Hi all,
As promosed this thread is gonna be my build log, this thing wont get done overnight, but I plan on updating as often as possible.
Ok so I happened across an old mini bike frame that I bought from a friend, its pretty much bare, but I found out that it appears that it was manufactured by Bird.
My plan is to rebuild the bike to my tastes into a chopper, the rear tire is gonna be a 205/50-10, front tire is a 16" bike tire, engine will be an old 4hp Briggs I pirated off a Monkey Wards tiller, which will need rebuilt. I would also like to convert it to a different carb, something like a mikuni or similar and buy or fabricate a motorcycle style fuel tank.
Parts of it will be fabricated by myself, other parts will be bought, one main question I have right now is that it looks like I will be running a jackshaft, what are the pros/cons of using a 2-speed jackshaft, are they hard to setup or get the gearing right? reliable?
Anyways here is what I have to start with...
And this is what it looks like with the engine sitting in place...
As you can see there is not much there, I wont be using much of the original frame at all by the time Im done, I will have to fabricate a whole new backhalf to fit the tire.
Since this is going to be a chopper, I needed to build some chopper style forks...
So at this point Im working on the front forks until the rear tire/wheel gets here.
As promosed this thread is gonna be my build log, this thing wont get done overnight, but I plan on updating as often as possible.
Ok so I happened across an old mini bike frame that I bought from a friend, its pretty much bare, but I found out that it appears that it was manufactured by Bird.
My plan is to rebuild the bike to my tastes into a chopper, the rear tire is gonna be a 205/50-10, front tire is a 16" bike tire, engine will be an old 4hp Briggs I pirated off a Monkey Wards tiller, which will need rebuilt. I would also like to convert it to a different carb, something like a mikuni or similar and buy or fabricate a motorcycle style fuel tank.
Parts of it will be fabricated by myself, other parts will be bought, one main question I have right now is that it looks like I will be running a jackshaft, what are the pros/cons of using a 2-speed jackshaft, are they hard to setup or get the gearing right? reliable?
Anyways here is what I have to start with...
And this is what it looks like with the engine sitting in place...
As you can see there is not much there, I wont be using much of the original frame at all by the time Im done, I will have to fabricate a whole new backhalf to fit the tire.
Since this is going to be a chopper, I needed to build some chopper style forks...
So at this point Im working on the front forks until the rear tire/wheel gets here.
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