I'm Matt, and I am in Austin TX. I know nothing about bicycles, but i am excited to learn!
I have wanted to build a custom motorized bike for quite a while, i finally got around to it. I really dont know what I am doing, so I thought I would join a forum where hopefully i can get soime help/learn by observing.
I grabbed something cheap from walmart (schwinn swindler) that I figured i could reuse parts from (wanted seats/springer basically) as this is the first time i messing with this stuff, or even attempting this sort of modification, i figured it would be a good dry run before i chop up something for real.
I stretched it 10 inches and mounted a 4stroke from ebay on it. still have to mount crank, but keep buying the wrong thing, information on this bike seems pretty hard to find... aside from people commenting its a bad idea since everything is a weird size and hard to find parts.
I like how it is coming, I will rattle can it black here pretty quick, I still need to get crank mounted (cant seem to find right adapter for the 3 peice crank that I have)... I would like to get this legal as a Moped here in TX. Due to not really thinking about regular crank chain, i will have to do some fancy rerouting, or remount engine. The whole point of the stretch was to get the engine low to the ground and not jammed into the middle of the frame... if need be, i can obviously raise it a bit. And no... I dont really know how to weld. I am simultaneously trying to learn new things here
Here are some misc build pics. I have the engine mounted and chain straight/tight now... and i know muffler is crazy dangerous, i will make something better (its like a gas chamber riding it), just wanted to try riding tonight once i got chain straight... it was 10pm so its bolted up. (didnt end too well... one of the cvt clutch pads is missing a big chunk it appears...)
Anyways excited to be here! I am hoping you all can help me out a bit as I try to figure out what I am doing!
I have wanted to build a custom motorized bike for quite a while, i finally got around to it. I really dont know what I am doing, so I thought I would join a forum where hopefully i can get soime help/learn by observing.
I grabbed something cheap from walmart (schwinn swindler) that I figured i could reuse parts from (wanted seats/springer basically) as this is the first time i messing with this stuff, or even attempting this sort of modification, i figured it would be a good dry run before i chop up something for real.
I stretched it 10 inches and mounted a 4stroke from ebay on it. still have to mount crank, but keep buying the wrong thing, information on this bike seems pretty hard to find... aside from people commenting its a bad idea since everything is a weird size and hard to find parts.
I like how it is coming, I will rattle can it black here pretty quick, I still need to get crank mounted (cant seem to find right adapter for the 3 peice crank that I have)... I would like to get this legal as a Moped here in TX. Due to not really thinking about regular crank chain, i will have to do some fancy rerouting, or remount engine. The whole point of the stretch was to get the engine low to the ground and not jammed into the middle of the frame... if need be, i can obviously raise it a bit. And no... I dont really know how to weld. I am simultaneously trying to learn new things here
Here are some misc build pics. I have the engine mounted and chain straight/tight now... and i know muffler is crazy dangerous, i will make something better (its like a gas chamber riding it), just wanted to try riding tonight once i got chain straight... it was 10pm so its bolted up. (didnt end too well... one of the cvt clutch pads is missing a big chunk it appears...)
Anyways excited to be here! I am hoping you all can help me out a bit as I try to figure out what I am doing!
