I built an American Speedster, 2 seat pedal car several years ago. It was beautiful to look at. I never wanted the headache of a motor as the State would then want to inflict controls on it. I loved the car, however I could never get the brakes to work well nor the gear system. I pedaled it all over the place and had many flat tires, till I replaced the air filled tires with solid rubber tires, but they added weight and slowed the car down. Also it never was feasible to go up any hills as only 2 gears would work and the speed was always slow. To make one of these things really work you have to be some kind of mechanical genius, or just extremely good with mechanics or your wasting your time to build one. I spent over $500 on the kit and parts and then another $300 on accessories to try and make it a viable everyday working vehicle. It never worked and sat around wasting away till I finally sold it for $100. If I ever do the pedal bike experience again, I'll get one Professionally built by someone who knows Mechanics very well. It would have been great to build this car and have the bragging rights for a working vehicle as well, but I found out that I wasn't Mechanically savvy enough to build a real working model. So I repeat if you know very little about Mechanics, don't attempt to build an American Speedster car yourself. Again let me say that the 2 seat car that I built (the Side Kick model), was a beautiful construction! Absolutely gorgeous! Blue just like the pics on the site! However as a working vehicle it was Not! I tried to save my 2nd marriage by building this car, but my wife would have nothing to do with it, and people laughed at my far and wide, and I could get 0 help from bicycle shops on how to fix it because I didn't buy it from them. It was a wonderful yet painful experience. I wish it could have been otherwise. My Real name is Steve Nelson, and I featured my car in my eBook The Maintenance Engineer, available at Smashwords DOT com.

Great innovated use off of the shelf products, very nice job...!!

I'm surprise I don't see more of these. Seems like a great do it yourself project

Good , excellent work with nice finish

Awesome. :) I don’t always tool around town, but when I do it’s in a kick ass red go cart.

That thing is brilliant!!

great project. good job!!

Great video! Thank you for the entertainment. I do want to build one.

With the frame being PVC pipe and light weight I can see where it would get such awesome gas mileage ! A cool lightweight car for sure !

Mate you have done great job on this, i just ordered two sets of plans from american speedster, one for the side kick and one for the baja,I'm yet to see if they want a bit more for postage to OZ ut thats fine , I really like your bike and hope to build something akint to it. Thanks again for the vid.

Very nice start! I'd take a 12v electric motor and use it as an alternator with a golf cart battery, then you can run actual lights and a safety horn. You can probably find some cheap dacron to make a light roof too.

sir u r an artist

Genius! Beat the system!

I love this! :)

Very amazing, sir

That's pretty nice.I really like it.I've wondered about doing something like that too.Did you fill the tubes with the 'slight expanding'foam?I've hoped it would make they more rigid.Thank you.

Hey what a great little car ! It's pretty much as I had thought of plus a few that I didn't 1 Did you have plans for this or did you just start building. did you use schedle 80 pvc or ??? I would love to know more !

That's pretty cool.

We really like your idea of the 4 cycle engine. Did you make the shaft that the chain gears are on or did you buy it somewhere? What size gears did you use?

Fantastic !! Awesome !! Brilliant !! now how do I get one my good fellow ?

Hay there very nice lil car you made to go to get the groceries or to the store and back

very cool idea.

Great looking buggy. Do you have any plans for it? There is so many places that I would like to go to but am not able to with my mobility scooter. I would be very grateful if you would share this buggy with me.

omg you are hero!!

I just ordered a Side Kick. Do you have the information on which engine you used? I am considering using a horizontal lawn mower engine, but might order the same engine as yours. How did you install the engine? I am also planning on using a 4 cycle engine also to avoid mixing gas and oil. Any plans or videos of the engine should be helpful for me to install a 4 cycle engine on the side kick also. Thanks for the video!

That's pretty badass, bro. I'd like to attempt to build something like that, figuring that I have no current transportation. So, as someone greater than me said, "Do you got any plans on sharing those plans?" Paraphrasing here. Anyways, it's badass.

Very nice ❤️

Do you share the plans to build this?

That is way cool!!

Quality build...

Good job

lol I feel like i dropped 5 hits of acid as I watch this video with all the camera distortion

@tablett5476

8 жыл бұрын

I thought it was that flexible at first

pretty awesome but did the pvc start cracking yet?

Did you ever publish or sell you plans as a kit?

Was it the camera or is that vehicle really flexing that much? Fun looking ride still. How much would you say the PVC-frame weights?

Nice work. Can I assume you used schedule 80 pvc? How strong do you think it is, as in, could it realistically survive a poorly approached speed bump or two? Would you reccomend any upgrades in materials anywhere? This is the kind of stuff I plan to do when I retire.

BRAVO

You are right that thing is going to kill same one ,one day i hop he reads this .!

Any idea on the weight of the frame? :)

In other states it may just be considered a LSV (low speed vehicle), so check your state's website and stay legal

How did you come up with the design, what's the weight limit,

Nice 👍

Actually it looks like a combination of both the camera being blown in the wind and KZread's "stabilization" effect all put together.

Очень интересный веломобиль))

How much do you charge to build something like this what about the engine just the pedals and two more seats

is it made 32x32 pipe ord 40 pipe?

