michaelr123
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quick question, are sprockets the same for #40, #41 and #42 chains? thats what it seems like from alot of websites
I am an absolute noobie here, in fact, this is only my second post, so don't take me to seriously.
My question is, why would you try to fit a chainsaw or weedwhacker motor to a bike when you can buy a complete kit with motor for only $125-$135? I suspect you will spend more than that trying to retrofit, plus have an inferior set-up when you are all finished.
I am pretty tight with a buck, but even I can see what a huge value these kits are. How in the world can they make a motor, add in the chain drive, and the hand controls for that cheap? And, the darn things work great!
well it is like this people have to much bloody time on theyre hands and to darn much money to waste and people wanna see if they can improve on something that works good i gotta work for my money and sure the heck arent gonna blow it on something that wont work ........
hello everybody that has accomplished the awesome task of mounting an engine to a bike! i for one, am struggling! just a bit! I'm wondering how people are engaging their engine to the wheel.
i'm ruling out friction drives cause they suck, but of course drivetrains and gearing and such become a difficult, expensive hassle.
one of my biggest needs is WHERE DO YOU BUY GEARS???? i've looked all over and only found a few spotty places that sell a few gears, can anyone offer a suggestion as to were i can find spur gears for a drive train?
the reason for all the trouble is because i know about gear ratios already (won't bug anyone with that) but i've devised a plan with a drive train that takes a chain input from my 60cc chainsaw engine that happens to be working now after alot of hard work, through a drive train (basically input 20 revolutions output 1 rev. 20:1 in that sense) and then bike chain sprocket that is on a shaft connected to the last gear on the drive train, which will run a standard 420 bike chain to the tire, and hopefully will be close to the magic 1:20 ratio im looking for.
anyone have any comments on this idea? how did you do it?? basically i just need a pic of your drivetrain and the websites where you got your gears from, other wise i'm good to go, as far as i can find so far gears are really hard to come by without like buying in bulk from a manufacturer,