My Briggs Powered Bike

[MarksA-C]

Hello everyone. I decided to post a thread of my motorized bike I'm currently building.

It was a Schwinn girls bike and now its an almost usable awesome motorized bike! Like I said, it was a standard girls bike, I cut out the top bar, used a piece of the top bar and stretched the bottom bar 7" (Approximately) and then made a nice curve top bar with a piece of scrap pipe (Beating it against the ground) and then making the motor mounts! Top bar should have a bit more of a curve, but I don't feel like cutting it out and trying again. The motor I'm using is a 3 Hp Briggs and Stratton engine I got a few months ago. It was seized, but I was able to bring it back from the dead and it works better than ever! I still don't know about the final drive. I know there is going to be a jackshaft and clutch but I don't know about the final drive.

Girls bike before...


This is how far it is now.




I will get more pictures as the project goes on.
Mark-

[civlized]

I like it!!! Please tell me you are adding some brakes.

[MarksA-C]

Yes, going to add front brakes and rear brakes (calipers). I also have a new rear wheel with a really nice rebuild coaster brake. Should be enough stopping power.

[MarksA-C]

These are the 2 ideas I have about the final drive system. I already have a clutch so the main drive from the engine to jackshaft will be chain. but I don't know about the drive from the jackshaft to the rear wheel. I either have the idea of using a Whizzer style pulley on the rear wheel and running a belt drive or putting a sprocket on the back like the style that comes with the 2 cycle kits.

I am leaning more towards the final belt drive but also adding a idler pulley go I can "disengage" the belt drive so I can pedal the bike without any added resistance.

[civlized]

Cool. I am likin' your style. I think the belt would be slick. It would look like a mini harley if you make some kind of primary cover. Glad to hear about the brakes. That should be plenty, though I have never experimented with such a large engine.

[MarksA-C]

Well, I am going to go with the chain/belt drive.

3hp should be enough i hope. Going to do a few mods like porting it and what else I can do you squeeze out a bit of power. I still think that if 3hp can get a go kart going 30mph that it can get a bike to 30 with some throttle to spare


I can't wait to take this thing up to the cabin when its done and go full out on those open country roads.

[jcchappy]

what kind of drive wheel are you planning to use? one like the gebe kit? I'm planning the same thing but like all my usual crap i'm trying to do all of it with stuff i have. Whizzer drive wheels I believe are clamped to the spokes on the left side. the gebe kit has a plastic 17" drive wheel the just pops on the spokes. I had/have a 5hp briggs that i was going to use for this but its a tad big I believe. So now I have a 2 hp briggs. No tin dressed the flywheel with no fins made it alot narrower for peddle clearance.

[ducatiluke]

my briggs bike

dont know how to resize my pictures and dont care


so check out youtube

YouTube - briggs and stratton bike powered bicycle bike

[BarelyAWake]

Originally Posted by ducatiluke

id post some pictures but i dont know how to reduce the size

so i just post in motored bike forum instead

Originally Posted by ducatiluke

my briggs bike

dont know how to resize my pictures and dont care

Originally Posted by ducatiluke

i find this forum's photo loading bs.
send me your email ill send pictures ect

Well... you could just ask, it's simple enough. You may "not care" but I'll explain it anyway - the reason for the size limitation for uploaded pics is because when they're uploaded as an attachment they're hosted on our server for you, which ofc has limited space.

The primary reason we limit the size is actually the number of people, like you - that "just don't care" to learn some pretty basic aspects of forum use. When you post a un-edited, full size pic like you wanna do (usually a crazy res and 22" wide) everyone that wants to view that thread is forced to download the pics in it - given some of us are still on dial-up, it's courteous to reduce posted pics to about 72 pixels/inch and no more than 8x10".

There are a buncha easy solutions to this that don't involve installing any software or even learning the basics of photo editing... for those that might care, try: Photobucket it's got a buncha really easy and automated features (like resize).

http://motorbicycling.com/f30/how-po...ures-7572.html

[ducatiluke]

ok i do care

but ive tryed to resize and couldent do it
why doesnt this web site use a resizing tool

it would increase the number of people posting images and make life easyer for poster


Armand