Friday, June 3, 2011

I built a bike for Richmond

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

Saturday, April 23, 2011

PP rebuild

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.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Gucci my dude

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


Sunday, February 27, 2011

Inspiration

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

Friday, February 25, 2011

Look who dumb

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.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Remember this post?

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!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

YUKMOUTH

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