mopeds

my friend john just got his maxi going a few weeks ago after a blown k-star 50 before that. He had it running great, new DMP kit, cdi and all that, but on the 1st ride we were in the hills and the little screw holding the brake lever in place came out. On the left he pulled the break and got nothing, freaked out, tried to hold it together, but hit the curb and flew between a tree and a rock. I don’t know how he didn’t hit, the slot was just as wide as his body (not wide) and if he hit it at any other angle it would have been bad. Somehow his maxi suffered a super bent swingarm and the forks got tweaked. Upon replacing the swingarm, more stuff was bent, either the frame of the swingarm mount. super bummer!

today we got a new maxi frame and basically complete bike. Its a beautiful red that was once murdered black, half sanded now and faded and really quite nice. we threw it together, and now it rips again! It may be one of the ugliest bikes ever, but that somehow makes it pretty. I took some pictures but my camera decided to spaz out and happily deleted them as I tried to import them. woo-hoo! So now john has a nice new maxi that matches his helmet.

I also had some sweet footy of PT getting some air on magnumX back at the polini cup, so hopefully that isn’t lost forever. Stupid nikon.

Derbi update tomorrow with much more sophisticated canon photo tech.