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March 04,
2010
New Toy
Not very much has been going on the last couple
of days as it's been nasty and raining outside but today
turned out a bit better.
One of the local kids
has been tinkering on a pocket bike for the last couple of
months and finally managed to mess up just about everything on
it. He has brought it over to my
workshop a couple of times already before this and I told him
what he needed to get for it, where to get it and the
price they charged both times. It didn't have but a
couple of minor problems originally.
Today he brought it over again asking what
he needed to fix it. This time though he had already
disconnected the entire electrical system, most of the bolts
for the motor is missing, the pull starter and the lights
are gone. The battery was hanging outside the frame by
it's wires. The front cowling and the side covers are
now also gone along with the seat pad. The engine is
partly disassembled and needs a new pull starter and
a number of bolts. It also has a cracked motor
mount on the bottom casing so the casing will have to be
replaced also. It's basically mangled. The
only things still put together properly is the frame and
wheels.
He said his mom told him to fix it or
get rid of it. I went through it again and told him what
it would cost to replace all he had removed and broken
and he decided to sell what was left of it to me for
parts instead. I wiped out the workshop budget for
the next month but I bought it from him. He was happy, I
will be happy and his mom will probably also be
happy.
So now I'm the owner of one dissasembled,
missing some parts pocket bike. It's an X-treme
xp490 bike and has a 49cc motor on it identical to the
one on my trike except that this one has a standard
transmisson. I believe it will run once
everything gets put back together on it because I spun it over
with my drill and it did sputter a few times. I'm
sure the carb also needs to be cleaned. The frame
is the biggest one that is made for these bikes from what
I understand and it has good suspension on both ends.
It's also got the widest tires I have ever seen on any pocket
bike. The rear one is 6" wide.
Now I have to
decide what to do with it. I have two choices at the
moment. I can convert it into an adult
sized moped/scooter like I did the other one except
that this one will have a 49cc engine instead of electric
motor drive or I can take the engine off and install it on my
delta trike. This frame should easily convert
into a really comfortable adult scooter so I'm a bit torn
on the direction to go as I've been wanting an engine for
the delta trike for months now and this is the engine that was
originaly drawn into it's building plans. I guess there
is one other option here too. I could make an adult sized
scooter from it, convert it to electric and still use the
engine on the delta trike.
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