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 …
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 …
Some people on the Portland Puddle Cutters text group where asking if Tomos Racing Transmission Fluid (TRTF) was as great as it appeared. I didn’t know honestly. I had seen the article before but it never occured to me to try it. Right about this time I had put Royal Purple ATF into my Tomos …
It’s one thing to do sweet dyno pulls and post graphs that look cool, and I was excited to do that. But ultimately I’d like to sell these as a functional part to the masses that crave them. For that I have to actually test these in the real world. By trade I’m a metal …
So far I’ve done only street testing with a butt dyno, which are notorious for weak accuracy. To be a bit more scientific I called up my friends at Scooter Swap Shop and set up a dyno session on their rolling dyno. They are super nice guys who know their tuning so if you are …
There were issues with the last test part. The rubber was still too soft with the 60A blend and the airbox would try to fall off when I rode. The plan was easy, just get the next harder rubber and make another. Well, thing is, that was the hardest rubber they made in that compound …
The first test was really successful. My only issues was the softness of the rubber , the fleshtone color (not very A E S T H E T I C) , and how well it stayed attached to the airbox. The original rubber was a urethane compound with a shore hardness of 40A so I …
First up, I love the A55 Tomos. They are great. I’ve owned a handful, I used to work on them when we sold them at a shop, and my girl currently owns one. I’ve built 3 different gila A55, piles of other kitted ones, and run 10 of thousands of miles on stock ones. Easily …