New from Philly, PA. Getting ready to build my first motored bike.

Xavier · #1 03-15-2010, 01:48 PM

I purchased a 48cc kit from BikeBerry and picked up a Schwinn Delmar cruiser to mount it in. I got the motor kit last week and the bike just arrived today according to the FedEx tracking page and I suppose assembly will start this evening after work. Happened upon this forum looking for mounting techniques since I've read it may not be a simple bolt-in project as I'd imagined. We shall see in a few hours.

professor · #2 03-15-2010, 05:52 PM

Hi Xavier, welcome to Motorbicycling!

**Dave31** · #3 03-15-2010, 08:19 PM

Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy the forum as much as we do.

Xavier · #4 03-15-2010, 11:39 PM

Thanks for the welcome. Still working on my install, haha. Ran into a few snags being as this is my first bicycle in about 15 years. I have a quick question I hope someone can answer quick as well.

How do you set up the rear wheel? While installing the rear sprocket I seem to have stopped the wheel from freely spinning. It feels as if it is dragging and I don't remember, and haven't found, how to remedy this.

lazieboy · #5 03-15-2010, 11:49 PM

There's probably a youtube video on it.

**BarelyAWake** · #6 03-16-2010, 03:49 AM

o_O Yer aptly named... lazieboy

Xavier - I'm wonderin' if yer Delmar's coaster brake is messin' w/ya, the arm usually needs be a lil bent for clearance during installation, if you've messed w/it - there's a chance the assembly is now too tight. Here's a handy "howto" for ya;

http://motorbicycling.com/f30/how-re...arm-15928.html

BTW welcome to the forum! I usta live on upper west philly... I barely escaped w/my life heh

|.o

Xavier · #7 03-17-2010, 12:00 AM

Thanks for the link BarelyAWake, took a look at that with those tips in mind while disassembling the rear sprocket. Noticed the sprocket itself was dragging on the dust cap so I enlarged the sprocket hole and it seems to be working fine. Finished the build, need to tweak the muffler a bit because the pedals drag on it a bit even after a lot of failed attempts and one successful attempt at bending it.

**BarelyAWake** · #8 03-17-2010, 02:16 AM

Noice! Don't forget to take some pics while yer at it FTW

Xavier · #9 03-17-2010, 10:52 AM

I'll get some pics this afternoon. By the time I finished it was dark out. It is a bit sloppy and there are definitely a lot of scratches in the cheap paint, but I'm happy.

Quick question... Are these motors always pretty noisy? Seems like there is a lot of noise coming from the motor, though I'm guessing it is the clutch.

**BarelyAWake** · #10 03-17-2010, 11:13 AM

Yarp - good guess FTW

You can dab a small amount of grease on the gears under that cover, but no more than say 1/2 the size of a pencil eraser (don't want excess in the clutch itself ofc). People also line the clutch cover with rubber mat (mouse pad cut to fit), or buy covers for the outside - or even what I did, which is just sprayin' a coupla coats of rubberized undercoating on the inside of just the cover itself, which works quite well.

It IS kinda a disturbing noise heh - I assumed the thing was tearin' itself apart 'cause some guy in China had left something in there he shouldn't

4500 miles later - it sounds the same o_O *shrug*