Remodeling my Motorized Bicycle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- Apologies for the Poor Video Quality.
This video details the process of me switching the engine from my motorized bike, on to a new bicycle. This was technically for a school project, but its something that I have wanted to do for a long time!
This was filmed in November, and December of 2020.
Music in the Video:
The Beacon - Zachariah Hickman
The Colonel - Zachariah Hickman
Climbing - Reed Mathis
Outlaw's Farewell - Reed Mathis
Outlaw's Farewell (part II) - Reed Mathis
That One Bar Scene - RKVC
Thanks for watching!
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Looks great 👍 btw it's cool that your dad rides with you. You have a cool dad😎
Wow, a perfect example of brains and brawn at work. You must be very proud of what you were able to accomplish, and IT LOOKS AWESOME! Very impressive... the finished bike AND your patience and hard work seeing it through to completion. Congratulations!
Thanks!
I'm so impressed and proud of what you accomplished. Onward to Glory!
Thanks!
you have good vision. I didn't imagine it would look so cool until I saw it completed!
Haha thanks!
I am very impressed at you work and your painting
Thank you!
this is actually a really good video for such a small channel!
Thanks!
Sweet. One of the nicest ones I've seen. Good job..
Thanks!
must be nice to have dad to work with you on projects
Yeah it’s awesome. I’m grateful
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf Yeah me too. My dad says he'll help me finish my bike after he gets milk from the store. He left when I was 9, I'm 37 now and he should be back any day now!! 😁 I Can't Wait!!
@@curtisjohnson7023 did he came back?😄
felt that 🕊
First of all great job on the build swap, I love the Hurry Cranbrooks for motorized bike builds... very comfortable frames woth a good cushy seat.
You may have figured this put by now since this was all 3 months ago, but I highlt recommend witching the spring chain tensioner....
Use a tensioner that cant give way when the clutch is released to start engine and ill the tension on the chain transfers to the power chain area.
Ive seen engine cases busted because of those type tensioners on motorized bikes that can cause the chain to jump a tooth and bunch up under clutch arm cover.
Best option is to get some half links and adjust chain so that it doesn't need a tensioner. at all if possible.
epic vid homie
Thanks son
The huffy cranbrook is always a good looking platform for a motorized bike
Yeah thats true haha. But you get what you pay for in the quality department lol.
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf I built one exactly like that, I had tons of chain clearance problems but a year later after fighting with it, the seeutek is still pulling strong!
@@bryceh2163 Yup. The engine is definitely the strongpoint in the equation.
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf i'm considering a seeutek or a wildcat engine
That's looking amazing! I feel your pain with cheap coaster brake hub failure
The only time I have seen a coaster-brake fail is when it's not properly put back together.
yeh it does look good in the end.
BRUH that dope af
Excellent work !!!
The only criticism I have is actually a tip for the future .
Had you painted the areas of the boxes white first it would have been less taping for your final coat of red .
I'm definitely not trying to give you any guff . I'm an old guy so it brings me much pleasure in seeing a young man get his hands dirty .
I've assembled a few of these units and the sweetest thing they have taught me that transfers to automotive is if you strip a bolt or hole you can add fine copper wire in the hole or around the fastener to make it grab .
Ride on !!!
Thanks man!
Very cool! Thanks for the ideas😎
You’re welcome
Thats what am trying to tell everyone use your creative mind💯💯💯💪💪💪
Sheeeeeshh🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Thanks for the video ma guy atleast others get to see how long it takes to work on a complete motorized bike is better to take your time putting your bike together than to rush and leave out something 💯💯💯love the vibe
Facts take your time good point AJ Motorsport.... nice work on the bike man love the color red n it
@@636bikelife2 thanks ma brother 🙏
Sickkk vid bro, that things lookin minty, so cool to see the effort put into it, lmao just wait till you have a car, same process but bigger and badder!
