Ethan and I helped our friend Miguel build a motorized bike. here's a little video clip of me, up to my antics, and some pics. click the link for the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQw8JR_CbrM
And at last, Miguel the Hun, and his bike. he kind of looks like a cross between a hun and a Tuscan Raider with those goggles on! hahaha! in his defense, the high was around 19 degrees today and he rode the bike over to the shop.
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After several tries I've finally gotten a picture of my first build posted here. (Augie, thanks for the assistance with that!) I'm having a GREAT time with it, after ironing out all the bugs. I recently registered it as a moped. This, following a heart pounding, low-speed, PO-lice pursuit straight thru the 3000 population metropolis that I live in. The cops didn't give me a ticket, but I had to get in touch with the State registry, who send an officer to my home to put a VIN on my bike, and a title application, then I had to get the plate. All of which cost me a grand total of $5+change. Actually, the guy from the State registry was blown away by my bike, as are many others around town. I'm hoping to do a LOT of riding this...
As promised--
http://img98.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img98/5966/1161228072ope.smil
Positives-- It's a rip roaring 50mph monster, looks great, easily change drive wheels for lower gearing, starts on the fly, surprisingly quiet, still pedals and provides biking experience
Negatives--Added 17lbs to my otherwise lite MTB, heavy rear affects handling,twist grip a little cheesy, legality?
I love it although it needs a little tweaking-- easy assembly-- thwo thumbs up!!
DBR :devilish:
My 80 cc was mounted on a 26"mountain bike frame. It was an older one so it fit well and the engine mounted without any problems. I happened to have a set of heavy duty rims (worksman) from a tandum project that never got together so I sacraficed the gears and installed the single speed coaster brake rear rim . It has double thick spokes and a wide steal rim so it holds up well to the forces of the drive sprocket. When it came time to cut three or so links off the chain I used a hammer and a large screwdriver and smacked the thing against a brick and it broke apart in two wacks. Not a problem.Everything else seemed to go together well and I had it running that afternoon. The brake in period was to run a tank full of gas with extra oil...
Glad to see a new forum up, I havn't seen any others since the Grubee forum went away last year. I have two motorized bikes.
I was riding my stretch cruiser at the Golden Aspen motorcycle rally in Ruidoso, NM two weeks ago and out of 40,000 people and 15,000 bikers I was the only one that got a picture in the newspaper and on the front page at that. A huge picture of me on my bike on the front page.
Me vs. $100,000 Harleys:
http://mountainmotorbikes.com/images/news%20scan%20sm.jpg
A previous rally pic:
http://www.southernexposurephoto.com/mp_client/pictures.asp?action=viewphotos&size=fullsize&pagenum=26&id=4547275&eventid=48869
Hopefully this forum will take off cause I really have the motorized bike bug and...
i finally got all my various parts and put my bike together this past weekend! i haven't really had time to 'finish it up' but i've ridden it a couple of times. i'll put together some pics and stuff when i get more time. peace.