So like I said in the last post I skipped out on the sunday ride because the korado I was riding had a little bit of an overheating problem. Well and I wanted to go to the zoo and see a red panda. I talked Kara, Sabat and Stinki ( oh man he rules so much) in to going with me. Animal pictures are coming with very little moped content but its my blog and your gonna read it any way, I mean hell if you have made it this far in the story you are emotionally invested right?
So the zoo I went to was the lincon park zoo and it is FREE! how rad is that???
While it kind of bummed me out to see such rad cats behind bars it was kind of cool as well. 
The sea lions were rad and super playful I only wished I had a ball to toss them but sadly that's against the rules :(
I thought this thing looked pretty rad if not a little fake.
I am also terrible because I took all these pictures while disregarding the specie of animal. They had a lot of really awesome looking birds but they weren't as adorable as some of the others so I didn't hang in the bird area long.
Kara said "He is so good at being a rhino" I agree.
MEERKAT!!!! Kara had a meerkat shirt on but this guy didn't seem to notice.
One of the animals I was really excited about seeing was the African wild dogs, sadly they only had one and I couldn't get a worthwhile picture so deal with this.
the sand cat was way too rad! It was so tiny!!!
Here is a Fennic fox those things are so rad, its really amazing how their ears evolved to help cool them. ok ok enough animals lets get to the rest. After going to the zoo we went to the Chicago diner which is very well known vegetarian/vegan restaurant. I could not believe how good it was! A group of people had gone the night before and I missed out and was excited to go there for this. They served beer cocktails so I got a beermosa!
After that we went and hung out at sebs house and relaxed. It was a nice time to wind down before hitting the road to New York. I was real excited to be able to catch a ride because I had never been and didn't really know anyone there. What got me real excited was the fact that we were going to be stopping by the largest fireworks store in the world to pick up goodies for the peace warriors rally! So heres a bunch of pictures with that given context.
This was one of my favorites! FREE THE SLAVES WITH FIREWORKS!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately they only had two presidential models :(
I feel like they should have said bad balls for this one.
Inappropriate? Possibly.
That doesn't sound safe...
The scale of this place was insane! I They had everything!!!!
There were 20 very large aisles of explosives! I wish I would have bought some but I was so broke from the trip that I was headed to Second Stroke to work just to make the trip finish and honestly its probably good I didn't because lets face it I am pretty irresponsible when it comes to fireworks.
One of my favorite things happened when I was in the middle of nowhere.
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Back to the real story now NEW YORK
Sabat has a rad van and I had plenty time inside in comfort to get acquainted with Stinki
Plenty of room. For the most part the ride there was uneventful, I tried to sleep and am a terrible driver so I didn't have to drive which was nice.
We got to Brooklyn at around 5 am, it was a long night yet we still managed to hang out a little before going to sleep in the basement. The next day I woke up and went to work. The first bike was a Tomos lx with a ton of issues. It needed a lot of work but was just in for an inspection to let the owner know how much he was going to have to sink into it.
Second Stroke is a really awesome shop! it is very well organized the owners rock and they were kind enough to put me up and let me work a little!.
They had so many parts in this shop it was awesome to see such a solid collection of parts to keep so much stuff on the road.
Then there is this asshole! It was super awesome meeting him and he is as rad in person as I imagined. FUCK YOU BESNIK
The second bike I worked on was a nightmare! It needed so much but the owner claimed it only "needs tuning" because it was "hard to start" Fuck that it had a ruined piston clutch problems shitty spark and was 12 jets too lean. 
The whole time I was there I was sweating constantly. New York is so humid! I couldn't believe it! It was really fun to get to work side by side with Stinki and shoot the shit!
Here is "shitty" Adam on a bike that the BULLIES broke. xoxoxo Bullies I <3 you.
Kara looking hella professional at the shop.
Adam "the best" Babel lives in Brooklyn now so the mission 23 guys brought his ped from Chicago for him and he came by to hang out after work! I was pretty excited because he is a pretty fun dude to hang out with. It was cool seeing him in Nashville but I felt like I didn't get enough.