Yeah that'll be sweet. Hopefully that will work a little more consistently haha.
I love this hobby hope to see more from you
You went from having a solid and safe multi speed bike with reliable rim brakes and a good looking group set to a god awful cranbrook lol. I used to build out of a shop and saw many many cranbrooks with failed frames and blown out rear hubs. Most common issue was rear dropouts braking. And a few cracked frames.
Yup you are very correct. Looks cool though
the gas tank looks great,good color
Thanks! The paint has held up surprisingly well
Looks awesome! I just did the exact same thing, got tired of it on my mountain bike so i bought that same bike same color. I just ordered white wall tires as well.
Nice man!
Very cool bike. The boxes are top notch.
Good job back sprockets are a pain in the butt I'm on my 10th build now at age 64 started at age 61 you should a bought new motor,sold your old one to recoup so cash better yet gave. The old one to dad haha good job be safe
the redboxes look really cool, i may paint my pink huffy that shade of red
Great vid man and the bike looks awesome. I've been building 2 strokes since 2019 and was addicted at first. They're amazing when they run but I'm growing tired of constantly adjusting, fiddling, and fixing LoL. Looking into getting an ebike this year or at least a fraction drive bike
Yeah they’re kinda a pain in the butt haha
Totally agree with you Thomas Runge! I have the same experience, and I have switched over to E-drive. Very happy. A lot more riding and less fiddling.
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It's a cool looking bike bro👍👍
You need rear view mirrors, at the speed those bikes go, you don't have time to turn around to see what's coming up on you. Car drivers DON"T watch out for you, you must watch out for yourself. You are invisible to car drivers, or, at least you should ride like you're invisible, and, you might live longer. Nice looking bike, clean, not too busy, Like the paint. You might want to try automotive lacquer paint, next paint job, it's much tougher finish, with clear on top. Use self etching primer.
sick video bro
looks amazing with those colors.
I solved the chain jumping problem by using half links and that same tensioner you have.... It's the only tensioner I use
Yeah I just added an extra spring to the tensioner and it worked great
the white gas tank looks so good on a red bike
Thanks!
A nice build.
I like the Recumbent hanging up in the back.
Thanks!
I didn't paint my ammo boxes but I love storing my oil and tools and misc stuff in them and it gives you some extra weight to make sure it doesn't slip on the ground when you're trying to start the bike even on ice or whatever
When ur chain jammed up around the engine drive sproket - it's a common occurrence with these 2 stroke engines. You can either fit a spring-loaded tensioner OR get a 'block' a couple of places make that u'd mount inside there to take up the space to prevent it from happening. The tensioner is the easier way.
12 hours is MORE than enough for one day
I know right
Nicely done watched rest of video ur color choices look good on the new bike really cool you can do all this with your father
Ps still like old bike more but new one is coool.
I think it would have ben nice to paint the other chain guard white too. Also red fenders with red strips on them.. ijs
You really could do with disc brakes for the kind of speeds you are aiming for. There are kits that will allow disc brakes to be fitted on these older frames. "Bike Bicycle Frame Disc Brake Conversion Kit Disc Brake Adaptor" Or you could get a new front fork that allows disc breaks.
Yeah I was gonna do that for a while, I just never ended up needing to because the coaster has always got the job done, albeit very sketchy
Juicy
it hurt me when your dad started grinding the chain because the same thing happened to me but i just got it loose with a flathead screwdriver
Haha. He was not actually grinding the chain. While we had it off, we grinded a bolt down that could rub on the chain.
Great Job now wear a ! helmet ! U be cool 100% then Well done
it needed the white rims anyway, they really pull it all together
That’s what I was thinking. I always wanted the white walls, but the rims are way better because they won’t turn yellow like whitewall tires will be
Very cool build.
i might just use a cranbrook around town WITHOUT the motor
I need a chair like dat, and a smooth floor like dat aswell.
