We make a snowmobile from a scooter with our own hands. How to make a snowmobile from a scooter with your own hands Homemade machines from Chinese scooters

Dear visitors to the site “”, today we will look at one of the options for assembling a snowmobile from a scooter with your own hands. Mainly that dramatic changes not included in the design and the scooter can be easily converted from a snowmobile into an all-terrain vehicle) is an excellent and moderately economical means of transportation, both around the city and around rural areas. This type of transport is especially popular among teenagers, because it is an intermediate link between a bicycle and a real motorcycle) With the onset of cold weather, motorcycles are placed in the garage and remain there until spring, but not in our case, because a scooter is made into an excellent snowmobile for fishing trips)

To make a scooter out of a full-fledged one, you will need a rubber track, in this case it is borrowed from the Buran snowmobile and cut in half. You can also make a rubber track from a tire from passenger car, you will, of course, have to work hard to punch square holes for the pitch of the star, make metal heels, but it’s free) The author adapted a wheel from a go-kart as a leading star, the fact is that such a wheel is slightly smaller than that of the scooter itself, which reduces the speed and increases traction characteristics cars. A metal band with teeth secured with furniture bolts with a flat head is screwed onto the wheel. The driven star is made from the original Buranovskaya with the addition of wheels from a trolley on the sides, the support rollers are wheels from a children's scooter. The frame and track mount are welded from corrugated pipe and angle iron.

The ski is borrowed from a children's snow scooter; a metal guide is installed at the bottom so that the snowmobile feels stable on the road. The ski also has a floating position, that is, when tilted, it remains flat on the snow.

A kart wheel is used as a leading star. The wheel is wearing a metal band with teeth made from PVC pipes screwed with furniture bolts. The driven star is from a Buran snowmobile, with wheels from a trolley added to the sides. Wheels from a children's scooter were used as support rollers.
Assembling the track and installing it on the scooter. The track protection is made of fiberglass.
Ski fastening and facing. Ski from a children's snowmobile. Testing a snowmobile on loose snow.

A mini-scooter, or self-propelled scooter, was a childhood dream for many. Now Chinese online markets allow you to purchase this miracle for yourself or your child for a relatively small amount. And this article will give craftsmen the right train of thought to create their own “iron pony”.

Mini scooter - what is it?

Environmentally friendly, silent vehicle. The fact that it can be charged from a simple electrical outlet, like a smartphone or laptop, saves a lot of money and time for the owner. If the model is foldable, then it is convenient to store it in an apartment, pantry, on the balcony or transport it in the trunk of a car.

The mini scooter is capable of driving with highest speed 50 km/h. It does not require installation state number, and according to the laws of the Russian Federation it is defined as a moped. To drive it, you need a category M license - by the way, they are given along with your car license.

Mini scooter: advantages

The electric scooter, first of all, has important advantage- this tool is literally based on the principle of “sit down and go.” There is no need to turn on the ignition, start the vehicle with an electric starter, or dial the required number of revolutions with the throttle. It is enough to turn the key once and press the gas - a soft start, smooth acceleration and, most importantly, silent movement, which neither mopeds nor bikes can boast of.

The rechargeable battery has an approximate service life of three years. It will take 4-8 hours to charge the battery to 100%. This is enough for a 100-120 km trip. And due to the minimal number of friction parts, the mini-scooter can serve its owner for a long time.

To summarize, we can highlight the five main advantages of this product:

1. Silence.
2. No need for fuel costs.
3. There is no need to change the oil.
4. Excellent acceleration dynamics.
5. Safe riding a la "bike".

The photo below can convey in all its glory the beauty of such a thing as a mini-scooter - it is a very compact and convenient form of transport.

A Brief History of Scooters

The very first scooters, strongly reminiscent of motorcycles, appeared about a century ago. Produced them German company Hildebrand&Wolfmüller. However, this device with a top speed of 40 km/h did not find its admirers in those days, as a result of which the company went bankrupt.

The name "scooter" comes from the English to scoot - to run away, to get away. In the USA, by the way, the device first “rested on its laurels” in 1936. The scooter of the Californian company caused a stir among Americans - automatic transmission gears, small wheels with a diameter of 5 inches, two stroke engine, stable footrest. The invention consumed only 3.5 liters of gasoline per 100 km!

Yamaha caused a new boom in 1977 with the release of its Passol S50: light weight, luggage compartment, dirt protection and reasonable price.

Now all over the world, dozens of manufacturers produce maxi- and mini-scooters: in our country, for example, devices from Japan, China, and South Korea are popular.

