Ridin' DIY

Spikedfox · #51 (**permalink**) 10-10-2008, 01:25 PM

YOU SHOULD, Deacons weird wheels, they'd sell.
heck i bet you could sell a hombuilt bike or to to some snobs as modern art hehehe

deacon · #52 (**permalink**) 10-10-2008, 01:34 PM

Had some silly woman I used to date say that when she say some of the stuff I have made lol. Said if it breaks to turn it into lawn sculpture

deacon · #53 (**permalink**) 10-10-2008, 09:15 PM

I have been giving this some thought and have decided finally that Ridin DIY is really my personal diary and shouldn't be taking up space here so I'm going to move it to my blog Friction Drive.

Give the rest of you a chance to take up the slack. You can make all the comments you want over there and i'll up grade them to posts so feel free to come over and chat bout your ridin diy....

If I do discover anything of interest I will continue to post that here just this thread is not really in the spirit of the forum it is more a journal. So this thread is history here and moved to my blog. Ya'll come heah

LordMaximo · #54 (**permalink**) 10-19-2008, 02:29 PM

I love riding too, as long as the sky is not tossing ice down on the roads, I will be riding in the wind. It does get cold out here in the mornings, this week has been the high 30's and low 40ish at 5am. But the trip home from work is just grand. The worst I have ridden out here was 2*F and the chill factor was nearly -20* below. A very cold and dry day. The bike took 15 minutes to warm up before it was suitable to hit the road. Being FI, anything below 15*F is not good for the engine. Especially since it is air cooled.

Maximo

Egor · #55 (**permalink**) 10-23-2008, 02:36 AM

Maximo - I used to put a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator on my 18 wheeler in winter. You can do the same with the happy engine, just take some cotton material and fill the fins as an insulator, but make sure it is not getting too warm. Enjoy the winter. Have fun, Dave

Egor · #56 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 01:13 AM

You know I am thinking more and more that the simple small engines over the rear wheel is becoming more to my liking. The 22cc engine I have on the MB is pushing the bike along very well. It is compact and is very quiet, and I could add a longer pipe down away from me and get it more quiet. The only thing I would like is a better drive system, I am not fond of the friction drive. I just slips too much. It needs a larger drive wheel that would give more surface to drive with, but it also gives me too high a gear, so I need to use a drive system to slow the large wheel down. I was watching all the bikes go down the bike path today and with my complete release system I can use the bike path with the engine off, and with the extra weight being so small and no friction, no bother. I think a 2" drive wheel would be the best traction on the tire, so I need to find a way to drive it in a simple manner. Have fun, Dave

deacon · #57 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Egor

You know I am thinking more and more that the simple small engines over the rear wheel is becoming more to my liking. The 22cc engine I have on the MB is pushing the bike along very well. It is compact and is very quiet, and I could add a longer pipe down away from me and get it more quiet. The only thing I would like is a better drive system, I am not fond of the friction drive. I just slips too much. It needs a larger drive wheel that would give more surface to drive with, but it also gives me too high a gear, so I need to use a drive system to slow the large wheel down. I was watching all the bikes go down the bike path today and with my complete release system I can use the bike path with the engine off, and with the extra weight being so small and no friction, no bother. I think a 2" drive wheel would be the best traction on the tire, so I need to find a way to drive it in a simple manner. Have fun, Dave

I have a two inch (almost) wheel on a 33cc chainsaw engine. It requires some serious pedaling to get up to speed but after that it runs remarkably well. It will pull any small hill under its own power by bleeding off speed. Even those it gets slowed down on requires not more than a simple pedaling. I was really surprised that I like it, but there are so many hills here I am going for a smaller wheel when my welding skiills get good enough to weld a nut on the end of a drive wheel and have it hold.

Egor · #58 (**permalink**) 10-31-2008, 12:38 AM

I want to build another friction bike. I was thinking of how I would find a new bike to mess with. I have been waiting for a new victim to show up from the park, people abandon them just for me. I was out in the garage today and I looked up and to my surprise there is a bike I bought for my wife a few years ago, 25 years ago to be exact, only ridden 3 times. I have to think up the story I will use when she see's the bike in its new incarnation. (Oh I made this for you Dear, what do you think?) LOL. She tolerates me and my bikes, but I think she is getting weary of the quantity, they just seem to be multiplying. I need to go to bikes anonymous, I just can't stop. LOL. Ill get a pic of the thing, the handlebars need to go they are the ones that have you leaning way forward. Have fun, Dave
A pic of the bike and the engine.

deacon · #59 (**permalink**) 10-31-2008, 07:39 AM

what I have begun doing is remanufacturing my bikes so that there are only three but they are always changing. She can't say not another one, now she says are you ever going to finish that darn bike.