Ski on minibike

[mrfreyguy]

Ok so i just go about a foot of snow here and I saw a youtube video of a guy with a ski on his mini bike. I have a few skis from a indy 500 that I thought I could use so I could put around in the snow. Has anyone done this? Ill post som pics later of what I have to wirk with.

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

I was thinking about making a snow bike recently (we just got a **** ton of snow here too). I dont think it would get much traction unless you had a really wide tire/small track.

 

[mrfreyguy]

I think your probibly right about that traction problem but i guess ill find out when I get to that point. Do you have any idea of where I could get a track for cheap?

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

you could use one off a track drive snowblower, i was actually just researching this, theres a few on ebay, for under $100, just search snowblower track.

 

[Kenny_McCormic]

I thought about this a while ago, if i did it I would use a Carlisle 21x12-8 tire(the biggest balloon tire made) in the back.

 

[mrfreyguy]

I went outside and looked again and the ski is to big so ill have to lok fr another one. While I was looking I got the idea for a snow chopper or just a regular chopper that I could build from parts I had around. I have a pic of the beginning of the chopper. The other 2 pics are of my new shed/workshop and al the crap in it.

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

Is that a buggy i see in pic #2?

 

[mrfreyguy]

Is that a buggy i see in pic #2?

Yep. Its work in progress.

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

You should get some pics up.

 

[mrfreyguy]

Ill do that tomorrow if I have time. What kind of engine do you think I should get?

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

Big motorcycle engine.

 

[mrfreyguy]

Already tried lol parents said no. I just called a guy with a arctic cat pantera that I think I'm going to buy.

 

[Kaptain Krunch]

They say no to the bike engine, why would they say yes to a sled engine? I would push the bike engine, say your gearing it for torque not speed.

 

[mrfreyguy]

idk I think they saw the size of the bike engine and they thought it was to big. The sled is a 1981 artic cat pantera and I think the sleds engine is about 40hp so it should work.

 

[motor_head]

they make like 4 wheeler tires for sand they have fin like tread spaced really far apart

 

[Rickracer]

Those are called paddle tires, they hook better on dirt than drag slicks do on pavement,

 

[mrfreyguy]

they make like 4 wheeler tires for sand they have fin like tread spaced really far apart

Drive across water with those. I wonder how they would work in snow? I'll get some pics up tonight of the buggy. I just made some cash so I should be able to buy a engine this weekend.

 

[mrfreyguy]

Heres the pics. It has front brakes from a 90 kawasaki bayou and hopefully rear brakes from a indy 500. One of the pics shows a drawing of how im gonna try to widen a motorcycle swingarm for the go karts swingarm. Let me know what you think.

 

[motor_head]

I wonder how they would work in snow?

i think they look like they would do great in snow that why i posted them

"paddles" i knew there was a good word for them