pic's of motorized touring bike's

[whelan wheels]

This thread is strictly for motorized touring bike's, just pictures only and a brief description of your touring bike's. So if any of you guy's have a fully loaded motorized touring bike's, then let's see them picture's.I'll start off with mine with a brief description on it,as you can see i installed a front rack and some custom made front pannier bags made from two large converted lunch bags with custom hand made mounting brackets, I also have two rear rack's, one above the other with two mongoose rear pannier bags on the bottom rack. On the top rack i attached a front carrying basket with 10, 50 l.b. test zip tie's and thats where i carry my 1 gallon gas can, plus my 1 liter gas bottle and 710 ml. gas bottle. On the bottom rack i carry my tarp and on the rack above in between the seat and rear basket my tent.On the front rack is my bed roll and in the two front bags are my tools ,two spare tubes and mixing oil plus my mini air pump and patch kit. On the bag under the top bar, which is actually a under seat bag, I carry my other tool kit and in that tool kit i have an 8mm,9mm,10mm wrenches plus a 15mm socket two tire spoons and three allen keys and a bit set for the mini ratchet wrench also contained in the bag along side with my mini digital air pressure reader. On the frame bag just under the top tube by the seat post is my oil rag and rain kit. The weight of the gear on the bike is all in all is around 85 l.b.s in total,and that does not include the weight of the bike by it's self without the gear which is around 67 l.b.s, so almost a total of 152 l.b.s total loaded weight.

 

[whelan wheels]

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Here's some more pic's of my touring bike.

 

[whelan wheels]

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And yet again more up close piture's of big blue.

 

[whelan wheels]

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Well let's start seeing those pic's of your touring mb bike's. I started off with mine there guys, i'm hoping that there will be more pic's of other motorized touring bikes out there that you guy's built and rode.Thats what this thread is all about. So let's start seeing them pictures there guy's.

 

[whelan wheels]

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Well i'm hoping to see some more pic's of any body elses touring mb bike here on this thread so start showing them there guys.

 

[wheelbender6]

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I look forward to hearing about your adventures on that touring bike.

 

[vincent713]

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Where do you plan on traveling to?

 

[Ibedayank]

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shamelessly stolen from Atomic Zombie Extreme Machines! - Bikes Trikes and Chopper Plans

builder is greglwb

build thread
Starting Tourmaster - Second Zombie Bike

 

[porch lizard]

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I really like your touring bike! It seems you could camp out anywhere with it. Whats your longest trip so far? I built my MB late this fall and was planning on something that I could take to local campgrounds for fishing weekends.
So far I haven't gone more than about 300 mi. and don't have much for carrying capacity built yet. I did build a rear rack for a bigger gas tank
(1.3 gal ) and have room for daily hauling, but I would like to add panniers for the back.

 

[whelan wheels]

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Thanks there porch lizard. The furthest trip i've taken on it so far was from sudbury to timmins and back again,all in all a round trip of 490 miles. The thread on that trip can be found in the travels section. But here's the link to it any how, tell me what you think.


http://motorbicycling.com/f16/i-did-almost-400-mile-round-33438.html

 

[porch lizard]

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Whelan, Looks like you had an interesting adventure for sure. The camping pictures reminded me of my backpacking days in northern Calif. I spent a year living out of a backpack, and never felt so alive. I hope this coming year I'll have some similar times camping from a motorized backpack. I saw some long hills in your pics, and wondered if you had to do much pedaling, and if breakdowns were a problem. Thanks for sharing your adventure.

 

[whelan wheels]

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Thanks porch lizard. I peddle assisted my bike almost 95% of the journey from sudbury to timmins and back again ,while maintaining an average speed of 17 to 19 m.p.h. with the help of my peddle side chain ring which is a 52 tooth chain ring on the bottom bracket.The hills that i encountered where no problem with the motor assistance and peddle assistance combined. As a plus also ,I had not one single break down what so ever and the bike plus motor performed flawlessly all the way out there and back again.

 

[whelan wheels]

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Well heres some new pic's of my latest touring bike which is my ezm touring special.

 

[whelan wheels]

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Heres a few more views of my ezm touring special.

 

[porch lizard]

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Nice work on the touring bike. How does it perform compared to ' old blue ' when its loaded for traveling?

 

[tooljunkie]

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i'd post pics,but i'm lousy at it.
i cant help admire the front fender,the flap on the lower part especially.
i get caught on gooey roads,plastering everything with mud.
i may look into something like that.
nice bikes ,btw.

 

[whelan wheels]

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Heres some new pic's of my ezm touring special in it's latest configuration after getting it set up with the front pannier bags.

 

[whelan wheels]

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here's some close up pictures of the finer details of the ezm touring special. Tell me what ya think of it so far?

 

[Ilikeabikea]

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Looks like you are set for the long haul.....

 

[porch lizard]

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WW....I'm interested in the lighting system that you use, the type of panniers, what type of racks necessary for the panniers,and also the weight involved with adding the bedrole,tent? , extra gas/oil, camping gear, etc. . Also do you fish? If so where do you put all that stuff? On my bike, just adding a tool kit, and carrying box adds alot of weight that needs to be balanced. I haven't used panniers, that put the weight down low, and would like to know if they make a big differene.