Well, here goes another attempt to tempt fate.
I scored a wicked 2 stroke brush cutter, with a very hearty lil centrifugal clutch. The bar was designed to destroy 1.5" branches. Had a crappy carb that was discontinued way back in the 60s. No wonder they threw it in the garbage. Lo and behold, the 32mm intake for the nt carb bolts perfectly up to the carb spacer. Boom nt added. Was a little blubbery, but after ten thousand pulls, she fired up. 68 jet and she was dead nuts.
I had a giant bucket of jackshaft sprockets for#41 chain, some bastahd swiped it. But dumped a couple out in the process of jumping over the wall to my section. Anyways, after some of the o.g. s schooled me, i decided to go belt drive, as that would allow for rapid gearing changes to dial it in, much quicker than cutting chain and changing 45 dollar sprockets.
So, i cut the hub out of a 16" wheel and am mating the hoop to a 20" wheel. I was struggling with ideas and had initially come up with the idea to use threaded rod couplers with a slit notched into one side where i would fashion it to the sheave with rounded headed bolts. And, i was finalized on this in my head as my game plan. I pulled the rear wheel off my frame choice (old ross polo) i pulled the sprocket from the adapter and to my luck, a couple wrenches lined up on my bench, under the spokes and showed me the way.
I've discussed and researched gearing with a lot of people, and have a tentative final gearing setup. With a secondary back up plan (it's a secret 2 speed pulley ready for a jackshaft gear reduction).
The specs as my brain remembers
Bike choice is an older Ross polo banana seat bike with extremely horrible ebay springers up front. Ghetto rigged under sprung banana seat. Book rack from an old pedal build. The mighty little wonder power products, 2 stroke 35cc, heavy duty double wall aluminum 20" rims with 12g spokes sitting in a spoke recess. Kenda bricks. Will have real tall apes. And i have the original forks from the polo bike. Gonna run a 58" notched v belt on my homemade sheave.
I swear there is more, but I'm cloud connected right now and rambling. Check the pics i uploaded here:
I scored a wicked 2 stroke brush cutter, with a very hearty lil centrifugal clutch. The bar was designed to destroy 1.5" branches. Had a crappy carb that was discontinued way back in the 60s. No wonder they threw it in the garbage. Lo and behold, the 32mm intake for the nt carb bolts perfectly up to the carb spacer. Boom nt added. Was a little blubbery, but after ten thousand pulls, she fired up. 68 jet and she was dead nuts.
I had a giant bucket of jackshaft sprockets for#41 chain, some bastahd swiped it. But dumped a couple out in the process of jumping over the wall to my section. Anyways, after some of the o.g. s schooled me, i decided to go belt drive, as that would allow for rapid gearing changes to dial it in, much quicker than cutting chain and changing 45 dollar sprockets.
So, i cut the hub out of a 16" wheel and am mating the hoop to a 20" wheel. I was struggling with ideas and had initially come up with the idea to use threaded rod couplers with a slit notched into one side where i would fashion it to the sheave with rounded headed bolts. And, i was finalized on this in my head as my game plan. I pulled the rear wheel off my frame choice (old ross polo) i pulled the sprocket from the adapter and to my luck, a couple wrenches lined up on my bench, under the spokes and showed me the way.
I've discussed and researched gearing with a lot of people, and have a tentative final gearing setup. With a secondary back up plan (it's a secret 2 speed pulley ready for a jackshaft gear reduction).
The specs as my brain remembers
Bike choice is an older Ross polo banana seat bike with extremely horrible ebay springers up front. Ghetto rigged under sprung banana seat. Book rack from an old pedal build. The mighty little wonder power products, 2 stroke 35cc, heavy duty double wall aluminum 20" rims with 12g spokes sitting in a spoke recess. Kenda bricks. Will have real tall apes. And i have the original forks from the polo bike. Gonna run a 58" notched v belt on my homemade sheave.
I swear there is more, but I'm cloud connected right now and rambling. Check the pics i uploaded here:
