Been Ridin Dirty

Little B

2011-10-30T11:45:00.001-04:00

The rap ive been listening to has been extremely limited. essentially it's only been lil B (of the Pack; vans fame). He is incredibly prolific having thousands of songs out since starting his solo career, most of which he hosts on the internet for free download. He does a little of it all though. you can find him rapping over environmental sounds without drums. He talks about ellen degeneris (spelled wrong, dont care), guns, life, god, himself, women, drugs, skateboarding, clothes, cars, what people think of him, what he thinks of them, and that's it. He takes a quantity over quality approach similar to MFdoom and is seeing similar success.
His music is new, but he still rapps with his hands.

My friend daniel was saying one minute lil b is just saying some ridiculous something over and over like the track i got pretty bitches then out of nowhere he says something too real. I like that.
google him and tons of free downloads come up.

tripple update.

2011-10-16T21:55:00.000-04:00

Im keeping my general/peugeot in my room right now, it looks real nice with the bedroom lights. the bike is updated a little (just sidecovers i think). I love this bike. stats are down below in the earlier post. totally possible to make stock cases rip. and i would like to stress the importance of variator tuning. i also stand behind the motobecane cdi on a peugeot mod. it's incredibly easy and worth it.

self flossery

2011-10-16T13:12:00.000-04:00

my dude andy from Boston took a nice portrait.
Kel did the tite rap sprays

out of touch

2011-10-16T12:57:00.000-04:00

After starting my teaching job and falling out of favor with the local moped shop goons, i have lost touch with the most important things. in order to prove my unending dedication to sophistication and leisure I am making this post with almost no interesting content to contribute.

I say almost because I am going to include a picture of my neglected magnum's engine. This engine has seen several incarnations as shown on this blog earlier. now the setup invloves:
e50 with:
64cc polini
dio intake
mikuni TM 24
estroil
stock 2shoe lightened

i have a super sick tight off the hook garelli clutch that my dude westseattle ryan made work for puch, but havent put it in yet. variated bikes are just more interesting to me these days. derbi, honda, peugeot.

here is the whole bike. pretty the same looking

-Seth

DJMIXXX

2011-06-29T18:30:00.001-04:00

these are some dudes that are good at it.
i really want to go to this show in philly.
anyone want to roll?
BNNA CLPS Presents: The King of Jeans (Sammy Slice and Cool Hand Luke) by sammyslice

UO Radio Presents: BNNA CLPS with Sammy Slice & Cool Hand Luke by sammyslice

my dude Kel

2011-06-29T18:25:00.000-04:00

my best friend of all time came to visit me for a month. i miss him dearly already. like a champ he rode mopeds with me almost every day for the month he was here including the richmond rally. we had hella fun. we went to new jerz over the GW and up to Yonkers and all through the city. stepthruz for life.

the name of this gas station is: Gas sale! (ignore those gulf stickers) it was like 14cents less than anywhere else in NJ that we saw

couple a mopeds

Statue of liberty from the new Jerzy side.

Queens Bridge!!

moepeds cool

Case matching Peugeot

2011-06-23T15:03:00.000-04:00

This is the case matching that i did on my general peugeot mutant. stock cases match to 70cc gila with 3rd transfer opened up. engine stats are in the post below. Sandpaper, yee

It is important to get as close to that case bolt hole as possible. flow through the 3rd transfer is what makes the difference between peugeot and AV7 (that and a few other things). I ramped up into the intake a little bit too. Floetry.

I built a bike for Richmond

2011-06-03T21:23:00.000-04:00

Ive been wanting to weld up this 103 mount, swing arm, engine, and rear wheel up to something cool for a while. My friend Sara had a general that she said i could have if i taught her everything i know. Deal.

i made this bike happen in a week or so. super rush.
I had the kit, carb, and variator lying around so..
here are the stats

gila kit
tsm head that i hand machined to 70cc. lots of sanding
stock cases matched 3rd eye opened and could be done bigger/better stock crank
4petal malossi intake/ 19mm clamp phbg. spigot wouldnt fit. (it does in my tsm) 92 main, stock needle and idle jet
MBK CDI. works great (thanks Drew)
Gianelli pipe. looks almost identical to doppler.

