Huffy Nel lusso conversion advice

jarredderck

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Hey man I am about to build this same huffy into a motorized bike I am going to order the motor and mag wheels this weekend or next week I am confused about the brakes and the adel clamp? Where can I find the clamp and how do mount the rear disc brakes do they mount right on or is there welding needed as I have no welder right now my wife sold my welder I just want to order it all then build it and get it done fairly fast so I have it for the summer can you help me with what to buy as far as the brakes go I think the motor and the wheels I can figure out it's just the brakes thank you private msg me if you have any advice
 
private msg me if you have any advice
Better to message you in the forum for all others to read and also have the benefit of the information and the advice given also for others that will be joining the forum after you, thats the whole idea of this forum, to post in the public forum for the benefit of all.
 
There is a bit to unpack here. I am going to lead with a bit of advice/explanation of my recommendations. A hard lesson that many of us learn is the concept of buy once, cry once. So many people enter into this hoping to build a bike for as cheaply as possible, and end up regretting it down the road as they then have to spend twice as much money doing things over again. Sometimes it's worth spending the extra little bit of money up front so you don't have to spend a lot more money later.

With that out of the way... right off the bat I want to warn you about your choice in bike. Those Huffy Nel Lusso frames are one of the least safe bikes to do a build with. They have the absolute thinnest tubing possible and tend to have poor welds that crack easily. You have been warned. I won't say anything more about it after this, just know that most of the people here will agree with that assessment. You are better off with a Kent Bayside (slightly better), or a Hyper Cruiser (best) to build a motorized bike with if you need to stay to a budget.

As or mounting the disc brakes. The rear can be done with no welder. Both Damien here, and @Gordy made brackets out of aluminum without any sort of high tech machining or welding. As long as you have a drill and a grinder with a cutting wheel or some form of cutting tool capable of cutting and shaping aluminum you can make a rear bracket.

The front brake Adel clamp thing is fairly straight forward. You mainly need to know what size the fork tubes are that you need to mount the clamp to. The clamps themselves are easy to find online or even at some hardware stores. The other option would be to simply buy a fork set with a built in caliper mount. There are a thousand options out there and several price ranges to work in. Again, I am just recommending the "Buy once, cry once" approach.
 
There is a bit to unpack here. I am going to lead with a bit of advice/explanation of my recommendations. A hard lesson that many of us learn is the concept of buy once, cry once. So many people enter into this hoping to build a bike for as cheaply as possible, and end up regretting it down the road as they then have to spend twice as much money doing things over again. Sometimes it's worth spending the extra little bit of money up front so you don't have to spend a lot more money later.

With that out of the way... right off the bat I want to warn you about your choice in bike. Those Huffy Nel Lusso frames are one of the least safe bikes to do a build with. They have the absolute thinnest tubing possible and tend to have poor welds that crack easily. You have been warned. I won't say anything more about it after this, just know that most of the people here will agree with that assessment. You are better off with a Kent Bayside (slightly better), or a Hyper Cruiser (best) to build a motorized bike with if you need to stay to a budget.

As or mounting the disc brakes. The rear can be done with no welder. Both Damien here, and @Gordy made brackets out of aluminum without any sort of high tech machining or welding. As long as you have a drill and a grinder with a cutting wheel or some form of cutting tool capable of cutting and shaping aluminum you can make a rear bracket.

The front brake Adel clamp thing is fairly straight forward. You mainly need to know what size the fork tubes are that you need to mount the clamp to. The clamps themselves are easy to find online or even at some hardware stores. The other option would be to simply buy a fork set with a built in caliper mount. There are a thousand options out there and several price ranges to work in. Again, I am just recommending the "Buy once, cry once" approach.
Thing is I already bought this bike but maybe I'll save money and not build a bike with a motor if it's that bad
 
Thing is I already bought this bike but maybe I'll save money and not build a bike with a motor if it's that bad
Like I said, it's not recommended to use that frame. If you do use it you will want to keep a very close eye on the frame and expect to have to replace it in a relatively short amount of time. The Hyper cruiser is the best cruiser frame to use by far. It's also more or less the cheapest bike of the three I named too, being sold through WalMart for $148 at the moment.
 
Thing is I already bought this bike but maybe I'll save money and not build a bike with a motor if it's that bad
You've already been warned twice about the Nel Lusso now, once by me in the DM and once by @ImpulseRocket.
I really wish people who want to build one of these would join the forums and ask FIRST before they try to commit to a bike or a motor, or both that is gonna be doomed to failure and it didn't need to happen if they had just asked and THEN bought what was needed and THEN build a bike that will hold up decently.

I've been riding this since I built it 5 years ago...This pic was only taken on 4-23-25, 7 days ago.

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