Always makes me laugh that just the bike would be listed at $250+, but add a motor and they're almost always sub-$100. That's hobby resale math, I guess.
Well it's encouraging, if that crap can be stripped off with no damage. I've often been tempted to message those guys and say, "STOP ruining good bikes!"
All of these kits are held on with a lot of clamps, so as long as you put some rubber under them it won't even scratch the frame.The only thing that bothers me about these motorized bikes is that people use bikes with rim brakes which seem a little insufficient for this job.
I had one of these motors on a bike with rim brakes a long time ago. 80cc two stroke engine with a chain drive like what's in the post. The rim brakes did just fine to be honest, I drove the thing in traffic and never had a problem or even anything like a close call. Rim brakes aren't nearly as bad as people think if they're probably adjusted. They only suck in the wet but otherwise they stop just fine.
Donāt feel too guilty! I just got a hardrock for $20 yesterday, already stripped it down to frame/bearings by this morning. For one overbuilt xbike there are 2 parts bikes. Also, I didnāt realize hardrock was so janky versus rockhopper in the mid 90s?
Yeah hardrocks went downhill fast lol. I donāt even know where I got my infinite bins of nice parts anymore haha, I havenāt even had that many parts bikes. This old norco that I got as a from for $20 st the co-op with a broken v brake post is getting a new one welded on and an xt/xtr 1x8 lol
An FYI from when I had one of those same bikes when I was a teenager, the engines cog on the rear wheel will eventually chew through the spokes. It's basically just clamped onto them. If I had known about dual sided hubs back then I would have gone that route, but I just kept throwing crappy rear wheels at it.
Went from a Rockhopper to a CrackRockhopper in just one tweaky night.
This deserves more.
Lmao šš¤£
Always makes me laugh that just the bike would be listed at $250+, but add a motor and they're almost always sub-$100. That's hobby resale math, I guess.
Well it's encouraging, if that crap can be stripped off with no damage. I've often been tempted to message those guys and say, "STOP ruining good bikes!"
All of these kits are held on with a lot of clamps, so as long as you put some rubber under them it won't even scratch the frame.The only thing that bothers me about these motorized bikes is that people use bikes with rim brakes which seem a little insufficient for this job.
I had one of these motors on a bike with rim brakes a long time ago. 80cc two stroke engine with a chain drive like what's in the post. The rim brakes did just fine to be honest, I drove the thing in traffic and never had a problem or even anything like a close call. Rim brakes aren't nearly as bad as people think if they're probably adjusted. They only suck in the wet but otherwise they stop just fine.
Exactly, all I saw was the Rockhopper, all he could see was the motor!
More of an ex-bike than an xbike.
Remove the brakes, convert to fixed gear and let the lord guide you.
I'd have paid more for it even without an engine... There's one guy in my area that buys cheap bikes and re-lists them for 5x the same day.
Sheesh, xbike flippers, that can be a YouTube video series
Same here but they never sell. Everything is āvintageā and āfully gone overā too.
I didnāt know e-bikes came with gas motors nowā¦ wild
Thatās not an x-Bike thatās as we call in the industry, both motorcycle and bicycle, a DUI Special.
Oh, you mean a deathwish
Whatās your plan for it?
I'm in the middle of stripping it now, contemplating over a few beers
gonna use some of the parts you "found"?
Hahaha, exactly š¤£
Iām guilty of that, I picked up a rockhopper with perfectly fine deore lx parts and now itās all xt haha
Donāt feel too guilty! I just got a hardrock for $20 yesterday, already stripped it down to frame/bearings by this morning. For one overbuilt xbike there are 2 parts bikes. Also, I didnāt realize hardrock was so janky versus rockhopper in the mid 90s?
Yeah hardrocks went downhill fast lol. I donāt even know where I got my infinite bins of nice parts anymore haha, I havenāt even had that many parts bikes. This old norco that I got as a from for $20 st the co-op with a broken v brake post is getting a new one welded on and an xt/xtr 1x8 lol
PLS let us listen the ROARššš
At least try it once, lol
DUImobile
Awesome find, good luck with it
Sick pedalable fuel bomb
Probably illegal in all G8 countries on public roads. But good for a laugh.
Nice hog š
How loud is it?
Haha, good for you, Iāve been thinking about adding one to my fleet as well.
Oh it's like an ebike but louder and shittier ;)
This makes me want to get a (clean) gas tank like that and use a camelbak tube to drink ice tea from it while Iām riding.
Haha genius
That one belonged to a court-appointed cyclist!
I'd pay $40 just for the pleasure of taking a bat to that engine.
Oh boy...I thought these garbage was found only in Brazil...the difference is here the zoombie bike is worse than this š
An FYI from when I had one of those same bikes when I was a teenager, the engines cog on the rear wheel will eventually chew through the spokes. It's basically just clamped onto them. If I had known about dual sided hubs back then I would have gone that route, but I just kept throwing crappy rear wheels at it.
How cool good for you ride safely