It ran great at the rally never went above 409degrees. i kind of babied it though. I did push it and went a bit past 50 on the speedo. It has a dip before the pipe hits that i need to tune out.
I have streetmate front end that im gonna get on there when i have some time.
I was riding around and got pulled over and lectured by a scooter cop. he went off the rails saying he could take me to jail right now. On your scooter or what? I went to register it today but the DMV had no heart. ill go back to try the same thing next week in BK.

the bike now has the little side covers that say 5star in the back. I welded up a bracket for a LED tail light. all the wires and cables are a mess. i like it like that.
Im also gonna double up on those square headlights.
the pipe clears curbs too. i was afraid it was too low. it's just fine.

ill get more pics up when i register it and am riding it more

PP rebuild

2011-04-23T19:06:00.000-04:00

yes. I rebuilt my PP motor and slapped it all together.

it took most of a day and Im glad i did it all in one go because it would have sucked to pick it back up later and forget where everything goes.

i wanted to document the process but i forgot my camera at home. I called pete and asked him to bring his. i was already reassembeling it by the time he got to the shop and my hands were FILTHY and i didnt want to soil his camera. It took quite a bit of work to get the gila to fit right too and im not confident that it is done. I bought a new piston for this cylinder and the next step is to put that in and make gaskets and see how everything fits together.
my tjt came with no weights so i used what leftovers Ari had from his, so there is alternating blue and pink weights now. we will see what it needs when is start tuning.

Gucci my dude

2011-03-28T19:07:00.000-04:00

I love Gucci so much I cant even explain it. Something about him is so complex yet simple. firm yet gentle. I hope he never gets over the stuffy nose he has had for years.
Consistently Gucci. 2high2die

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Inspiration

2011-02-27T16:37:00.000-05:00

this is Sam's gila derbi that I mentioned in the previous post

so bone crusher.

this photo can be seen at its original source at the
The Shred Shed

Look who dumb

2011-02-25T19:57:00.000-05:00

I got another stupid project.
I wanted to do a piston port derbi with puch gila since i saw Sam Mckay's in louisville. it was stupid fast. I ran over a nail and got to sit and wait for the paddy wagon with benji and Johno. Sam cruised back from the pack to see if his dudes were ok. we were, so he zoomed back to the pack. he got bored of riding with the pack so he zipped back to us to hang out some more. when we got picked up 30 minutes later he scooted away and caught back up with everyone no problemo. his was on a batavus hs50 frame blk as fuk.

Heres mine

clip on Barz

the engine:

that seat is just a stock variant seat i have. I plan to make a GP seat out of a magnum seat pan. Im going to do 24oko and maybe experiment with getting a peugeot or motobecane pipe on there. im gonna put some shorter shocks on there too. the back is real tall. ill add pics of the build as it progresses.

Remember this post?

2010-12-11T14:42:00.001-05:00

remember this post?

guess what? good news, I got one. white 1987 variant sport r. my plan right now is to roll with the stock cylinder. up to a 21mm carb and figure out some sort of pipe. and roll with some ridiculous scooter clutch springs. Metrakit folded their moped division so the pipe/pipes I wanted are nowhere to be found and are no longer made, bummer. the weakends in florida apparently make a good derbi pipe and it's not too pricey. perhaps ill roll with one of those.
i have plans to port out that stock cylinder and see what revs I can get out of it.

Ive been ripping the bike all over the city stock. i was able to hit 45 on the speedo in the tunnel on 1st ave. so much fun. its my only bike that still has its horn, I love horn jokes. this bike is amazing.

ill get a pic up soon!

YUKMOUTH

2010-11-02T00:58:00.000-04:00

The Giants just won the World Series!
the bay gone wild

BIG WEEK

2010-09-29T23:31:00.000-04:00

My two favorite rappers released albums this week
Gucci Mane released The Appeal.

you can listen to the whole thing on his myspace page. he leaked it himself before the release date too.
http://www.myspace.com/guccimane
my favorite track is Weirdo. Gucci Tarantino

Weezy droped "I am not a human being" a short 11 song album on his birthday sept 27. Dude is in jail and completely kills it. This album is running itunes right now. #1 the day it was released.

my favorite track off this one is Right above it.

