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Post by scootmad on Sept 20, 2015 12:16:47 GMT -5
where i live in the UK i see a few men riding monkey bikes which are pretty epic but what im curious about is how on earth you can stop one being nicked as they are as light as a mini moto bike. but i would love one.
also would you ever ride one ?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2015 12:33:03 GMT -5
Sure, I would ride one but here in my state, Kentucky, they are not considered mopeds due to the engine size and shift transmission. I see some folks here using them as mopeds but I have seen both 70cc and 125 cc versions that look like the old Honda Trail 70's but mopeds here are limited to 49cc engines. I have my motorcycle license and could drive one but I would have to get insurance and register it to do it legally.
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Post by Rune 75 on Sept 20, 2015 12:42:25 GMT -5
I ride a Dax myself. Not quite as small as a Monkey but still a pretty small bike. I'm 194cm but the ridingposition is just fine. The Monkeys weigh over 60kg so it takes some effort to pick one up and carry it away.
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 20, 2015 13:51:08 GMT -5
I feel like I'm 80 saying this, but I'd rock one for sure if my hip was alright with it. I was really into small bikes before scooters. The only reason I got into scoots was that the midbikes I had were not street legal and I liked riding the street more than parking lots. Definitely got some funny looks being a big guy on a little bike, but oh well. I was having fun. I get funny looks even on a scooter at times. Friends and I used to live for weekends, when we'd meet at my house and go out riding these late at night on back roads racing each other or just enjoying the ride.  This is still sitting under the stairs. I swapped a 114cc pitbike engine into a frame only meant for a little 49cc 2T basically weedwacker engine. It's been 50+MPH on 6" wheels, currently has a 10" up front though. It's been sitting a long time because it would snatch the wheel off of the ground at around 30MPH and nearly flip itself over backwards. After a bit of that it ripped the hub off of the wheel on a shift.  My big self on these little things below. First is a 4th gear wheelie on the smaller one. 2nd is the larger of the bikes (X12).   |
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Post by spaz12 on Sept 20, 2015 14:05:06 GMT -5
The mid bike on the far right in the top picture is an X-7 right Brent? I used to have on of those with the 125cc motor (I used all three variants of the motor) and I would ride that thing all over Vegas. I got pulled over almost every single time I did but it was so much fun that I couldn't help myself. Of the 30 or more times I got pulled over, I only got one ticket and I went to court and bold face lied to the judge telling her it was a fifty. She dismissed it  It was stolen by my neighbor right out of my garage. I saw them drive away with it in the trunk of a car and called the cops. Cops even found a few pieces of it in his garage and did nothing. (this is another reason that I know VinCheck doesn't work) Anyway, that thing was so much fun even though the motors were junk. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2015 14:09:16 GMT -5
I would have visited that neighbor and convinced him that taking a man's bike is not really the smartest thing he could do. I would explain this in a very polite manner while I was beating the crap out of him. That is the only language scum like him understands.
Bill
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 20, 2015 14:11:07 GMT -5
That's an X18 spaz12. Actually it's the one in the video that was used to sell X18s for a while because I tuned it up for a friend and it did 63MPH stock other than a rear sprocket swap with the 110cc manual. Anyone that was into midbikes big about 10 years ago may remember it. It's when I first discovered the need to watermark things if you want credit for them. lol Anyway, X7 should have looked more like an R1. I actually liked those little engines a lot. My 114cc was in 2 different bikes and a gokart. The thing couldn't be killed as far as I could tell... I did finally kill the clutch though doing a burnout. The 88cc in the cateye now has been in 3 different projects as well. |
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Post by spaz12 on Sept 20, 2015 14:19:20 GMT -5
I wanted to kill him. I would have beat the shit out of him but I'd actually just gotten out of jail, doing 7 months for damn near killing a guy that broke my kids collar bone. I didn't want to risk another jail stay. My X-18:   The only two pictures I have of it. I miss it  |
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Post by spaz12 on Sept 20, 2015 14:27:10 GMT -5
Haha, you're right, it was a 110. And I had the three speed manual, semi auto manual and the auto. I had an oil leak around the main bearings on the first motor so I swapped it for the semi manual and then my kids started riding it and did something so I had to swap the motor again, this time the auto. Something like that... It's been so long.
I just remember being able to pass cars on this 50 mph road we have here that you know everyone is speeding on. So I knew it was pretty fast for what it was. Haha, damn i miss that thing!
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Post by aeroxbud on Sept 20, 2015 19:49:43 GMT -5
I brought some bike parts off a guy a couple of months ago, he had seven! Two Hondas and three Chinese versions, plus two Groms. He loved them. Some were seriously modified.
I had a Midi bike, Xsport Guy Cooper rep. Every time I took it out it hurt me! Much harder to ride than an MX bike.
I used to keep mine outside, big chains and a disc lock with built in alarm worked.
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Post by Jwhood on Sept 20, 2015 22:59:51 GMT -5
Yeah I spoke of one I seen regs as a motorcycle in Maryland,it was a "skyteam " with a stretched swing arm,I tried to catch him but soon as he it the highway he was gone,I ain't seen him since wanted to ask what the "hell" he had transplanted in it?  ?? |
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Post by iwiketuddlz on Sept 21, 2015 13:37:34 GMT -5
Hahah man them things are sweet!! I want one!!! Well I'd certainly ride the hell out of one!!!!
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Post by Silar on Sept 24, 2015 20:25:06 GMT -5
Sure, I would ride one but here in my state, Kentucky, they are not considered mopeds due to the engine size and shift transmission. I see some folks here using them as mopeds but I have seen both 70cc and 125 cc versions that look like the old Honda Trail 70's but mopeds here are limited to 49cc engines. I have my motorcycle license and could drive one but I would have to get insurance and register it to do it legally. Bill Not to go off topic, but good to see another Kentuckian here! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2015 20:28:20 GMT -5
Sure, I would ride one but here in my state, Kentucky, they are not considered mopeds due to the engine size and shift transmission. I see some folks here using them as mopeds but I have seen both 70cc and 125 cc versions that look like the old Honda Trail 70's but mopeds here are limited to 49cc engines. I have my motorcycle license and could drive one but I would have to get insurance and register it to do it legally. Bill Not to go off topic, but good to see another Kentuckian here! I am in Bowling Green. We have another poster here also. ( ahkeown ) Where are you? Bill |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 21:47:14 GMT -5
Brent, those pics of you on a monkey are priceless.
Had the Lifan CT70 clone for a year or so. Nominal 110cc was actually 107.6. Resprocketed, it was amazing. The engine was aces, though the peripherals, like brake adjusters, kept failing or falling off. Cheap enough to replace with OEM.
Got back to semi-monkeying this year with a Honda Grom. Hearkens back to my very first bike, a 49cc '64 Honda C110 Sport Cub - the "cycle" version of the Cub, which I could not abide because of the legshield, which was thought of as sissified at the time. My buddy, who was and is Brent's size, got a pair of 'em and we wrought terror.
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