How would you fix my bike?

I am surprised to hear that Frank called you an S.O.B. WTF did you say to him? Im sure he will work with you if you take it from the top all calm and whatnot...
 
I'm assuming you bought the yellow bike?

1) How much are replacement gas caps?
2) Push button or toggle? I dunno your arrangement but I gather you could always adjust your throttle to shut down when you throttle down. Toggle,find out where the wires go. You're probably not disconnecting when you cut the switch off. Or if you have a pushbutton you'r not connected. I would give you the Happy Time fix but all engines are different.
3) You got a leak in your intake. Well seeing how your removing your spark plug wire anyway,find a wire in your magneto that goes to your coil,tap in a toggle switch in there. Now you solved problem 2.
4) Get a beer can,some tin snips and some sponge type foam and make a new improved version!
5) Most BMX bikes run 44 up front,16 in the rear. Find a junk one with a three piece. You find the right one it could even be stronger that the one you have. It should fit on your original crank holder assembly (whatever you call it...axle...bearing cage..) They are pretty universal I would think.
Stay away fron 10 speed sprockets. Chain too skinny.
6) You can even use newer mountain bike twist type gear shifters and remove the ratchet in there. Makes a cool stubby throttle.
 
I am surprised to hear that Frank called you an S.O.B. WTF did you say to him? Im sure he will work with you if you take it from the top all calm and whatnot...
I was pretty calm for the shape of the bike I received. He kept talking and talking about how some things will be broken or scratched because of the way FedEx handles the package. I just wanted to get one point across that there was a huge hole in the box, where the gas can was... and once I interjected, "May I say something?", he thought that was reason enough to call me an SOB. It wasn't even that he called me an SOB (tho my mother has nothing to do with any of this), but more that he was so offended that I wanted him to listen to something I had to say. If I didn't know any better, I would have thought he was drinking a bit early in the day, or he just hit a line of anthrax or something... dunno.

Regardless, we did settle things. It really just made his head boil when I was describing all the things that made the bike look used but prolly were from a crappy FedEx employee or three. Tho, I will most definitely recommend he use a bit more bubble wrap to keep these complaints down.
 
I'm assuming you bought the yellow bike?
Actually, I got the silver because it's all they had in stock even tho they say they have blue too. It's prolly the best for staying low key like I need it to be.

1) How much are replacement gas caps?
Dunno, but I don't think the same gas cap is gonna be worth my money. And I really don't want to give fiveflags any more $$ than I have to for obvious reasons.
2) Push button or toggle? I dunno your arrangement but I gather you could always adjust your throttle to shut down when you throttle down. Toggle,find out where the wires go. You're probably not disconnecting when you cut the switch off. Or if you have a pushbutton you'r not connected. I would give you the Happy Time fix but all engines are different...
Well seeing how your removing your spark plug wire anyway,find a wire in your magneto that goes to your coil,tap in a toggle switch in there. Now you solved problem 2.
It's push button, but I will be doing the "blue wire toggle switch" idea. I guess I was trying to find out where the toggle switch actually needs to be... in between the magneto & coil.
4) Get a beer can,some tin snips and some sponge type foam and make a new improved version!
Nice idea for the beer can... I'll definitely be trying that. I was only thinking about the sponge.
5) Most BMX bikes run 44 up front,16 in the rear. Find a junk one with a three piece. You find the right one it could even be stronger that the one you have. It should fit on your original crank holder assembly (whatever you call it...axle...bearing cage..) They are pretty universal I would think.
I would have thought the same thing. The guy at my local bike shop begs to differ. He says that the crank is more of a mountain bike style (since this isn't a traditional BMX) which wouldn't work for the sprocket I just bought. I'd still imagine I could find a 3-piece crank that would work with this sprocket, but the rare 45t could prolly be one tooth too much for me, really.
6) You can even use newer mountain bike twist type gear shifters and remove the ratchet in there. Makes a cool stubby throttle.
You're not talking about the twist grip gear shifters are you? I saw someone else talking about what seemed to be a "ratcheting" shifter, but didn't understand how they would make that into a throttle lever. Take the ratcheting components!!! I like!

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Can you add another freewheel on the opposite side?? It looks like you can, but I don't want to assume anything. I don't understand why they wouldn't put the other freewheel on there already.

Either way, that'd cost me $42 for that set right there, another $15 or whatever for the second freewheel, then I'd need to buy the rim & spokes, then I'd have to pay someone to true the spokes for me. Not that cheap.
 
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Can you add another freewheel on the opposite side?? It looks like you can, but I don't want to assume anything. I don't understand why they wouldn't put the other freewheel on there already.

Either way, that'd cost me $42 for that set right there, another $15 or whatever for the second freewheel, then I'd need to buy the rim & spokes, then I'd have to pay someone to true the spokes for me. Not that cheap.
id contact the guy. but i dunno, i know nothing about axles. but you should be able to. (he's nice lol, i bought 2 engines from him)
 
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