I am thinking of a 6.5hp rear drive.

[bike4life]

I got the green light from the welders forum!!!! So no FTPUCK, it will hold. The link is in the previous post.

Ok so like i said the projects was real slow and i just finished SATs and my mom wouldnt let me work in shop b/c "Need to do your SATs"" Despite the fact that i tested 1380 on psat this year, ya know those asian parents are crazy, "you should really aim for a 1500" like WTF. Also, i typically have a government style work ethic so my projects get delayed, but this isn't that bad of a thing b/c i might join the NJ transit train engineer program which is government owned (parents would be like nooooo bro, they have no idea) right out of HS and maybe skip college, and they pay pretty well, stable hours etc..... The idea here is that I would save 4 years of time and save up from my decent salary to open my own business relating to building crap. i know the median salary (idk if it counts benefits) for them is 120,000 + 30,000 overtime (https://townsquare.media/site/385/files/2018/10/NJ-Transit.jpg), mind u this is a GED/ Highschool Diploma Job.
Heres what we have so far.

 

[JerboaJohn]

good progress,, yes take Care of school stuff,, it'll be with you the rest of your life, regardless of job, money, bikes, hobbies. doesn't get easier to learn skills or anything the older you get!
I messed around until I was 24, wanted to make money and have fun but if I'd buckled down right outta H.S., I'd had more and better opportunities. 6yrs of fun cost me abt 25yrs of struggle to get ahead

 

[bike4life]

good progress,, yes take Care of school stuff,, it'll be with you the rest of your life, regardless of job, money, bikes, hobbies. doesn't get easier to learn skills or anything the older you get!
I messed around until I was 24, wanted to make money and have fun but if I'd buckled down right outta H.S., I'd had more and better opportunities. 6yrs of fun cost me abt 25yrs of struggle to get ahead

heres my scenario. I go to this magnet skool, that specalizes in medicine, one of these tough schols you have to test into like stuvescent. We have many courses like anatomy physiology that gives us rutgers university credits. And most of the kids, id say 100% go to college, and they all study etc and freak out about low grades. I will say i "bucked down" in 9th grade, but hacked the system and i just coast, but still have good grades and really solid sat scores that can get me in really good schools. The thing is that i dont have 2 much motivation, i used to or perhaps still want to be a mechanical engineer or power engineer, but then i found out that the trades/njtransit pay close to the same as these 4 year degrees. I know a lot of 1st year EE just from being curious and i know how to calculate the strength of beams and the formulas in the machinery's handbook. I would do fine in college, but i feel like it might be a waste of time. So i am not sure whether i would actually get a degree then.... Also, like i said, i eventually want to have my own buisness, and i know a degree isnt going to help me there.... About better oppurtunities. I believe that theres always a "way out" and even if u did not buckle down in HS, it would not cause you 25 years of struggle, u just have to think outside the box and also be lucky. I remember, there was a potatio peeler salesman who sat in the middle of NYC on a busy street and sold potato peelers, and he made a million dollars a year and had a penthouse etc... I know that youtube videos with adds make 7,000 dollars per 1M views on average. MTA is always hiring GED positions for like 25/hr at the lowest. THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY OUT, even if you "screwed up", but i believe that by not buckling down in HS, it helped contribute to your personality/ideology in a positive way perhaps, which was inevitable and actually supposed to happen.

 

[Spare_Parts]

A degree helps with loans and insurance for small business. You wouldn't believe some of the s**t that comes with a degree.....in anything lol.

 

[FNTPuck]

I got the green light from the welders forum!!!! So no FTPUCK, it will hold. The link is in the previous post.

LOL where is the green light? All I see are people saying it won't work and its a terrible idea.

Motorbike pusher build

Heres what i have so far, this is the pusher https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxk7Rd9DCEs/ This is a close up of the frame and engine. https://motoredbikes.com/threads/i-am-thinking-of-a-6-5hp-rear-drive.54517/page-12#lg=thread-54517&slide=0 This is the hitch...

weldingweb.com

 

[FNTPuck]

Questionable welds, too much power for a pusher, incorrect gearing, wheels rated for 10mph, and no brakes on the trailer which will be like 60+lbs of weight pushing you forward when you try to stop.

Sounds legit.

 

[Spare_Parts]

Lol! Now I know what I sound like!

 

[bike4life]

Questionable welds, too much power for a pusher, incorrect gearing, wheels rated for 10mph, and no brakes on the trailer which will be like 60+lbs of weight pushing you forward when you try to stop.

Sounds legit.

hell no. First of i already proven that i had the green light on the welds. The previous welders forum proved it. Secondly, u are a mig welder, u have no opinion/ranking. I do stick welding.The welds are not bad, especially for the inverter welder from ghanzui province that i put in the refridgerator. Also, it has too little power for a pusher, ideally i would use a 13hp 420cc.... The wheels are rated for 10mph, which is why i am reinforcing them with rebar and bar stock. Yes the trailer will be more like 100 lbs pushing me foward when i stop. Good thing i only weight 125 lbs, so its the equivalent of just a fat guy riding a regular motorized bike.

 

[Will'smotobikes19]

Questionable welds, too much power for a pusher, incorrect gearing, wheels rated for 10mph, and no brakes on the trailer which will be like 60+lbs of weight pushing you forward when you try to stop.

Sounds legit.

Yeah never really understood the pusher concept if there isn’t enough room just modify the frame. You could probably fit a 10hp on some bikes if you wanted to.

 

[CrazyDan]

I think it's to circumvent motorized bike laws, but he would then have to obey mobility scooter/electric wheelchair laws, which here in CA gives you a 12 mph speed limit.