Caught in the act.... of being a babe! His mom said he needs a soul mate if any of you ladies want his digits let me know I will pass em along ;)
We hung out at the shop for a while and then went on a ride to go have dinner. Riding in Brooklyn was crazy, there seems to be no traffic laws, which I liked! Get to the front cut lanes and GO!
For the east coast kids this might not be a big deal but being able to drink a 40 of Ballantine made me so happy! I had a very special Ballantine Burton ale that was 65 years old a while back and since then I wanted to try their other offerings and this was my chance!.
At some point I was showing Besnik pictures on my phone and he said I take too many selfies so everyone took one with my phone.
Group selfie/ full of babes shot!
Besnik of course took multiple, no wonder the ladies cant get enough of him!
Pete is one of the owners (unless I am mistaken) of Second Stroke and super rad!
Collin! He was so rad to meet too he is in a band called Riot Fox go check them out! he offered to give Stinki, Adam and I a ride from New York to the Worcester rally! that meant I got to spend and extra few days there! Thanks man that made my trip really awesome!
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The decision was made to take the party to the roof which was awesome because you could see the skyline and that made me smile!
He sure smiles a lot!
Plus that meant I got to take a semi but picture ;)
Kara is one of my favorite moped babes and it was rad to be able to hang with her for a while.
I honestly have no idea what is going in this picture but im posting it any way.
This may be one of the only pics I have with Sabat in it! As you can see Stinki is regaling us with some wonderful and hilarious anecdote!
After that night I went back to finish the red maxi and we figured out its problem... well one of them! Kara and Sabat took off to Worcester to prep for their rally so it was just Stinki hanging out and it was fun.
The next day I finished up the maxi and had an awesome uva soda! Adam then took me on a dubs ride on a dinner date!
It was a really good falafel and that is saying a lot! the cabbage was pickled just right and the hummus side was great!
After dinner we headed back to the shop to wait for our ride to Worcester!
This is one of the only pictures I got of the front of the sho and it was as we were just getting back for the night. Collin was leaving at 3 am so we decided to stay up drinking! 
Adam brought some strawberrita over and a few coors but you know what they look like so here is a silly picture of him and a "moped dealer" model set! It is actually complete and pretty funny even if it is scooters and not mopeds.
Bye bye second stroke it was nice!
And with that we were off, we drove through the night and made it to Worcester where we woke up the fabulous Adam Rigsby!
He greeted us with these amazing cans of Budweiser.
Look how strong they are. They only contain 11.3 ozs of beer but come in 8 packs. They also weigh as much as a normal can because they use thicker aluminum. I mean look he is standing on empty cans!
It was cool to see the new house that Adam's wonderful lady Brie bought. It was a little hectic for them because they moved in two days before we showed up but they were great sports. I mean look at him doesn't he just look fantastic?
Stinki is the best and so funny if you haven't met him you need to. seriously just looking at him makes me happy and reminds me of the good times we had. 
This was our executive dubs loaner for the rally 4 stroke 150cc water cooled Honda Elite with a flip up headlight! IT WAS SO FREAKING AWESOME but more about that in the next post.
Note that the sign says "real price" they were a pretty good deal.
No seat in sababts geo meant more room for beer! 
As we were getting back to the fire house with beer this fine gentleman showed up. Hi UGP.
Besnik decided to ride his mb5 from Brooklyn to the rally so we decided to take bets on when he would arrive here are the given times we all chose on. He actually beat all the given times by 10 mins no joke! Good job Besnik! he bought beer with the winnings so everyone won! Thanks for being a bookie Kara!
Then Adam got all tuckered out and took a nap, isn't that adorable? That is all for now there is quite a bit more to come since the Worcester rally was a blast. I have a lot to say about it and a ton of good pics but alas it is getting late and I have already typed a lot for you to all dig through. I hope you enjoyed it and come check back round 4 real soon!
hell yea i'm smilin when i got a vine of PBR ready to get cracked
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