I LIVE IN THE BAY

Well, kind of.
It's been a long time. I have moped projects, motorcycle projects and the like. Ill get those posted soon. Here is a taste of the new stuff:
ktm
derbi
peugeot
hobbit

to good to be true

At the beginning of last summer Joey Bada$$ came out with this amazing track:

I was amazed with this 17yr old coming out of brooklyn. I listened to it all summer, told everyone about it and eagerly awaited his mixtape to come out which ended up being pretty whatever aside from this track.

I was listening to old records tonight when I came across This:

I recognized it right away from that army marching intro. The styles of beyond album came out in 2000, Joey B jacked this beat in 2012 and it was by far the strongest track on his tape. In the end Joey's verses are 10x better than SOB but it is interesting having an explanation as to why this song stands out so much. Still SOB is fine and Joey is an amazing rapper for 17 years old.

I should add that this kind of thing is common place for rapper's mix tapes. Most of the beats used are other rapper's. Also, Im wondering how he discovered this as he was 4 years old when it came out.

Athena hobbit

I havent posted since July. well, i moved across the country. i live in San Anselmo, CA now. nobody here rides mopeds. nbd. 

It doesnt look like much yet, but its getting close to being done. Athena, hpi, oko24, dio reeds, devin pipe. streetmate front end. 

The tank is off, but it looks cleann. Pics at a later date I took the puffy seat foam off i might chop some foam and put it back or do some thin racerfoam.com stuff

I had to sand off a few mm from the stator plate to get the flywheel to seat without rubbing. Also I took care of the head myself using sand paper and a tennis ball. I think its called the crazy wayne trick. it worked great. no performance reports yet but it looks cool. next time i take apart the top end ill take a pic of the handy work.

This pipe is sickk. its the devin special. more stages than peoples pipe. I bought it december 2011. this project is moving slow

mlm intake, metric reed adapter. dio reeds in therr

plenty of room for clearance. im excited to try oko. ive heard only love and hate stories. I have faith. Power jets is a good idea. 

Lastly, here is the first bike i ever owned. i got this for my 13th bday. 1979 honda z50. it still ripps. 2stroke is way faster than 4. 

purp drop

here is perhaps the first song im posting that im not way late on. the beat reminds me of make em say uhhhhh. make sense though, dude is from LA. those keyboard horns bang

versus

not much been going on round here in terms of mopeds. that hobbit project hasnt budged. still trying to figure out something for the ignition. apple valley moped races are half way through the season. looks like tons of fun. im going to try to get the hobbit rolling for the next race (aug 18). it would for sure be a competitor in the variated class. here are some of Andy's pics from the last race: ANDY"S FLICKR

This one is for WES

Im just about done with the hobbit. i cant get spark out of the stock CDI, its frusterating. i dont know weither look for a new cdi box or just sack up to a hpi. i think i want to toss some money at it. its been stagnating at spark for a few months. getting something new will push me to get it straight. WES where you at?

for the only dude still reading this. xoxoxo

New rapp music

schoolboy q
Im not sure if this song is a radio hit or what, but it knocks.

A$AP Rocky
the biggest thing happening in New York right now that is worth listening to.

Kendrick Lamar
not much to say about this guy. good music, pretty smoked out.

Wiz
I gave this guy a chance and it payed off. dude can rap even though he is from Pittsburgh.

as far as mopeds go, ive been very slowly building a athena hobbit. im tempted to put it on a magnum, i just need to find the magnum first. as of now its on a 83 black hobbit. we will see if i stick with the original platform.
pics soon

Little B

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.

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

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

out of touch

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

these are some dudes that are good at it.
i really want to go to this show in philly.
anyone want to roll?
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my dude Kel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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