white elephant christmas

some pics of old friends

the bestest. Nancy!

in other moped news, Ride Report 2010.
Casey who has taken over the Myron's rides is hosting a ride to Pasadena on January 3rd.
LA Tigers are having their first official ride, 50 miles +  on January 9th. clicky here details
Woolly Bullies putting it down!! for the Second Annual LA Desert Run and Partay. 100+ miles for moped madness. If you think you'll survive, show up for this one. January 16th. MA thread for details

well thats it for now

no funds

underemployment, no monies for a big boy carb rite now. im gonna make the Cobromos build a mild mannered one til i can discover a way to make money grow on trees. For now gotta make due with the little guy 14SHA.

had these two pedal reeds laying around from a previous project. pretty good reeds

busted out the Dremel today. had to remove a lot of material from the manifold so it could flow smoothly

 smoothed out the transitions a bit.  square peg in a round hole kinda thing, ya know? nothing impressive. Still got to finish her up a bit

Awww well. im tired. thats it for now. Tomorrow, some cylinder work

stuff

some tinkering with fellow knucklehead. got the 24mm intake manifold fabricated. also STILL had to hack and weld the Simonini to fit. Pedal clearance? forget about it

80 metra ported to the heavens and freshly rebuilt.  The wiring is still not done

On the left are Tomos brakes. On the right are Puch. huge difference

the recent rain storms have passed and hasn't rained for 3 days here in california. We ride soooooon soon

madness

no bloggy for a couple weeks. family stuff. went to Texas to see my dad for thanksgiving. saw alot of stuff, met alot of family, ate bunches of delicious foodstuffs. stopped by the Grand Canyon, which was amaaaazzzing! the canyon looked like a painting. those pictures to come sooon. Well some moped updates:
Knucklehead B's new tomos. he's stoked. It came from Nick of Choke to Woolly Bully Chris then to Big Bryan. Its got some tomos dirt bike swing arm ( senior, juniour??) and a big 2.75 Pirelli tyre in the rear. these Pirelli's are no joke. grip for days

Alukitty with the intake bridged removed. case matched to a55 cases. Malossi 4petal

The Alukit is very nice compared to the Airsal one. the manufacturers of the alukit uses a closed pore cast. feels and looks better constructed than the airsal, although the stock porting and transfers are slightly more aggressive on the reedvalve Airsal kit.

Bryan's Magnum. freshly rebuilt. 80metra, case matched and bored by ShawShaw. gettin the Simonini injection. blaster setup

It just started raining down here in socal. rain riding anyone?

myrons mopeds

Shaun's vegetable garden. since he hasn't been hosting Myrons Mopeds monthly rides anymore, he's been busy being calm

other updates. Bryan and I cleaned out his crunchy a55 yesterday. damn metal chunks in the bottom end are scary. Did a pretty good job of gettin all the metal out.  his bike is getting a Malossi 4 petal alukit treatment. Put in some secret tomos clutch tech.  manifold is sweet. should be rippin sooooon!

orbits

yummmy greens

fruity smoke

coloring out of the lines

glowing lights

magnumb build. not even close

Knucklehead B's new magnum!!! sans engine. tank painted,  cafe seat almost fabricated

motor goin on the magmag. e50 80 metra, 24 flatslide, simo pipe. better pics coming soon

turbocharged

After months of broken car and under employment, I was finally able to save up enough extra scratch to pick up my rebuilt turbo from TurboCity in Anaheim. YAY! seriously the best place ever!!! Geary was great. when i walked in the shop, he already knew my turbo was from an mr2!  wayyyy knowledgable and super trustworthy.  This was the ORIGINAL TURBO!!! and lasted 290,000 miles! HA! hopefully this one will last at least half as long. He upgraded the turbo seals to "dynamic" seals which are supposed to seal better? i dunno.But really did do a super high quality job.well the good ol' CT-26 got cleaned up, ceramic coated, intake/exhaust compressor wheels put back to spec and all the seals and internal o-rings replaced.

 

dual entry!

Sweeeeeet. little turboToyota is ALMOST back on the road.  my brother will be uberglad im not askin for his car anymore. more to come sooon.

malossi manifold

knucklehead Bryans manifold. Its pretty rough right now but seals well though. 21mm id going on Alukitty with malossi 4 petal, simonini pipe, 21 dell race. ripper for sure

update Cobra

got some wiring done while im under-employed. cleaned up the connections and grounds. put in a LED taillight which is cool, sleek. Good for the me, good for the cherry toppers.

 Gonna have to figure out better mounting for the taillight. is ok for now

got a new bike stand. its cool for my bikes that dont have the center stand

Sooo other Knucklehead news. Bryan picked up that magnum from Eric. he's sellin it to big B because of the previous tickets he incurred on said magnum. No license, no registration, no mirrors, no reflectors(???) and speeeeeding.  threw the book at him. Eric just got the bike too! after he was looking months for one. man. serious bummer. awwww well. more to come soon. It hasn't rained yet in LBC

84 Cobra

a35 airsal reedvalve, homoet, 5-stars. stoked on this one. still got lots more to do. early pic

Hard Haunted Mansion 09!

out to LA! for the best lineup ever!!!

main stage

 

 

 

Burkana SDM Sistema

 

A-Trak, Basement JAXX, Justice!!! ARRRGGG Justice fucking killed it

 

Steve Aokiiiiii!!!!!1one!!!1 stage dive

 

Wheew. what a blast. my body is still sore from dancing all night. NYE Hard?? maybe?

shiny new things that are rat as fuck

New Knucklehead build. Eric picked up this baby last week. Magnum frame from Shaw and Colby. 80 metra, Simo, 24 Mikuni flatside, super secret clutch, other secrets shhhhhhhhh, backyard ingenuity, elbow grease    yada yada yada

maybe some paint???

tires, tubes and wheels. Cobra Madness!

putting the Pirelli's on the new 5 stars. 2.5 with a nice soft rubber. easy mounting

Tomo 16's stripped down and cleaned up

sprocketed, painted, repacked bearings, tires and tubes

almost done! mounting the rear wheel. finally! took me all day to do both sets. As these are tomos wheels trying to mount to Puch stuff.  Most of the time was spent trying to find the correct spacing in between the forks and swingarm.  They roll smoooooth smooth

Cobra! new toptank madness

On a side note, I fucked up my paint on the top side of the gas tank when the bike was flipped over like that. It also leaked tranny fluid everywhere. Test ride tomorrow! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Sachs 505/D build. David's G3 motor lives on

Naked Sachs. somethings missing. cant wait to get it back on the road

Dave's G3 motor. Sachs 505/D motor goin on my Balboa. I was hitting 35-38mph on my 505/C. Should at least hit 40 maybe a bit more with the D. mild case and port matching

I just installed the  front 12 tooth sprocket which i truly believe is amongst the only handful that was available  times long lost. I got it at Mopeddwarehouse. go figure

I dremeled the intake to match the port of the cylinder. it was pretty off center. Luckily, the intake was the cool 14.5mm one. only came on the C and D's.

 Sachs Clutch what a pain. ive read on MA somewhere if ya put another plate and clutch plate in there (3 in total) it'll give ya better super slippery engagement

all i need is a headlight, gasoline and tranny fluid. then road bound!

FourPetalGoodness

real four petal rips. good upgrade over the stock polini "four" petal which is actually a two petal. plus it came with screws already tapped, which makes changing to different reeds a breeze

better reed cage in the works.  v-force maybe?

David and the goliaths

David, Happy 30th. wish you were here. you would've loved what big B done to your g3 dude. Shaw ported the shizzzz outta that a35.  i miss ya too much man