I talked to tom a bit this weekend about racing, and I’m trying to figure out what to do. I want to race, but as noted, I have nothing to race. He is going to be making the derbi even faster (lots of horsepower) so it should be pretty exciting.
Apparently our buddy, the magical Mr. Naz has been building a pretty rad motor for tom. Well I might be piecing the rest together to make a moderate blaster. Something like 15hp, maybe more if we go bigger displacement wise, all with functional pedals. So I need to find something to put it on, and all the other bits to make it run. So yea, we’ll see what happens.
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not everyone is as awesome as a certain cuperteen.
protect those eyes
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that may not be entirely true, but a few very generous Bostonians are making my diablo build that much better.
KHZ Daniel was very kind and sent some sidecovers my way. Handybikes was only selling the right side cover, so that was no good. I emailed Daniel regarding his spare covers from his amazing diablo build, and he was more than happy to part with them and send them my way.
Old mopedhead Ben, now a boston resident was also very kind in lending to the power supply of my derbi (possibly unknowingly at the time). Some kid bought his red Maxi N with a metra 80 and proceeded to seize it very soon after. Ben thought the cylinder was dead and sent it to me, giving me a shot at its rebirth. I’m pretty confident it will blast again.
So the c5 is slowly coming together with the help from many. I still need to order a few more decals and other misc. bits from Handybikes, and I also need to find somewhere to get the seat reupholstered (as well as flatten out the seat pan). So while its coming together slowly, the project is moving ahead. Seals are in route for the motor, but the crank is still a situation. I’ll figure it all out soon enough.
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not really much to say, but somehow whenever I bring anything to motomatic to powdercoat, it becomes a huge hassle for them. I went up thursday to kick it with some squids, and I found rafter working away on the fork tubes which happened to be factory powdercoated, and THICK. So yea, he didn’t seem happy about that. Then the tank got a hole in it during the blasting, so that has(had) to be braised shut. So yea, its never easy. I’m putting together my list of goodies I need from Handybikes and I think I’ve decided metra80 is going to be the way to go. This thing is going to be sweet!
Following motomatic, we rode around town a bit after eating some ranch with pizza on the side. Nate’s bumble-bee magnum is a work of art, his clutch setup is amazing. Pure blast all night long. I need to ride it next time. Tony’s bat was also pretty cool, custom pipe fits in really well. It was nice meeting people and fun to ride a moped. Sorry, no pictures, but you can imagine the awesomeness of a thursday night in Sacramento.
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before we were all really cool kids with mopeds, we were really cool kids with other awesome hobbies, like riding down spillways on boogie boards. Now we are much more manly playing with bows and arrows, drinking beer and playing video games.
Almost 20k views, so I guess some people are reading my junk up here.
Updates are about to slow. School starts tuesday, so yea, not much moped fun. I’m still trying to see if some sort of race bike is feasible, most likely polini class, but no final decision yet. As always, too many mopeds, not enough time. Maybe one day my dreams of a running fleet of amazing bikes will come true. Ha!
I leave you with one of my favorites, MagnumX.
So often these little guys are butchered for their kickstart motors and the rest is left to rot. I picked mine up a few years back and originally did the same. I felt bad and put her back together. The original forks were bent, so the tubes were replaced with those from a grande. The tank was missing decals, so I scooped one up on MA buy/sell. The stock setup was pathetic, so I added a 65cc hero puch kit, 19 phbg and a custom pipe created from the stock magnumX header, a stock maxi cigar exhaust, a 65cc polini pit bike chamber, and a proma silencer. Its been regeared and tuned. It does about 45 and gets there faster than 90% of mopeds out there. With a ktm clutch its going to be insane. It has ripped on the track (and jumps in the infield) at the polini cup, and it survived a weekend of rally abuse in sacramento. Its a great bike with a lot of character. The one and only mini-magnum.
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Most people like puchs. I like my magnum, but thats about it. After a lot of them, I was bored. So I traded my nice swinger (originally with a za50 and 5 stars, now with flakes and an e50) for a sweet sachs g3. I used to have a general with a 505 that I really liked, so I figured I ought to get a sachs because they are pretty bad ass.
Outgoing swinger:
So I traded for this pretty G3 with a 505-1D. It runs pretty well and is in pretty good shape. The coaster brake is weird, but overall I’m pretty excited. Maybe one day I’ll get it a 2 or 3 speed motor. Now all my mopeds are either all or have some red. Pretty sweet!
New G3:
on tuesday a squid came and took away my first derbi. It was a really fun bike, but I’m moving up to the c5, so it was time for it to go. I look forward to seeing its next incarnation. I’m sure it’ll be a blaster.
My diablo stuff was also taken to Motomatic for powder. The build is going slower than I had hoped, but thats not a huge deal. Its going to be a nice bike when done and I’m not going to rush it.
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not mine, but my buddy’s. He’s back from italy for the holidays so we cruised around town today. I dunno about the forks, but the rest is real pretty. Mint style. 70 alukit (flat exhaust), malossi 4 petal, phbg, and a sweet scoot leo vince exhaust custom welded on there. Ultimate pedal clearance and uber steez. Does 45-50 and gets there pretty quick.
In other news, I’ve almost completed pulling my derbi cases apart. Everything looks mostly ok, except there seems to be a fair amount of slack in the inner chain and the lower end of my connecting rod has blued from high heat at the big end bearing. It seemed to run fine, so I’m not 100% sure what I should do, cause I don’t want it to lock up on me.
sorry, not mopeds. Its winter, so that means its snowboard season. Most people don’t think of california when it comes to winter (because the weather is perfect outside the mountains), but we actually get just about the most snow in the country. My home away from home, kirkwood, boasts over 500 inches of snow each season. Next closest are places like utah and washington (mt baker excluded). Sure our snow isn’t quite as light and dry as utah, and our vertical doesn’t match colorado, but we still have awesome terrain and great riding.
I like to go fast and jump off stuff. Sometimes I get a little overconfident and go places I shouldn’t or I go too fast. My snowboards have paid the price. One just broke, the other has multiple core shots. Not good.
I’m not quite this cool, but its nice to jump off stuff with no consequences. yay deep snow!
