ChopperBob....here in Vegas...What Up fellow Motor Movers

[CHOPPERBOBinVEGAS]

First off I come here a few times to read the posts but did not feel I had anything as interesting or technichly at y'alls level, but I have been impressed by the knowledge many of you possess.
I came from big bikes years ago, 5 Harleys things change in life and people too, I can tell you I am getting more pleasure building motorized bikes 2 and 4 strokes and incorporating new concepts and troubleshooting problems by reading your posts and the years of experience you have, I just hope I can now contribute some ideas and /or help as y'all have helped me,...please though always ride safely with safety gear, cause I've had some bad ones....enough bob...yep..c ya

 

[Sidewinder Jerry]

First off I come here a few times to read the posts but did not feel I had anything as interesting or technichly at y'alls level, but I have been impressed by the knowledge many of you possess.
I came from big bikes years ago, 5 Harleys things change in life and people too, I can tell you I am getting more pleasure building motorized bikes 2 and 4 strokes and incorporating new concepts and troubleshooting problems by reading your posts and the years of experience you have, I just hope I can now contribute some ideas and /or help as y'all have helped me,...please though always ride safely with safety gear, cause I've had some bad ones....enough bob...yep..c ya

Many of us here are more into safety and reliability over speed. I often post videos of how to safely ride a bicycle in traffic. Being a good MB'er starts with being a good cyclist first.

All too often people transfer their poor cycling bad habits over into the motorized bicycle world. These individuals often feel traffic laws don't apply to them. If that wasn't bad enough they then make videos of irresponsible dangerous riding and post it on public media's. So when these videos make it to the forum we old timers strongly chastise these individuals. We let them know reckless behaviors aren't cool but irresponsible and dangerous to themselves and others.

Post some pictures of your bike. Welcome to the forum

 

[fasteddy]

Welcome to the forum. Some photos of your bike, as Sidewinder Jerry said, would indeed be welcome. Over the years we've seen many new people to the motorized bicycle world with no experience on motorcycles or mopeds tell us that they want to build a bike that will do at least 50 mph right from the start using a new Huffy bike from Walmart and could we tell them how to do it. They were rapidly told no, along with warnings about loose fenders jamming into tires and locking up.

One very experience bike builder on here had that happen to him at a low speed. He stopped building and riding shortly after that.

Steve.

 

[MEASURE TWICE]

Welcome Chopper Bob

I can remember on an road bike, pedals only, not motorized, it was the crummy saddle bags and the rat trap carrier it was attached to that did not have much to keep the bags from moving into the spokes. Going down a mountain along with a group of riders out for a month an a half doing 1K miles when I was 17, the rear tire was fish tailing back and forth. My butt came off the seat to get a lower center of gravity on this huge length of grade in New Hampshire. Crotch on the bar and maybe 20 feet skidded to a stop.

Tire still good and tube as well. I related this to a guy that I heard skidding may 75 feet, though that was a few years later after my similar experience and this guy on a manufactured street motorcycle had a bungee cord wind up on the rear tire axle. I think he boke out a doobe an some time to settle before pulling out the mashed wound up cord, an then rode off. The fender thing I had do to the rear wheel as well and pulled over to the curb and no injury then either. Just though if any had been front wheel lock up, don't want to think how those end up!

I am not sure when I will get the Briggs Off Road Bike back running. The valves grinding the tips some to adjust was like 2 years ago. The bugs had me thinking finish the job indoors. Now a bit closer to ocean by just 1/2 mile and less bugs. I may try when I get things situated better as the place I was at was bigger, but the landlord sold the place, so I had to move.

At least during last winter and again this fall/winter when rain can fill the river and dam at the Pacific I have my huge swimming pool. Halocline, look it up. I had scuba dived swimming through big puffy clouds. Sometimes it was instead like plate glass or dual plate glass intersection of salt water on the bottom, heavier, and fresh river water on top, lighter. King Tides causing saltwater intrusion. The cheapo GoPro Imitation the SJ Cam 4000 WiFi I had on a helmet a go a few seconds of cloud look as back eddy currents formed the cloud look.

The coves look like I can snorkel on the Pacific now, but the river water is too low. In fact there has been deposited about 15 feet of silt in an area that I was a few years ago seeing the tracks for rail cars from early 1900's for lumber at a mill by the river. I was at 30 feet and there were 5 foot diameter boulders, of which is all under silt now. The scuba diving is a sport that allows for weightlessness and my spine does have issues of nerve pain that not ready to have surgeons doing other than epidural currently. My cubital tunnel surgery is done and is just half the nerve path fixed so I am getting by.

Let me attach this photo I took of what someone cobbled together for a trailer hitch motorcycle carrier. No ramp needed. I would hope the jack is backed up with something to add to possible leaking hydraulic. Scissor jack work platform for a motorcycle seems was the only manufactured item and was modified.