Going on holiday

Packing the bike down for travelling

 Disassembly and packing the bike into a bag for transporting on a plane !

Bikes technical speciafications

Here is a run down on the spec's of the bike -

• Engine - 35cc Honda 4 stroke mounted vertically 
• Transmission - Honda rotary tiller, 35.1 ratio
• Drive sprockets - Modified Staton drive kit
• Hub - Rohloff 14 speed internal geared hub
• Shocks - Front - Fox float 32mm, Rear Fox 
• Brakes - Front - Avid juicy, Rear Hayes
• Gas tank - Integral 2 litre 
• Frame - Hand made fabricated stainless steel
• Mudguards - Front - THE

Features -

• Engine is designed to be taken on and off very quickly and easily so that it can be used as a normal mountain bike or motorized.
• Bike is designed to fold up and go into a bag for easy transportation. The motor unbolts, the frame folds up into its self
• One tank of gas (2 litres) gets the bike 120km
• The bike rides comfortably at 40kmph
• Weight - 29kg including engine. 23kg without engine

Future ideas

• I plan to modify the engine to get more speed out of it
• Sometime in the future I have a much more power but lighter and smaller engine to fit into it
• One day an aluminium bike and then a carbon fibre bike

Last ride in Kolkata for a while

 These are some photos taken today on my last ride around the streets of Kolkata for a while. I am returning to NZ for a few months and plan on doing some Mountain bike riding with my boys over the coming months on some of New Zealands amazing bike trails, sure looking forward to it 

This mornings ride

Development continues and I have ironed out some small issues lately. still need to make some torsion bars for the engine as it seem to be torquing too much but now the bike is fine to pedal and I enjoyed a really good ride this morning, here are some shots from today.