Hello all. I've been lurking for a bit and reading while working on my project along with my Dad. I'm not entirely sure what year/type it is but near as can tell it's a ~1970 Fox Street Scamp that we've been frankensteining together. My vision for it, terrible as that vision may be, is to have it look somewhat ratty when completely done, preferably without the mice that were living in the Tecumseh engine when it was started...
Anyway, we had his old HM80 from a long gone snowblower laying about, that fires and runs now after setting the points, putting in a new champion spark plug, and rigging a replacement $15 Chinese carb onto it. Put a 10 tooth 420 clutch down to a 15 tooth driven gear on the jackshaft. That runs to the original 35 chain 15 tooth and 70 tooth axle gears. On this setup it tops out at 35 mph (according to the speedometer app on my phone).
Life for it started out just seeing if the HM80 would fit. You can even see the original 2 speed jackshaft setup, now stored away as there is no room for it on this setup and replaced with its current setup.
Upon completion of fabrication of the headlight and taillight using parts of a 1965 Buick Riviera (if there's any motorheads, it's okay they were clunker covers) the bike was named Rivenstein. The headlight has a 2500 lumen LED headlight and the taillight has an LED brake light in it that are awaiting wiring when I finish planning out the harness. It actually currently also has front and rear turn signals and a horn being added to the wiring and the left handlebar has the control hub for the signals, lights, and horn.
The fun really began when I first ran it. I quickly found out the mechanical brakes didn't feel like they were doing much to stop the bike. Really it seemed, even after a lot of tinkering with adjustments that simple entropy from friction was doing almost all the stopping and I decided to put a hydraulic brake on it. This led to some...interesting...fabrication as we are now at my parents second home and no longer have access to nice things like a welder, or a vice, grinder or what you expect in a shop. Left to my own devices, namely a saws all, hole drill set, and a drill and bits and a set of hand files I proceeded to build and mount a bracket to Rivenstein. The end product is functional, and as ratty as the rest of the bike. However, it now stops quite nicely with a grip that has a brake relay and a parking brake. In the future the front will also have a hydraulic brake mounted to it.
Future plans for the bike moving forward are to change out the original axle gear to a split gear adapter and drop down to a 53 tooth #35. The idea of going to the split gear on a universal adapter being to be able to play with different axle gears. Back at the shop several states away there is a TAV2 comet clutch that will fit the 1" crank shaft that will be installed. Sand blast everything and repaint it with the frame and forks going to a Ford engine blue. Matte black on the fenders, tank, and handle bars. Repaint the Tecumseh as close to its original color as possible. But that is months away. I'd like to get a video of it running and moving soon to upload as well.
Anyway, comments and tips/tricks are certainly welcome.
Anyway, we had his old HM80 from a long gone snowblower laying about, that fires and runs now after setting the points, putting in a new champion spark plug, and rigging a replacement $15 Chinese carb onto it. Put a 10 tooth 420 clutch down to a 15 tooth driven gear on the jackshaft. That runs to the original 35 chain 15 tooth and 70 tooth axle gears. On this setup it tops out at 35 mph (according to the speedometer app on my phone).
Life for it started out just seeing if the HM80 would fit. You can even see the original 2 speed jackshaft setup, now stored away as there is no room for it on this setup and replaced with its current setup.
Upon completion of fabrication of the headlight and taillight using parts of a 1965 Buick Riviera (if there's any motorheads, it's okay they were clunker covers) the bike was named Rivenstein. The headlight has a 2500 lumen LED headlight and the taillight has an LED brake light in it that are awaiting wiring when I finish planning out the harness. It actually currently also has front and rear turn signals and a horn being added to the wiring and the left handlebar has the control hub for the signals, lights, and horn.
The fun really began when I first ran it. I quickly found out the mechanical brakes didn't feel like they were doing much to stop the bike. Really it seemed, even after a lot of tinkering with adjustments that simple entropy from friction was doing almost all the stopping and I decided to put a hydraulic brake on it. This led to some...interesting...fabrication as we are now at my parents second home and no longer have access to nice things like a welder, or a vice, grinder or what you expect in a shop. Left to my own devices, namely a saws all, hole drill set, and a drill and bits and a set of hand files I proceeded to build and mount a bracket to Rivenstein. The end product is functional, and as ratty as the rest of the bike. However, it now stops quite nicely with a grip that has a brake relay and a parking brake. In the future the front will also have a hydraulic brake mounted to it.
Future plans for the bike moving forward are to change out the original axle gear to a split gear adapter and drop down to a 53 tooth #35. The idea of going to the split gear on a universal adapter being to be able to play with different axle gears. Back at the shop several states away there is a TAV2 comet clutch that will fit the 1" crank shaft that will be installed. Sand blast everything and repaint it with the frame and forks going to a Ford engine blue. Matte black on the fenders, tank, and handle bars. Repaint the Tecumseh as close to its original color as possible. But that is months away. I'd like to get a video of it running and moving soon to upload as well.
Anyway, comments and tips/tricks are certainly welcome.
