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Been a bit busy lately, but I've been tinkerin' away the little stuff & riding when I can - it's all down to detail work & fine tuning now, stuff like making this spring loaded chain tensioner out of some scrap aluminum, a chunk of StarBoard (fancy name for cutting board plastic) & a spring...

Thanks! It's sort of a street-legal mini, though sadly Australia has some rather draconian restrictions on what constitutes a legal motorized bicycle, I think "200w" or 0.26hp... odd & unfortunate given the beautifully expansive riding environment :confused-smiley-014 & :boxing:? No duel here...

Threw together a test ride vid, the original footage helped immensely with diagnostics; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNLTLRx8sTI

Well, I've a plan to build a cargo trailer w/some panels & reserve storage batteries under it for the longer trips, like camping & whatnot so you've about got it lol & yeah, I scratch built it... mostly, I didn't build the motors ofc, the A arms are from a 'Yerf Dog' kart but chopped & slammed...

Jackshaft oopsie sorted & my new front rims built, this time indexed out (spoke/hub alignment) as much as safely possible to widen the front wheelbase width & gained just a lil over 3/4" (10mm each side = 0.39"x2 = 20mm or 0.78"). The thing was rock stable in turns already, but every lil bit...

Thanks my67xr, yea - I'm relieved that it went as well as it did lol The "details" for the Vapor aren't required for it's operation - it quite happily displays the temp/tach info without them, the reason I would like to find the optimum & maximum ranges for the CRF50 clone is the Vapor also has...

Weeeell... temptation got the best of me and I just couldn't resist any longer, so this past weekend I dragged the taddy out just for a quick initial test run around the lot... and it went far far better than expected! *lil dance* Sure, there were some teething pains - as it turns out I'd...

hmm... I was dialing in the settings for the Vapor dash & it turns out it's slightly more difficult than I thought - seems some info is harder to come by than it outa be lol, searching around yielded too much conflicting data to be handy... so I figured I'd just ask here *shrug* Air cooled...

Thank you my67xr, I'll defo keep your gear indicator wiring link handy as I've not been able to find much info on it elsewhere - I'm only using the neutral indicator (drilled dash for LED & lens that came w/the Vapor), but who knows? I might add the 1st, 2nd & 3rd position indicators at some...

First off I need to apologize, got a new 'puter & lost this forum and for the life of me couldn't remember my login - so sorry for the long absence and lack of updates lol, if you'd like to read about what happened to the project whilst I was lost in the interwebs, laid out in excruciating...

Ahh, I love the smell of melting plastic in the morni... No... wait I really don't, but it's all I've been up to lately. Still huntin' down some of the widgets I need, scratchin' my head trying to figure schematics & cutting, stripping, crimping, soldering, shrink wrapping & doin' it some...

Thanks man :) Yea pics, they say they're worth a thousand words n'all that... as I'm a bit long winded even with 'em - can ya imagine w/o 'em? >.< Thankee digital cams lol I do have this sneaking suspicion there might be somewhat of an undue wear rate on this thing's rear tire... for some...

Good 'nuff GDFP & thanks, "neutral" is the one I really need in any case as (for now anyway) it's all I've an indicator light for lol & speakin' of which; Although it cleared the pedals & my feet easily... there was something I jus' didn't like about the width of the Vapor display w/it's...

Yea - most of that harness pile is a combo of stuff for the electric hub & lighting, I decided to go with full lighting as recumbents are not easily seen... the moose concern may be valid, but the thing is only three feet tall lol, so I'm a touch more worried about the Ford F350 sneakin' up...

oic, no worries lol Well, fortunately the pedals & whatnot don't weigh all that much at all, if I actually managed to shed a coupla pounds off my areobelly (recumbent speak for beergut) it'd more than make up the difference :D There's more than one very real advantage to keepin' them tho...

Thanks guys, it's gettin' there :D lol, not quite sure what ya mean by "weighty driver-urged nonsense" - but a cup holder/bottle cage I do have, it's just not been on the thing since the "pile of random" stage ;) & as for "more power" - that is ofc one of the reasons I joined here... but...

Hey all, joined the forum for all the great engine tech info as these horizontals aren't all that commonplace in this application. While I'm not quite ready to start building up the Lifan any more than stock, I've been lurking and checkin' out what's possible & I had the thought that some of you...