This project started as a Power Washer and Ended as a Mini-bike. This video was sponsored by Squarespace. To get 10% off a site of your own, visit https://www.squarespace.com/anneofalltrades When I was a kid, my neighbors had a go-kart, a pedal cart, and a seemingly endless supply of dirt bike, scooter, and minibike projects. I spent the better part of my childhood trying (and failing) to make my own go-karts and other motor powered vehicles using any and everything (which wasn’t much) available to me. One of my first priorities as I cobbled together a tool-kit of my own as an adult was to finally realize my childhood dream of making a motor powered… something. So, when I found a power washer and a kid’s bike in the neighbor’s trash pile, five year old me got VERY excited. I’d just scored an ancient welder on Craigslist and went right to work using a hacksaw and a lot of head scratching to combine the bike and washer to make a frame onto which I could mount the motor. Later, I salvaged some brake parts from an electric scooter I also found in the trash. This was actually one of my very first multimedia projects as I started setting up my “make everything” shop in Seattle after moving from Taiwan. This project has gone through a ton of different iterations. Combining that power washer frame to the bicycle frame was my very first welding project and nothing about it was pretty, but I was able to cobble together a basically working vehicle as time went on. I turned a power washer into a minibike. When I moved to Nashville, this bike needed to undergo a new iteration. We stretched the frame of the minibike, added a racing slick tire, and re-calibrated the brakes I'd harvested from the electric scooter I found in the trash. Dumpster diving and junkyard digs have never produced a cooler mini bike! Will it run? Heck yes! Swapping a predator 212 motor from harbor freight with the power washer motor got this cheap mini bike up and running. We got these new parts for this new iteration from https://www.GoPowersports.com/ ------------------------ I'm Anne of All Trades. In NASHVILLE, I have a woodworking, blacksmithing and fabrication shop, a selection of furry friends, and an organic farm. Whether you've got the knowledge, tools, time or space to do the things you've always wanted to do, everything is "figureoutable." I became "Anne of All Trades" out of necessity. With no background in farming or making things, I wanted to learn to raise my own food, fix things when they break, and build the things I need. 8 years ago I got my first pet, planted my first seed and picked up my first tool. Get a better roadmap of how to grow deep roots and live the life you want subscribing to this channel and look for NEW VIDEOS EVERY WEEK! Help Support this project and others! Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/anneofalltrades Merchandise - null Other places you can find me My website - https://www.anneofalltrades.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anneofalltrades Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/anneofalltrades My goal is to learn and share traditional techniques and skills while showing my peers how to get from where they are to where they want to go, how to do the things they are passionate about, and what can be done TODAY to engage their own community and grow deep roots. Whether it's carving spoons, making my own hand tools, restoring my antique truck or growing heirloom tomatoes, the farm and workshop definitely keep me busy and support- whether financially through Patreon, through shopping my affiliate links, through buying merchandise, plans or project videos, or even just liking, commenting, and sharing my content with others helps me GREATLY to keep producing quality content to share. You can also support me through your purchases. By shopping my affiliate links, at no additional cost to you, I might earn a little extra if you click and there's a sale. Check out my Amazon Store- shop all my favorite items from business building books and resources to tools I use in the shop, to products I use around the farm! https://www.amazon.com/shop/anneofalltrades