Mini Bikes

[Don Rickles]

More cleaning out the shed yesterday and dug these frames out. All the parts but needs assembly! There are half a dozen engines around here that could be used too.

The time I spent playing building and riding these as teen, good times....heck I'd pick up my girlfriends and take them under the bleachers! :Sexy:

[Bruze]

As gentiles, we didn't have the money for such luxuries. https://i.postimg.cc/tCLrF1Jj/whistle.gif

My dad built me a go-kart that was so weak it would barely run in the grass.

My neighbor's dad built him a mini-bike out of a bicycle frame and a lawnmower engine and wheelbarrow wheels so it was low to the ground. That's as close to a mini-bike any of us got. :(

[Don Rickles]

As gentiles, we didn't have the money for such luxuries.

My dad built me a go-kart that was so weak it would barely run in the grass.

My neighbor's dad built him a mini-bike out of a bicycle frame and a lawnmower engine and wheelbarrow wheels so it was low to the ground. That's as close to a mini-bike any of us got. :(

huh.....it was the Italian family across the street the Damiani's, that had the brand new go carts and mini bikes.....we had to build our own from parts like you're saying. Many times we'd find a powered lawn mower with an upright motor in someones trash.

My grandfather, GMoms (4th hubby), once built a custom go cart for my ailing younger brother (rip). Damn thing had no motor but heavy as hell. After 3 or more of us kids struggled to get it up the streets with a hill, man that thing would FLY! We had to have friends block off any cross roads for three to four blocks! So dangerous! :yesnod::rofl:

[Yesfam]

We had a factory mini bike that my father got as a premium when he was running a General Tire factory store. Not real powerful, it had a scrub brake that was a big aluminum shoe which pressed against the rear tire. You could reach down and press the throttle past the governor for extra power. We had lots of fun with it.

[Stevedore]

I built this when I was maybe 14-15. Welded up from steel tubing (my father did the welding), lawnmower engine, bicycle sprockets, etc. I used a steel plate that rubbed against the rear tire tread for a brake; rear tire didn't last long. :Jeff '79:

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[LATB]

My 1st bike, Benelli Dynamo 50cc.
$150 bucks in 1972.

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[Onebadcad]

Again, looks like car crusher material.

[WydGlydJim]

When we were kids a friend had a little two stroke Harley..........man we beat the hell out of that thing......anyway I had such fond memories of it, when one came up for sale, I bought it.......I luv mini bikes.......i though about sellin this one at buying two of those honda retro 125s.....

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[ZipZap]

Taco 22. Upgraded to 6.5hp. We tore that thing up!

[MadInNc]

My 1st bike, Benelli Dynamo 50cc.
$150 bucks in 1972.

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Baller:yesnod:


reminds me of the Honda Monkey bikes (BTW - my little bro went on a trip riding Monkey bikes across the Sahara to Morocco)

[Swany00]

motorcycles were banned for us growing up, got my first harley at 21...would have loved to of had one of those growing up

[LATB]

Baller:yesnod:


reminds me of the Honda Monkey bikes (BTW - my little bro went on a trip riding Monkey bikes across the Sahara to Morocco)

Definitely not a baller. Especially back then.
I wanted a mini bike and dad made me earn it. I started saving at 8 years old and 25 cents per hour working for dad as a carpenters helper.
Truth is I wanted a Yamaha but even used they were out of my budget. So I bought the Benelli used from a neighbor. :cert:

[LATB]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_wmb0p4knLU

[Don Rickles]

When the clutches wore out we’d jam a nickel in them and get another six months out of them!

[BADRACR1]

We weren't allowed to have them as kids. So of course, my kids (and myself) had go-carts. Modified the hell outta mine. Never took any pics.
My grandkids have it made. Got five mini-bikes now. A little 50cc, two 100's, a 200 and a 212 Predator that I have modded for myself. Stage II tune, no governor, exhaust, reworked carb and head, and track tires. 108485

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[ZipZap]

We weren't allowed to have them as kids. So of course, my kids (and myself) had go-carts. Modified the hell outta mine. Never took any pics.
My grandkids have it made. Got five mini-bikes now. A little 50cc, two 100's, a 200 and a 212 Predator that I have modded for myself. Stage II tune, no governor, exhaust, reworked carb and head, and track tires. 108485

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Those are damn Cadillacs!:rofl:

[BADRACR1]

Those are damn Cadillacs!:rofl:

They may be a little spoiled. The oldest one is a 2020 model. Their parents refer to our backyard as "Papaw's Playground". Swingset, sandbox, merry-go-round, trampoline, and a pool along with the minibikes.:BADRACR1:

[higgyburners]

When the clutches wore out we’d jam a nickel in them and get another six months out of them!

:Jeff '79: Bullshit ...There is no way any Jew worth his salt would give up a Nickel for six months.....:Jeff '79:

[Anjdog2003]

More cleaning out the shed yesterday and dug these frames out. All the parts but needs assembly! There are half a dozen engines around here that could be used too.

The time I spent playing building and riding these as teen, good times....heck I'd pick up my girlfriends and take them under the bleachers! :Sexy:





Nice grass. Amazing what water can do.

[Uncle Meat]

My brother convinced my father he could make money with his mini-bike. He installed an insect fogging system on his mini-bike and neighbors would pay him to ride around their property and fog for mosquitoes. Genius! Of course he doesn't have many brain cells left these days after breathing in all the DDT as a kid. :rofl:

U.M.

Circa 1964. The pesticide tank was mounted to the handlebars.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczNB7IHt4xbigaEbkj5Tdq9N99-NUiUG_vqafnEwyp3vrXd4NMLAvk6_c2HvagMCQRka5TThvFNeGLZp5Z2ji3H33lbx5RTFUf026_Ul1NuqdGFwcJ9x=w2400

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[theandies]

Does a Honda Trail 70 count? We had one of those, actually it was the neighbors daughter (NO I DON'T HAVE A PICTURE, she was a dog but nice) and they let my brother and I ride it anytime we wanted. It essentially became our Trail 70. Had a blast on that thing as a 10 year old.

Just like this one:

https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1970_honda_ct_70_trail_70_1532835457e77266IMG_0588.jpg

[Uncle Meat]

Does a Honda Trail 70 count? We had one of those, actually it was the neighbors daughter (NO I DON'T HAVE A PICTURE, she was a dog but nice) and they let my brother and I ride it anytime we wanted. It essentially became our Trail 70. Had a blast on that thing as a 10 year old.

Just like this one:

https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1970_honda_ct_70_trail_70_1532835457e77266IMG_0588.jpgWe had a family in the neighborhood that had a red Honda Trail 70. Of course the parents wouldn't let any of the neighbor kids ride it for fear of a lawsuit. We just stood there and watched them ride it around having all the fun. Great little mini-bike those are. They go for top dollar these days for an unmolested original model that still runs & drives.

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[Joey777]

Does a Honda Trail 70 count? We had one of those, actually it was the neighbors daughter (NO I DON'T HAVE A PICTURE, she was a dog but nice) and they let my brother and I ride it anytime we wanted. It essentially became our Trail 70. Had a blast on that thing as a 10 year old.

Just like this one:

https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1970_honda_ct_70_trail_70_1532835457e77266IMG_0588.jpg

I had one of these also. Mine was blue and had the 3-speed transmission - no clutch. My best friend had the 4-speed model. We lived near some limestone quarries that gave us a great place to ride. Spent a lot of hours on that little bike.