So I found this thread about the OldMiniBikes build off competition 2020. That's cool, maybe I'll post my build, I've found every one on this site helpful and pleasant, so here we go. Not many can say they have the minibike they purchased new as a kid but this is the one I purchased with my paper route money. Being from metro Detroit, back in the day, there were the Lil indians and the Ruttmans, maybe the rich kids had a few Rupps... So a customer on my route knows I have a Lil indian and tells me he's a rep for HPE Muskin Cat and would I like him to get me a mini bike at cost, wow! So Cats are a west coast thing and I'm the only kid on the block with one, a 2 speeder to boot, lot's of chrome. This is that very bike featured in this build. There is a reason I still have it and it's not because I liked it so much I kept it. About 6 months after I bought it, I was riding it out to a friends house on a path along a river called the Rouge River. It seems someone maliciously dug a hole in the trail to trip up an unlikely rider and I happened along. The story of the circumstances of my Cat ending up in the river and me lying in the field all day unconscious were relayed to me by my dad, he went back and retrieved the bike from the river. My parents were contacted by the Detroit News when I never showed up to pick up my papers. Fortunately not too long after, my parents were contacted by a homeowner nearby whose children found me laying in the field. I guess I woke up enough to tell them who I was. Any way it wasn't until many years later (after my dad had a friend try to make it rideable again) I even rode it again , by then I was a first gen Camaro freak. My kids rode it
and and my grandson has ridden it, so now I've decided it needs to return to it's former glory. Its been rather difficult to find all the missing and broken parts, but thanks to OldMiniBikes and great people, I have every thing I need. Thanks