I have and have had quite a few motorcycles and tons of mini bikes but I've never had a pocket bike. I was at a friend of my buddies house a while back and he had this old pocket bike just sitting on his bench. I told him if he ever wanted to get rid of it, just give me a holler. Well, he gave me a holler yesterday and I went to pick it up. I rode it around his yard for a bit but couldn't really open it up so we took it to our high school parking lot for a top speed run. After warming it up, I made a few passes to find the top speed was 25.9 mph. I was kind of disappointed, I thought it would do at least 30 mph. I'm fairly certain it has the stock gearing, 6 tooth front and 68 tooth rear and it has plenty of "pep" to pull all of my 5'-9" 165 lb. body around without any hesitation but I wanted more. When I got home, I pulled out my new 47cc engine and my 49cc big bore kit I had purchased previously just in case such an occasion occurred. Two hours later, I had the big bore kit installed and two hours after that, my mess was cleaned up and it was ready to go. Today I went and bought some new fuel line and a fuel filter for it, cleaned out the tank, filled her up with some VP racing pre-mix and proceeded with the break-in. I could barely pull it over without yanking it off the stand it has so much compression now. After breaking it in a bit, I decided to take it slowly down the road for a little load test. I was doing about 10 mph when I decided to just give it a little goose, much to my surprise, the front wheel started to come up and instantly a smile appeared on my face. The difference is like night and day and I can't wait to see what, if any, speed gains are achieved. I'm going to keep the same gearing for now for comparison but plan to change it in the near future. Once I get it geared to where it doesn't pull the front wheel off the ground will be perfect for most riding. Here's some pictures of the bike, big bore kit and semi-final product, I have the rest of the bodywork, just don't know if I'm going to install it or keep the cafe look.
