MOPED ARMY

I've been riding a 22 cc Tanaka Bike Bug bolted on to a Schwinn Breeze bicycle for the past 20 or so years.

Not bad. Goes about 17 or 18 MPH maximum, downhill with a following wind. They tell me it's a near approximation of a Velo Solex. No springs, no shocks, tough on the tailbone, but a fair amount of fun.

Two stroke weed whacker engine needs very little maintenance, just goes and goes and goes and ...

here's some pics of my bike

Dude you need to tighten that chain

And those pedals are dangerously close to the ground.

http://www.aztlanbicycle.com/lowrider-crank.html

4" crank, a hell of alot safer

Say hello to several weeks in the hospital and a 5-digit Dr's bill. Now if you were a hot punk/emo/indie chick you'd be up to 9 grand on your dropcash by then

That's JMO on pseudo-peds

Someone on CL in western Mass is selling cheap Chinese kits. Bolt on 80cc jobs, not even legal as a moped. Anyways, it's created a whole cottage industry of people who are bolting them to old bikes, and selling them on CL.

Motorized bicycles CAN be safe if they are built right. But being built right usually means expensive, sometimes more expensive than a brand new moped. Putting a motor on a Walmart bike is just asking for it, and in this case, you will usually get what you ask for. Peace, Jerry.

dirtyD that thing is sick!

Donde estan los estoperos? 'course you need the motor chain connected to even need the brakes. Dustin you plan on using that On The Job?

thanks.

yeah, the exhaust is going, that's easily the ugliest part of these motors.

bryan, i've tossed around the idea of going black and white with it.

the forks are stock, i'm going to mock up a fake leaf spring suspension like the old 1912 excelsior board trackers using those tubes that are just sitting on there now. those tubes are part of the frame that i cut off to put on the horizontal top bar. also, i don't know about the lights... i'm thinking about using a rechargeable cordless drill battery to power my lights. i'm sure that the motor could power some 6v bulbs, but i'm not interested in relying on the piece of shit motor for anything.

this thing was an old schwinn beach cruiser. i don't know anything about bicycles, but i was told by someone that it was probably 60's.

i wanted to use a moped engine, but i couldn't find anything that looked aesthetically pleasing. if i could get hold of a rizatto califfo engine, i'd probably make a bsa bantam knock-off. i can't think of any other vertical or semi vertical cyclinder moped engines that would adequately fill the space.

the seat is just sitting on there. this was really early on in the project, and i just kinda laid everything into place to get an idea of what i still need to cobble together. thanks topher, i know that nice jorb is the highest compliment i can ever get from you. how's the beard?

Hey yah Dustin he's right about the hub load. Shaun's got a few Moby hubs he'll let out to extra special people, & you'll appreciate the drum stopper a whole lot more

Dirty D. I was thinking of getting a uhhh, power wheels battery and running my lights off of that. I think they can be found in a 12v and are easily rechargable. I like the idea of using some power drill batteries too. Like you, I don't trust the engine for any voltage output other than the kill switch. I'm planning to get a rear moped hub, as soon as I can get some extra dough together. There's a guy down here who can lace one to my rim with some thicker spokes. While that's going on I was thinking about using a solid inner tube for the rear.