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Hi all,

Recently i haven't posted around here much; I've been quite busy with several projects unrelated to spudding. Mostly I've been helping My Brother out with his latest drag car project in the hopes that i can get back to work on mine...

Of course, Idle hands and all, I've been keeping busy. Here's one of my latest side projects: A motorized bicycle...



It's a 7-speed, 26" Schwinn Point Beach cruiser. It's been modified quite a bit, not the least of which includes a 48cc Grubee Starfire 2-stroke engine.



I would say I've invested around $200 into this project.

I definitely wanted the feel of a boardtrack motorcycle, I love this thing, And I get thumbs up everywhere I go. I've since helped build about four other motorized bicycles. Here are some more pics:






Removed the front fender, added a bobbed rear fender, laid-back seat post, new seat, whitewall tires, 2-into-1 brake lever, etc... lotta work involved, but the end product is a blast!

I even got my brother to build one, but his ended up being a clone of a 1914 Indian boardtrack motorcycle, and has a 66cc engine instead. Puts my bike to shame, but it rides like a dream.

I fully intend to submit a new launcher soon, but as for the contest this year, well, it's safe to say I wasn't going to have an entry ready.

If you're looking for a spare time project, motorized bicycles are fairly easy to build, inexpensive, and they get 150 miles per gallon! they are street legal in most of the 50 states too!

looks a lot like spooky tooth cycles...

http://www.spookytoothcycles.com/content/view/165/153/

Yes, I know Spooky tooth; I buy parts from them. The seat Post and brake lever are among their wares. I also bought a Monark springer fork for my brother's project from them. Spooky tooth is a great shop.

The engines I use are usually sourced through gasbike.net, though. they tend to cost me a little less money that way.

cool cool, thought some of that looked familiar.

looks like a great project though.

Very nice work on all the little details!
I am sure you enjoyed doing that project.

I wanted to do something similar using an adult version of the Schwinn Sting Ray bicycle.

Stingrays are popular for these engines, but an adult version isn't required, you can just barely fit one of these engines into a vintage kids stingray; I've seen it before.

Now, the more modern stingray, you have to get creative to mount the engine on the fat tube; I believe sickbikeparts makes a frame adapter for the newer stingray bikes. it'll just bolt in on an older one with skinnier tubes, though. I had a fat downtube on my bike, and had to get creative for the front motor mount (I didn't want to drill through the tube, as it's an aluminum frame)

Nice work Big E. You captured the essence of "board tracker" rather well I think.

Love the pin striping too!

:thumbup: :thumbup:

I've tried something like this before it involved a leaf blower engine mounted to the front forks. Didn't work well...

Might have to give it another try though.

VERY nicely done! Since you are into spudding and bike modification, maybe have a go at a project I've been toying with, making a compressed-gas motor capable of powering a bike? Admittedly not very efficient but it would be awesome.

Heh, awesome, I just finished one of those myself:

http://www.theopia.com/viewtopic.php?t=2084&

Yeaaaaaa! Are you a member of www.theopia.com yet? There's one a lot like his posted there, you can find it.