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Project MiniMoto

Yesterday was Minimoto day at the top secret MERCENARY test facility. It's fast. Scary fast...

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Baby Steps

I didn't really get any time in the workshop this weekend, but I did mange to get Noel's Mini Moto substantially back in one piece.

All that remains is to fabricate a tail-piece and apply some graphics.

Baby steps...

...Little by little things take shape.

This will be the mould for the tail-piece.

*This has been a really troublesome project. It's a sort of one step forward, two steps back deal. The build quality of these things is shockingly bad and it's very easy to break parts just by applying tools to them. Pretty much everything except the frame and engine has been replaced with new parts!


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Mini Moto

This is almost done now. I've still to mount the tyres and make a tail-piece, but it's getting there...

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Mini-Moto

I also got some bits for Noel's mini-moto. It's coming together. Slowly.

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Project Mini Moto - Part II

This thing is still slowly coming together...

Part 1 is here - www.mercenary.ie/search/label/Mini-Moto


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Project Mini Moto - Part I

Noel dropped this in to the workshop a while back. The swing-arm (which is more correctly called a rear fork 'cos it doesn't move) had collapsed a bit and the rear tyre was almost touching the exhaust.

It was pretty tatty so he was happy enough when I suggested I might tidy it up a bit...

Part 2 is here - www.mercenary.ie/2014/03/project-mini-moto-part-ii.html

It's hard to see it, but the swing-arm is bent just to the rear of the triangular gusset.

New, stronger, 4" over-stock swing-arm. I like stretched swing-arms, whatcha-gonna-do?

The new swingarm is pretty simple - It's cut out of 2 pieces of 50 x 25 3mm box, 320mm long. It's much stronger than the old set-up, but the whole structure is still very weak.

Gussets have been added to get some of the load into the frame structure. Without them, all the forces want to break the tubes between the rear fork and the frame triangle above it. It's not a very well thought-out arrangement.

I think with the gussets, it's strong enough. I was tempted to put a strut from the rear fork to the rear frame triangle (like a twin-shock set-up), but that would change the look of the thing. Like I said, I think it's strong enough...

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