DIY mini scooter

Here are sketches of the picture of creating an electric scooter-bicycle:

• The basis can be a moped, a bicycle, a go-kart - the main thing is that you have a plan in your head for what to do with it next.

• Think about what you will use as a step - you may have to sacrifice someone's scooter, but you can also use a step from a car.
• Battery: you can use several from a computer UPS.
• To batteries were safe, it wouldn’t hurt to make a protective casing for them.
• Think about where to get a disc brake: the one that is installed on children's quad bike, is quite suitable (in popular applications for resale of old and unnecessary things, similar items from faulty equipment can be purchased at a very ridiculous price). To secure it, you need to drill a hole in the “bicycle” frame and place this disk on a cylindrical key.
• The regulator block in any Chinese online store can actually be purchased at affordable price, including with throttle handle and detailed instructions installations.
• Wheels - the same as a children's car, ATV or go-kart. It is advisable to choose their diameter within 4-5 inches.
• The donor of tires and tubes may be the same as in the previous paragraph.
• It is not necessary to use these used parts - they can be found at a good price in online stores.

Today, trade can offer a large number of different models of scooters from domestic and foreign manufacturers. A person who wants to buy a vehicle has an opportunity to huge selection. However, even with such an abundance of options, not everyone finds what they like. Some people are not satisfied with the dimensions and weight of the car. He is looking for a more compact device that can be placed, say, in the trunk of a car. Some people think the design of modern “iron horses” is not attractive enough. He wants to show his own and collect his own. Such people are interested in how to make homemade moped. Here are some useful tips.

What you might need

In order to make a homemade moped, first of all you need to decide on the parts that will be used during assembly. In most cases, the basis of the design is an unnecessary bicycle. You immediately need to think about where all the details will be placed. The most cumbersome of them is the engine. It is usually located in the rear trunk or at the bottom of the frame. If the frame has such a structure that placing the engine will create inconvenience when moving the moped, then it can be made separately. This will require welding work. The frame should be made from bicycle parts that are specially designed for the appropriate load. If necessary, you can change the geometry of the desired part. For this, a stop is used and the use of water pipes is strictly prohibited, since they do not have sufficient strength. Such a homemade moped will not go far. Engine mounts can be cut from sheets of iron with a thickness of at least 5 mm and welded to the frame.

Moped engine

Here craftsmen usually go different ways. Some use engines from agricultural machinery. For example, mechanisms from walk-behind tractors or chainsaws. Others assemble a homemade moped using special bicycle engines. For example, the Chinese “D” series motor, or simply “cheap”, is popular among technicians. What to use - everyone decides for himself. Perhaps you have an old saw lying around in the closet and need to put it somewhere. We need to put it in a homemade moped. However best advice A standard bicycle motor will be used here. This gives more guarantees of its reliability. The engine should be installed on prepared mounts. If it uses a chain drive, then using a standard bicycle sprocket to transmit torque is acceptable.

Brake system

The idea itself was read from motorcycle magazines. In them I saw that it was possible to buy a tracked engine and convert an ordinary motorcycle into some kind of homemade snowmobile. And since it is possible to convert a motorcycle into a snowmobile with your own hands, then why not try doing the same with a scooter.

At the very beginning, I had the idea to use part of a conventional Buranovskaya caterpillar as a tracked engine (photo 1). But I couldn’t find the old track from the Buran snowmobile, and I didn’t buy a new one - it’s expensive to buy a whole one just for one quarter of the track.

I had to contact a specialized company and buy a rubber track from them, and even a plastic ski.

In the pre-thought-out and verified design of the scooter and at the same time the snowmobile, the main thing was that the scooter in warm weather should remain a scooter and only become a snowmobile only in winter. That is, the process of converting a scooter into a snowmobile and back should be very simple - remove the ski and tracks and put the wheels back.

Neither milling nor lathe I don’t have one, so I used all the components and parts either ready-made, store-bought, or those that you can make with your own hands using ordinary tools and.

In a store that sells snowmobiles, I bought a drive sprocket, again from a Buran. We also had to buy wheels from a children's scooter, and two wheels with bearings from a garden cart.

Now for the power of a snowmobile scooter.

In the scooter's transmission, the gear ratio allows for movement on asphalt at speeds from 40 to 60 kilometers per hour.

It is absolutely clear that when driving on a snowy road, the load on the engine immediately increases, and it may well be that its power is not enough. In addition, “flying” through snow and ice at such a speed is dangerous. Therefore, the gear ratio had to be changed by replacing drive wheel scooter with a smaller wheel, from a kart.

