This bike will be a scooter looking like an old Vespa but smaller. Im using 4" wheels from an Arco. The engine is an old 2 stroke Tecumseh I think from a little snowblower. It runs good and seems powerful enough. I filed down the shaft to fit the 5/8" clutch. The old one was small with a big sprocket on a stepped shaft. I have 2 other newer engines like that one but I dont know how well they run and this one looks cooler. The others have a bigger shroud to work with electric start. Im going to use pipe from an old lally column for the frame going up to the neck and work my way back building the rear portion to resemble the shape of a vespa. I have a nice white bicycle seat for it. I cut an old helmet in half thinking I can use it for the side pods so we'll see how that goes. It should be a pretty simple build. The hard part will be the rear portion of the body I think and getting that as Vespa like as I can. Im not going for exact I just want it to look good not weird.
lol It is going very well. I started on the tubing for the seat post area infront of the engine. I should have taken a pic to explain this better but at the front of the seat where all the tubing will intersect im going to use an old trailer ball. The cool part about it has a hole through it so im going to use that for a rod that will go back to the spark plug kill switch prong. Also I found the back sections of the exhaust tubing I cut off for front fender can be used to smooth out the angles of the frame piping to the front neck. I cant wait to get the framework done so I can start putting sheetmetal on it. Theres going to be a ton of welding and grinding but Itll look great
