Another Build from an abandon in the park bike

lordoflightaz · #21 (**permalink**) 08-09-2009, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Humsuckler

hahaha and how i found my new ****ty mountain bike tonight!

(anything that sits in one place untouched and unobserved for more than 2 weeks is abondoned in my books)

I think you have to wait 30 days around here. At least that is what I was told as a kid.

Maxvision · #22 (**permalink**) 08-09-2009, 04:46 PM

I hear ammo cans make great storage. One mounted on each side of back wheel.

Humsuckler · #23 (**permalink**) 08-09-2009, 06:41 PM

this is true, i think spookytooth had a cop bike all decked out with ammo can saddlebags

Egor · #24 (**permalink**) 08-25-2009, 02:40 AM

I got two new kits from Dax today. I already took one apart. It looks OK, It is interesting to see the evolution of these engines. This one had a short rod crank, the ports are smaller than I have seen. I am not using the cylinder, the fins are very thin, I guess it is OK. I already have barrel that is ported, so I will use that. the head has a large combustion chamber so the ratio will be low. The gears are meshing better than I have seen ever. They still have the square teeth on the output sprocket. I would sure like to see the timing cover get some more mettle! This one has a dent in it so I wont be able to polish. I like the newer clutch handle, the chrome on the gas tank is a new one, I guess I can incorporate it in a paint schema. Keep you posted when I get it running. Have fun, Dave

Humsuckler · #25 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 05:41 AM

short rod crank eh?

zero240sx · #26 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 12:38 PM

Ok a little secret for all of you guys... At the City Dump site here in Hazard Ky i have gotten like 10 bikes in no time... there is a little trick though. i worked at a church next to it and took the trash over there directly to the platform that all the trash goes to before a bulldozer pushes it into the truck... i talked to the bulldozer driver and he started putting all of the bikes to the side for me and i would take them if i wanted to and if i didnt take them in a few days he would push them over. id say is a nice chap would go and ask someone who worked in your local place, and maybe work out a deal... you could do the same... i got a green occ chopper stingray...a 198? huffy bike with a leather spring seat with the internal 3 speed hub that still works. a bunch of mountain bikes and even some kid bikes.... ohh yeah and all for free but i would have paid him a little for his trouble if he wanted it.

fall_down_stand_up · #27 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by zero240sx

Ok a little secret for all of you guys... At the City Dump site here in Hazard Ky i have gotten like 10 bikes in no time... there is a little trick though. i worked at a church next to it and took the trash over there directly to the platform that all the trash goes to before a bulldozer pushes it into the truck... i talked to the bulldozer driver and he started putting all of the bikes to the side for me and i would take them if i wanted to and if i didnt take them in a few days he would push them over. id say is a nice chap would go and ask someone who worked in your local place, and maybe work out a deal... you could do the same... i got a green occ chopper stingray...a 198? huffy bike with a leather spring seat with the internal 3 speed hub that still works. a bunch of mountain bikes and even some kid bikes.... ohh yeah and all for free but i would have paid him a little for his trouble if he wanted it.

Out here in the country(texas)there is a couple of second hand stores that take donations(people helping people and The boys and girls club)....They both have tons of biclyes lined up for 5 to 10 buck and if they dont sell them within a couple weeks they put them in a free pile with furniture and what not....If I was to start collecting all the bikes they give away my yard would look like a bicyle graveyard....I bought 2 beachcruisers from them for 5dollors each(im not much into the mountain bike look for my MB setups)they have tons of name brand mountain bike and street bikes though....
John-John

Egor · #28 (**permalink**) 08-27-2009, 01:43 AM

I am inclined to look at the thrift store for some bikes but I have to keep this addiction to at least some kind of reality. I just have to build something and it has to have a motor on it. Not one of my little Honda's are done, I can ride most of them but I was going to restore some of them at least, now they just sit. Have fun, Dave

Humsuckler · #29 (**permalink**) 08-27-2009, 05:56 AM

dave i hear ya. it must be the name.... lol

-dave

Egor · #30 (**permalink**) 08-29-2009, 02:57 AM

Well I got another one finished today. Ill tell you this, these kits are not the easiest things to get going. First off the sprockets are the worst. I have to carve on them for at least an hour. The one on the engine was so bad the the chain would not come close to running through. The one in the rear just kept derailing till I hit every tooth on the sides so that they would role into the chain. I am getting tired of the head studs being too long. The last one had the stack of washers and I thought this one would be better, (not). As soon as the engine started it blew the head gasket, the aluminum is so soft that it just pushed it out from under the head, I added another washer to the stack and a new gasket and it runs fine. The last bike I found had 32 spokes so the sprocket would not go on that wheel, and I liked that one. I found a wheel on a Recumbant bike I was building so that is the one on it now. I ran the bike around for a while, it runs good and quiet, but the porting is doing no good with the stock muffler, I will do my mods to that too. I up'd the size of the hole in the carb to a .063 and it seems to work good. It was idling straight away. I like the 41 tooth sprocket that came with the kit, the chrome tank, I think I like too. The clutch handle is the best, I never thought I would like anything better than the Russian one. The throttle and kill switch is better than the last batch of engines I got. As soon as I work out the last of the bugs I am going to paint the thing, I know I said that the last time I built a bike and it is still the same old color. Have fun, Dave

PS: I want to add another bar in the frame just above the engine, I think It would make it stronger. You can see the pic of the piston and notice the hole is lower than most, it has a short rod crank.