Hi,
I've read through a lot of the posts on this forum and gathered a lot of great information/advice along the way.
Ideally I'd have a dedicated motorized bike, but funds and space make that impossible at the moment.
So, I've decided to make a homespun frame mounted setup I'm about halfway through with. The idea is it'd be removable/replacable in about 15 minutes with about 8 bolts/nuts total. I'm planning on putting an inline trailer light plug splice in the kill switch wiring, and zip tieing the throttle to the handlebars each time. I bought a 1 1/8" roller kit with a Zenoah two stroke.
My bike's seat stay doesn't give enough room to comfortably use the Staton supplied U-bracket, so I built this goofy box for the seemingly strong triangle core of the frame (outlined in sharpie in the picture). Not pictured are two pieces of 1 1/4" angle iron I'm going to through-bolt to the plywood frame on opposite sides. Planning on grinding that down to ~ 3/4" wide in the peddling area for a combined width (including the plywood box) of 4", That angle iron is mocked up by the small stick in my picture, with the red circled spots eventually being 5/16" through bolts with nylon lock nuts, and using the supplied 3/8" bolt for the aluminum drive kit. I'm planning on padding the rear of that mounting assembly out with 3/4"x1 1/2" steel square stock to match the required width of the Staton drive kit (~4"), and using some 3/16"x1 1/4" flat bar to jury-rigged to the final connection.
Long story short, I'm wondering if anyone on here has gone this route/can warn me of potential pitfalls. I'll try and post a few pictures of progress, which has been kinda slow thus far.
Thanks!!
I've read through a lot of the posts on this forum and gathered a lot of great information/advice along the way.
Ideally I'd have a dedicated motorized bike, but funds and space make that impossible at the moment.
So, I've decided to make a homespun frame mounted setup I'm about halfway through with. The idea is it'd be removable/replacable in about 15 minutes with about 8 bolts/nuts total. I'm planning on putting an inline trailer light plug splice in the kill switch wiring, and zip tieing the throttle to the handlebars each time. I bought a 1 1/8" roller kit with a Zenoah two stroke.
My bike's seat stay doesn't give enough room to comfortably use the Staton supplied U-bracket, so I built this goofy box for the seemingly strong triangle core of the frame (outlined in sharpie in the picture). Not pictured are two pieces of 1 1/4" angle iron I'm going to through-bolt to the plywood frame on opposite sides. Planning on grinding that down to ~ 3/4" wide in the peddling area for a combined width (including the plywood box) of 4", That angle iron is mocked up by the small stick in my picture, with the red circled spots eventually being 5/16" through bolts with nylon lock nuts, and using the supplied 3/8" bolt for the aluminum drive kit. I'm planning on padding the rear of that mounting assembly out with 3/4"x1 1/2" steel square stock to match the required width of the Staton drive kit (~4"), and using some 3/16"x1 1/4" flat bar to jury-rigged to the final connection.
Long story short, I'm wondering if anyone on here has gone this route/can warn me of potential pitfalls. I'll try and post a few pictures of progress, which has been kinda slow thus far.
Thanks!!