Just seeing if anyone here likes fucking around with mini bikes?

[ForeverRaw]

Because it was meaningless stupidity irrelevant to the very cool subject.

sure thing

[Revelator]

jumbo sized mini bike that I spotted at the drags several years
ago up in Bakersfield

[klondikekid64]

This is still a "mini bike" right?

[klondikekid64]

I just bought this yesterday, it's already stripped down to get ready for paint. it's a Bonanza

[rockman96]

I love mini bikes, don’t currently have one but planning a quasi-Berkeley Savage build soon.

Do go karts count? Stretched a Streaker and stuck a 420 big block on it:

[klondikekid64]

I just bought this yesterday, it's already stripped down to get ready for paint. it's a Bonanza

Just put the finishing touches on it, had to get another engine, the bike is a 1969, the engine is a 1961 B&S.

[hillcat]

Rockman - I like your kart alot! Some nice stuff on there.

Klondike - Great job. I like how you stayed period with the engine.

Mine's good to go now. New brake lever & cable, new throttle, cable and throttle linkage, new grips and bent the handlebars back straight with heat wrench. I brought it over to my friends (indy) shop to do it. He was not to happy about having a mini-bike in there and said "WTF is wrong with you? a 62 yo man with a mini-bike." I said "When you say it out loud it does sound pretty screwy but I never had one before and..."
Anyways he's at the store the other day and he texts me pics of a Baja mini-bike w/racks for $400 and says "I want one!" HaHa

[klondikekid64]

Rockman - I like your kart alot! Some nice stuff on there.

Klondike - Great job. I like how you stayed period with the engine.

Mine's good to go now. New brake lever & cable, new throttle, cable and throttle linkage, new grips and bent the handlebars back straight with heat wrench. I brought it over to my friends (indy) shop to do it. He was not to happy about having a mini-bike in there and said "WTF is wrong with you? a 62 yo man with a mini-bike." I said "When you say it out loud it does sound pretty screwy but I never had one before and..."
Anyways he's at the store the other day and he texts me pics of a Baja mini-bike w/racks for $400 and says "I want one!" HaHa

Thanks, thats funny my wife thought a mini bike was a dumb idea too,"grown man riding that is silly" she just looked at me funny while I tried explaining how much fun they are, well, she was the first to try it out...up and down the street with the biggest grin on her face, now she wants one.

[klondikekid64]

[kmanator]

I just picked up this lil'Gem for the grand kids to mess around with,Need to lose the bicycle seat and mount an old ironhead seat on it with some struts in place of where the coil shocks were..It's been retrofited with a Chi-nonda 125cc engine..I might swap out the powerplant with a period correct Tecumseh I got stashed in the shed?It's got 3.00x10.00 tires on it.

[TriNortchopz]

That looks like a Bonanza Scout Mini Chopper:


https://oldminibikes.com/forum/index...isement.95495/

[klondikekid64]

I just picked this one up a couple weeks ago, 1967 Bonanza BC1300, the restoration is well under way, I'll post pics when it's done.

[rockman96]

I just picked this one up a couple weeks ago, 1967 Bonanza BC1300, the restoration is well under way, I'll post pics when it's done.

Definitely keep us updated. I love old minibikes!

[apprentice]

yup, had many over the years. still have one left in the garage. i really need to take pics. built for my step son but he never really took any intrest in it so it sit and waits for the grandkids to get older..

as a kid my mother would never let me have one so when i was old enough i went and bought several.. haha guess thats what we do.

[klondikekid64]

Definitely keep us updated. I love old minibikes!

I got it all finished up, but when I went to post pics i realized I never took any finished pics, I'll do that now, These Bonanza bikes are going crazy on prices, a chrome chain guard that needed to be re chromed on Ebay went for....wait for it... US $463.00 also on Ebay I saw a frame with forks and rims with no rubber and a ripped up seat with 10 bids and it was up to $600 US I didn't see the sell price, I could only imagine. here's a bike I did for a friend, he liked mine and asked me to do up his. The new seat didn't make it into these pics.

[kmanator]

Well these things seem to multiply like rabbits!!!

I finished up the orange mini and have built 1 or 2 from scratch now..

[rockman96]

Damn fine work man! I've got a Whirlwind that I want to turn into a quasi-version of a 1961 Berkley Savage. Those things are rare as hens teeth!

Savage:


Whirlwind: