunt laten lopen terwijl je stilstaat. Wegrijden op de koppeling is echter niet mogelijk. De Cyclemaster heeft een vermogen van ongeveer 0,7 pk en de topsnelheid zal ongeveer 30 km/h bedragen

After world war 2 the Netherlands was a chaos. Cheap and economic transport wasn't available and they wanted to build a small and easy to produce car, something like the East-german Trabant. When they figured it all out, they jumped the conclusion that building a car factory was far too expensive. German engineers had the drawings of a bicycle engine with them and in holland they build a first engine called Cyclemaster. The original design was from DKW. The 3 engineers who developed the engine were not satisfied with it. Everytime they wanted to change something, they had to remove the whole engine. So they took some parts from the Cyclemaster and designed a new engine called Berini. The drawings and the prototype were sold to England and finally the Cyclemaster went in production. The first engines were 26 cc but very soon they were changed to 32 cc and they had 0,7 hp and a topspeed of 30 km/h.

The complete engine including the fueltank was placed in the hub. Here in Holland the Cyclemaster was sold only with a special frame, but in Great Britain you could buy only the engine and mount it in a bicycle.