 Re: Riding in the hood.
I rode all three of my bikes today. Well it wasn't much of a ride and I didn't ride them all at the same time, so I guess it isn't all that impressive after all.
I rode the china bike to the home depot for a spring for the chainsaw bike. When I got home I got bored so I rode the weed whacker bike. I am learning a lot about that bike. Mostly how to get the most out of it.
Then I couldn't wait any longer so I took the chainsaw bike out for a test run. 33cc seems to do just fine actually it was a bit hard to keep from skipping. I figured I needed more tension.
Some silly kid on a moped flagged me down. The engine died while I explained that it was just a chainsaw strapped to the back of a bike. Of course I couldn't get the motor to run again. had to push it home.
I worked for two hours readjusting everything. Then I began to have throttle troubles so I decided that enough was enough. I shut it down for the day.
Oh yeah when I tried to start the bike it roared so I flipped the kill switch and adjusted the idle. Then of course i worked for half an hour trying to start that engine. Finally I realized that the kill switch was still on. Duh not much more left for me.
A couple of more days and the chainsaw may join my other drive systems that didn't work quite right. I have electric and will soon have the chainsaw. So far the china bike and the weed whacker seem to be okay. The weed whacker requires more work to ride but it is also fun since the cost to build one is minimal.
I think the combination of a large weedeater motor on a good used ten speed bike would be hard to beat for economy. |