Looking for Itom Tourist information

[marcstmartin]

Hello,

I am a new member who would like to hook up with anyone who has worked with the Itom Tourist Micromoteur. I'm particularly interested in what type of modifications need to be made to a bicycle prior to installing the motor. I have heard that Itom included a left crank arm which was designed to clear the motor. Any information would be greatly appreciated.


Regards,

Marc St. Martin
Livermore, California
USA

 

[Walter F.]

Hello,

I am a new member who would like to hook up with anyone who has worked with the Itom Tourist Micromoteur. I'm particularly interested in what type of modifications need to be made to a bicycle prior to installing the motor. I have heard that Itom included a left crank arm which was designed to clear the motor. Any information would be greatly appreciated.


Regards,

Marc St. Martin
Livermore, California
USA

I just googled Itom Tourist Micromoteur and got 7 hits, that's an interesting looking devil. Walter F.

 

[mabman]

What would we do without inquiring minds and Google? Probably get alot more actual work done and a lot less oogling cool old stuff like from this gent's site that was a hit. http://buyvintage1.wordpress.com/buy-vintage-how-to-use-ebay/

I need a horn like this one!

 

[luke]

hello
i own an itom tourist and a couple of spare engines mine are all made under licence in france.they made them under licence in a couple of other european countrys as well as the original italian ones.you need an exstended arm which they tell you to hit with a hammer if it doesn't clear the engine or an exstension piece which is a much more sane idea and you keep the original pedal arm.these engines worked rearly well and they made a few full mopeds with them and also made a couple of rack mounted versions both front and rear.i will try to post pic here later.
regards luke

 

[marcstmartin]

Itom

Hi Luke,

Thanks for your reply. I was hoping you would reply to my post as your original posts came up when I searched on Itom. Yes, I would like to see a closeup photo of the modification you made to your left-side crankarm to accommodate the motor.

I only wish there were entities here like the NACC which had regularly scheduled meets and rides.

I also own a '63 Itom Super Sport which is currently "off-line" awaiting an engine rebuild and a '62 Mobylette AV48.

Regards,

Marc

 

[Pablo]

I just googled Itom Tourist Micromoteur and got 7 hits, that's an interesting looking devil. Walter F.

Say "sweet" about 5 times...

http://buyvintage1.wordpress.com/page-128-1959-itom-tabor-65cc-classic-racer/

1959? Wow.

 

[marcstmartin]

Itom

Yeah, I had my eye on it, but shipping from the UK to San Francisco, CA would have been prohibitively expensive $$$$$$

 

[luke]

Hi Luke,

Thanks for your reply. I was hoping you would reply to my post as your original posts came up when I searched on Itom. Yes, I would like to see a closeup photo of the modification you made to your left-side crankarm to accommodate the motor.

I only wish there were entities here like the NACC which had regularly scheduled meets and rides.

I also own a '63 Itom Super Sport which is currently "off-line" awaiting an engine rebuild and a '62 Mobylette AV48.

Regards,

Marc

here are a couple of pics and quick discription.all it is is a thick tube of metal with the centre milled out to fit over the original crank.then of course the holes for the cotter pins are drilled very precicely to match up so the pedals are not out of line.personally i hate cottered cranks the modern bolt on are much better if you had one of those on your bike i wonder if one of these extra wide cranks you can buy for the chinese cyclemotors would fit or not.
the itoms do stick out quite a lot.

 

[marcstmartin]

Itom

Hi Luke,

Thanks for the pics. I think I will draft my friendly neighborhood machinist for this one! Will send pics to the list when it's up and running.

Marc

 

[Cyclemotors Galore]

Itom Tourist

I was given a Cyclaid (British) 35 years ago and thought that that would be an interesting project for me to tackle during my retirement. I started on cyclemotors some 5-6 years ago and one thing leads to another and now have over 60 cyclemotors, some of which, interestingly enough, are new and have never been fired up. My specialty is British units however I do have Italian, French, Dutch, Japanese and American. I am presently rebuilding an Itom Tourist cyclemotor for mounting and have quite a lot of information including manuals, parts list, advertising etc and I understand the motor. If I can be of any help to anyone else I would be only too pleased to be contacted. The Itom Tourist, I have is the last of them with the foot engage/disengage and the last of the Tourist fuel tanks and is rated at 1.4 bhp at 3500 rpm which is very good for the 1950s.