Nice 👍✌️

Que legal,gostei ainda é a gasolina né?

what size are the weels "24 or 26 inch? greetings from mexico

that thing is awesome!

fucken awesome!!!!

@Ethical_living

6 жыл бұрын

DrBill no

Now you can convert it to e bike hubs

How much load it can carry sir? 250 kg?

nice you have plans on how to build it how much did it cost

@jimoneill821

6 жыл бұрын

Boot Man I'd like to build one too

Looks like you took KZread up on their "Your video looks shakey, would you like us to stabilize it" option. I did the same and it made my video look like it was filmed in a fun house mirror!m. You car remove it in the edit page. Nice job on the Kart.

how do you make it

sharp shock and pvc cracks like a pothole or bump novelty ! not safe be careful but nice work looks great

@dall89115a

8 жыл бұрын

Nope. The lower frame has steel tubing inside the PVC and the points of stress are reinforced. A little built in flex actually helps it in some areas.

How much did it cost

Does it have seatbelts on it ?

Have you tried a crash test yet

Do you have the designs or prices

cool

Do u have the plans

does it require licensing? lets say a cop sees it, is it a big deal?

I contacted American speedster and bought the plans

COMO LO HICISTE

Hi there, what engine did use? Thanks!

@pukinrd1006

4 жыл бұрын

Hola como te llamas yo Pukin RD

I'm not and engineer and not a mechanic welder or even a builder... But judging from the way it wobbles I'd be scared to ride in that with the engine on. I could see maybe a metal base frame with the body made of PVC. Maybe it would add to the integrety of the structures foundation and also maintain a lower weight?

@punksweeper4678

9 жыл бұрын

The wobbling is distortion in the entire frame of the video caused by some sort of digital image stabilization or anti-shake. At 1:19 you can see the whole background moving as well as the car.

Will it float

that is awesome i need to build one just like it!!!

acctualy its a plan from a website you can buy the plans

I would appreciate it very much I am from Spain and I would like to have one to take my son to school

We can help you to walk the bike without fuel altogether.

these should be mass sold in the u.s for insane cheep processor we could all be driving

pls send me the plans for free to make it i dont have the money to buy the plans in the website

With a Jerry can long range bug out vehicle lol

J'aime

Olá amigo me envie o projeto de fabricação e montagem deste quadriciclo

Edit vedio how engine install

Buenas tardes me puede desir cuanto cuesta por favor

انها رائعة ومتميزة حقا.

I've been trying to buy the plans from American speedster but their website doesn't work, would you sell your copy or copy of copy?

@MrTruthteller123

8 жыл бұрын

+Todd Bunn ....nobody will give you the plans for free, I am researching from the multiple videos on this project and i am just about finished with the plans....I will give them out for free. I do have the complete cut list and materials list it is available online for free....just taking some time to research where the parts go.

@toddshobbyzone659

8 жыл бұрын

Just bought plans

@MrChewlo

7 жыл бұрын

Im trying to find or get the plans for that build if you can send me a copy if possible

@stephenbarnhill9700

6 жыл бұрын

I would love to have a copy also????

Bi-Cycle = 2 cycles (wheels)

@theatom7264

6 жыл бұрын

So this should technically be a called quad cycle?

Now stick a 212cc predator motor on there lol

@theatom7264

6 жыл бұрын

That would be awesome but a transmission with a reverse gear would be a must.

Drop a ktm 300 exc 2 stroke motor in it

i would go electric and charge it via the petals and a battery myself, but that's just me.

This guy never responded back to a single person on this video! Maybe he crashed it? I hope not.

Señol yo se que usted está lelledo esté mensaje repodame

Your frame desperately needs some triangles.

@jarodmorris611

7 жыл бұрын

Don't mistake the distortion in the video caused by KZread's stabilization with flexing of the frame. (I might be wrong about where in the video you saw flexing.)

@DarrenGerbrandt

5 жыл бұрын

It's not the frame, PVC pipe especially with all the short pieces and joints is highly rigid. The video quality is piss poor with distortion. There were a few times where I had to go back and rewatch to see if it was the frame or the video distortion. It was video distortion because properly glued PVC just does not flex like that, hell even dry fitted PVC shouldn't flex like that.

Is it street legal?

@garrettduplechain5442

7 жыл бұрын

ITS TOO FAST

You should build one, VIDEO it and KZread it. But then that's just me. How much battery weight ? How much charging power does your solar panel have ? Why would you pedal to charge when you can pedal to PROPEL !! By pedal to charge you need a dynamo/generator power by your pedal then a battery then a motor to run the bike. 1 pint of gasoline has way more energy than 200lb of battery. But That's just me !!!!!

No welding

Put Solar panels and a electric engine

Bıraoo helal olsun

Ok

Gasoline engine is the past...NOW its battery operated man. Nice project though.

The plastic pvc construction scares me! What happens if you hit a pot hole with a family member on that bike in traffic? I think you should have chosen a different construction material?

@Ethical_living

6 жыл бұрын

GoofyApeGaming that is what gou build those out of.

wow you made this out of pvc plastic i would have used a metal frame that can hold the weight and put shocks on it and put a voltswagon engine it it i just think your pvc plastic is not going to hold up to what you expect out of it being plastic