Pink Dollaz

2010-09-20T23:12:00.000-04:00

I put one of their songs up a few posts ago. the more i listen to them the more Im getting into it.
I have NEVER heard better/nastier female rappers.
some highlights:

there are probably other greats. i havent heard a bad pink dollaz song.

still here

2010-09-14T10:53:00.001-04:00

I know all 3 people that read this want to know about what has been happening. I lost my camera at the NYC rally, so I havent had much interesting to put up. I did blow up another kit on my Peugeot in Boston. I found the source of the seizures though. the studs were backing themselves out of the case creating head leaks. I had to keep tightening down the nuts. I got a little too excited about going fast while me, chad burke, and andrew x2, were trying to find the pack again and soft seized locking up the back wheel for a 100+ food skid sesh. the piston pulled up too much niksil so thats 2 airsals and one mallosi kit that this bike have eaten. I had another airsal and already put that on after i lock tighted the studs into the case. a mixture of rain and injuries have kept me from doing any testing on the bike, but im sure i will get it locked before it gets cold out. here is a pic that andy took of me after i seized and cracked open my top end to look at the damage he said make your seize face:

Boston was a great time. big thanks to all KHZ yall are great dudes. I still got a loaner mid rally. Gracious hostery too. better than i could have asked for. I slept on a bed each night. yee

secret weezy song

2010-08-19T14:37:00.000-04:00

ive been on some heart ache mode lately. I discovered this weezy sleeper and it has been on repeat hard. it rose to #1 most played in 2 weeks. weezy babay.

oh this old thing?

2010-08-17T22:52:00.000-04:00

way to pop 2 kits in one week peugeot.
i still love you. im going to plug chop for real this time.
i promise

Doin eit

2010-08-11T10:47:00.000-04:00

Rap has been playing the minor role on the website. Im not sure how I feel about that.

I dont know anything about this guy other than a few of his songs. What I've heard has been heat. I do know he is from california and he has a radio hit out right how:
this one:

it reminds me of this video. northern cali steez:

Here are a few other YG tracks that are worth your time.

and totally unrelated is this track Pink Dollaz! Bonus

Farewell MB5

2010-07-08T00:44:00.000-04:00

I said goodbye to my "reliable" bike today. we had a great time together.
back to blowing up overpowered moped engines i suppose.

as i found it

Rewiring the entire bike (late night)

kitted, pipe, carb..(a single tear drop)

a bike amongst its peers

It was a great bike. I will own another one day.

now on to variated messes

deuce-e deuce baby baby

2010-06-25T02:44:00.000-04:00

Tomorrow I depart for the Hells Satan's rally. Im so pumped. im taking the bus so it's likely that I wont even ride mopeds. I am bringing my skateboard though, trying to shred.

I totally forgot about this song untill the other day. hawt fiyah....still.

also, ive been keeping it real real late night riding most nights of the week.

NYC size fat

what ive been getting into: Gilardini

2010-06-03T02:31:00.000-04:00

i saw some posts on moped army about turning a gila cylinder into a polini. So with a polini cylinder by my side, i did pretty much that. here are pics of my process and finish product.

Proper protection for grind o rama was necessary. i still have peices of aluminum stuck in my skin 3 weeks later.

The first cutting i did was on the piston. I taped off the general size of the oval that i wanted.

next i cut at the cylinder skirt and made those polini baby upper transfer holes. I matched them to the width of the holes that i cut into the piston. it was much more scientific than it looks in the pics.

Next I cut into the cylinder to make the 6th and 7th transfers

then i went at the case to polinify it by extending those baby transfers back to the crank area. I slipped through in one spot but it jb welded up nicely.

lil bit of jb weld up in the spot

case closed up with crank inside. notice the e50 kick start clutch cover. not this engine. that one has the boring old 64cc polini.

here is a fancy picture showing the new transfers

i did all this as study breaks during finals week. this is what my desk looked like after i was done

all in all id guess I spent 6 or so hours of cutting, being very careful. i did the whole thing with my dremel. I ended up enlarging the main transfers and the exhaust port, but thats boring stuff.
I noticed significant power increase all across the boards especially in the low end and i would recommend this to anyone willing to try it out.
feel free to ask me any questions about the process.

