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 …
For reasons of data gathering I was putting the stock 14mm carb back on the Tomos. My plan was to put the stock pipe back on and determine the jetting spread needed for fully stock bike with the Bazooka Mouth since I had never done that. I knew the jetting setup from before so I …
The final day of Bakers is 150 miles to Thomas and Ashley’s house in Richmond, VA. By now every team knows the score. The bikes have been battle hardened or dnf-ed. Teams knew how to navigate, and knew how to just get on. It was a race still for the pride of being the first …
If you want to tell an effective story there are a handful of basic templates that everyone loves. One of them is called the Man in a Hole arc. It goes like this: The protagonist starts the story doing just fine, then tragedy strikes. The protagonist must then climb out of the hole and triumph, …