First time entering in the build off, long time follower. I decided to enter my 1970 Taco 100 I purchased from @RideSF a few years back. Background on how I got this bike goes as so...
I was in Oregon working for my father helping him build his tree house for a few weeks. Not much to do around the area he bought a home so I was scrolling the local Craigslist in my local hometown. I saw a Taco 100 listed for $350.00 and it looked pretty complete. I decided i would try to swindle the seller to hold onto it for me until i made it back home the following week. Well as most know, Orange County California has a lot of VULTERS scouring the web for minibikes and I was unfortunately beat to the finish line. Come to find out it was purchased by my good friend @RideSF. He had convinced our mutual friend Danny to pick it up and hold onto it for him until he brought the family down to Disneyland, then he would take it back home with him. Somehow I was capable of convincing @RideSF to sell me the bike a few months after he brought it home. He packed it up, I sent him a shipping label and $350 and the bike was on its way to its permanent home.
I walk past this bike everyday at my warehouse and always wonder when I will get around to building it. Well after a couple years of locating the parts I wanted to use to build this bike, the time has finally come.
The wheels I had burnished by a local shop, I sent in a massive amount of wheels to have burnished. I should have only sent in one set to see how the work would come out, because the who I sent everything into broke a lot of my wheels and lodged some of the material inside of the bolt holes of some other wheels. I lost out on that ordeal, but I was able to salvage a bunch of the wheels I sent in and these are one of the sets.
The sprocket went to the same burnish company in that same large order, but I'm going to powder coat the sprocket black along with the brake backing plate to match.
I have been accumulating taco parts for a long time now, and decided to send in all my Ceriani shocks at one time to have restored. Karterman was able to knock out all the little dings and dents along with fill some of the holes in the shock housings for me. I think I sent him somewhere around 50 individual shocks to do at once for me. He did a fantastic job on them. He painted them and polished the cups for me and even added new rubber grommets for me. Thanks Michael!
The front Sebac shocks I purchased off the bay from @markus. They were costly, but I have some of the nicest Sebac shocks I have come across. Thanks Markus!
I decided to go the route of using the optional trail tamer front end that a lot of other minibike companies used. The ones I have also cost me a fortune, but that's because @bigevilone2 made them. I'm happy to have the last set he made years back. Thanks Ed!
If I'm not mistaken I located the NOS front and rear tires on the bay as well. STOKED on those! If anyone needs a set, I have some used and one set of NOS left.
Scott made a pile of kickstands for me a few years ago and I have one Taco 100 kickstand left for this build. He also made me the axle adjusters for the rear, the cable clamp, and a new brake arm which I will be using. Thanks Scott!
The seat was given to me as a gift from a buddy who I helped sell a bike for him. Apparently @bigevilone2 had something to do with that bike too because this seat came off of it.
I plan to use a 1968 Briggs 5hp as the power plant instead of a Tecumseh 4HP that would be correct for it. The HS40's are too expensive and I have some cool Briggs parts I've been dying to use. Thanks to @bigevilone2 for the Hooker header and @CarPlayLB for the Edelbrock head.
Still trying to convince myself that another purple bike is needed for the garage, but I think I'm going to change it up a bit. Black is always a good choice!
Thanks!
I was in Oregon working for my father helping him build his tree house for a few weeks. Not much to do around the area he bought a home so I was scrolling the local Craigslist in my local hometown. I saw a Taco 100 listed for $350.00 and it looked pretty complete. I decided i would try to swindle the seller to hold onto it for me until i made it back home the following week. Well as most know, Orange County California has a lot of VULTERS scouring the web for minibikes and I was unfortunately beat to the finish line. Come to find out it was purchased by my good friend @RideSF. He had convinced our mutual friend Danny to pick it up and hold onto it for him until he brought the family down to Disneyland, then he would take it back home with him. Somehow I was capable of convincing @RideSF to sell me the bike a few months after he brought it home. He packed it up, I sent him a shipping label and $350 and the bike was on its way to its permanent home.
I walk past this bike everyday at my warehouse and always wonder when I will get around to building it. Well after a couple years of locating the parts I wanted to use to build this bike, the time has finally come.
The wheels I had burnished by a local shop, I sent in a massive amount of wheels to have burnished. I should have only sent in one set to see how the work would come out, because the who I sent everything into broke a lot of my wheels and lodged some of the material inside of the bolt holes of some other wheels. I lost out on that ordeal, but I was able to salvage a bunch of the wheels I sent in and these are one of the sets.
The sprocket went to the same burnish company in that same large order, but I'm going to powder coat the sprocket black along with the brake backing plate to match.
I have been accumulating taco parts for a long time now, and decided to send in all my Ceriani shocks at one time to have restored. Karterman was able to knock out all the little dings and dents along with fill some of the holes in the shock housings for me. I think I sent him somewhere around 50 individual shocks to do at once for me. He did a fantastic job on them. He painted them and polished the cups for me and even added new rubber grommets for me. Thanks Michael!
The front Sebac shocks I purchased off the bay from @markus. They were costly, but I have some of the nicest Sebac shocks I have come across. Thanks Markus!
I decided to go the route of using the optional trail tamer front end that a lot of other minibike companies used. The ones I have also cost me a fortune, but that's because @bigevilone2 made them. I'm happy to have the last set he made years back. Thanks Ed!
If I'm not mistaken I located the NOS front and rear tires on the bay as well. STOKED on those! If anyone needs a set, I have some used and one set of NOS left.
Scott made a pile of kickstands for me a few years ago and I have one Taco 100 kickstand left for this build. He also made me the axle adjusters for the rear, the cable clamp, and a new brake arm which I will be using. Thanks Scott!
The seat was given to me as a gift from a buddy who I helped sell a bike for him. Apparently @bigevilone2 had something to do with that bike too because this seat came off of it.
I plan to use a 1968 Briggs 5hp as the power plant instead of a Tecumseh 4HP that would be correct for it. The HS40's are too expensive and I have some cool Briggs parts I've been dying to use. Thanks to @bigevilone2 for the Hooker header and @CarPlayLB for the Edelbrock head.
Still trying to convince myself that another purple bike is needed for the garage, but I think I'm going to change it up a bit. Black is always a good choice!
Thanks!
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