Freecycle junk mini moto lemans project (and now bikes as well)

Jonny69

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I'm still bumming around off work and glued to Freecycle like a junk hoarding jippo. Today I managed to score a junked mini moto :)

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It's pretty snotty but it's almost complete and the engine turns over. Plenty of rust so I reckon it's been at the bottom of someone's pond or shoved behind their shed. More pictures...

Clutch is a bit snotty but sort of moves and I think a bit of WD40 will free it up:

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Rear gear and er, stuff, really rusty but nothing a bit of WD won't fix:

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Ah well you can't see down here but it's full of stagnant water, mayonnaise and a snail:

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The pull start is missing which is a bit of a jip but it looks like you can get them on eBay for under a tenner delivered. Foliage came free with the bike:

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Front brake is present and looks like it'll work with a bit of fettling:

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Back one is missing the caliper but I can work around that and just use one brake ;)

This is the bit I'm interested in, the engine. Turns over, seems to be complete apart from the pull start and has a little compression:

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I haven't had the carb apart but my first worry was the tank being full of slime and all that being in the carburettor. I may have got lucky because there's a fuel tap on the carb and it was in the off position, so you never know...

It even has an exhaust with a little expansion chamber ;D:

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Anyway plans are to chop it up, merge it with a bike and make into an ultra cheap two-wheeled terror to take to Lemans in a few months. I'll try and get the engine going but if it won't run then no loss, I'll use some of the other bits and make a push bike instead.

So far the plans are it'll use the 4ft ape hangers off a small blue chopper bike I made and I think it has to use the wheels off the mini moto. Need to get my sketch book out...

And while I've been typing this I've scored a couple of junk bikes to pick up in the morning too. Happy days :)
 
It's not really powerful enough for a bike and it's damn noisy and dangerous. I could for comedy effect but I already took the jet scooter in 2006 and I have to take a different toy each time I go :D
 
Yup, I think I might make it a bit more manly so it doesn't just fall off. And people pay money for these things :D
 
Just as i was beginning to think that freecycle was a bloody joke!
Our local area one is bloody terrible. Recent items being offered include 2 boxes of tampons, a half eaten bag of dog food and a bag of old bra's.
Terrible!
 
Morba said:
Just as i was beginning to think that freecycle was a bloody joke!
Our local area one is bloody terrible. Recent items being offered include 2 boxes of tampons, a half eaten bag of dog food and a bag of old bra's.
Terrible!
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There's a bag of old bra's going?.
 
Bit of a result with the bikes! I asked for junk bikes because I'm just going to be chopping them up and robbing bits off them but these aren't as bad as the owner made them out to be and were only 10 minutes away from me!

First up is the SPACE ATTACK! Apollo kids bike:

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It's just a mini mountain bike but has some funky shape frame tubes that I can use for something and seems to have massive adult handlebars which will come in handy. It's also got these grabby end bars which I've been looking for to put on my racing bike:

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I'll cut them down so they're real narrow, satin black and they'll go on my black racer.

Second bike is quite a cool chrome BMX:

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Again seems to have ultra wide adult bars but it's in good nick apart from the grips and saddle and has those spinny roundy brake things so you can do stunts. Or get twisted up and eat tarmac in my case.

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I'll just clean the decal adhesive off the frame, polish it up and leave it as it is. Good little bike that, too good to chop up. Or is it...? ;)

Last bike is the parts bin, missing a front wheel but it's a good size steel frame in good condition that will donate its tubes to the project:

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Morbs, it's generally old rubbish on our freecycle too but if you ask for stuff specifically you tend to find people have quite good stuff they want rid of. Especially if you say you don;t mind if it's broken and 9 times out of 10 someone will have a perfect working item for you. These bikes just need a bit of TLC for example.
 
This guys classic. i have the hankering to build a pulse jet i have been looking at it for ages but know i would endupt with no eyebrows AGAIN!!
 
I found a mini moto just like that in a lake lol! 3 hours later and a 5er petrol then me and my mate were ripping around on it! If you like choppers, ill have to put up some pics of one i have recently made! I even built my own chrome leading link forks for it! For my next one im purchasing a cbr400 front wheel off MrSix for a nice fat rear! I will watch intensly!
 
Yeah definitely, lets see the pics of that!

I'm thinking of something totally mad for this. Had the sketch book out yesterday night with a few beers and I reckon I want something low slung. Small wheels with the weight nice and far back so you can get up on the back wheel easily and do some cool wheelies with the pedals. Long bars so it's comfy and laid back to ride. Seat will have to be big, maybe one of my freecycle deckchairs will get donated. Then have an almost identical one with the engine for cruising around. I'll try and have them fold up as well, so they don't take up too much space in the car ;)
 
Jonny69 said:
Yeah definitely, lets see the pics of that!

I'm thinking of something totally mad for this. Had the sketch book out yesterday night with a few beers and I reckon I want something low slung. Small wheels with the weight nice and far back so you can get up on the back wheel easily and do some cool wheelies with the pedals. Long bars so it's comfy and laid back to ride. Seat will have to be big, maybe one of my freecycle deckchairs will get donated. Then have an almost identical one with the engine for cruising around. I'll try and have them fold up as well, so they don't take up too much space in the car ;)
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Stunt pegs on the back with nice high handlebars tbh.
 
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