Hi everyone,
This is my first post (other than my introduction), and it's my first project of sorts. I didn't start this, but while looking for a motor for what I am hoping to cobble together for myself I was offered this along with the motor I was trying to purchase for a deal I couldn't pass up... just purchased 2 days ago. I have no need for 2 motorized bicycles (finding places to ride the one I hope to complete will be tough enough in the Detroit burbs where I live) so my initial thought was to strip this one for the parts I need for my build and get rid of the rest. However, the more I think about it and checked prices around for everything but the other motor I bought, it seems to maybe make more sense to get this one completed and then sell it to put the money back into my own project (or essentially pay for my other project that way).
Bear with me as I upload the photos, but this is essentially what I can tell you and what I have concerns over. I realize that some of the info may be floating around here, so I apologize in advance if I re-ask those things in this thread.
From what I can tell, this started a 60's Sears and Roebuck road bicycle (made in Austria based on the front tag). I was told the engine is an 80cc, though I have no way of being able to confirm that and don't know how I would (the one I was purchasing was a 66cc marked black engine). There is backpedal with the clutch engaged, so I'm assuming this didn't start out as a single speed but I don't know that either. I knew it was missing the gas tank obviously when I bought it, and I know that's an easy replacement. The air filter is missing off the carburetor, but since the other motor is missing the carb cap and I can't seem to track one down separately it seems to make more sense to just use that air filter and just replace the carb for $10-15 when I get to that motor.
I know that the wires have been cut coming off the kill switch, but haven't read enough to see where these actually go yet. The chain for the motor appears to have a decent amount of slack as it hangs, and I did read some differing opinions on tensioners here. There appears to be some sort of bearing sleeve welded into the frame, which I'm guessing may have been an attempt at a tensioner mount at one time but I don't know (can't figure out why else it's there). I don't know if it makes more sense to remove some of those links or rig another tensioner or if it's sufficient to leave as is.
I took the seat in the pictures off to use for my own project... too cool to sell off and goes with my idea for the other...and replaced it currently with a basic cushioned Magna I had here. It looks as though they made a custom muffler/ exhaust for it (old moped one maybe?) which I could easily remove and hit with some high heat flat black to clean up a little. My other consideration is that I remove this motor (assuming it's the larger and more powerful of the 2) and mount the black 66cc onto this and then keep this motor for my own project.
I guess my first question would be where you would start; what are your first things to check and what to address first and where to go from there. I know when cleaned up, I'm not looking at some $400 motorized bike but it'd be nice to get it in working shape and then pass it on to someone who might enjoy it as I put that money back into my own project and pay for it with what I may make off this one. It would certainly be easier to justify my own project...
Thanks, look forward to any advice or opinions you may all have.
-Jeff
This is my first post (other than my introduction), and it's my first project of sorts. I didn't start this, but while looking for a motor for what I am hoping to cobble together for myself I was offered this along with the motor I was trying to purchase for a deal I couldn't pass up... just purchased 2 days ago. I have no need for 2 motorized bicycles (finding places to ride the one I hope to complete will be tough enough in the Detroit burbs where I live) so my initial thought was to strip this one for the parts I need for my build and get rid of the rest. However, the more I think about it and checked prices around for everything but the other motor I bought, it seems to maybe make more sense to get this one completed and then sell it to put the money back into my own project (or essentially pay for my other project that way).
Bear with me as I upload the photos, but this is essentially what I can tell you and what I have concerns over. I realize that some of the info may be floating around here, so I apologize in advance if I re-ask those things in this thread.
From what I can tell, this started a 60's Sears and Roebuck road bicycle (made in Austria based on the front tag). I was told the engine is an 80cc, though I have no way of being able to confirm that and don't know how I would (the one I was purchasing was a 66cc marked black engine). There is backpedal with the clutch engaged, so I'm assuming this didn't start out as a single speed but I don't know that either. I knew it was missing the gas tank obviously when I bought it, and I know that's an easy replacement. The air filter is missing off the carburetor, but since the other motor is missing the carb cap and I can't seem to track one down separately it seems to make more sense to just use that air filter and just replace the carb for $10-15 when I get to that motor.
I know that the wires have been cut coming off the kill switch, but haven't read enough to see where these actually go yet. The chain for the motor appears to have a decent amount of slack as it hangs, and I did read some differing opinions on tensioners here. There appears to be some sort of bearing sleeve welded into the frame, which I'm guessing may have been an attempt at a tensioner mount at one time but I don't know (can't figure out why else it's there). I don't know if it makes more sense to remove some of those links or rig another tensioner or if it's sufficient to leave as is.
I took the seat in the pictures off to use for my own project... too cool to sell off and goes with my idea for the other...and replaced it currently with a basic cushioned Magna I had here. It looks as though they made a custom muffler/ exhaust for it (old moped one maybe?) which I could easily remove and hit with some high heat flat black to clean up a little. My other consideration is that I remove this motor (assuming it's the larger and more powerful of the 2) and mount the black 66cc onto this and then keep this motor for my own project.
I guess my first question would be where you would start; what are your first things to check and what to address first and where to go from there. I know when cleaned up, I'm not looking at some $400 motorized bike but it'd be nice to get it in working shape and then pass it on to someone who might enjoy it as I put that money back into my own project and pay for it with what I may make off this one. It would certainly be easier to justify my own project...
Thanks, look forward to any advice or opinions you may all have.
-Jeff
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