To make such changes to the design, from an unusable moped rim I cut a drum (with splines) for the drive shaft. And I drilled holes in it that will help secure a smaller disk in it. The result is shown in photo No. 2.

The problem with the caterpillar sliding off the wheel and its possible slippage was solved this way: I made it with my own hands from ordinary plastic pipes for a hook. In subsequent assembly, they will fit into the tracks of the snowmobile scooter. They can be seen in photo No. 3.

Since it is very difficult to choose a tire with a circumference suitable for the number of steps on the track, I had to do the following.

I made a kind of bandage of the required length from a metal strip. Then I marked equal distances on it corresponding to the step on the caterpillar and attached the previously made hooks from plastic pipes to them. To attach the hooks to the metal, I used M6 bolts. (Photo No. 4) . Then I secured the bandage to the wheel with the same M6 bolts. The result is visible in photo No. 5.

Thus, with my own hands I made a kind of soft sprocket, which will be the leading sprocket for the sprocket of a homemade snowmobile scooter.

The following design was made as a driven sprocket - the drive sprocket from Buran was fastened with M8 bolts to the wheels from the garden cart equipped with bearings, which I mentioned above. I used a threaded rod M10 as an axis. The design can be seen in photo No. 10.

Snowmobile scooter frame.

The frame was made from metal pipes and corners (Photo No. 7)

The frame is made with arbitrary dimensions - it all depends on the length and width of the track you choose and the size of your scooter.

As I mentioned above, I had to buy a plastic ski for the winter scooter - making it with your own hands would take too much time and effort, and it is not expensive. In principle, if you wish, you can, of course, do without buying it and just make a wooden one with your own hands, and it’s definitely worth equipping it with a metal skate so that the scooter can be better controlled when moving in the snow.

The ski was attached to the moped fork using homemade stand(photo 17-18), for greater safety, the left and right sides of the fork work independently (i.e., they have two degrees of freedom of movement). With this design our homemade snowmobile can turn in any direction and the ski will not rise, but will remain the entire plane on the surface of the snow.

The plastic body of the scooter becomes very fragile in the cold; moreover, its design is equipped with pockets into which snow gets packed, which increases the weight of the snowmobile scooter, and therefore reduces power when moving.

For winter, the casing was kept minimal. It will be located only above the caterpillar, but a large platform is needed so that there is somewhere to put your feet in oversized winter shoes, and for decoration, I wanted to make a shield to install it on the fork of a snowmobile, which can easily be equipped with a windshield for traveling long distances or in the wind and snow.

In principle, making a casing for installation on a caterpillar with your own hands is not so difficult, the main thing is to make a template for fiberglass (matrix).

To do this, from polycarbonate, which is increasingly used for, or plexiglass, or the like. materials (as long as they are of comparable sizes), first cut out the sidewall (Photo No. 19)

We turn it over and place it on a large sheet - it will be the wall of the template. Then we use hot glue to secure the plastic corners around the perimeter of the side wall.

Next we need a strip of flexible plastic. Its dimensions must correspond to the dimensions of the casing being manufactured.

Now we proceed to assembling the template (matrix), for which we secure the panel, bottom and prepared sidewall with glue. We seal the joints using plasticine. The template for making the casing is ready.

Now cut the fiberglass, and coat the pieces of fiberglass with epoxy and place it on the template.

After 24 hours, disassemble the template, cut off the excess fiberglass, paint it, and the casing for your homemade snowmobile scooter is ready.

The platform for the feet was made in exactly the same way, with one exception - I added silver pieces to the epoxy for decorative purposes.

The main work is done - all that remains is to put everything together and the homemade snowmobile scooter made with your own hands is ready.

Do-it-yourself snowmobile scooter - photo for article

Of course, our homemade snowmobile scooter is not suitable for driving in very deep snow; the power and width of the track in it is still not the same - it will “burrow in” - keep this in mind if you assemble your own version of a snowmobile-scooter with your own hands.

But on the road or in snow with a depth of up to 15 centimeters, such a homemade “winter” scooter walks very confidently and can even tow a small load behind it.

In the spring, it’s easy to make an all-terrain vehicle from a snowmobile converted from a scooter, for which you remove the ski and install a wheel.

