86 spree- need the biggest baddest motor

Does your Spree/Elite already run great, and you're trying to make it quicker/faster? Need a monster motor swap? Discuss your ideas here.

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Re: 86 spree- need the biggest baddest motor

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I've got a bone stock AF16 motor for sale.
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Bear45-70 wrote:
Brutal Stabbings wrote:ok I just sprung on that kit on ebay. I'll just make a campground cruiser/ wheelie machine. :coolcruise:
Without a variator there ain't gonna be no wheelies, except if you stand behind the bike and lift the front wheel off the ground. :roll:
reckon this dude has a variator?

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Greetings:

Saves Big Money on pesky front tire replacement! :) Variator or not, the trick is to keep power steady and modulate with a Pinkie finger on the rear brake.
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He didn't stop at the STOP sign :*:
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That's not a wheelie, that is stun riding and stunt riding without a helmet is the act of an idiot. Pavement is hard and heads break. Good what to become a vegetable.

A wheelie is when, sitting in the "normal" seat position, you apply power and the front wheel comes up because of the excess twisting force on the rear axle. Any nitwit can sit as far back as possible and change the CG to get the front end up, that just a stunt, not a wheelie.
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Bear45-70 wrote:Pavement is hard and heads break. Good what to become a vegetable.
My brother in law just got out of rehab last week after 6 weeks from a head injury sustained riding/crashing a bike WHILE wearing a bike helmet. Granted it was a styro bike helmet, but it was also a bike so speeds are a lot slower than with a motor, even a Spree motor.
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Bear45-70 wrote:That's not a wheelie...... Any nitwit can sit as far back as possible and change the CG to get the front end up, that just a stunt, not a wheelie.
stabbings wrote: reckon this dude has a variator?
Like Bear said, that is a stunt, not a true wheelie.
I reckon he does not have a variator.
It is actually easier to ride a stunt wheelie without a variator. The single gear helps with this type of stunt
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