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 long time. But it is not always easy to be able to find all these things. I’ve tried to compile a list of places of interest that are currently active. This is not comprehensive because I’m sure I have missed places. It’s splintered and scattered across many platforms and my ear might be on the ground enough to know all the obscure places. If I’ve missed anything important feel free to drop a link in the comments below.
Websites
Moped Army
This is the big one. The cultural center of mopeds for decades now. It’s primary function is a forum but it is the go to site for events, information, tuning information, and pretty much anything else you could want. Plus if you are cool enough the other cool people will confirm your cool and you can become a logo brat, like me!
Moped Rich
Functioning as a shop website but is mostly is known for the merch and the Moped of the Day posts highlighting great builds from the community. There is a lot of great content here and it’s been going strong for years. Be sure to browse to the resources and rally sections as well. There is a lot to see here and the presentation is great.
Moped Riders Association
I’m including this here for historical information only. The forums have been decommissioned for a while but there is a world of info still locked away for those that want to dig for it. Catering to different crowd than the Moped Army forum, this may be more your speed. More of a historical note at this point though.
Myrons Mopeds
Another site that is functionally a page for a local shop but is so much more than that. Myrons Mopeds is one of the OG in the moped scene and is so deeply filled with great content it’s a shame more people are not familiar with it. You have to just dig around a bit because it lacks the polish of the other sites but it is worth it alone for the Bing jetting page.
Web Shops
Treatland
This is the go to place for moped parts in the US. Best shipping, best customer service, best selection. And always raising the unique parts game as well as supporting lots of independent parts creators. The gold standard basically.
1977Mopeds
I’ll be real, don’t order from here. Yes I know they been around forever and moped scene blah blah blah.. Just don’t. They’ve been terrible at customer service and shipping for as long as I’ve been in mopeds. There is nothing they sell the other stores don’t have anyways.
Moped Division
Good selection, good shipping, good prices, deep inventory and quality people doing quality work. Hard to not like.
Dos Cycles
A great shop that ships fast, and has some unique parts available. The big draw here is the complete bike section where you will regularly see the rarest European only bikes for sale at good prices. You want a Fantic Sprinter then there is nowhere else to shop.
Lucky 2 Strokes
These guys been doing it for a while. Not the deepest inventory but it’s still solid.
PuchShop.De
The european sprinter game is sick and this is one of the places to get crazy Puch specific parts. Just the clutch selection alone makes it worth knowing about. Mostly E50 parts but the coolest parts available anywhere.
VDM Racing
The other fantastic Puch tuning store. Focusing on more custom machined race parts they have the most elite blaster tech anywhere on the web.
Mir35
You want fast french tech then this is one of the OG supplier strait from the tap. It’s in French so it might take some translation to navigate but they have all the best parts for your little 50cc ripper dreams.
Podcasts
Monday Moped Podcast
The long running and definitive weekly moped podcast from the boys in Richmond. Anyone who’s anyone in the moped scene has been on here. With deep roots in the moped scene there is no better place to dive into the culture of mopeds than here.
2nd Chance
Listen as Jim Henry finds out what got people into mopeds and what keeps them in this weird little community. Originally audio only, he has now expanded into video so go check him out.
Brapcast
Defunct now but worth going back and listening to.
Youtube Channels
Zeros Moped Club
Consisting mostly of video shot around the club garage, it feels just like hanging out with friends. Join in on the Q&A or just hang out for the weird inside jokes. Regularly updated and always fun, give them a subscribe.
CornPed
Maize has been around a long time and is well respected tuner and builder. So when he decided to start sharing him knowledge everyone got excited (well I did at least). Mostly focusing on how to videos on repair, diagnostics, and performance with simple tools, every video is a wealth of info from one of the scenes best.
Travis Tutorial
The one and original, Travis has been at it for years. And after a little break is back at it jDoing his best to help out his fellow mopeders, one video at a time.
2 Stroke Stuffing
Not explicitly a moped channel but we all know this is the most moped channel on youtube. Although way back he started tuning a peugeot 103 he’s deep into the idea of building the worlds fastest 50cc engines. I dare say he’s going to break everything in existence until he does.
Fake Moped Army
Look, Instagram is a weird, deep, and hard to navigate platform of tacit links and random encounters. So I’m not going to try and find all the insta channels that occationally post moped content but will focus on the only one worth reading. Deep meme culture, in jokes, and obtuse references, this is the litmus test to see if you are truly into moped culture or not.
There is an entire landscape of small groups on facebook for very specific bikes. Doing a search for “Lovers of your favorite bike” you are bound to find a niche group of people that love that specific bike and will usually be friendly. These groups are usually not very large but everyone there is usually helpful with info and parts so it’s definitely worth your time to subscribe. There might even be multiple Lovers groups for a given bike or maybe two similar ones that overlap so check them all out.
There next Facebook category is Moped Army groups. So it turns out that Moped Army never did anything to protect their name sake on most platforms so people just created fake Moped Army facebook pages. Even I made one, although I don’t use it. One of them is the Official one and have fun figuring out which one. They mostly are for trolling new people and posting videos of Florida drag racing flex videos. Which is really all I want out of the internet anyways.