From the Battle Station and Ciao love...

So we built a bench here to get some real work done. I got my Malossi crank for the ciao and fixed the express again. heres some pics and more.

Glamor shots first.

Bench in Progress. Rob did a great job on it.

My section. Building the C-Word again.

New big kit.

I had to cut a fair amount of material away from my case halves to get the malossi con rod to clear.This is from before i cleaned it up with a hand file.

New Simonini pipe with a 27mm header and better angle. This pipe sits way  higher than it used to. It got pretty close to scraping on hard right turns last season. I did have to shim it out a bit so it wouldn't rub on the freewheel. This thing is about to go I need to wait until tomorrow to get some cables from P-Town scooters to finisher it up. This is why we need to start stocking cables etc here so  don't get delayed.

Express baffle. it lasted 5 days. Now its got a brake cleaner can. Much better metal. I should have taken a picture but you can imagine. I have used them before and posted it.

Rob didnt like this cylinder.

Hoffa brought his 103 over to show off and broke it on the way. He sad the Tunr pulleys only have two bearings in them but need three.

Folsom put some malossi gears in his ciao. He just keeps making it faster.
There will be much more to come soon. I need to keep this thing updated more but we have been real busy getting everything just right here. It is really awesome.

Just the tip....

Battle Station...

I have not  had internet at home for a while but we have it at the new shop so look forward to some good shit coming along.

Rally time

BE HERE OR I WONT LOVE YOU ANY MORE
UP IN SMOKE A MEGA RALLY

Bens moped

So I was riding around today and saw a guy on a red kinetic stopped at the curb. I thought something might be wrong and I had tools so I offered help. I noticed his gas tank was cracked so I offered to sell him one of my many kinetic frames for real cheap. he then told me about this crazy rare moped he had and showed me this

Its probably the best. He also had a 4 speed puch campus 50 that was super rad. Did I mention the BRAND NEW NORTON he had in his living room. 35 years old and never ridden! My science phone was busted or I would have gotten more pictures. He took these two and emailed me. He also had this crazy two wheel drive motorcycle with a variator and a 3 speed shifter behind that. I forgot what kind it was but when I drop the frame off to him I wil have to try and snap a few shots of the awesome bikes this guy has. He had like 10 in his garage and a bunch in the house.

ok

Pipe and carb to come. I have them I just need to make them work before showing off. Yes its on my couch bu its so nice and clean it doesnt matter.

Lots of randoms stuffsssz

Here is what has been going on recently.

 

Yeah I lent out my express and got it back like this...

 This is Folsom his ciao is rad. It was at one point a ciao frame covered in dirt in my garage.  He made it rip. its got a 64cc Polini case matched and intake opened awesome. An olympia crank. Polini variator crazy custom lightened performance clutch. and a circuit pipe. This thing came a long way from the $25 dollar piece of crap i sold him.

 I was riding to work the other day and saw this and got real excited. then i saw it was four stroke lame.

 This bike isnt going to be at the next races it is sad. My crank wont be here in time. so I decided to do this instead.

the engine is all ready built and ready to go i just need to get some hose and cables and get a brake stop welded on so I can use the tomos mag. I think it looks Awesome and its really small and light.

Back up plan

Ive got enough parts to make a sexy three way mash up piece of wonderful style and epic win. It's a secret so you will all have to wait and imagine. Good thing I have too many moped parts I guess.

So I ordered this...

It cost me a lot and is hard to find these days.
when I asked angelo about it he said this.

Hi Joe,

Just for avoiding expensive mistakes, do you mean the malossi code 53 182?

From what I know, these cranks are extremely rare and who has them, asks a quite high price.

Let me know, and I'l begin my hunting.

Ciao,

Angelo 

Things from this week.

So Rally time came and went.. I rode mopeds for maybe 5 miles. Heres what I have been up to.

   

Jubelale one day early and fixing Dirty Dans Bike. He didn't have any smaller Bing jets so he just ported the cylinder instead. I like that style

then he broke down.

Then he ran  out of gas.
his bike also has no lights at this point in tiime.

I spent the same day working on the bottom end on The C-word. I went through both halves and had to put some jb weld on there. Oh well right? I got the bike together just in time to make it to the meet up spot for the Mosquito Fleet bus. So I strapped all my gear on and blasted off. We made it to SF and got dropped off and got directions how to find our housing. the quote was " its in a little alley you cant miss it" well we missed it and got super lost. My science phone was dead and then this happened.

I was blasting up a huge hill with all 50 pounds or so of extra gear. Snap time to go malossi. Since I broke my moped I did this kind of stuff instead.

I wanted this so bad the second I saw it. too expensive though.

I saw this on the way home.
I will take more pictures of the work and damage on my bike soon right now I want more food.

Green puch

The green puch gives me nothing but trouble. So I went to rebuild the wheels and clean the brakes the other day and guess what nope the axels are fucked up and I cant get them apart, So the wheels have a fair amount of drag. I also need to run some different tranny fluid. my clutch works great until it gets warm and it starts to suck. I just put shitty atf in it I think I will put the motul trans oil in it and see how it works. The slide on this bike was also plastic and completely fucked. If you pulled the throttle too hard the cable would pop out. Pretty lame. I got a metal one from doss and that fixed that problem. Then there is the tailight. THe bulbs rattle around and get stuck in to this crazy ass sideways crooked way and stop working. So i put a whole new tail light on and it burned out. I had  a cop behind me for like 10 blocks and I turned off the first chance I got and then my tail light burned out.  This bike also electrocutes me if i brake and go through a  puddle. I need to go through the wiring on it and fix it all its a nightmare.  So yeah this all means I have to push this bike too much.