for its first trip to work. rode it a total of 18 miles to and from work. It did supriseingly well. I need to make a heat shield for the exhaust because I burned my boot on pipe. The steering is a little jerky but I know I need to replace the neck bearings but Ive not been able to get the handlebars off to get to the steering stem nut to replace the bearings. Does anyone know it there is any trick to getting the bicycle style bars off? I thought all I had to do is loosen the bolt and tap it down slightly with a hammer then pull up but it doesnt budge??? Anyway it was a sunny blue sky warm day and it was a blast riding it. Still not sure how law enforcement is going to react. Built it as a moped. In South Carolina a moped is not registered and no tag requirement except that it most have the word moped on it. Its a 50cc fully automatic with lights turn and brake too with a horn. Got a few people at work notice the bike and were all amazed that its so small and liked the look and of course none had heard of a simplex. Still have to fabricate a kick stand and mount so I parked it at worn in the bike rack. I should have taken a pic of it, it looked kinda funny parked there. Just wanted to share a little with yall. I did have to change the final drive to a chain to get my rpms down and top end up , its really quiet and sounds pretty good.

I think they did a bang up job with it, I wanted to do the same thing with either an indian 50cc motor or one of those old italian/harley 50cc bikes. Except I was going to paint  : PretIndian " on the tank:)       

Ive always thought a simplex would be a cool moped because of its size and looks. bought a 47 simplex with no motor and researched my states laws on what is classified as a moped so Ive purchased a 50cc chinese Honda clone fully automatic engine and installed it with a fabricated motor mount. the electrics were purchased off ebay and online. Ive fabricated a battery box and plan on running the origonal rear brake with the left hand brake. Modified a belt pulley to replace the output gear on the motor and plan on using the origonal rear tire pulley and see what happens. I have earlyer pics from when I first purchased it but they are on a computer that i don't have access to at this time but I do have pictures of it from the past few week Ive been working on it.