50 MPH Weed Eater Scooter!

Hi guys, my name is Clay. This is my first ever YouTube video! I plan on making some dirtbike and off road videos. Please like and subscribe to help me grow and make more cool videos for you!

[laurenlezynski]

Hell ya who needs brakes!!! I love it!!!

[thecasualgamer]

That is the most minimalist thing you could do to put a motor on a scooter and I applaud you for it.

[Matthew-wjcm]

Very nice scooter! We didn't get razors in Europe, My town is full of M365 Xiaomis and countless knockoffs but no cheap scooters to buy.

[tgamirov]

1:59 that neighbor just loves your little invention

[josephfigueroa]

This is what we used to do back in the day when YouTube hadn't even been made a thing yet. Dumpster dive for motors and scooter, fix them up, and rip around the neighborhood. Good times.

[potatohamlin]

Nice improvising for the throttle don’t have to worry about hooking up a throttle cable to anything

[brianbaird]

Very nice work. Nice and neat and as professional as anyone could do in a garage shop. But I have a suggestion. Your "gear ratio" is not high enough. You are slipping your centrifugal clutch a lot, especially before you reach fast speeds. It would be better if you could use a two stage "transmission". First stage is a vacuum cleaner belt with pulley sizes calculated to reduce RPMs to one third. Output of this goes to the second stage, which is your chain. This will give you a lot more low end torque and save excessive wear on the clutch. Even better would be to find a variable pulley setup like is in a golf-cart, but much smaller to match the low torque and higher RPM of a weed-eater engine.
Weed eaters run FOREVER on a gallon of gas. With the right ratio of belts and chain, which would take some experimentation, you could get some unbelievable gas mileage.
Come to think of it, you might look into a "gear reduction" chainsaw engine. It already has a set of gears inside that would do better than the vacuum cleaner belt stage. You will have to figure out how to change out the cutting-chain style sprocket for a regular roller chain sprocket, unless you want to use the cutting chain as a drive chain. This can actually be done. You just grind all the teeth off the chain and make sure you don't leave any sharp edges. Or, you can buy a toothless chain. I have seen one on a saw that had a wood-planer attachment on the end of the bar.

[fexploder]

That's very cool, I think I'd like to have something like that one day.

[MotorizedMayhem]

Wow! I did this exact thing with the same scooter except I used a 29cc Husqvarna engine from a weed eater, I put the fuel tank where the batteries where and ran the kill switch and the throttle cable up to the handle and bolted the motor on using scrap metal. I also rebuilt the carb and put a oversized air filter on but seeing how fast yours is, its probably 3 times faster than mine! I re painted the whole thing blue and black and put a new tire in the back with good treads and overbuilt it way too much but it still rattles itself apart! im also deciding on making a youtube vid about it but I still gotta get that thing out!

[ConnerSimed]

Great invention but how is the engine mounted?

[captainleonardodivichi]

Man back in the late 90’s early 2000’s we did this all the time . And I mean all the time .

[TimMiller-ffyd]

Did you have to modify the clutch ours screeches if you try ro go over 5mph

[mikuhatsune]

I have that Scoot as well, But I've used Honda GX35 as my Engine choice. Damn I'm so happy with it. and well I also customized the Scoot frame myself, I installed a Hydraulic Shock Absorbers at the Front Wheel, and Spring shock Absorber at the Middle Place of the Scoot that connects the Engine So it'll just bounce everytime i go on Bumps lol

I run 60kph atleast with GX35 Honda

[FirstnameLastname-peib]

What the hell, it actually rides about as well as a legit $2, 000 Go Ped

[zoebeatz]

I'm about 2 start and build mine about to order some parts

[privilegednpc]

How did you mount the sprocket to the engine?

[michaellewis]

I just made almost the same thing except without a clutch so it's direct drive. You'll probably smoke that clutch really quick riding that.

[johnanderson]

Had one as a kid in the 90s my neighbor hooked it up built the motor out of a chainsaw

[tristanstevenson]

How did you mount the engine to the scooter? Great idea overall. I'm trying something similar myself

[SilenceDoGoodth]

Might be able to get a little more power with a different exhaust setup