Mini -Bike

[Kim_Howie]

Bought this mini- bike last week and been trying to figure
out who made it?? pics enclosed.
Let me know what you guys think it is??

[Xplantdad]

Maybe a Bonanza mini bike?

Check all of the different kinds here Kim!

Oldminibikes.com (http://www.oldminibikes.com/vintage-mini-bikes/bonanza/)

[Kim_Howie]

Thanks Bruce I looked at all of them. The heathkit was close.

[x Baldwin Motion]

does it have a centrifugal clutch or is it direct drive off a jack shaft?

[Schonyenko2]

Oh my. Please don't ride that until me, Joe, Cumby, and Rick Nelson can be there for the show. I'm thinkin there's a $10,000 check potential there.

[Salvatore]

Does it run Kim? Who cares what brand? Just take some pictures with you on it doing wheelies. Maybe you will make the cover of the MCACN program for 2011! Just make sure it is painted the correct color red. Ha!

[ORIGLS6]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Schonyenko2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oh my. Please don't ride that until me, Joe, Cumby, and Rick Nelson can be there for the show. I'm thinkin there's a $10,000 check potential there. </div></div>

Get 911 on speed dial.

[x Baldwin Motion]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ORIGLS6</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Schonyenko2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oh my. Please don't ride that until me, Joe, Cumby, and Rick Nelson can be there for the show. I'm thinkin there's a $10,000 check potential there. </div></div>

Get 911 on speed dial. </div></div>


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[Xplantdad]

Ken...here you go <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/lotsayenkopics/SCR%2011/friday/tn_DSCF3161.jpg

[SS427]

You know that video camera you were asking about to mount in the Camaro...........why not put it on the mini bike? Seems to me it might be more entertaining right now...... <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/wink.gif

[Kim_Howie]

Yes sir is does have a cen clutch.

[TimG]

Holy cow, those are what I grew up with. Mine was a Rupp......

[PeteLeathersac]

C<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gifL!!!

Looks like a homebuilt kit style bike like the ones advertised in Popular Mechanix type mags or maybe offered as basic models by the factory built minibike manufacturers?.

My pal and I built one similar to this as kids w/ an old McCullough 5Hp 2-Stroke motor!.
Wild power for the bike but luckily the cen-clutch driven gear was a slightly different pitch than the chain so it would always fly off before we got going too fast to kill ourselves!.

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~ Pete

[TimG]

The things we learn as a kid, never take the cover off of a centrifugal clutch and start the engine. All those disks went all over the place and stretched the spring to hell. I picked up the disks and put them back. Tons of rubber bands worked as well as the spring.......

[Kim_Howie]

Sad part is when I was a kid there wasn't any mini-bikes. They hadn't been invented yet!!

[x Baldwin Motion]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kim_Howie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sad part is when I was a kid there wasn't any mini-bikes. They hadn't been invented yet!! </div></div>

time to start living.... let's see some mods!! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif


http://www.minibikeclub.com/images/rare-rides/ruttman/grasshopper2.jpg

[PxTx]

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/975/grumpy2.jpg

[jl8z28]

Thats a rupp the grump is sitting on.

[wheelhop]

I've got a 1970 Rupp Roadster mini bike just like that one the grump is sitting on. Color of the frame is Monaco orange.

[JRSully]

I have 4 Honda Z50's in my garage, a couple QA 50's and who the hell knows what else. If it runs on gas it seems to find it's way into my garage

[TimG]

I'd love to see a picture of the Rupp, mine was orange, too.

[PxTx]

Here's one my wife bought for me in 2002. Smallest street legal bike Honda made 49.5cc's. Makes for a cool pit bike and is water cooled!

http://home.comcast.net/~pxtx/cb750/motion.jpg

[drdave69]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: JRSully</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have 4 Honda Z50's in my garage, a couple QA 50's and who the hell knows what else. If it runs on gas it seems to find it's way into my garage </div></div>

I had a QA50 new in the early 1970's. I assume we can call it a mini bike. Two speed/auto clutch transmission and it had a sissy bar. I have a photo somewhere in a box. A lot of my friends had the type posted in this thread but I don't remember the brands.

[SmallHurst]

How 'come I have the 'Elepahnt March' going on in my head and visions of Bears and Minibikes running around in my head??????

[x Baldwin Motion]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pxtx</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here's one my wife bought for me in 2002. Smallest street legal bike Honda made 49.5cc's. Makes for a cool pit bike and is water cooled!

http://home.comcast.net/~pxtx/cb750/motion.jpg </div></div>


This came to mind first. Is Howie a Mod or Rocker?


http://www.thewho.info/images/QuadM3-Who.jpg

[JRSully]

I have no idea how the hell the English thought a scooter with a thousand lights on it was cool. Although, I did clothespin 20 or so baseball cards into the spokes of my Stingray and I am sure some of thoses cards would pay off my house today

[PeteLeathersac]

Quadrophenia Who music may be cool but the bikers look like the English counterpart to Eric VonZippers gang!.
Give 'em da finger Boss!.

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~ Pete

[x Baldwin Motion]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: PeteLeathersac</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Quadrophenia Who music may be cool but the bikers look like the English counterpart to Eric VonZippers gang!.
Give 'em da finger Boss!.

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~ Pete

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I remember the significant impact of seeing Quadrophenia....

equal time for The Rockers <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif

http://www.iliad-design.com/misc/rockers.jpg

[olredalert]

-----Yow!!!! Love the babe all the way to the left......Bill S

[mockingbird812]

BILL! That's a DUDE! <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/no.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/mockingbird812/sYc%20site/rockers.jpg

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[olredalert]

----Sam,,,,Im Irish! All those limeys look the same to me. Now, I know youll say &quot;well, that explains alot&quot;, and, yup, Im proud to say it does.......Bill S

[mockingbird812]

I get you Bill ... I'm just across the Irish Sea on the mainland (pigs head). <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif

[Xplantdad]

LOL @ Bill S <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif

[Justbad Joe]

I can see it now, &quot;You'd never believe what Howie did. Let me guess, he ran the mini bike into the camaro.&quot; <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif
We all know its coming, just give a few test rides.
Joe <<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif

[Kim_Howie]

No it just spun around on the floor when the choke was half open!!!! Missed everything!!! Joe you were close.