azbill
Active Member
I can honestly say that these little engines are pretty strong.
if you look at my Deviate thread in the gallery , you can see the motor mount I made. It was 2" x 1/8" steel I got from Ace. I bent 2 pieces to fit inside one another, since it was so thin.
my little 70 broke both pieces at the front bend
and scared the sn*t outta me when it happened 
had to remove engine chain just so I could pedal home (which isn't easy with my style bike and HILLS) ...I thought I was gonna have a friggin heart attack
I have already replaced it with one made of 4" x 1/4 " steel that I bent at a hot rod shop using his vice and BIG hammer
, I then trimmed it to 3'' wide, using a hand grinder as a cut off wheel, so it would fit between pedals 8) , kind of a big dremel
it's all painted, and mounted on bike and is a lot stiffer than orig
the extra inch in width gives it a lot of side-to side strength as well
seems that all is good
if you look at my Deviate thread in the gallery , you can see the motor mount I made. It was 2" x 1/8" steel I got from Ace. I bent 2 pieces to fit inside one another, since it was so thin.
my little 70 broke both pieces at the front bend
and scared the sn*t outta me when it happened had to remove engine chain just so I could pedal home (which isn't easy with my style bike and HILLS) ...I thought I was gonna have a friggin heart attack
I have already replaced it with one made of 4" x 1/4 " steel that I bent at a hot rod shop using his vice and BIG hammer
, I then trimmed it to 3'' wide, using a hand grinder as a cut off wheel, so it would fit between pedals 8) , kind of a big dremel it's all painted, and mounted on bike and is a lot stiffer than orig
the extra inch in width gives it a lot of side-to side strength as well
seems that all is good