Homemade snowmobile from a scooter - photo

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“If something is worth doing, then only what is considered impossible.” Oscar Wilde

On this “skeleton” I went for spare parts. And then I heard: “It looks like the scooter is stolen if it’s all without lining!” And... he looks like the Terminator.” I remember the phrase about the Terminator. I arrived home and realized that I would not return the original plastic to him. I wanted to do something completely unusual in the style of unforgettable Hollywood characters. Later, another idea appeared - to create something similar to a motorcycle, but with the original transmission - a sort of scooter. But for this you need to redo the frame and the entire layout! Spent a lot of time thinking. One evening I watched Predator on TV. And it dawned on me - this is what I need! And away we go...
I remembered the skill of a welder - this is how a frame a la Ducati’s “birdcage” appeared - not only beautiful, but also durable. There was no special skill, but there were enough tools. They used laser pointers and even a rotary laser level. Every detail I made with my own hands was a struggle, because there was nothing to take measurements from, and sometimes I myself didn’t know what it would look like.
There was a time when I earned my living by making art products from plaster and concrete - it came in handy: I ​​sculpted a Predator mask from plasticine and made a multi-piece mold from it from plaster. Then he laid glass mats impregnated with polyester resin into it. The same goes for all cladding elements. I decided to make the tank also fiberglass, and installed a copper grid in the walls to remove static electricity. Later, the tank and seat were combined into a single part to reduce the number of fasteners and ease of dismantling.
I was haunted by the standard rear suspension- Well, it didn’t look good in the new layout, there was no “airiness” and “openness” in it. I had to make an adapter that simultaneously played the role rear wing and was a support for a monoshock absorber, like the Italjet Dragster 50. Oh, and I suffered with it!
The rear suspension adapter is asymmetrical, of complex shape, welded from metal 3 mm thick. First, I made a mock-up of the adapter from cardboard, then I marked the mounting points to the scooter “leg” - the transmission. For rigidity and reliability, I used the maximum possible number of attachment points - on the left (in the direction of travel) I used the upper bolts of the variator cover and two free points (after dismantling the starter, which I refused without regret, fortunately it starts “with half a kick”), as well as a powerful “point” ”, freed from the dismantling of the original shock absorber. On the right are two mounting points for the exhaust pipe, I also used them. I specially supplemented the adapter with small stiffening ribs.
I found a monoshock absorber at a scooter parts store. But the point of its lower attachment had to be tinkered with. The lower “ear” of the VAZ shock absorber was suitable for it. Having pressed out the old silent block, I welded the ear to the adapter, reinforced it with gussets and pressed in a new one. I made the upper mount to the frame with the possibility of “adjustment” - I drilled several pairs of holes, and during the ride I chose the optimal position. The monoshock really changed the look of the scooter. At one time I even wanted to give up the idea of ​​​​the Predator image and make a naked one. But the problem is that there is nothing to expose: there is simply no engine in the usual “motorcycle” place.
The hood turned out to be voluminous, so the musical guts - a Pioneer receiver, electrics and a 20 Ah battery - were sent to where they had previously placed their feet. From above, all this is closed with a lid into which Alpine speakers are embedded. It’s gratifying that there was room for music on such a little thing! The control of the receiver using a computer cable was moved to the steering wheel, and the panel from the receiver was also moved there.
I installed it under the tank and belly LED backlight, and made the headlight eyes bright orange and extraterrestrially aggressive. The tail of the “Predator” is metal, the frame is made of thin pipes and sheathed with thin (1 mm) metal. I did this for rigidity, since it is convenient to move the bike by the tail.
I didn’t touch the engine, I just removed the carbon deposits and polished the purge windows, because I was making the engine for my daughter, and she still doesn’t need the power. Air filter connected via an extension cord and hidden inside the frame. This is a necessary measure - a step is located in its regular place.
I painted the bike with paint with a “hammer” effect, and many people bought it: “How much does it weigh if it’s all metal?” But the weight increased slightly (from 68 to 75 kg), mainly due to the battery and music. But since these weights are located low, the bike has become very stable, which is convenient when stopping at traffic lights - you hardly have to expose your legs.
This small (length 1500, width 610, seat height 750 mm) alien hunter will not get lost anywhere, and not because of the lighting - it is on every palm tree, flower bed and bush, and not because of the music - it is from every car, but will not be lost because it is unique.
And the phrase about the Terminator doesn’t leave me alone. Making an iron Terminator with a red eye and a naked skeleton is too easy. But “Liquid Terminator”...
What do I need? A scooter, a cast iron pot and a large iron spoon...

This is my first attempt to make something unusual out of a simple scooter. It's a shame I didn't start doing this earlier.

There are replicas of the Predator theme - a lot of helmets and a couple of bikes, but there is no such Predator, and even one made from a “hole”.

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