The world of mopeds is a small but passionate world. There is a whole network of people making helpful content, interacting, creating art, new parts, or just simple recording histories of bikes and groups. There are clubs, rallies, racing, forums, shops, and plenty of other ways people have been contributing to the scene for a …
Preface: Andrew Brown, one of the Puddle Cutters in Portland, OR (aka, my club) recently put on a carb tuning class at Sabatino’s Moped Shop in St. Johns, Oregon. To prepare he dived in deep and created a handout file for every person at the event. I was so impressed that I asked him to …
A friend sent me a screenshot of a bike for sale at a local shop. It was a Free Spirit with a ZA50 swap, piston port 70cc kit, 15 bing, boss pipe, and some nice paint and details. I had no history with the bike but it seemed nice, she liked it and that was …
I’ll start the year with admissions. I’m not good at keeping a schedule for things like a blog. I take on too many projects and then shift focus too frequently to keep the plates spinning. But, as so many other fools do this time of the year, I’m going to attempt to shape up. I …
Many years ago there was a Pacific Northerwest Moped Racing series. It ran from 2010 to around 2015 or so when it ended due to lack of participants. One of the locals built a bike to race one year but it never ended up on the track. That was the Gary Flyer. It passed handed …
Now it’s no secret I’ve been swimming deep in the world of stock A55 tuning the last couple years. I’ve been working on my Bazooka Mouth velocity stack for over a year. I felt pretty confident it was just the best but I needed one big final test. Then an idea formed. I was already …
Having just moved back to the midwest it means I was moving into a new region of moped racing. I spend the last 12 years racing west coast at the Pacific NW tracks, Tomahawk Cup, Moped GP West, and a visit to the OG Polini Cup as well. The concept is the same but the …
I will start with an apology. I tried to craft a reader base and that requires frequent, preferably weekly new posts. I have not held up my end of the bargain. Been so busy actually doing the thing I haven’t had time to talk about me doing the thing. I still don’t, spoiler alert, but …
With about a month left before the races I’ve got quite a lot of work to do. I’ve been making progress but you know how these things go. I’m working on the hobbit engines first so the Tomos is in planning and parts ordering phase. Last time I talked about the rules as I read …
I really enjoy moped racing. I went to the last race of the first Polini Cup in 2009, started a moped racing circuit in the pacific northwest in 2010 that ran for a handful of years, attended Tomahawk Cup, the first 3 Moped GP West, and other various smaller events. Now that I’m back in …