What Was Your First Mini bike ?
What mini bike did you have as a kid
Okay like it says, what did you guys have when y'all were kids ? My older brother had some no name bike with big handle bars and a 5hp briggs. In 1970 on a trip to my grandmothers in sunnyvale ca. we got a powell with 4hp tech . A friend of ours had a 5hp briggs top shifter powell . Back then they were the only powells we new of on the east coast. And one other thing our powell when our dad sold it had a 6hp tech and the rear sprocket had been cut off and replaced with one off a 175 yamaha . we want it faster , thus smaller sprocket. So if any body ever comes across a powell with the stock sprocket gone and a smaller one on it i would like to hear about it .
Okay like it says, what did you guys have when y'all were kids ? My older brother had some no name bike with big handle bars and a 5hp briggs. In 1970 on a trip to my grandmothers in sunnyvale ca. we got a powell with 4hp tech . A friend of ours had a 5hp briggs top shifter powell . Back then they were the only powells we new of on the east coast. And one other thing our powell when our dad sold it had a 6hp tech and the rear sprocket had been cut off and replaced with one off a 175 yamaha . we want it faster , thus smaller sprocket. So if any body ever comes across a powell with the stock sprocket gone and a smaller one on it i would like to hear about it .
I could not afford to buy one. My first (and only) minibike as a kid was the one I MADE in my junior high school metal shop in 1966 as my semester project.:hammer::grind: It actually did not turn out half bad! I remember that my dad donated an old tired (probably circa late 1940's) Briggs and Stratton 2.0 HP engine off a lawn mower for my powerplant. Working at some summer jobs for $$, I eventually upgraded to a newer model Briggs 3 HP, and finally a Mac 10 (open header pipe, no muffler:doah
. I was the terror (and headache, I'm sure for neighbors) of my "Upper Hastings Ranch" neighborhood in Pasadena, CA.:devil2:
. I was the terror (and headache, I'm sure for neighbors) of my "Upper Hastings Ranch" neighborhood in Pasadena, CA.:devil2:
My Uncle had a Fox Thunderbolt in the early 70's. I inherited it when I was about 10 or 11. Had it until I was about 15 or 16. I cracked the top off of one of the valves somehow, and took the engine apart. Only thing is at 16, I didn't really know how to fix it and put it back together. where it is now, who knows??? heres a few pics of me and my Uncle when I was a kid down at the Pine Barrens @ the Jersey Shore. these are about 1974-75??
heres another when I got a little older. maybe around 1985-86? I added a Kawi KE 100 by that time. The little 4 horses on the Fox just weren't doing the trick any more! so I had to move up, like most of us did!!!! btw, thats me with the skinny legs in the middle. you can tell the bikes were mine. I was the only one that didn't have to push them to wherever it was we were going!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
heres another when I got a little older. maybe around 1985-86? I added a Kawi KE 100 by that time. The little 4 horses on the Fox just weren't doing the trick any more! so I had to move up, like most of us did!!!! btw, thats me with the skinny legs in the middle. you can tell the bikes were mine. I was the only one that didn't have to push them to wherever it was we were going!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
