Barnfresh
Active Member
I see where you guys are coming from with just slapping an engine on a $99 Walmart special. I would venture to say that many of those bikes fall in the dangerous category without any kind of engine on them. My thought process automatically defaults to the higher end bike parts or as Gene mentioned adapting parts from other performance vehicles such racing karts (which I have a lot of). BTW SX your guess is way off if you think I've never bicycled over 25mph, hahaha! These days I just don't do it riding junk. A quick scroll through my bike computer shows 52mph max speed on my last ride, and I remember clear as day which hill it was on as I bottomed my front fork toward the end of the run. Fortunately stopping is not a problem as my 6.5hp MB has 4 piston hydraulic brakes w/9" dia. rotors front/rear and weights 104 lbs.