Home Built Motorized Scooters
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Owner. Brief Description. Picture.
Andy Spindle drive scooter, using a bolt on mounting plate.
BDY
Very simple spindle drive system with an aluminium plate for mount.
Brett

Similar in design to Tzi's first scooter. Uses a similar model motor.
Has 12in kids bike wheels, and is chain drive.
bss808 4 inches of suspension travel, front and back...and any motor you desire. What more could you want?
Bud
Another simple design, spindle driven on a kids frame scooter
Cameron and Jimbo
Nice scooter with a foot pedal clutch to lift the spindle off the wheel.
Carlo & Jon

11-June-2003
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Casey New scooter...
Cheech
Sometimes, the motor is bigger than the scooter. I guess this is one of those times. ;)
Cheep Thrills

11-June-2003
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Chris


11-June-2003
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Clinton Very well built modular design that looks the part.

Corey

Simple but effective... The motor is mounted without any welding.

Corey2

A kids scooter frame with a very well mounted big engine
Craig Chainsaw driven 12in scooter.
Dan
spindle drive scooter with a custom seat added.
Dan P
nicely built frame with a chain drive set up using a chainsaw motor.
Demonboard A skateboarder with a need for speed...
The drive train on this board is very well built, although brakes could be good.
Demonboard2
The latest incarnation of the demonboard.
Devin
well designed custom built frame, very big motor with belt drive
Eric Yet another B-I-G motor scooter.
Very well designed.
Escooterguy01


11-June-2003
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Fezza


11-June-2003
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Gabe Chainsaw drive with a jackshaft.
Gledped
Simple 12in scooter with a pretty funky looking motor.
Gangsta Nab Racing Concept Scooter A good example of using a chainsaw as a direct drive onto the tyre.
Gangsta Nab Racing Concept Scooter 2
The second incarnation of the GNR scooters
Gopedfreaks


11-June-2003
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Growlbear This scooter has 3 gears and uses a jackshaft also extremely well designed and thoroughly tested.

Gustav

A chain driven micro with a very nicely mounted motor
Helmethead
Classy 16in scooter with a reduction gearbox
Icechest
New inovation in scooter design!!!
J-Money Chain drive 12in scooter, with a rather short wheelbase.
James Probably the first ever chainsaw based Spindle-drive scooter.
Very well thought out.
Jared Yet another bare basics scooter, using a bolt on mounting plate. Simple but effective.
Jason-G
Briggs & Stratton 5.5hp intek OHV on a 12in scooter.

Jason

A custom built scooter made from off the shelf parts, very stylish.

Jay

Well thought out uses a moped drive system with a primary belt drive.
Jay-C


11-June-2003
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Jermbos

Custom frame with a big back tyre and chain drive system, very well built.
Jet Scooter Jet powered go-ped...
Modified, not built, but I think it still qualifies to be here!
Jim Off road scooter with B-I-G wheels and a B-I-G motor.
In short....its B-I-G.
Johannes A modified Chariot scooter. A work in progress.
Josh This scooter has traveled from Australia to Hawaii...

Josh W

Another motorised micro scooter, spindle driven with the motor mounted on the side.
Kakkin
An example of using a chainsaw with a spindle.
Kartracer


11-June-2003
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Ken

A mix between a bike and a scooter, belt driven, well thought out.

Kris

Chain driven scooter, kids frame with part of the motor support bolted on.
Kiel
A chain drive scooter for longer trips, perfect for jaunts to the corner store
Larry


11-June-2003
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Lizzie-Jo Great example of a manual clutch on a spindle drive.
Luke
12in spindle drive... work in progress.
Mikes Mad Machine Nicely designed scooter with a large 4hp motor.

Martin

Great looking scooter, chain drive with disc brakes. Nice and safe.
Mercy Interesting looking motor mounted on a razor style scooter.

Michael E

Kids scooter with a huge laser cut sprocket on the back

Michael R

Custom frame with chain drive and a thumb throttle.
Michael O
Ideas in progress

Modified Mozzie

Bought scooter with custom air filter and a plan for nitrous.
Mr Minibike A very simple, but effective, spindle drive scooter

Mr Owl

Spindle driven scooter on a kids scooter frame, still working on mount.
mr_t Why build a drive system when someone has already done it?
A Honda spree motor and gearbox merged with a push scooter.
Neil A project in the making that promises to show us something different about how to get the right gearing.

next screamer

Nicely built with a simple spindle drive mount.

Nopushin

Scooter with spindle drive, simple.
Ollie
Chainsaw driven, chain drive scooter
Pasi


11-June-2003
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Peter

Chain driven scooter with homebuilt pipe.
Peterthinks


11-June-2003
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Q-Scoot
An awesome little project in the making...
rc_insanity 3-speed, 16in, chainsaw driven scooter.
Robbie 12in spindle drive scooter

Rocket Bob

Very well designed chain drive using an aluminium mount.
Rom Looks like a dragster with its Go-kart slik and H-U-G-E motor.
ryan A NEXT scooter with a 5:1 gearbox and a wooden deck... very sylish.
Simon In a word... Weird.
Smallz Nicely presented chainsaw driven scooter. Very tidy
SmiKID


11-June-2003
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Speed_racer Why buy a go-ped when you can buy a know-ped and put your own motor on it?
speedracer2
Electric scooter retrofitted with a petrol motor...
Stan Puffy Off-road tyres and a big edger motor.
Steve Not really a scooter, but for the amount of effort put into building this little custom beast, I think it deserves a mention.
The Swedish Surprise
It amazing what some people can accomplish on a budget...
But this thing look seriously dodgy. ;-)
Tim 9in BIG wheels.
Its still being made.
Todd A scooter project...
watch for updates
The Trenorden's One of the few people to motorize a razor style scooter. Simple but effective.
Tzi's 1st scooter 12in nylon wheels, 22cc motor on an old Roadmaster scooter.
Tzi 2nd scooter 10in BIG wheels, original 22cc motor on a custom frame.
Tzi 3rd scooter 17cc wipper snipper motor running through an angle grinder gearbox on a Razor style scooter
Vonkuhns
Its half Big Foot (GoPed) half Runt bike. Need I say more??

Wallrat

knowped frame with chainsaw spindle drive and a homemade deck
Weese
Simple but effective design with a chainsaw and a foldup scooter.
Weezil Chain drive JD BUG --Awesome!

Wog-The-Builder

Amazing scooter with nitrous oxide and a big motor, also notice the wheelie bar.
XL A different way to reinforce a plastic wheel, for a sprocket, and another way to mount a spindle drive.
Zimma Push start, spindle drive scooter
unknown scooters Misc scooters that I dont know anything about.
Unknown
A great example of a simple spindle drive setup.

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