Painters tip what ever color u want to show in decal always think that as your first coat so then you can just put a piece of tape on it paint over the tape you have a real Sweet Factory straight edge from the tape the white walls would look bad ass bro
Good job but personally I liked the old bike more thanks for sharing.
Very nice results!
Kulana made by pacific bicycle's was where Cranbrook got this style bike I had one 😢 I have a Cranbrook cruiser build now
That’s sick!
15:14 that's the old style case, some JB weld will fix that. I wrecked one of my bikes because of that little space.
Wish you the best on the huffy frame, I have around $700 into the bicycle side of my cranbrook alone. I seem to have outgrown my cranberry and will be transferring all my parts to a felt chief eventually. 1st gear likes to twist the rear end a little with my shift kit on a nexus 3 speed with an ungoverned 53cc 4 stroke.
Brakes, brakes, brakes. I cannot say it enough. Rim brakes front and back minimum. A coaster brake almost killed me going 35 mph between a bus and a semi truck. Damn thing locked up and pedals nearly tossed me off. Ditch the stock fenders, they rattle off and get twisted in your wheels.
My PfP is me racing my cranbrook a couple years ago at the Socal Motorized Bicycle Races.
Thanks for the advice
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf I have a 1" threaded suntour xcm30 front fork I added, makes bumpy roads smoother. Added v brake and disk brake options without rigging.
@@thefunniestfarm4731 Oh man I bet that would help out a lot haha. I’m not sure if I want to do many more upgrades though haha. It’s like an endless money pit of things you can do and I don’t have the money for it lol. (Also I just got a car)
Another big thing I did was I swapped all caged bearings on the bike to loose balls, for each cage double the balls and subtract one. Those caged bearings hate motorized bike speeds.
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf I have about $1500 into my huffy cranbrook, it can go 50 mph and stop on a dime. I can lean hard in turns with my maxxis hookworms (tires and tubes cost me around $115).
It is a very fun endless moneypit.
YELLING COMMENCING! XD. Cool looking bike, kid.
i wonder if they make slightly larger sprockets for the motors, that should fix the chain jumping problem
I heard you can fill the little airspace with jbweld and it solves the problem, but also the newer generation engines don’t have the airspace their from what I’ve heard.
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf glad to hear that. i'm considering a seeutek engine already
Should get rid of coaster brake just use regular rim or disc brakes they dont fail as suddenly nor as hard to fix.
Yeah I might in the future
Same rim situation and I changed to handbrakes on my coaster bike and a heavy duty rim that was 90 on bike berry
That’s good to know
Chain tensioner would maybe solve the problem
It has one. The chain was just looser because of the weird size of frame. I added another spring to make it more tensioned.
a small 18v impact wrench makes sprocket install quick and easy.
Yeah we started to use that off camera when the rim broke, and when I had to get a new one
My only quirk or complaint would be regarding the boxes or their handles! aesthetically speaking, I think the handles should both face outward or both face inward but not one out and one in!
Yeah that pissed me off at first, but I can’t do much about it so it is what it is lol.
I have a green cranbrook coming next week that I'm swapping an engine to as well.
Nice bro
Yes beach cruiser look more pretty
Lol oh no.all u had to do was hold clutch in and put stomach on seat and reverse the bike a few times .make sure u use idle pulley or what I do is just ut chain down to fit with out the pulley. If u use pully drill a whole In Center of pulley through the bike and bolt it down using lock tight
You need a sproket adapter for coaster brake hub is more better of the factory the factory rack join sproket is suck is go damage again You rear wheel
I’m building my first motorized bicycle and the chains keep binding any tips?
You have to make it tighter. If you can’t take another link out, then tighten the wheel, by pulling the whole wheel back and tightening it. Otherwise, you can also tighten the tensioner. Thanks for watching!
