I Bought a 1969 Italian Mini Bike for CHEAP, Will it Run? | Morini 50cc 2 Stroke Revival

As a fellow Italian, I loved the olive oil line from John!

Those "Brillo pad" air filters work better than you'd think. You need to oil them with air filter oil.

That primer on the carburettor is called a "tickler" you push the button until fuel comes out meaning the bowl is full. And that's how you tickle a carb

I've said it before: The best rusty and aged chrome restoration polish and cleaner is GOJO orange hand cleaner with pumice, you use aluminum foil balls and sheets as a scrubber. The combination cleans, removes rust, and brings back a mirror finish and does an amazing job even on pitted metal. My buddy who had a successful bicycle restoration business showed me that technique

That olive oil joke was classic! Bologna, Italy is a beautiful city.

Franco Morini is a well known and respected name in european mopeds and two strokes. The KTM 50cc beginner two stroke race bikes are basically clones of a morini engine designed by these folks. They are excellent quality and very well made for the era. The biggest drawback as you know will be finding parts. I suggest you start searching for euro moped and scooter forums and look for Moto Morini or Franco Morini content for help finding parts. They probably still exist overseas. One of the coolest vintage minibikes you guys have found to date, and thats saying something! Don't be afraid to clean that carb as they are very simple designs made for easy servicing and are simple to understand once you open it up. You can still get jets and other parts for them from Treatland sometimes.

Seeing the rushing water I remember people tying a rope to a tree the going to the end the with a surf board they would cut across the river then cut back just like skiing behind a boat.

You're The proud owner of a Chris cycle is very rare Looks a little like a Bennelli but i'm positive it's not it Has headlights Speedometer Eccetera

2 stroke and that torpedo exhaust, first thing that came to mind was "HOT SAW" chain saw. After you get that carburetor dialed in you may have one little monster on your hands.

That is a "tickler" on the carburetor. It pushes the float down to overflow the carb and prime the engine. When cold, hold it down until fuel comes out around it.

A friend of mine had/has a Morini 500 VTwin - an absolutely beautifully engineered bike, very quick but with a fragile ignition system..

My Rupp Blackwidow had a similar Del Orto carb. Cool old bike!! in really nice shape too!!!!

The Aermacchi Italian two strokes Dellorto carbs had idle, mixture jet, and high speed jet. To adjust the high speed jet you have to open her up and reach down with a screw driver to adjust it till it hits top speed. Not sure about the manufacture of that carb but if it has multiple jets, bet that's the ticket.

these were powered by a Franco Morini 49cc and sold in the US under the name “Chris Cycle”. I owned a 1966 model for several years. I went to an antique auto museum in Hershey PA in 2012 and they had one in their collection.

A trick I learned that works great for polishing chrome is aluminum foil and water. The foil is softer than the chrome so it doesn’t scratch like other options. It creates a blackish/grey paste that helps polish. Rub it like you would sand paper then rinse.

That engine looks exactly like the Italian made (if I'm correct) 50cc "Cimatti" motorcycle engine that I still have leftover from when I was a kid. The only thing missing from it is the slide valve for the carburetor and left side stator cover, and this one is a 4 speed if I remember correctly. It's been sitting in my childhood bedroom and is still in runnable condition. I was going to put it in a minibike frame back then but I just never got around to doing anything with it, I got into small Honda's "4-strokes" instead. Other than that I don't really know much more about them.

Its not obscure its poetry , its the buzz of a bee , the smell of a honey suckle , the rays of a moon beam , and 2:stroke oil burning in the sun lighht . Pure heaven pure joy

I have worked and rebuilt lots of 2 stroke engines and tuned them to race. The engine is running very rich. For an air cooled engine the oil mix should be closer to 25:1 and the jet is too big causing no idle, slow pickup and low rev top end

Neat little bike , don't forget the exhaust . A decoke would complete the service .

Franco morini was a very famous minibikes and motorcycles engine factory, in spain is very common to find these type of engines but i researched and this exact minibike is strange, i only found 3-4 bikes like this one, you got a diamond right there. i think franco morini s5 has pieces similar to this engine, good luck with the project!