MiniBikes

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here are 2 I made

first one used a honda metropolitan engine and swingarm all built by me from scratch
I did reuse the front steering and wheel off a stand up gas scooter the frame I made from tubing

Had to really think how to do a seat, used a bike seat with spring (my suspension) and if you imagine how a center shock would be installed on a ruckus, I took that idea and made the same thing to mount the seat

Handle bars fold down for storage, little water bottle on bars as the gas tank
Kept the fuel pump connected in order to hot wire it needs to see the pump to run the ecu
so since it was too hard to hide the pump somewhere on the bike I used it

tore out all wires off the ecu that were not needed, this took a while I would cut out a wire at a time with the engine running
if the engine died I reconnected the wire and would check it out later

Kickstart only, because all the spare ecu's I had the electric start was burnt out on them
would of been nice to keep electric start, I even know a tiny battery that would make enough power to start and easy to hide
but it ended up being a good thing, as using electric start would of added more bulky wiring

The ecu is under the bike

Had to make some more bends in the exhaust header to miss the frame, and modify the coolant lines to miss the exhaust
Also made the first slip on stock exhaust in order to fish the header through the frame and made a shorty exhaust at the same time

Everything powdercoated by me at home
I think I can get to 38mph top speed (stock speed) with no tuning on it
of course I have a bag full of sliders I was going to try out but never did
its a wheelie machine, too bad I dont know how to wheelie


if I was to do it over again I would of mounted motorcycle pegs, I had a set and forgot about them
only when everything was done I had found them
I think my pegs although a great length are a little weak the way they are mounted and I would of loved to been able to use a smaller rear wheel/tire
I had a message to a seller that has a bunch of nice wheels in the 7-8 inch size I figured I could make my own hub
but he never answered back on the tires he sells since they were listed in weird sizes
so went with the stock met wheel

















This is another minibike I did, you can order this whole setup online around $380
just add the engine, paint
I choose a 212cc engine, you would think thats too powerful
and it is, but in stock form they top out at around 4000 rpm
now dont get me wrong, this thing takes off and you got to hold on for dear life, but then you hit the limiter very fast and it wont go any faster

Tons of aftermarket parts for this engine, which means you can take away the limiter then make a rocket with it

The paint is real rust, but its a paint
you first just apply a base paint to the parts your doing
then put on a special layer of paint that has metal particles in it, soak with a special spray and within hours really rusts over the original base paint
so no permanent harm to the metal and can be removed with paint remover

Then you apply a clear coat, which after said and done I dont like the clear on it
I should of left that off, but since I had bought a kit I wanted to try the whole kit and see how it turned out


I did have to mod the gas tank on the engine to be able to get the gas cap off I made a mount to shift it over an inch
and I also added a manual chain tensioner as the engine like to move slightly causing too much chain slack
Plus to take away the slack I had to move the engine forward which if you look how the top frame is designed the more I go forward the harder it is to remove the gas cap

this way engine is all the way back, gas cap has the most room to remove