You should have gotten a Kent Bayside because of the gears and calaber breaks
Prolly not as cheap
But I got what I paid for
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf no they can't Bayside maybe about 20 or $30 more but it's more quality wise at the same time
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf by the way what size motor is that and is that one you'd recommend
@@stevenmay8763 It’s marketed as 80cc. And it’s a Seeutek, but that company doesn’t exist any more. So for what it’s worth, yes I would recommend it
Nice job,next time Need to sand the box first,primer, paint 💦🖌️
did yall ever figure out why the chain jumped a tooth
Chain was too loose I think
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf indeed
Howd you mount the boxes? And whered you get them?
They are from Harbor Freight, and I mounted them by drilling through them and using the screws from the rack
👍👍👍👍👍💯
Dude get the rear hub sprocket adapter , takes 1 minute to install rear sprocket
Yeah that would be nice. But that’s money that I didn’t have lol
BTW... Not good to have motor upside down!! 😮
did you hasve a light on the orange bike?
Not necessarily. I had the tail light, but for the headlight I would alternate the one I used on my mountain bike
i've got a light similar,but has led's does yours?
Nah mine doesn’t
What ended up causing the chain-slip?
The chain was loose even with the spring tensioner. I tried to take out a link, but it was too short of when I did that. So I ended up adding another tight spring on the tensioner in addition to the first one.
Where did you get the storage boxes for the back?
I found these Olympia Tools Slim Storage Box, 84-404 on amazon and they look right to me. Also can you go more in depth on ow you mounted them to the rack. I want to copy that look. I have a blue Cranbrook that I put straight handlebars on.
They’re from Harbor Freight. Like 6-7 bucks a piece
You put clear cout in the gas tank ?
Don't use change guard the change hit the guard and when You have problem w the change You can't work comtable
what cam do you use
In this video it was just my phone
😎👍
does the Cranbrook come in alot of colors?
Yeah a fair amount. But don’t be surprised with the quality of the bike, or lack thereof. I spent hours trueing the front and back wheels, only for one of them to break beyond repair within 15 miles of normal riding. The next set of rims I got cost $60 each. So if you like the look of the frame enough, then it might be justified to spend all that money fixing things. But you might want to just buy a bit of a nicer bike.
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf That's what i was afraid of the axle bearings on the rear wheel of my mongoose came loose from their cage and i had to walk my bike home a few times so i know what a pain a crappy wheel can be
The white rims set It off
what engine is that ? I mean is it a pk80 or YD100?
I know it’s advertised as 80 cc but I’m not entirely sure. I know it’s a Seeutek engine though
@@OfficialPineappleLeaf seeutek is a pk80
did you add pieces on metal to the sides of the rack?
Nah
The whole backwards sprocket sucks bro! Sorry about that! Nice build bro!
next time put a spacer on the axle on that side
Do u have a video of that air filter setup
It’s just the stock one
Show me your carburetor fixi!
How did u attach the boxes?
I drilled out holes and used the bolts on the rack
Leave the fenders is very dangerous .. check every thing before ride for safety issues p.s. safety warning.. made in china
Yeah one fell off into the wheel. I just stopped, then tied it back up where the bracket broke.
Dunno why you would downgrade the frame?
Cuz it looks cool baby
Hey man can you tell me where you got those 2 boxes from on the back I’m looking to buy them to and can you lock them?
I got them from Harbor Freight for like 6 bucks a piece
And yeah they have a little spot to put a padlock type thing.
Check my video on the rag joint hack, and nice bike i have the same one they hold up well
Why would you adjust the rear wheel and mount the sprocket after mounting the engine on the bike? This video is bad!
I love you baby
I not use change guard is look ugly w that
I'm not trying to be a hater but your old bike wasn't bad know you don't have any good brakes
Yeah I’ll have to get some rim brakes in the future
WHERE'S THE BRAKES?!!!!!
She’s got a coaster
Cool sucks!
Lmao I done mine in 4 hours but it dose look good tho 👍
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@@OfficialPineappleLeaf you will do it straight away next time bro