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WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:17 am
by DAVID THOMPSON
HERE IS A SET OF PLANS FOR WHEN GAS GETS HIGH AND NO PARTS CAN BE FOUND TO FIX YOUR MZ

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link no longer works email me if interested dave
see attachment below

IF YOU BUILD ONE MAKE IT ALL METAL FOR SAFETY
AND READ ABOUT RAKE AND TRAIL PLANS DO NOT SHOW IT AND IF NOT RIGHT CAN CAUSE BAD HANDLING
MORE THAN 5HP IS TOO MUCH

AND A HONDA TRAIL 70/DAX CAN BE THE WHEELS SUPPLIER
TAKES CARE OF THE GOOD BRAKES PROBLEM

MY FATHER BUILT ONE ABOUT 1957 AND RAN IT FOR SEVERAL YEARS
USED TO KEEP IT IN THE BACK OF HIS JUNK gmc TRUCK AS A BACKUP :)
AR DAVE

AND THE ONLY PART FROM CHINA WILL BE REPLACEMENT TIRES AND TUBES
THAT'S A SCARY THOUGHT

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:38 pm
by Bill Jurgenson
maybe I'm biased (organbuilder=essentially cabinetmaker) but I like it.

Remember: the famous and expensive Morgan
http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/production/index.html
even today still has a partly wooden frame.
There was more than one motorcycle with a wooden frame...

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Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:38 am
by iceman

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:37 pm
by Fluffy_Dog_1018
Maybe it's just me... but every time I see that video I think it is going to go porn.

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:14 am
by cat
hey, almost 4 years since you posed this, Dave. :) Has the price of fuel gone high since then? :P

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:42 am
by DAVID THOMPSON
got the motor last month and looking for a trail 70 for wheels and front forks
makes it easy to build and i still have the title for the one dad built in the 1950's...

with the problems in north africa i will not be even surprised at where it goes in price
in fact the plan is to run it on compressed natural gas if i can find a carb to fit the motor
its only 20 miles a day for me if i do not do a lot of running around
dave

the big problem with high fuel price
is its going to drive the FOOD prices way UP

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:18 am
by iceman
DAVID THOMPSON wrote:
the big problem with high fuel price
is its going to drive the FOOD prices way UP



Time to grow your own :-D

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:38 am
by cat
Yes, fuel price already affected. Libya. Milan and Madrid stock exchanges taken a serious knock.

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:50 pm
by iceman
cat wrote:hey, almost 4 years since you posed this, Dave. :) Has the price of fuel gone high since then? :P


Yes! four years ago gas was $1.80 a US gallon,now It's $4.00 and going up. :shock:

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:21 pm
by DAVID THOMPSON
forgot to say when i posted this to look at other scooters with same tire size
and try to copy the rake and trail of the front end
so it doesn't dump you off
and handle bad

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:29 pm
by iceman
Dave, we will be burning it as a source of heat because of the wooden chassis.

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 2:55 am
by radiograf
Love the way the fuel tank is on top of the hot cylinder head, in an enclosed space. Is this the Kamakazi model? By the way, petrol is around the $10 mark per gallon, here in the UK at the moment :(

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 1:21 pm
by DAVID THOMPSON
my saxon tour has hot oil in the frame heating a plastic tank ???

and we used to put oil coolers in the fuel lines on the k75 and k100 bmw bikes
so when hot weather was present
the gas did not boil in the tank
on a hot day in the mid west usa

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:07 pm
by den

WOW , i had one of those but didn't have the long blond hair and if i remember a randome hikkie one day gave her a puncture and she would stay inflated , Oh those were the days , :smt005

Re: WHEN GAS GETS REAL HIGH

PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 8:16 pm
by DAVID THOMPSON
thats sweet

now build wheel chairs for the handy capped that are not junk
like most made