A friend of mine is giving me his old mini taco bike. It was a failed project for him, he no longer has time to work on it, so i'm taking it off his hands. Has anyone ever worked or owned one? I know the basic functionality of it. I'm looking for some after market resources. Thanks in advance!

 

HKS turbo!

 

yes!!!!!! the size of a small snail..

 

im sorry to say, that thing looks really pitiful. I mean its not even a moped.

 

how do we put spinners on that thing?

 

yes it is pitiful..but they were very famous in the early 60's-70's..aka Pit bike, used by race car teams to jet around the track...These now retail for 600-800 brand new and im getting it free so you really cant beat that with a bat.. When hooked up and modified they can go 30 mph, btw these are 4 stroke edger motors briggs and stratton.

 

lol . oh how about a mini aston ? its really from spyker.

 

now thats pitiful!

 

Not the same thing but I saw these a few months back and have wanted one ever since. I snowboard so this thing seems right up my ally. Anyone ever had one?

http://www.bushpig.com/index1.html

 

dude! it needs to be raked and stretched! Put some bad *** shifter cart wheels on there with slicks lol

 

those skateboard scooters are scary! hahaha

if i can find a kit for it i'll throw some slicks on that bitch!

 

i recall racing one of these things 3 years ago when i still had my pocket bike. At that time my pocket bike went 36mph, the kid i was racing kept up with me the whole way through.. =/

 

Bryan, how much time do u have on ur hands? I've got a pretty good scar from falling off my buddy's pocket bike while doing tricks.

@.@
"Bushpig" delivered to your door: $940
Pissing off several beach goers while u ride: $1 in gas
Getting the controller cable caught on something and falling face first: Priceless

I still want one tho ^.^

 

^haha i am way to uncoordinated to ever be able to balance on one let alone go anywhere with it..

lol

 

i've ate it pretty bad when i was trying to do wheelies on my goped. Lets see, I fractured my index finger bone, dislocated my left arm, and lost a finger nail...that hurt pretty bad...the worse part was having to go to the hospital to have them poke a piping red hot needle through my finger nail to release all that blood that made my finger swell up 2 time's its normal size! Other than that its fun!

 

I had a mini taco when I was 9 years old (1970), it was a blast back then! I really did not have to much work to it, but my Dad probably did!

 

X.x sounds like fun wish I had something like these things to toy with when I was little. And my parents wonder y i bought a Mitsu VR-4 (V6 TT) when I was 17

 

it just needs these and it'll be stylin'...

 

Damnit, now I want a go-kart to play with. Bryan, any go-karts, trikes, or something u got laying around ur willing to part with? A little cash to u and an early x-mas present to myself

 

I had a similar mini bike when i was 6 - back in 1970. The mods are straight forward, but the chassis will be the limiting factor.
The bike probably has a centrifugal clutch, a torque converter will reduce power loss and can be found online http://www.ruppbikes.com/ruppbikes.htm

The muffler should be changed to a straight pipe - it'll sound like an angry old vw bug ; ) Adjusting the carb may be necessary. An extreme mod would be to pop in a bigger lawnmower engine or even a small motorcycle engine, something like a 50 to 90cc motor will make the thing fast (relatively) but the chassis is going to scare the crap out of you when you hit 45mph.

I love just about anything on two wheels : ) I picked up a ZX14 today - now that is a fast bike - 0 to 60 in 2.7 seconds, 186 top speed (electronically limited). 9 second quarter mile stock. : p

Cheers,

Alex

 

holy crap ZX14

 

blue - I'm still breaking it in - I did get it to 130mph just for kicks - on one wheel, but I really need to take it easy for the next 500mi. It dos 90mph at 4500rpm so I don't have to go slow or anything ; )

The bike is very civilized until you hit 5500rpm then it takes off. My bandit is much more unruly, definitely a hooligan compared to the ZX14.

My wife is so cool to understand that I need two bikes and the RX8.

I am one lucky bastard.....

 

i need those mudflaps!...

ok, picking it up next week...still trying to decide what color to paint it, I was thinking of making it look like my rx8 (overall color theme).

 

just lay a ton of carbon fiber sheets vinyl over it. lol.

 

already thought of that, i will cover some parts in cf..need to buy more cf sheets...hahahha