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harry76

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Yeah i thought whether it could be that but you can have it idling slowly for 10 seconds then all of a sudden the RPMs would climb, so i dont think the throttle is sticking.

It didnt do it (at least i didnt notice it) the last time i was running it. Maybe ill clean my carbie out just in case....
 
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Silverbear, i came acroos this picture in a magazine today. I forgot the name of the bike but it does have a 98cc Villiers and it is mounted horizontally like you are considering. Thought id share, not a good photo as i took a photo of the picture in the magazine

 
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Can't thank you enough, cheers for that mate!

If you need anything machined just ask man ill be more than happy to do it for you!

it could be your float bowl, might have a hole in it, so after a while it starts forcing gas into the carburettor maybe?
 
silverbear

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Harry,
Thanks for the photo. Yeah, that's at about the same able, isn't it? Nice long pipe going out the back. I wonder what bike that is... might be able to google it if I knew. Can you see if it has the kick start on it?
SB
 
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I left the magazine with the picture in it at work. Ill have another look tommorrow. It was in a car magazine and it was a letter to the magazine. It was a mate of his that rebuilt it and wanted to know if people had parts. I think it was called an Autobike or Autocycle or something. Like i said ill look tommorrow and let you know. It looked pretty cool. He said it had a built in clutch or something. I was unusually busy at work today so didnt get time to have a good look.

He did say it was slow unfortunately but hopefully good enough for our needs.
 
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SB, i just grabbed the magazine from work.......

It reads..... "Hi a friend just restored this Autobyk. Im sending you a pic of it in the hope that someone knows where he may find another one or bits. He is after a Villiers Junior or Villiers Junior-Deluxe Autocycle engine. These are two strokes of 98cc with a clutch built in. They are single speed, somewhere between snail and tortoise".

Hope this helps.....
 
silverbear

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Hmmm, somewhere between snail and tortoise, eh? Doesn't sound like we'll be setting any land speed records, does it?
I've seen some turtles scoot right along with the right motivation, so maybe there's hope. They used these same motors on some light motorcycles, so there must be a way. A transmission with more than one speed I would guess. Well then, we'll be slow but very cool with our neat old Villiars motors.
SB
 
harry76

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The slower we go the more people get to admire these wonderful engines....

Ill be happy if it has enough torque to take off without too much pedal assistance. Im hoping it may be as fast, or at least in the ballpark as my 66cc, with a much, MUCH nicer sound!!!
 
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When I bought the motor in England there was one for sale that I looked at. It was was rough as a corn cob but all there and at the time I looked at it it was around 600GBP or just under a Thousand Dollars Canadian. I've seen a few engines for sale and they are not expensive but for those of us on this side of the pond it may not be cheap to buy the motor and send it to be repaired.
I'll be more of an expert on that shortly.

Would be fun to own one though.

Steve.
 
harry76

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Thanks Steve, nice work. And that picture of the Autobyk is exactly the same photo and bike as i tried to show Top work.... And while the Autobyk motor is nice our sloped head version is a much nicer, vintage looking motor.....
 
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