harry76
Well-Known Member
Oh itll work just fine, and if anything lets it down, itll be the wheels, and if so ill just replace with 28" rims (standard width).
The thing is, with the bike the way it is, i dont ride it, dont even wanna ride it. Dont like the fixed gear setup. And if i sell it, i doubt id get that much for it. May as well motorized it. And ive seen early Indian and other early motorcycles that somewhat resembled what im doing here. So early designers thought the bones were just fine.
And if you mean strength, i just finished reading a book about early bicycles in the Australian outback, and just how long and how strong those bikes were. Many of these bikes lasted a decade with little maintenance, under some of the harshest conditions in the world.
Ill only be welding two brackets to the frame, and like Flatblack said i can change it back.
It will be only one MB in my growing collection, so ill ride it appropriately, and not all that often. I want different styles of MB and think it would be cool to have a "racer" bike
The thing is, with the bike the way it is, i dont ride it, dont even wanna ride it. Dont like the fixed gear setup. And if i sell it, i doubt id get that much for it. May as well motorized it. And ive seen early Indian and other early motorcycles that somewhat resembled what im doing here. So early designers thought the bones were just fine.
And if you mean strength, i just finished reading a book about early bicycles in the Australian outback, and just how long and how strong those bikes were. Many of these bikes lasted a decade with little maintenance, under some of the harshest conditions in the world.
Ill only be welding two brackets to the frame, and like Flatblack said i can change it back.
It will be only one MB in my growing collection, so ill ride it appropriately, and not all that often. I want different styles of MB and think it would be cool to have a "racer" bike
i grabbed out of the bin from work and i plan to make better ones that fully enclose the coil, and i may weld ears to the frame so no messy brackets around the frame. Im also going to find a nicer plug cover or just get a screw on connector from the plug to the cloth covered wire. I may also shorten my fuel tank brackets to create a little more room between the motor and the tank... i made them that long so i could get the tank as upright as possible and still get the cap off. Plus i wanted to not have too much dead space in the frame.
