The Summerai's Just The Tip 4

So this weekend I traveled to Green Bay for the Summerai's Just The Tip 4. I totally needed to go to a rally because I hadn't in weeks. Last year I hit 15 rallies and this was the only one I missed and really wanted to go to. I rode up with HNRZ Chris and my Gf. It's always nice to go to rallies that are close and not 8+ hours away. Got to see Cranks, Bruces, Casserollers, HNRZ, and finally most of The Summerai members. Drew and Christine rule and Eddie let us crash at his place wooo.  Me and Graham Motzing (finally) docked, shared some grom love, and listened to GNAR KILL. If you arent familiar with this rally, it's a 200 mile round trip ride to the tip of the Door Peninsula, IT RULES. City rallies are boring and lets face it, if your rally doesnt have a cool theme anymore, no one is coming. See: attendance in MA rallies that were packed 3 years ago. I'd always much rather go to a small rally, ride, camp and hang with like 30 people. Id say about 25 mopeds left and close to a dozen returned. I rode dubs with my GF and all my gear on my stock Derbi, it handled it like a champ. It was nice to do a long ride and get an idea of how the Pinball run might be. We saw pipes snap, seals blow, bottom ends seize, gears wear out, wrecks, and more. So funnnnnnnnnnnn. I accidentally ran Eddie's head over with my Derbi but he is fine (Sorry) and got to cut a chicken's head off at the farm we stopped at.. Not to mention the ride was AWESOME. So scenic with cherry trees everywhere. It's cool how everyone up in Door county names their house and has the coolest small businesses. I ate WAY to many cheese curds and beef sticks. YEA BOI. Shit was ratchet as fuck. Most of these pics were taken by my Gf because her camera is better than mine.

 Senior photo of Azarah done by Maize.

 Pee break.

Had to try some tricks.

 The Farm house that we camped behind.

 Happy Bday Becca!

 Best road ever.

 This dude was fucking with us the whole time.

"Dude free cherries."

I got the best stunting trophy for riding a Honda Express with a flat tire around alone for 45 mins.

                                                                       Dream men. Sorry were taken, by each other.

 Love

 

No excuses.

 Hit a state park outside of Sheboygan on the way home.

 Making a cooler, mopedders can handle anything.

 Great.

 Swag O.D. in Milwaukee. 

Clean your exhaust pipe, for real.

In the last week I've worked on 3 bike that were acting WACKY because of clogged exhaust pipes. One of them was a maxi that was just really turdy, I adjusted the jetting and timing with no significant difference. I then dropped the exhaust and cleaned it thoroughly, the difference it made in performance was pretty insane actually. Today I took the pipe off of the Hercules 504-A and this is what I found. This bike has 2,000 miles on the speedo when it was parked however long ago. So just imagine what can happen in high mileage bikes. I never used to clean exhausts unless it hindered the moped from running but now I think I'm going to do it to every bike I work on. Ever wonder why your 30 mph model bike goes 25 mph? This could be the culprit.

Like a Hot-Pocket lover's arteries. 

 Usually make a fire outside but tonight it was too cold to even make a fire outside. Chicago WEEEE

 Such a BIG difference.

important update.

Got tired of seeing this Sachs Hercules frozen to the ground. According to Thom, it had been from yard to yard for 6 years. Didnt have a sparkplug and was fully seized. It did have the flywheel cover on (best) and I tapped on the flywheel to unseize it. 2 mins later and its firing on carb cleaner. I have huge plans for this, mostly just to be in a parade on it and maybe break 20 mph, but lets not get our hopes up. Been working on all my bikes, mostly my laguna and will post pics soon about this dumb fender thing I did to it.