FWD bike - engine is also top yoke

[Pete.]

Check out this wacky contraption - the product of a fertile imagination no doubt

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/sids32/IMG_0317.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/sids32/IMG_0316.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/sids32/IMG_0320.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/sids32/IMG_0319.jpg
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Paris2]

Looks pretty interesting, not sure it would handle too well

I wonder why someone made it though?
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[c-m]

I bet that suffers from under-steer
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[G]

I'm not sure that'll be rivalling Christini (or even a Rokon) on powering the front wheel .

I've got a FWD bike (technically AWD hybrid ) in my electric push bike .
And yes, have had the front wash out from too much power on some slippery stone paving slabs .

[AlexW]

Classic pushbike place near me had a pushbike that had a engine on the front, Looked like somebody really had just got a push bike and then strapped a engine to the handlebars and a chain to a sprocket on the front wheel.

The above looks like fun though.

[bassmastergen...]

Pffffft. Velosolex thought of that about a million years ago.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hNd_2gsN2as/TOURBtyr82I/AAAAAAAABeU/5SeZh_mAPpI/s1600/velosolex.jpg

[Eddie Hitler]

That looks insane.

As i'm front wheel drive myself, i think me and that machine will get on pretty well.

I'm looking to sell my c50 soon, any idea if i can buy?

[1cyl]

Nicely finished, wonder how easily it does stoppies

Or would they be front wheel wheelies
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[Walloper]

POS.

Looks downright dangerous and a menace to shipping.

A toy?
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[Pete.]

No it's just something some guy knocked up from bits. I thought it was worth showing is all.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Pete.]

Oh no, it doesn't use fuel - you wrap a string around the pulley on the right and keep pulling yourself along
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Walloper]

[colin1]

i think the black thing on the front is the fuel tank.

the engine looks like the type to turn bicycles into little motorbikes, and that black thing is mounted in a similar position relative to the engine than those ones, although they are usual above on the crossbar

the frame as a tank would be a bit too high tech for this build i reckon
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[lukamon]

Also, the pull start appears to have been removed. and thats the air filter, thee is no fuel tank.
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[devojunior]

how do you wheelie ?

[DrDonnyBrago]

[truslack]

[stinkwheel]

I'll see your "FWD and engine is also the top yoke" and raise you a "FWD and crank is also the front axle."
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I have a mate who is into velosolexes in a big and slightly disturbing way. He was talking about fitting TWO solex engines to a bike, one on each wheel, adding knobbly mountain bike tyres and entering it into a hillclimb in the 50cc class (the nearly flat tyres, bouncing up and down to get traction and see who can get furthest up the course sort of hill climb). He'd pissed everyone off the previous year by entering a totally standard MOT failure fiat Panda 4x4 in the same event and getting disgustingly far up.

Not spoken to him for a bit, I'll have to ask how he got on.
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[bunglebubs]

Why would you want to move the drive to the wrong wheel? just like front wheel drive cars, it will be crap and they wont handle. Somethings are best left where they are and drive to the rear wheel(s) is one of them.
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[truslack]

[colin1]

[binge]

Pete. that's awesome!


That box on the front is almost certainly the exhaust.
No idea where the fuel tank is though!


But from my experience with Gopeds in the past, I'm pretty sure that black box is the exhaust.





Ben

[truslack]

[G]

Big square exhaust boxes are very common for both intake and exhaust on such 'working' lawn mower style engines. No need to make it aerodynamic, nor are they trying to get best power from a specific engine capacity.