Sega bike controller

[Robbiedog]

I love the Sega arcade bike games, hang on, Manx, Motor Raid etc and have often thought about how hard it would be to recreate a bike based controller,..

I know I am probably over simplifying it, but after extensive googling for anyone who makes a bike (probably an hour tops) the main hassle would be the body shell and really I don't see that it would need to be anything more than 2 thin sheets of vacuum formed plastic in the right shape (the two halves)?

They can be taped together and filled with an inch of epoxy resin all around the inside, pretty hard stuff that handlebars can be mounted (the mounting plate would be in the epoxy with the bolts sticking out), bolt to frame that tilts left/right.

I have an MS sidewinder Dual strike that I can hack for the input pots.

Does anyone think this could work (or does anyone know where I can get the bike body from)?

 

[esoteric_rt]

Might be easier to try and find an old machine that is being sold cheap (stadium cross, cyber cycles etc). Those machines are massive and not a big demand for them. Pull the parts you need, sell/dump the rest. Then you just need to wire up the pots with an A-PAC. Could be a bit of a challenge to build one from scratch...

 

[ZedEx48K]

I would make it roll in an arc rather than turn like a wheel, but that is obviously harder.

 

[Robbiedog]

The dual strike has a USB controller so I am one step ahead there, I saw these on ebay:

Mini moto parts

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202283277118

And thought this might be worth a laugh making a hang on out of one of these.

 

[minwah]

Quite like the idea, would like to see what you come up with if you decide to do it.

Also would be pretty cool to make a Paperboy with a real BMX and have the pedalling control the speed.

 

[Robbiedog]

Thought I would post a bit of an update, still working on this, slow progress as I'm setup for wood work and not metal work (and I'm using a pile of rusty steel I had).