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OLD MINI BIKES . COM
does anybody here have an "in" at this place? apparently they are harder to join than the AARP
Dear XBM, Unfortunately your registration at OldMiniBikes.com Forum did not meet our membership requirements. Therefore your registration was deleted. Sorry, OldMiniBikes.com Forum I bought my grandson a resto project and need to identify what it is https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2-img_2918.jpg |
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It's a mini bike silly......
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's a mini bike silly...... </div></div>
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/haha.gif[/img] funny, that's what I thought when I bought it, [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img] turns out there are several different brands. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/stupid.gif[/img] Having more info will help in purchasing the correct parts. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/scholar.gif[/img] |
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Very cool Chris. Keep us posted!!!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]
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Chris, Looks like a Jc Penney brand, had one. They were called Golden Pinto. Scrape a little paint off and see if there is golden paint under there, if there is, its probably a Penneys brand, made in late 60's-early 70's. I think Bird Mfg. made these for Penneys,or made one very similar. Rupp is another brand similar. Craig
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Ok, I'm in. (Charlie thanks for calling over there [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img])
The bike is an ARCO (Alexander Reynolds) Easy Rider with a name like that I decided to do it up!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img] |
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That small coil spring on the fork stem must make it the "Easy Rider" model. I've ridden Harleys with that same style rigid frame for years. I can tell you for sure it isn't a comfortabe ride at all! I cringe and hang on when I see a bump in the road coming up! Ouch, my back!!!!! Cool little mini bike there.
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Mike stripped off all the parts https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...41008572_n.jpg spent a few hours removing 40 years of paint https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...18620780_n.jpg some thick primer to cover the ugliness https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...43103729_n.jpg Have some Olympic Gold left over https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...-2019-gold.jpg |
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Wow, I thought I was the only one around here goofy enough to restore a minibike. I just resurrected my old Heathkit. Frame is acid washed, awaiting primer and some Lemans blue. My friend put together two motors for it. One stock and another with so much compression I can't even pull the cord unless it's bolted to something! Already had the seat re-covered as well.
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The bike is an ARCO (Alexander Reynolds) Easy Rider
mini Capt. America clone? http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/...ps61640556.jpg |
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Yes...yes we do!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/headbang.gif[/img]
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unlike the Nova, this gold and white ride is getting the max engine upgrade
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...-img_31831.jpg like a big block in a Vega https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...-img_31911.jpg |
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Here's Mike showing my grandson and son-in-law how things work, we are trying to convert them from stick and ball sports to motorsports.
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...-img_31971.jpg needed to tack on this rod to hold the drum brake assembly, it was formerly a friction brake set up https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...-img_32071.jpg |
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https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...doodle_bug.jpg
I'm really enjoying this thread, being older than most of you, as a kid in the mid fifties I had a little scooter that was called a Doodle Bug, this was before the name "minie bike" was coined. These little Doodle Bugs are very pricey now, if you can find one. They are being reproduced at around 3K which is much cheaper than a restored original. The original scooter that I had was like the one in the photo that I attached except mine was black. They had Clinton engines and would run about 25 MPH. They were sold at Western Auto Stores. After the Doodle Bug I moved up to a Cushman scooter which I still have a couple of those today. |
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----Hey Tommy,,,I also had a Doodle Bug. I think that by the time I got mine someone had stripped it down a bit as mine didnt have all the sheetmetal on it. Probably trying to lighten it up. Little bugger was fun......Bill S
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The OHV and 2 stroke engines sure beat the heck out of the flathead B&S or the twin Mccullochs we had to work with... twin McCullochs on a Go Kart and we thought we were BIG TIME!
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Bill,
Check out Ebay Item number: 221171205189 Pretty neat and really looks very much like the original |
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a bit more drilling and stretching to make some of these newer parts fit on the old frame, plus the extra large motor required some mount massaging
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ape hangers, tighten all the bolts, add an extra throttle return spring (ALWAYS). and we are ready for a test run.
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Looking Good Chris! Let's see some air under the tires, a little snow and ice shouldn't matter much.
