u/TheSockington

Built this a few weeks ago with my son and made a some first-timer mistakes.
Ordered a hydraulic rear brake to replace the workout stock cable setup. Flipped the clutch around and centred the motor so it wasn’t hanging out the right hand side so bad. Slipped a little header pipe on it, new chain, and a 60t rear sprocket. The chain length was a bit of a game of “one link too short” or needing to makeup a spring loaded tensioner as the next fix.

It did 60kmh before and curious to see where it gets to now.

Running the cope-machine on a 4” steel @ 100yards.

TaipanX with a 2-7x Burris. Cheap PMC X-tac 55g.

The BX wouldn’t allow my action back into the Mannlicher stock due to the rear tang being slightly thicker. A tiny bit of file work got it fitting like original, but it had me feeling dumb for a second when the action wouldn’t go back in properly.

Certainly bigger problems and better triggers out there, but just wanted a slight upgrade for the iron sights plinker.

Built this with my son a few weeks ago and we learned a lot from suggestions of others. Just wanted to say thanks for those and we’re working to correct a few things.

Added a new killswitch because the old one was dead shorted inside. Added a front fender since it painted the bike in mud on an offroad test.

Ordered up some parts to fix some smaller issues and bigger ones like the brakes. We plan to flip the clutch around and then re-mount the motor in the centre more with the new rear gear and chain.

Currently tops out around 55kmh with a 13T clutch and 70?ish rear gear. I’ve had a hoot ripping it around on it since I was never a motorcycle guy before.

Not too bad for the old man’s moose gun that I just bring out the odd time to run some rounds through. Burris 3-9x and shooting cheap PPU. The blast from the 300wm is always a laugh since I’m usually shooting smaller stuff for fun.

I don’t know anything about minibikes but my son walked this project home and we worked together to churn out a moving machine in two weekends.

New 212 with remote keyed setup and electric start.

Started today on the first crank and has already scared the crap out of me. The rear brakes feel like a suggestion than a braking method currently. It’ll lock the wheel when pushing the bike but feels very soft for braking under speed. We just reused the old caliper so maybe the original pads are smoked.

Need to wire up the handlebar kill switch this afternoon and take it to a parking lot to get him used to it.