This is the Bergonzoni nitro bike, which is a kit that can be purchased from Crazy
Nut Racing or other online retailers. The Bergonzoni nitro bike is approximately
$500 dollars for just the kit, which means you must also purchase the engine,
controller, servo’s and so forth. Assembly for this bike does take time and is
not for the beginner. I’ve built a few nitro bikes and I’ll admit the Bergonzoni
is not easy to put together.
First, The instructions are really bad! Now the kit does come with a CD-ROM
that not only has photos and video files that show you step by step how to assemble
the bike. My computer always locked up after running each video for what ever reason and required rebooting my machine. The kit also includes instructions on paper, but the black and white can only go so far, because you will have trouble figuring out what piece is what. To assemble this bike you’ll use the internet, the paper instructions , CD-ROM and some luck.
The bergonzoni does have full working spring forks, rear shock, front brakes and overall its design is fair in my opinion. Most of the bike is aluminum and the parts are machined to fit. I didn’t encounter any extra metal shavings in the pre-drilled holes, which you sometimes find in kits like this. The only thing which might be a problem is the front
Brake? It’s fairly heavy and may pull the bike to the left.
It takes about a week to assemble this bike for someone who is not extremely skilled
and maybe 3 days for someone who’s good at this sort of thing. Unfortunately, when
I received this kit many of the parts where not in baggies and just laying inside a big blue box, which fell out during shipping. I encountered only a few parts missing from the kit and this was mainly, engine air filter, c-clips and rubber o-rings
The steering requires a micro servo and I decided to go with the hi-tech, which has metal
gears. The front forks are fairly heavy and can probably use the extra strength gears, so
you might consider doing the same. Also, the throttle uses a standard servo and both are easy to install. It will take some time to setup the steering and throttle linkage, which means that by trail and error is about the only way to do it. I mounted the battery pack on the left hand side below the crash bars. The battery is not super heavy so I’m assuming it will not effect handling of the bike. I’ve included a few photo’s with before and after pictures, with and without the electronics and so forth.
Almost every single thing on this bike requires tinkering with, gear mesh, shock play, servo linkages and make sure you use lock tight on everything. I don’t use the permanent lock tight; just the temp stuff, which can be removed. Overall, besides the instructions the bike looks pretty good after it’s assembled. Servo’s will need to be installed last and wires run. As of right now I haven’t run this bike, but after it’s running please check back for additional information on the bergonzoni nitro.
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Here is what it looks like with the body. The body needs some serious mods to
make it fit. Its also not very thick lexan and can rip easy if your not careful.
The bike is not bad, just needs to be improved in a few areas. Until I’ve had a chance
to really run this bike, I cannot give you all the necessary information so check back!
