lowracer
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Has anyone ever mounted an engine on the lower section of an MTB front suspension fork? Will it mess up the forks in any way? I have a Marzocchi Junior T w/ a 20mm thru axle that I may try this on.
I installed 2.2hp Mitsubishi engines on Staton friction drive, front and rear. It was easy to install the drive on a solid fork. Then I took a few months to figure out how to place the front drive onto a ROCKSHOX fork. The setup worked very well for me. It took a while to get used to walking the front-loaded bike. Once it got rolling, you couldn't tell that you had a front motor.
Thank you for the replies on this topic.
I'm going to be using a Subaru-Robin EH035 with a Staton clutch housing & 1/2" shaft. A 1" v-belt pulley from Mcmaster-Carr & JB Weld to join a 26" (559) rim hoop to the 559 front wheel for belt drive. I'll buy some aluminum bar at Home Depot/Loews to fabricate a triangular motor mount connecting the 20mm thru axle ends to the unused V-brake bolts (bike has Hayes hydraulic discs). I want to fashion some kind of cable operated spring tensioner with one of them brake levers that have a locking button to hold the cable in a pulled position. Unlocking the button will allow easy belt removal for pedal only w/ no drag...Its a triple clamp fork that looks like what comes on a Motorcross dirtbike.
---> Has anybody added an aftermarket muffler to a Robin EH035 to direct the spent gasses downward & hopefully make it as quiet as possible without killing the power?