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Almost starting to look like a thing.

This is estimated a 48 - 50” wheel base.
Something like a 33 degree rake.
13” rear tire.
17” front.
Rear tire looks nasty, I'm a fan. Slicks always make me happy.
She's a bit of an odd duck, but hauls *** and handles surprisingly well for being stretched and raked with no care for caster/trail, sitting on 2.50-18 moto tires and 1970's Takasago 185B-18 rims.

Eventually I'm going to scratch build an entire New frame, but for now this full custom chop never fails to turn heads, demand attention, and confuse the SW Virgina L.E.O.'s enough they don't even bother to look twice (assuming they look at all)
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One weird cool bike. I'd take a ride.
 

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Rear tire looks nasty, I'm a fan. Slicks always make me happy.

One weird cool bike. I'd take a ride.
The rear is GoPowerSports 16” x 1” Live axle kit. I have the pillow blick bearings, but the kit come with those weld on cassette style flange bearings things.

They offer slick or cleated tire options.
 

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The rear is GoPowerSports 16” x 1” Live axle kit. I have the pillow blick bearings, but the kit come with those weld on cassette style flange bearings things.

They offer slick or cleated tire options.
I'm still very lost on the whole mini bike thing, didn't know they need a live axle. Thanks for teaching me a new thing.
 

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I'm still very lost on the whole mini bike thing, didn't know they need a live axle. Thanks for teaching me a new thing.
They don’t need a live axle. Could use a big bolt and a wheel hub with bearings so the hub spins around the axle.

Dealers choice.

But the cool kids have live axle Minibikes, and the rest can eat dust. Lol. The fastest ones probably don’t use a live axle… less spinning mass?
 

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And the anti-rear rubber.
For some reason I thought these were rated for 62 mph or something? A “J” rating? This might have been a fever dream?
 

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In the world of philosophy, a philosopher may ask you to sit in a room with with no reflective surface and to look for your face. Where’s your head at?
 

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Bob, this may interest you. I was talking to my brother-in law about at what temperature fuel atomizes best. Gasoline, 10% and regular alcohol, he’s got a phd in chemical engineering and worked on alt fuels for a while. He said you never want your temperature in the intake tract to drop below 185* Fahrenheit. Below that temperature fuel will fall out of suspension and performance will drop. Trying to control air density with temperature is a tough thing to do because of that. To do it effectively you need port injection and a really hot engine.
 
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