Rando shop pics and we got a Squirrel.

So you ever wanted to see what the inside of a Sachs oil injection looked like? No!? Well youre gonna get pics anyways.

 Minarelli Necronomicon, be jealous. 

 MURDER CLURB!

 Throwback ped with Tony AKA MOPED's employee of the week.

 Monsoon ride home.

 So I was doing my regular 1 way streets labyrinth to alleys test ride route.... and I see this little dude in the MIDDLE of the red hot ranch parking lot. I almost ghost rode the Targa LX I was testing out, but I kept my cool. We saved him from who knows what kind of SUV hitting him (or her?)

I named him Dakota and he is sleeping in a box full of pogs on my desk. Score.

Hick Fixes AKA I Work at a Moped Shop / Ciao Town / Racks on Racks.

So we got this A3 tomos into the shop......it would only idle and would die if you gave it gas. HRM what could that mean? Leak? Jetting? Timing? HAHAH no, try an A35 piston in an A3 cylinder... Ok that's not possible is it? Because the A3's are 10 pin cranks and the A35s have a 12 pin crank, not to mention a piston suited for reeds. Well these dudes made it kind of happen. Drilled the crank bushing out to 12mm (they did a really nice job) and threw that A35 piston in there. A+ for effort dudes!!!

Stock A3 10mm crank bushing.

This is the A3 crank bushing they drilled to 12mm SWEET!

Check this sweet intake!

15mm Sha bolted right on.

This is my new best friend. 1977 Ciao I bought from my buddy Ryan Nash who got it from Rob Balk. $75 with the title. Came in a box and I'm stoked to be shredding the streets on it. 

 Has Dellorto 12:10 drilled out to 13:13, Malossi Contra spring, stock Euro 8 roller varo with 4 weights taken out, weird ass baby proma hack and weld pipe, and some iffy porting.

 Free parts are the best parts. Hooking up the break lights as soon as i get another switch! 

 Rode the laguna the other night, I think my bearings went bad or something. I need to pour some crisco on this thing.

 Got a rack for my Variant Sport from Orange Robin at the STL rally, Stoked!

 The wonderful Pepi got racks on racks and its so nice. I roll around with so many baguettes on deck.  

you could literally put probably 25 Oreo boxes in these. Options.

 My Gf visited and we did a touristy ride. CHICAGO.

V1 piston gone wild, I hate buses, and shitty porting.

So yesterday I'm absolutely blazing the streets on my stock pepi, it was so nice out so may girls were waving at me (none). All of a sudden I feel this kind of seize thing... and not after like a huge straight away or anything, it's like a block after a stop sign. But it starts right up and goes another few blocks and then dies for good.  So I only have a shitty rope lock thing cause I assumed I would lock it up in front of MOPED while I worked. I got kind of pissed cause I hit my knee on the killswitch trying to pedal it, but I played it cool for all the ladies on the streets. Isn't it funny how sometimes when you have moped problems you feel like everyone around is watching you? Which they probably are, yea they totally are. How about when that good ole boy comes up and is like "do you have gas in it?" REALLY?!? No sir the sole thing that makes this little dumb motorbike I ride RUN AND FUNCTION is totally what I havent thought of yet. Thank you for your expert analysis sir, you can go back to selling bootleg t-shirts now. Now IF my moped brand was "Tommy Hilfingers" then maybe I would consider his diagnosis, but this moped is from Italy and not Virginia.

 So I lock up my bike as close to the street as possible to ward off theft and grab a snickers to cool me out. Well now I'm 15 blocks from the train station and I realize that I have to take the bus. I hate the bus and have never taken it. Also I have no smart phone to tell me anything. But I ask a girl about the bus and she sets me straight, then asks "whats wrong with your scooter?" I told her that I built it out of scraps and was working out the kinks cause you know I didn't wanna look bad. hahaha. She explains how she wants a ruckus and I cant stop thinking about how she looks like the lead singer of KITTIE.

 She busts out some good questions about moped though, such as: Do they run off of diesel? and why didnt you just pedal it to work? It was hard to explain that when pedaling a Minarelli my cadence would be out of control and I would surely pass out. The bus was ok but I was kinda bummed I didn't see like a bum shit his pants or epic beard man knock somebody out. RANT.

Got home and I found this.... Dented skirt? maybe I dropped it when I had it off the engine? The Lord works in mysterious ways I guess.

 Looks like a pile of shit.

So I decided to do some porting. I widened the Exhaust 2mm on each side and raised it 1.5mm. You can kind of tell in the photos. Also I chopped 1mm off the intake piston skirt. SHAWTY

 Before ^^^

 After ^^^

I rode it after the porting and the performance seems to be very similar to stock. I went to the BP and bought some Pepsis so maybe they were weighing me down!? hahah. It idles fine and Ill test it more in the next few days and update my findings. Stoked to be back on the road on the pepi, ripping and tearing dicks in the dirt.

Chicago FEBBB: build dumb shit and hang out.

Back in Chicago and I drug Nash Wiley back with me. We've been watching The Skateboard Kid on VHS and banging out bikes like we are on drugs. It's so cold here, been able to ride 1 day in the last week :(. It better get nice out soon or ill prob just get into painting hermit crab shells. Been building alot around the Castle and its been awesome. Every bike in this post was resurrected in 1 day of productiveness followed by days of being turds.

A nameless, faceless build for the people.

Built some shelves in my room.

More shelves.

PP, 75cc Pinasco, stock pug head. JUST A MOCK UP SO I CAN SAY I DID IT FIRST.

3 day ground up build: Nate's Derbi GPR on CRACK

My ole Pug 103 Gila kit with stock exhaust, come at me bro.

3 Speed Minarelli luver.

Dipshit.

This engine was frozen to the ground (off the bike), we put it in front of the shop heater for 10 mins, drill started it in a vice and it caught on fire. INDIAN OUTLAW.

3 speed puch (CAMPUS?) ripping.

PEPI is running!!! and ripping!!! if anyone has one of the low pro minarelli fans holler at me.

Got an Olympus XA2 for $3 at Unique. So stoked i took a lame pic of it.

Pipe Woes.

 DUDE has a chimney on his truck!! thug status.

Name that movie and ill give you a derbi.

Oh Hey Derbi, Oh Hey Winter.

I got a projector and have been hiding in Kansas watching X-files and The Adventures of Brisco County Jr..... Back in Chi with a mini update on how winter sucks ass. Put a circuit on the Grande but WHO KNOWS HOW IT WORKS CAUSE ITS TOO COLD TO THINK... let alone ride and test things. Beards and mustaches are nothing but icles and boogers, its like the scene in dumb and dumber when they ride the briggs & stratton bike to aspen X a milli. Bought a 1988 Derbi Variant Sport which I am very stoked on and will keep it a stock blaster. Thom went crazo and made this ridiculous mutant concord bike. Also got a 1994 Yamaha Jog in Kansas for $35 weeeee. Winter is the worst because I cant skate, moped, jump in rivers, ride bikes, HEELIE, travel by foot and the list goes on forever. Who else wants to punch winter's head off it's body?

 Stay Gold