"Me and My Motorized Bicycle"

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Walter F.

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No doubt who the most handsome is , Check out the winner in the little photo, upper left hand corner of this reply. Happy Trails Walter F.
 

lennyharp

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This is me in June when I first started riding these motorized bikes and this was my first build, a Staton-inc inside drive with a Subaru EHO35.



This is me as I think I am on a good day. I used to be quite a good motor even with a hundred pounds in a trailer. "Living in the Past", I think Jethro Tull sold me that album in the early 1970's.
 

Venice Motor Bikes

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Dawg that is shweet. I've always thought about building me something similar.

But for safety considerations,you may need to change that gooseneck for a BMX type,by evidence of what happened to our good friend Turbo.

http://motorbicycling.com/f28/our-mb-friend-turbo-chaos-just-3409.html

Someone else said the same thing... I think what happened to Turbo was because of a faulty neck, not because of the size of the bars! (His was a aluminum neck, probably from China?)
The necks on my "ape bikes" are old school Chicago Schwinn necks that are heavy steel... (very strong!) ;)
 

lennyharp

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You are right that an Astrabula forged steel stem is way stronger than a poorly cast aluminum stem that looks good. Even a well cast one needs to be considerably thicker than the steel.
 
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True that. The steel goosenecks are pretty strong. And it looks like if the neck doesn't stick out as much as Turbo's did then it doesn't look like much of a worry.
I tried to fit a BMX stem on my trike. It seems they make these stems too thick to fit in my fork. So I'll just keep an eye on mine.
 

Venice Motor Bikes

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True that. The steel goosenecks are pretty strong. And it looks like if the neck doesn't stick out as much as Turbo's did then it doesn't look like much of a worry.
I tried to fit a BMX stem on my trike. It seems they make these stems too thick to fit in my fork. So I'll just keep an eye on mine.
Look for a old school BMX "tuff-neck" on ebay... you can't break them! (^)
 

ZigyZ7

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would a fully wide open throttle all the time cause a gas leak from the carb and what parts are there in the throttle part of the carb i might be missing a part name them all off for me plz