thank you Casey! Who knew there was a 4.2cc V-Twin 4 stroke working gasoline engine?

I bet it's fun to ride

check out Casey's extra cool mini bike!

It is powered by a .040 CID Tiger Shark engine that burns 25% Nitro. 

Wheels are off a Razor scooter, frame is 3/8" Aluminum bar stock, chain drive is #25 chain, (used in small industrial conveyor systems)

 frame is a model of a Taco 22 scratch built. 

Just for show on a shelf or if I can train a small squirrel to ride a 18,000 rpm direct drive minibike without getting hurt.

thank you Casey! 

this kid has the look!

 https://www.geekbobber.com/2021/07/professor-briggs.html

Check out this cool mini bike Casey built from 1965 Popular Mechanics plans!

The engine is a two cylinder RC boat engine off of ebay, transmission is a centrifugal clutch with a jack shaft, tires and wheels are harbor freight, and the gas tank is under the seat, you fill it with a syringe.

If you go to his website, you'll get lost, it's so deep with cool stuff he's built, created, made, upgraded, etc...  racing carts, mini bikes, engine powered skates and pogo sticks, 55 Chev, 67 Porsche... it's loaded!  http://caseymoir.com

A man was taken into custody after leading police on a chase on a mini bike just after 11 p.m. Tuesday in Gardena, he then led police onto the 110 Freeway

https://abc7.com/amp/post/man-mini-bike-arrested-police-chase-los-angeles-county/17523117

a very full motorcycle repair shop

it was pretty cool to page through the mail order catalogs and dream about what it would be like to be a rich kid

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1917825378598267&set=a.105865999794223

the right way to advertise

I may have posted this many years ago, I'm not sure. I try to not repost anything. 

https://www.mercenary.ie/2023/05/arctic-cat.html

Mike Schroeder from Montana’s Red Right Hand of Moto, never had a Monkey or other bike as a young kid, so he decided it was time to rectify things.

After building the bike, it felt like it needed something more. The z50 is so tiny, it felt like a toy, so I figured, why not make it a life-size toy? 

Inspired by die-cast toys he used to love, he built a box, designed the wrap, and made the box.

 https://www.bikebound.com/2022/05/16/honda-ftz50

of course beer was involved, you don't think the guy standing there was drinking alone, do you? And that is a fridge, in the garage, and if it's not used for beer, then take away the man card of these guys.

https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2022/03/fucking-mondays-gifdump-pt-ii.html#more

They are earning man cards by shennaigans on a mini bike in the garage by the way, extra points for not crashing into the garage door. The fridge can take a hit, the garage roll up door can't. 

Honda Karisma 125cc mini Chopper build in Indonesia by Siskal Kustom Garage Batam.

 

http://www.dwrenched.com/2021/08/one-of-best-ever.html

Have you heard of the team of maniacs who rally across many continents and countries? The Bristol-based crew of degenerates who call themselves the Adventurists, have combined a monkey bike with a parasail engine and wing,

The Adventurists are a loose collection of  madmen plotting madcap journeys around the world. With an increasing number of events being run since their establishment 2003, they now dub themselves “generators of odyssey and chaos.” And they’re quite serious.

Their adventures have idiots launch clapped-out cars across Mongolian steppes, smash out thousands of miles on rickshaws and throw tiny bikes down remote mountains. And it’s that ‘Monkey Run’ which has led to the development of the Venturo flying monkey bike.

the rear rack is where things get really interesting. It’s been designed to carry “all sorts of luggage and useless shit,” and houses drop-proof indicators. But it also has a fitting for a two-stroke paramotor—for the brave souls who really want to up the stakes on their next adventure.

And they will have to be brave… or stupid. “I wouldn’t call it safe yet,” Tom admits. “But after we’ve tested out a few more iterations of the additional flying package we’ll make it available for anyone with a death wish”.

https://www.bikeexif.com/flying-monkey-motorcycle

Only the 2nd Meyer's Lynx I've heard of or seen

 

the only time I've seen one before this was in 2009 when I posted Steve McQueen on one

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/photos-of-steve-mcqueen-from-mc-art.html

https://www.svtperformance.com/threads/random-picture-thread.1159350/page-465

there's not enough fun stuff out there... there really ought to me more like this mini bike. But it takes looking around the world to find the people that can make a living with their skills and ideas, of making fun stuff - so thank goodness Luke Ray covers Indonesia!

This purple flaked mini bike chopper named “Gibby” is the work of Agun Benoel of ‘Garasi Kecil' or ‘Small Garage’.

Agun spent countless hours fabricating a long list of one-off parts. The most obvious are the 20-inch ape bars, twin headlight assembly, sissy bar and chunky tuck-and-roll seat. 

Move in closer and you’ll spot the sleeves that fatten up the forks, a kickstand that was an adjustable spanner in its former life and a Harley Softtail duckbill styled fender.

http://fueltank.cc/blog/custom-dax

mini bike choppers, dang, some kids were really lucky to have these to ride

http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2008/09/chopper-mini-bikes.html

I'm impressed with this compact folding electric bike, the Gyroor electric bicycle C2, about 20 mile range, about 20 mph peak, and costs about $1000

dream a little dream

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157051154872295&set=gm.1746111288868813&type=3&permPage=1&ifg=1

In December 1986, Honda gave each of their top tier retailers in the US a limited edition of the Z50 mini trails -Called the Z50RDG, these are never prepped for sale, new bikes still in 1 Honda crate

These Monkeys featured all-chrome frames, fuel tanks and fenders, and the bikes became known colloquially as the Christmas Specials.

They’re definitely the rarest and most special of all the Z50 series, which was introduced back in 1964 and produced in various forms right up until the present day (a variation on the Grom model called, appropriately, the Monkey).

 The original Z-series Monkey Bike was a collapsible small motorcycle, which was intended to be carried in the trunk of a car to a destination for off-road riding. The early Z-series featured an overhead-camshaft flat-single motor of 50cc with a centrifugal clutch and 3-speed gearbox. Later models had a conventional clutch lever and 4-speed gearboxes.

Amazingly, the original Z50M model was first built in March 1964 for a Japanese amusement park, as a kiddie ride. They proved so indestructible in this ultimate testing ground that the factory refined the design slightly for road legality and began selling them outside of Japan starting in 1967.

 The 50cc motor produces 4.5 HP, the motorcycle has a seat height of 22 inches, and the first models had no suspension. Telescopic forks were soon added, as was a rear swingarm by 1974 with the Z50-AK3 model. The early Z50s had 5-inch wheels, but these soon grew to 8 inches in production.

 This amazing, brand-new-in-the-box pair of 1986 Honda Z50RDGs have been held by the original dealer in storage for 32 years.

https://www.mecum.com/lots/LV0119-348600/1986-honda-z50rdg

simple bolt on wheelie bars do a lot to give this mini bike an imposing look

http://darkdraggon.tumblr.com/