Here I was about 20 years ago with a bike with about the same amount of power. http://home.comcast.net/~pxtx/cb750/200jump.jpg This one here was about 10 years ago http://home.comcast.net/~pxtx/cb750/motion.jpg I don't think I have pictures of me one anything older than about 20 years ago, as Mom was pretty against bikes with motors. I think I do have some older go-cart pics I'll have to dig out. |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pxtx</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looking Good Chris! Let's see some air under the tires, a little snow and ice shouldn't matter much.
Here I was about 20 years ago with a bike with about the same amount of power. http://home.comcast.net/~pxtx/cb750/200jump.jpg </div></div> ha! I had a 71 CB 350 orange also, back in the late 70's, my first street bike |
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I had a purple CB350 back in the 80's that I rode around until I ran into the front of a 70's Caddy, lol.
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This is a 71 Rupp Scrambler minicycle (as they called them) I bought about eight years back, a carbon-copy of my first bike. Original right down to the tires. Rupp went bankrupt in 76, mostly due to the fact their main business was snowmobiles an we had two mild winters that they didn't sell enough units. It sits on the counter in my shop office, and even though there's also my 57 Pan in there this attracts more interest....
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This is my mini bike from when I was 10 years old. It started as a Sears 2 1/2 HP, I will never forget walking into sears and the first thing I wanted to go look at was the mini bike display. I ended up putting a raked front fork with sting ray handle bars and a bannana seat, I painted it pearl white with gold spider webbing. I always wanted a Honda fifty back then but never did get one, but I do have a few now
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ssl78</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This is my mini bike from when I was 10 years old. It started as a Sears 2 1/2 HP, I will never forget walking into sears and the first thing I wanted to go look at was the mini bike display. I ended up putting a raked front fork with sting ray handle bars and a bannana seat, I painted it pearl white with gold spider webbing. I always wanted a Honda fifty back then but never did get one, but I do have a few now
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/g...8/IMAG0482.jpg http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/g...8/IMAG0400.jpg </div></div> A few is a relative term..one corners worth. http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...eU2/group2.jpg |
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LOL...Nice! Alright, where's Charley's photo of one in the back of his Porsche?
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3 Rupps and a Honda circa 1971!
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Igosplut....Any pics of the 57 Pan?
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TMagda</div><div class="ubbcode-body">3 Rupps and a Honda circa 1971! </div></div>
The two in the center are pre-71 as they have the external fork springs. All three are 4HP as they have 12" spoke rims with front brakes. And the last (closest) on either is a black widow, or has the exhaust from one... |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TDW</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Igosplut....Any pics of the 57 Pan?</div></div>
Not stock, but original Harley 57 engine and trans. Not many can say that. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g1.../july09127.jpg |
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Nice looking Pan. I've built many in that style in the last 40 years. Not too many guys still run the mechanical brakes. I like that style.
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The 2 middle Rupps had 3.5 HP motors and the wheels were smaller than the third one with the orange flames. The 3rd one had much more power but was a year or two earlier than the Black Widow model. The 2 middle ones were Scramblers and the third was an Enduro. Custom paint jobs done by the kid sitting on the Enduro (Donnie) who was a very talented 12 year old. His uncle owned a body shop so he had access to equipment. Thats me on the one with the lime green flames! The Honda has a rattle can enamel paint job, but we thought it was the coolest because it had gears and a clutch.
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Now that you say that, I can see the 10" wheels on the two center bikes. What threw me off was I knew the Scramblers had 10" rims but also knew they had no front brakes (mine and other 71s didn't) And those hubs looked like brakes. And I forgot the Scramblers only had the so-called cookie-cutter rims in 71 too. There really was a big difference in that 1/2HP motor as far as power, a friend had a Roadster and it was much faster.
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Thanks Charley! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]
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I had a Rupp Roadster and with the torq convertor and the big rear sprocket, that thing could ride wheelies forever. I remember heading out on Fri nights with friends on about a dozen mibikes, tearing through the streets and avoiding the Fuzz. Of course, I now have about 6-7 Z50's and QA 50s in my garage. You never get these things out of your blood. Going to restore 2 for my kids, one for Momma and one one for me, then go have some fun
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That picture brings back great memories. I have to dig out the pictures of my orange Rupp Scrambler from 1971. I believe it was a 1970 model and it cost about $250 new. It had a torque converter and that was a cool set-up. Wish I had that one still….I was 15 in ’71.
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