Belt drive rings

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moped-dan

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I want to mount an engine on my bike using a belt drive, gebe style. I don't like the plastic gebe drive ring though, I would prefer a metal one. I heard the whizzer style bikes have a screw on metal drive rings, where can I get one? Are they very strong? Or are there other brands of drive rings avalible? I have only seen the gebe style for sale. Thanks.
 
Have you ever

Seen a GEBE drive ring ????
thay are amazingly tough ...
check one out ...
 
Drive Sheave

Hi Dan, well the Whizzer used a v-belt, and the Gebe uses a narrow toothed belt (kind of a cogged belt). With the Whizzer system, you have many belt lengths available, with the cog you have some real limits as to what can be bought, and where.

I stock, as do others, the Whizzer type.

Mike
 
Motorbikemike, thanks for the help. How well would the v-belt work? I want to create my own type of gebe set up and run the belt from a small gear off the motor to the drive ring. Do they make a small gear for v-belts? Or would it be simpler to just use the gebe one / gebe belt?
 
Gear?

Hi Dan, if you want to run cogs you must abandon the idea od V-belt, AND as far as I know, no-one maes a metal cog-ring that large.

Mike
 
if your going to run the GEBE ring

you will need the ring, belt, and gear, all can only be purchased from GEBE.
IMO if your going to that much trouble you might as well just go all the way with a complete GEBE kit...
or a chain drive or friction drive. "IMO"
I think a V belt setup will be more trouble than its worth... IMO

:giggle:
 
A friend used a 20" bike rim;attached it to the wheel spokes in about 10 places via dismantling a chain & using the side plates.
I havn't seen his setup but from what i heard it was rock solid.
 
A friend used a 20" bike rim;attached it to the wheel spokes in about 10 places via dismantling a chain & using the side plates.
I havn't seen his setup but from what i heard it was rock solid.

This is a rock solid setup, BUT you really want cogs so that the belt can grip without as much drag on it. Without cogs, the belt may slip after it stretches
 
To fentor56, Could you give me more info on your friends homemade drive ring from a 20 inch bicycle rim?? I tried to get in touch with you but couldn' t make contact. Thanks, Tom
 
A friend used a 20" bike rim;attached it to the wheel spokes in about 10 places via dismantling a chain & using the side plates.
I havn't seen his setup but from what i heard it was rock solid.

There was a guy that used a stopsign. LOL.

You could just use a round piece of metal.

That was bolted to the rim and attached to a smaller rim as a pulley.

He stopped posting long ago.

Is he the guy you are thinking about?
 
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