Fractured clavicle! its kept me outta the moped thing for what seems to be forever! I just missed everything. I missed my moped. i missed my friends! But now im a bit more healed. Let the good times roll. Everything for the past 2 years now have been basically related to these loud smelly smokey silly little machine thingys.
I guess a couple updates first. This was last Sunday. On the way to LA to ride with Woooollly Bulllies! and Tigers! 2pm Met up at Knucklehead Erics house in a pretty rough area of Norwalk. Tightened some bolts, turned some screws, squirted some gas, gapped some plugs, adjusted knick knacks, the usual, ya know? In the process of all of this, found out that my bearing spacers in the rear wheel were shot. This is like the THIRD time this has happened. 1st time, bought the wheel from Myrons with no spacer. wrecked my bearings. 2nd time, the spacer that was put in was of inadequate length, wrecked my bearings. This time, the shims that Marvin had welded to the spacer had ground down considerably, causing this wierd squeaking noise ive long suspected to be the bearings. So Ive wrecked another pair of bearings. Hmmmm makes me think how well the front wheel is shimmed.
Well, Knucklehead Eric being the super genius that he is, bored out an old washer to shim the bearing properly, and it fucking worked like a charm. for the time being any way. I guess we're just gonna go to Ace Hardware and get some nice hardened steel tubing and cut the correct spacer length because it seems like nobody can get the damn wheel right. Mopeds always broken but they're easy to fix!! Off to meet Rad Robert, who also conveniently lives in Norwalk. Met up with Robertooooo then it was a fucking blast all the way down Beverly St to Woolly Bully BBQ tunnels and bridges ride. soo rad
looky all the mopeds! Woolly Bully meet.Such a good showing. Soo many people have gotten all kinds of fast since last
The many many faces I havent seen is soo long! BBQ time. Jerked chicken, rice and beans, pico watermelon......mmmmmmm yummy
Fellow KnuckleHead Eric!!!! my good buddy, expert mechanic, new daddy! Yay for Eric! baby boy Wesley. He is really knowledgable about small motorini, and is the king of backyard ingenuity. Plus he will build the cleanest bikes around. Eric has the touch of knack. Somehow he inherited a Black Widow Pinto Swinger with a 80 metra e50 super motor built by Shaw. He's recently turned and tuned that creation into one of the cleanest Pintos ive seen. When we go ride he just plays with me, sandbaggin his throttle for sure. 80 Metra is seriously boss. 60mph+
damn. soo clean
This is Knucklehead Erics next monster creation. 84 Cobra. oh man. soo jealous of this one. Its gonna get the whole Tomos treatment. A35 bottom, alukitty, reeds and manifold. Gonna be a good reliable blassster. Much thanks to Woolly Bully Maxwell! he is soo rad.
Night ride. Petrol fill. The good dudes. true passion. Mike Matt and Robert.
Kiyoko burned a headlamp. quickie bulb change to no avail. i think its a grounding problem. Taped on Flashlight = good enough to not get a ticket! sweet
Off to Stinkers. Tigre Lauren Djs the bar.
Robert broke his rear axle on the way to Stinkers. We chilled a little bit at the bar, deciding what we should do. The only logical choice was to ride to doubles on my Tomos all the way back to Norwalk. that was a rad experience. The whole way we were blasting at least 50mph+ according to Eric. Doubles at 50+. soo cool. Me and Robert combined probably weigh 250 pounds. maybe thats why. Made it home safely. definitely was beat. This was the first long ride since the LateBirdies Flock yeah II, in account of my collarbone and all that jazz. I heart Woolly Bullies and LA Tigers.
Look out. Some serious builds comin in the future from the Knuckleheads and the Bullies.
