Mini Mate "silencer" mini bike!

[markus]

Allied leisure posted these photos up on the FB page stating it was a limited production run in 1970-71 Looks like they utilized the steel pressed spoke wheels and steel gastank that Bird was using at the time for the Zapper. Feature twin Deco 5hp's, Very cool bike!!!!!

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• markus
• Apr 29, 2022

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• Apr 29, 2022

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• Apr 29, 2022

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• Apr 29, 2022

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• Apr 29, 2022

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• Apr 29, 2022

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• Apr 29, 2022

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• markus
• Apr 29, 2022

 

[manchester1]

Pretty cool. Can't say I have ever seen one. Another odd bike to put in your memory. Lol

 

[Havasu Dave]

Geeze. I wonder what they sounded like. Man, cool machine!

 

[Ding Ding]

Wow that bike means business! I imagine there is nothing "silent" about it. The raised letter Goodyear tires are a nice touch.

 

[superflea]

Those engines started as Red Seal Continentals so what does the Deco mean? Deco also appears on the midget racers.

 

[Mark Brooks]

I want one!

 

[copyman]

Neat bike but not sure how having 2 engines set up that way would make bike any faster? Seems the 2 engines are just a novelty for looks?
Now if one engine drove front wheel and other to rear wheel I could see that making bike faster. Maybe the experts can explain if 2 engines in line using centrifugal clutches makes bike any faster?

 

[pomfish]

Neat bike but not sure how having 2 engines set up that way would make bike any faster? Seems the 2 engines are just a novelty for looks?
Now if one engine drove front wheel and other to rear wheel I could see that making bike faster. Maybe the experts can explain if 2 engines in line using centrifugal clutches makes bike any faster?

Define "Faster"
Torque Rules.

Yes, the bike will be faster from a dead stop to max rpm, I.E. Drag Race, but at max RPM speed will be same top speed as single engine if equal governors are in use.
That is provided single engine can pull max rpm in allotted distance raced/run.
There is a reason the winning tractors at tractor pulls use multiple engines, same applies here.
More is not always better if everything is not synced, but once it is, There is no Replacement for Displacement" as the old saying goes.

Thanks,
Keith

 

[pomfish]

I believe I have that same front wheel in the second floor of my barn (not with cool Goodyear) but is is not all chromy/shiny like this one.
Did they make dull versions as well?

 

[PatrickCraik]

Neat bike but not sure how having 2 engines set up that way would make bike any faster? Seems the 2 engines are just a novelty for looks?
Now if one engine drove front wheel and other to rear wheel I could see that making bike faster. Maybe the experts can explain if 2 engines in line using centrifugal clutches makes bike any faster?

Sure, One engine complements the other.

 

[markus]

Those engines started as Red Seal Continentals so what does the Deco mean? Deco also appears on the midget racers.

Deco engine

• markus
• Sep 7, 2014

 

[markus]

I believe I have that same front wheel in the second floor of my barn (not with cool Goodyear) but is is not all chromy/shiny like this one.
Did they make dull versions as well?

They were cheap flash chrome like an azuza fender. Pretty tough wheels though! These were pretty rough and I just glass beaded them lightly to clean them up as much as I could on the '73 JCP digger turd That I polished few years back:

 

[superflea]

Deco engine

• markus
• Sep 7, 2014

I still think there is a connection to the red seal Connies. They are almost identical.

 

[superflea]

Check out the single cylinder engines
red seal continental engine - Yahoo Image Search Results red seal continental engine - Yahoo Image Search Results