How to Draw Mini Bikes
Minibikes are motor bikes that are made to fit children or to be novelties for adults. Most minibikes have a wire frame within which the motor is housed. They have tall handlebars, almost like an easy-riding motorcycle, and often a reclining frame for the rider's back. The tires are small, squat, and wide. Drawing a minibike involves accurately depicting the main features of the bike while injecting the functional parts with your own style and design ideas.
Instructions
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Lightly draw a circular shape on your paper. This shape represents the basic dimensions of the motor that fits inside your minibike frame. Drawing this first gives you a guide to the scale and orientation of the rest of your mini bike.
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Draw a horizontal line jutting out at a tangent to the base of the circle. Draw the line two or three times as long as the circle is wide.
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Draw a line at a 60-degree angle from one end of the horizontal line and about three-fifths as long as the horizontal line. The direction this angled line leans toward indicates the front of your mini bike. Draw another line parallel to the first angled line at the other end of the horizontal line. Connect the two angled lines with another horizontal line, or make the front line slightly longer and connect the two angled lines with another line. This completes the basic wire frame.
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Draw two antenna-like lines jutting out from the top-most corner of the wire frame. At the end of these antenna-like lines, draw two horizontal lines. These lines are your handlebars.
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Draw the fork for the front of your mini bike at the same corner your handlebars are coming out of. Make the fork a 60-degree angle so that the angle of the front angled line reflects the fork's angle. Draw a circle with its center at the end of the fork. This circle is your front tire. Make it about the same size as or just smaller than the first circle you drew, which is the motor.
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Draw the rear tire the same size as the front, but at the center of the bottom rear corner of the wire frame. At the corner just above this one, draw the seat, also called a saddle, by drawing a small rectangle about half the length of the horizontal line.
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Render the details of your motor by drawing a fuel and oil-tank reservoir, the small motor block, and the chain and axle on the rear tire. These last actions complete the basic elements of the minibike.
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Adjust the lines to suit your own style. For example, draw a zig-zag along the top horizontal line to indicate a lightning pattern; Draw shock-absorbers for the rear-angled line; draw a headlamp at the juncture of the fork and the handlebars; draw fenders by drawing semicircles over the front and rear tires.
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- Photo Credit mini moto image by jerome scalvini from Fotolia.com
