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I've been thinking lots about this and I have a few things lying about to make a start on what's in my head


First lets talk about the mini bike.  I really want a mini bike, it's a bike, that's mini right.

I was driving up my road the other day and this was left out for scrap, I of course chucked it in the van.  A few minutes at home confirmed it ran


What we have is a Wolf Garten Scooter.  A very random mower/motorbike/quad thingy

I could do it up a little and sell it or play with it as is, but it has a few things on it that would be ideal for a mini bike (bear with me)

The wheels are vintage mini bike size, 4 inch wheels, 10 inch tyres.  But there's 4 of them and 2 of them are attached to an axle I hear you shout.

Well, it turns out the rear axle is chain driven and it has a diff

It also turns out mini bikes with sidecars were a thing back in the day as well


Look at it; amaze



I'll need to do some measuring but I think something like the above will work.  It wont be as wide, maybe just a foot plate where the cooler is above.


Oh, it also has a 3 speed plus reverse gearbox, which would be nice as I could have slow and torquey if someone's standing on it and all the speeds if i'm on the flat on my jones.

I'd have to take a looksee though, because the engine that runs it is a vertical shaft, which means my little Suffolk can't be used and the plastic covered wibblepoo that came with the mower would have to be done and it's just not very vintage.


So, that's that.




Now lets talk about the Mini Mini Scamp

The main issue I had is it runs go-kart wheels and tyres and no suspension.  This meant it was the sketchiest thing i've ever driven in my life, the slightest bump pulled the steering from one way to the other.

I had to have a week off the gym as my forarms were genuinely fecked

It also right battered my little bottom


If you have a decent memory, you may remember at the start of this thread, I have the remains of the quad which gave up it's engine


I've done some measuring and I reckon it will work out






 The MMS is 550mm wide currently, the quad rear axle is 720mm and the front is currently 850mm.  I can flip the spindles to get that down to 750mm

So, 200mm wider than the MMS currently.  That's a good thing though, should make it more stable.


It means a massive rework of the chassis, but it's all do-able

I'd have big balloon tyres and suspension, plus i'd gain front brakes


It will of course be more of a caracature of the real Scamp, but it's a sacrifice i'll make for comfort and safety (It's not fun trying to miss expensive and cool cars)

Oh, and it will look a bit like this





Your thoughts?

Had a blast on this at RRG


Best Toilet Transport in a long list



Question is, do I finish and refine it (and store it) or do I cut it's face off, make it look like a Mini Moke and sell it for many pennies and move on to the next one?



I fancy a pocket bike and sidecar setup with a vintage engine





I have a little 1.1bhp, 75cc Suffolk engine, which sounds glorious boggling away

It would be slooooooow though, but that's ideal as toilet transport

All the body panels are cut out now, bit of fettling of the edges and i'll get them mounted and painted.

Spent 5 mins inside with the cutter making these cute lil things






Not any official font, but they look good enough to me

I bought a chinese as feck wiring loom off eBay, £13 delivered, came with everything, starter solinoid, coil, CDI, regulator, key switch etc

Bargain


Except it set on fire when plugged in

Turns out they'd wired the kill switch into the live for the starter, so it dropped 12v to earth through the whole loom.


Once I'd sorted that it actually works, so I mounted it properly. Just got to tesa tape it all now




I wired up the front lights as well, the switch has a common with both NC and NO connections, so when the switch is 'off' the side lights will be on, then when pressed it will flick to the head lights

It's been forsale for ages, that's it being ran at Trent Raceway


For £200 it might be a cheap way of getting a running 125cc backend to make a proper reverse trike

I really don't know what i've been doing, but whatever it is, it isn't working on the MMS


Stole 30 mins today


Finished the front panel, I proper hacked out the left side headlight hole, before finding a better tool for the job to do the right side.

Not to worry, it's all covered by the light bezel.

I might add some flat ally trims around the grill area to liven the front up, but i'll see when it's bolted on.




Started the templates for the other panels, really starting to look something now, despite it only being my mortgage application from 2016






The savvy of you will have noticed this random mis-measurement, no idea what I was thinking, or doing when I welded that up when it's a good 5mm out. I'll cut that and reweld it in the right place before I do the panel.

and that shotgun would stay put in its cabinet even if you were broken into


It's the UK

Can we reserve a small spot for our little vehicles, I think we have a fair few between us

She’ll of course be available for test drives, there’s no key😂


I remember a gas canister or paint tins at Shelsley