Early 1900s style 'motorbike'

**brett7777** · 3rd October 2011, 13:29

the idea is to put something together that looks like the early motorbikes of the early 1900's, that were essentially motorised bicycles.
It's gonna be 48cc so I can rego it as a moped.
Here's the tank & frame & some other bits that are going into it, Im doing it in satin black.

**avgas** · 3rd October 2011, 13:43

Nice one. Where did the frame come from?
Have you seen these guys before - should give you a bit of inspiration.
http://farrstdevelopments.blogspot.c...gercycles.html

**brett7777** · 3rd October 2011, 14:11

The frame is a Worksman Industrial Newsboy (made in Queens, NY)

**brett7777** · 3rd October 2011, 14:12

& yeah, had a look at Derringer & a number of others. It seems that this (vintage looking motorised bicycles) is a growing fad in the US & Europe.

**imdying** · 3rd October 2011, 14:23

That's going to be awesome!

**avgas** · 3rd October 2011, 15:03

Originally Posted by brett7777

The frame is a Worksman Industrial Newsboy (made in Queens, NY)

Cool! Whats the frame worth? You gonna import anymore? Or do a whole kitset? Or just one finished bike?

**brett7777** · 3rd October 2011, 15:13

Originally Posted by avgas

Cool! Whats the frame worth? You gonna import anymore? Or do a whole kitset? Or just one finished bike?

The frames are almost impossible to get here in NZ, as Worksman dont ship internationally, & the INB frames hardly ever come up on the US ebay. So you have to get someone else to send one over. It's taken 4 separate shipments from the US to get everything over here for this bike; Im getting the spokes & rims locally.
Im doing one initially; I wanna keep it, but my wife says I have to sell it. I may do more in the future depending on what sort of demand there is locally.

**Urano** · 5th October 2011, 05:50

www.sportsmanflyer.com

**Paul in NZ** · 5th October 2011, 06:23

The guy with the bike shop in New Brighton in ChCh made a bunch of these sorts of things including ones with twin engines. They pop up on trademe occasionally. They are very cool...

**brett7777** · 5th October 2011, 07:40

Yes Sportsman Flyer supplied some of the parts
The rest from other US suppliers & rims & spokes will be local
yes here's the CHCH ones

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**avgas** · 5th October 2011, 08:02

be fricken mean to get one with a GN125 motor

**brett7777** · 5th October 2011, 10:37

Originally Posted by avgas

be fricken mean to get one with a GN125 motor

In the US some are using motors that are clones of the GX200 motor, there's a CVT to go with the motor too

**brett7777** · 6th October 2011, 20:33

couple of pics of where it got to today
seat on
& springer fork, with tank sitting in frame
fork needs spacer at top of steerer tube, engineer is machining a stainless one for me
working on painting tool box / oil tank so I can get that pinstriped

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**brett7777** · 13th October 2011, 19:14

Put some parts together today. here's a pic of where it's at.
Waiting on a wheelset from the US. (Got a local bicycle shop to lace some rims to my new hubs; the rear rim they supplied was new & the front was old & untidy & wider than the rear ???!!! now they're messing about now & not resolving it for me - at the moment Im down 2 brand new hubs - so I decided to heck with the locals stuffing about & ordered a quality wheelset from the States).