How big is too big?

If you're thinking about an in-frame mount, it should work fine. Now, you have an oversized downtube, so you'll need a front engine mount adapter of some kind if you want a two-stroke. I recommend the u-bolt kind that Sick Bike Parts and some of the others sell. I don't know enough about drilling through a bike frame to suggest another kind. A four stroke should fit in there fine also. Now, a rear rack mounted engine can fit almost any kind of bike. Also, if you plan to mount the tank on the top tube, its oversized also. You'll have to see if you need bigger tank brackets if that's where you want it to go. Good luck. Nice bike.

That bike will take a china girl real nice with the proper mounting hardware that Allen Wrench described........

That should make you a nice ride, take your time and build it right, everything good, tight and aligned properly and you should be good to go.

Best wishes and keep us posted on how it is going......

Peace

dcsnow44 said:

Thanks Allen_Wrench and mapbike for replying to my question. I will hopefully be starting this project as soon as exams are finished, unless I can make one final push to convince my parents to let me purchase a car.

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Best wishes for what ever you end up doing.....

Peace

Sending best wishes along too. Let us know how it goes with the bike (if they don't go for the "car" idea.)

Ah, parents.

I always wanted a motorcycle, but they said "no motorcycle while you live under our roof" They thought I'd kill myself.

They sold me their old car for a buck.

After I moved out I bought a bike. And another and another and...I'm still alive.

Now my dad lives with me. He'll be 90 tomorrow. He don't drive.

And I still have bikes -

if you do get a car still build the motorbike they are a blast

buhz said:

if you do get a car still build the motorbike they are a blast

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I have a nice truck and 3 cars 2 riding mowers a New Holland Tractor and a 150cc Roketa scooter that will do 60+mph & I stiil enjoy riding my MBikes most of all, yes they are the ( funnset ) thing I have overall.

Build that sucker anyway and you leave the car in the driveway a lot more than you might think.

Peace

If I listened to other people's opinion of me, I might think I was more nuts than I am. I've let it leak out that, despite being put in the hospital by a truck and having my first motorbike seriously hammered by same truck, I intend to get onto another motorbike and continue riding. Yeah, they think I'm nuts. Fortunately, I do not listen to them.

My wife understands best of all: she knows I'm not anymore crazy than I've been, and that I'm not out to "prove anything". I just like to ride my MB sometimes. When I had the first one, it was my preferred transportation. I think that'll be the case again.

The Higgins, that I'll be riding once the tank is finished, is not just going to be beautiful - it'll be even more comfortable than the first Tempus. It'll perform better. And it's a more solid and better alligned bike overall. In short, it'll be a better ride.

I'm a father of four of the most beautiful daughters in the world. My only other vehicle is a Dodge Caravan. Those things are wonderfully reliable. But they do not count as "fun" in my book. But the MB? Well, there's fun!!!