WEEDHOPPER420
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Does anyone happen to know the length of the average throttle cable that comes in the kit?
mIGHT HELP IF YOU id THE kit YOU have.Does anyone happen to know the length of the average throttle cable that comes in the kit?
Just another reason why I prefer and encourage others to use a beach cruiser style bike, especially for those doing their first build and being inexperienced in being able to think out of the box in order to improvise things.If you're going for ape-hangers and a tall stem, then yeah they're going to be a little short. you're going to need an entire new set of clutch, brake, and throttle cables.
In their native country, these were predominately put on single speed, home market Flying Pigeon single speeds and they have fairly narrow bars but taller stems. It's one of the reasons why these engine kits fit so perfectly on old English and European 3 Speed roadsters. My old J.C. Higgins (made in Austria by Steyr..) bicycle was a perfect match for the tubing angles and diameters.Just another reason why I prefer and encourage others to use a beach cruiser style bike, especially for those doing their first build and being inexperienced in being able to think out of the box in order to improvise things.
The beach cruiser is what they are really designed to fit OOTB...lol.
Drilling into these frames for motor mounting purposes is the kiss of death for these bike and engine combo's.some guy was drilling the down tube to mount bike engines for people he was building these for. And saw one drilled downtube bike with an aluminum frame that failed while the bike was running at speed. Luckily the owner shut the engine and coasted to a stop and walked it home.
My mountain bike; I had fun with the exhaust on that one.Yeah we have some real genius bike builders who should probably be stopped,. This frame came in with a bunch of other old bikes/parts at the local community bike shop, and we decided that we weren't going to help folks with an obvious gas engine conversions any more, just because of the potential lawsuits.
Here's my bike as reference for the way these engines fit older diamond frame bikes, I would also think certain MTB made in the early 1980's through to the early 1990's would be great candidates especially when they're made of CroMoly tubing.
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Get a shoe lace and trace the length from the handle bar to the carb. Then order the right cable.Im not changing anything just replacing my old cable on my occ with a pwk carb on my wildcat pro.
My old one broke a few times and i wasn't exactly sure of the original length but ill just improvise