Visiting friends who have rad mopeds + Buying a few.

Made a fun little moped related trip to STL yesterday. I got to stop at the Pink Elephant Antique Mall which always rules. It was super nice out and the 5 hour drive didnt seem bad. I went to hang out with my buddy Declan and buy some bikes from him. This dude is into totally weird bikes and has quite the collection. He does have a fast-ish turn over rate so he always has something new.  I went to trade/buy a Vespa Citta and Motobecane M11. I traded the Pepi!!! (END OF AN ERA) which sucks but really no garage should only be bringing bikes in, you have to have a rotation AKA share the love! and Minarellis. So here are some pics of his garage full of Euro weirdness.

 How many vespa powered bikes can you find in this picture?

Super Bravo with kickstart vespa engine and plastic gas tank.

Peugeot Scoper 105 with dual variated engine, ready to ride to bingo.

Personal Fav! Italjet Pack 2. A vespa powered fold out moped, crazy racks and dangerously fun.

Picked up this Vespa Citta, very excited to get it together. The stance is awesome and I'm excited to have a moped that wont take a ton of room, good for rallies. Looks like it will fit in a car trunk with the handlebars down.

 So sweet! Cme with all the sidecovers too which really tickles my fancy.

Motobecane M11. Non-Variated engine with AV7 case resemblance, excited to take it apart and learn about it. Oh and guess what? THE GURTNER IS LEAKY big surprise. 

Everything you ever wanted to know about Moped Culture Part 1.

Made this Vid with my buddy Nash. If you ever wanted to know what REAL Moped Culture is all about, this explains it all. Thanks for watching.

MONO Presents: Return to 50cc Cylinders. WHO DAT!?

Last rally of the year for me was the MONO rally in New Orleans. This was my second time hanging in NOLA this year, but the first time at a MONO rally. I HIGHLY recommend this rally, because of the raddness I know a ton of people who will be returning next year. The ride down was sick with all the HNRZ mobbin the Ram Van. Friday: the night ride got rowdy, passing cars on the left and right rules, Paraols dance party, firecracker shrimp poboys, getting hated for saying "moped groupies" too loud, dont goto sleep til 8 am. Saturday: Eat breakfast 2 times (christine's was the best), stoop life, homeless santa tshirt toss was tight, I got a witch hat that gave me crabs in my beard, Shop hang, Hippie's bus, potholes, vests, lake, parasols, coffee, ETC. So much rad shit. Went on a freaking GATOR TOUR shit was hilarious. Learned what Nutria were and I want one now. Thx Dez for the end of the world, modern neighborhood, bridge, cemetery tour. I have come to love NOLA and I'm actually still here. Swamp Mamas and MONO are the best!  If you dont come to this rally next year, you are down with the syndrome. 

Special thx to Suzie, Christine, Eric, Phil, Matty (Bernie), Darlee for being so rad and letting me crash or feeding me.

Ps watch the HILARIOUS news video at the bottom.

Take us to the fun Chad.

Bena's Swag

"I brought this in case I break down."

Parasolssssssssssssss

Santa from the X-files runs down the road.

Hippie's breakdown bus.

GLG/BLKBLK  dats whats up.

Laguna makes another rally.

Dude was pissed.

So many back patches.

The one with Suzie's ass was too "blurry" hahha

Drunk people in rental trucks.

So cute.

Jumbalaya and Emerica's Stay Gold at Erics.

lol at Andrew's face.

End of the World.

Smith's lyrics written by a confused oogle.

"So this is travelling"