The bike ran great and I loved the upright riding position. Yes I did ride 250 miles with the chain adjustment roller mounted up high like in the pictures. The amount of chain slap finally made me cut the mount and weld it in place on the bottom arm like everyone else. On a ride around the neighborhood the rear wheel blew out and the sidewall split open. I changed the tires with Bell premium roundabouts and tossed the fenders to my parts bin. Yes the tab had cracked on the front fender after 300 miles. Around this time the rear engine mounting bolts started to keep vibrating loose even with locktight.
I decided to ditch the spacers and weld in a piece of tube and flat plate on the rear mount. No more bolts vibrating loose.
The exhaust pipe started to vibrate loose next, so a 2 inch and a 1.5 inch spit collar with a piece of square tubing secured it to the frame. Over kill? Yes. But I can beat the pipe on anything and not worry about cracking the cylinder.
Around the 600 mile mark I got a 2 up Instep trailer for $15 at a garage sale. It did not have the bracket to bolt to the bike. No problem, to the scrap metal bucket. I welded a piece of tube to a piece of plate. Drill, grind and paint. No problem. I also pulled and painted some engine pieces copper with VHT paint.
That is the last mod done to the Crany. 600 – 1400 miles just riding and towing my 4 year old girl around town. All though the summer it was my garage sale scout vehicle. I would roll up and look at the sale and if anything was on my or my wife’s hit list I would call in an air strike to the wife and roll onto the next sale. Yes, I have had to re-true the rims and blow out the fuel filter and a lot of other kit stuff that you always do. Like change the spark plug and plug wire. But the bike is solid and no cracks in the frame to report. Yes, I have ridden this whole time with just a coaster break. Yes it needs a front brake; any brake is an improvement over the coaster brake. It is on my list to get done. So I have about $450 in my cheap cranny and I hope to get a lot more miles out of it but it has shown a lot of other people how much fun a motorized bicycle can be and that is priceless.