When it Rains

2010-06-02T23:18:00.000-04:00

I woke up this morning to this arriving:

It is a Derbi piston port engine off of a diablo. I have big ssshhhhhh plans for this thing.

then at noon I headed to Westampton New Jersey to pick up this:

They see me rollin

They hatin

440 original miles kids.

intake velocity, it"s real

2010-05-15T23:41:00.000-04:00

Look what I made.

its that black tube connecting the carburetor to the cylinder. it is an intake. It was my first time welding in 8 or so years. it was exciting. I am so excited to do some more welding. who needs an intake? It increased my low end alot. i had this theory that the tube works just like a riffle barrel and shoots the air/gas mixture into the case and into the transfers with high speed causing more to get into the cylinder to be compressed and combusted. more air/gas in there the bigger the combustion, the more power. I hope that makes sense.

coped another

2010-05-01T17:23:00.000-04:00

I got a call from a guy frantically trying to sell me his registered za50. this doesnt make sense because a za50 is just an engine. i ask him if it is just a engine or a whole bike. he says a whole bike and insists that it is a za50. he negociates me from 500 to 150 in a single breath i say ok bring it on. he shows up at my door with this

registered running mkII. i dropped that engine and am putting my kick start e50 on it and got a polini on the cheap im gonna throw on that. fast bike cheapsies.

Respect

2010-04-08T23:55:00.000-04:00

damn i slept

He is a good rapper. i never knew. in da club ruined him me from the start. Hearing this has opened my mind. the production is tight. if you like new york rap I highly reccomend.
album download yall

Hello world

2010-04-05T07:10:00.000-04:00

I became a member of Mission 23 last week.
mo-peds, mo-problems. i had a nice little potperoui of hickups with the magnum yesterday, including, but not limited to, finding a sizable rock in my gas tank and my engine almost falling off on our group ride to Alan's BBQ. Ill have to go over every nut and bolt before the Louisville rally in less than 2 weeks.
Ive been trying to get my hands on one of these

no luck yet.

not much has changed in the rap world. i dont feel inclined to big anyone up aside from mac dre (rip).

This blog is about mopeds too

2010-02-26T00:59:00.001-05:00

I got a line on a rare as hufk mag wheel. im thinking of putting on the front of my magnum.
my wheels would be like this one minus the disc brake:

Way big props to Tomahawk Tuning. not only is this bike inspiration for wheel styles but it is a pretty huge feat of tuning wizardry. im not even sure that tuning is the right word for what has been done on this bike. for details check here: tomahawktuning.wordpress.com/

anyway, im not trying to bite. but i guess thats just what it is. id feel like a jerk if i were to take the color scheme too. im thinking ill stick with red and white though. I hope this post isnt a jinx. i shouldnt go tooting any horn before i got it.

Thought id give these kids some shine

2010-02-20T18:27:00.000-05:00

Im really feeling these dudes. Its the Cool Kids based out of chicago. I have huge admiration for a group that can keep their raps about local things and get national buzz. Cool Kids is one of those groups. They could be considered hipster-hop yadda yadda, i dont care though. their music is tight. they rap about what is important. BMX..

Deal, you tupac babies.

another dude in their crew is hollywood holt. aparently my homie cliffy knows this guy. check him out if you want more of this type of swing.

its a life style

2010-02-18T16:02:00.001-05:00

I cant help from smiling when seeing this picture and i know why. Spakoli represents something pure, something reckless and free. Every time that I have a second thought or regret I take a step away from Spakoli. Jesus "Spakoli" Christo:

i gotta rock the bagel tucked into the pants style sometime

Gucci

2010-02-14T13:00:00.000-05:00

A friend recently asked me to list my top 5 Gucci Mane songs, so I thought id share:

this is comming from an extreemly superficial review of his library. dude has stacks of albums and probably over a hundred songs i havent heard. most of my exposure is through youtube. which is shitty. All said and done, Gucci is so tight. i could listen to him rap about anything over any beat. challenge that.

Magnum incarnations

2010-02-13T14:49:00.003-05:00

this is my magnum a month after i got it. kitted up bonerific

treats 70cc kit

19mm dellorto phbg

tecno boss

This is it now. i rebuilt everything. every system is replaced. cylinder, carb, exhaust, crank, electric, the specs are this:

gilardoni 74cc kit

mikuni TM24 flatslide carb

Motomatic seattle destroyer pipe

stuffed dmp crank

3 shoe clutch, paz springs

treats CDI dremeled a couple mm past full advance

all the electric is up in the side covers, nice and tidy.

i have more tuning to do, but the bike runs now and it pretty peppy.

game recognize game

2010-02-13T14:45:00.000-05:00

I started this blog thinking I would talk about mopeds and rap. we will see how it goes.