G'day all! Been a long time since I did the stroll through this website.
Gotta be at least a year when I started my motored bike. The missus needed one first for travel to work and back, so I dropped a Zbox 50cc HT unit into her MTB frame and it runs very sweet.
Then it was mucho trials and tribulations designing and fabricatiing all the custom bits for my ride. Three design changes later and as many months labour, I had a swing-arm frame with 3-speed hub as a Jackshaft. This of course did not work as I pulled the hub apart for servicing and couldn't put the bugger together again. It then became apparent that the swing-arm was way out of alignment when viewed from the front. I did of course blame the meds for this and many other fumbles along the way.
I all but gave up on the project, but after a restup and rethink I started designing again. Upon perusing this site I was inspired to once again take up the angle-grinder and welder to begin a mad, but passionate journey into motoredbikedom. I reckon my greymatter has soaked-up everything there is to know about these Chinese HT engines and the associated problems with their running and drivetrains.
It is with many thanks to the contributors who make this site so informative that I finally present my nearly finished Reddbak-One stealth cycle. Tis satin-black in the hopes that the Wallopers (police) will continue not to notice the li'l 70cc engine tucked away betwixt the framework. She rides very smoothly and is quite comfy for my ageing posterior.
Forgive the lack of detail using a mobile phone for images. I shall upddate with better pics and more on the build at a later stage.
Gotta be at least a year when I started my motored bike. The missus needed one first for travel to work and back, so I dropped a Zbox 50cc HT unit into her MTB frame and it runs very sweet.
Then it was mucho trials and tribulations designing and fabricatiing all the custom bits for my ride. Three design changes later and as many months labour, I had a swing-arm frame with 3-speed hub as a Jackshaft. This of course did not work as I pulled the hub apart for servicing and couldn't put the bugger together again. It then became apparent that the swing-arm was way out of alignment when viewed from the front. I did of course blame the meds for this and many other fumbles along the way.
I all but gave up on the project, but after a restup and rethink I started designing again. Upon perusing this site I was inspired to once again take up the angle-grinder and welder to begin a mad, but passionate journey into motoredbikedom. I reckon my greymatter has soaked-up everything there is to know about these Chinese HT engines and the associated problems with their running and drivetrains.
It is with many thanks to the contributors who make this site so informative that I finally present my nearly finished Reddbak-One stealth cycle. Tis satin-black in the hopes that the Wallopers (police) will continue not to notice the li'l 70cc engine tucked away betwixt the framework. She rides very smoothly and is quite comfy for my ageing posterior.
Forgive the lack of detail using a mobile phone for images. I shall upddate with better pics and more on the build at a later stage.
