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Just wanted to throw some of these photos out there, I say it has probably 50 – 80 hours left in it…
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Left clutch came from a Puch, right from a Benelli. Weird
This is the first attempt at a Cafe-style seat for Beths Pinto. Iiiiit, was a lot harder than I thought to make convex curves out of sheet metal.
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Spent 2 days trying to dial in my re-shoed clutch, and decided i just needed more material, or an engine that’ll rev way higher than the one I have (like 10,000rpms high).
Added to the shoes, will shape them tonight, weight them to match, and try again.
Minarelli clutch wore me out on the shimming process, too many projects at once. haha.
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Puch World:
I am working on sort of 3 (but, more like 2) clutch projects at one time right now, so here they are.
First is just a 2 shoe, cut, ground to match weight (70.9 grams each), and re-shoed. This is just layer one, I think I am going to add a second layer and shape it. Who knows what’ll happen.
This one, is like the KTM mod everyone has seen going around on MA right now, but it’s just a standard Morini clutch (cheap cheap!), in a Minarelli bell (cheap cheap!), with a Puch drive gear welded on. Pretty simple.
I am hoping this second one will take alot of the guess work out of tuning a clutch, no more black magic, more speed. Going to try and run the Morini, Minarelli, Puch mashup tonight, hope all works well!
Vespa land:
Cut my first crank, drilled my first inlet. Fuck yeah.
Inlet obviously needs some clean up work.
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I know we have all seen the dramatic building up and crazyness of the MK80 big port, but I just can’t get over it… This bike is going to be fast, fast. I love that Ray (guy I’m building it for) told me that “Money isn’t an issue” fucking awesome.
Also, Maxi-N is getting a dashboard and I finally (after 2 years of searching!) got my hands on a LTD Fairing. Sick sick sick.
Ohio race league is coming up faster than I imagined, time to start work on my Puch clutches and slowly start chugging away at the cylinder. If money stays as tight as it is I am going to stick with the 50cc class, but I’d love to enter into the e50.
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Beth and I headed up to Chicago this week, hoping to ride peds (both of us missed FTW09), as a great result, we made it about half way then the bikes started freezing to the bed of my truck. haha.
But, we met up with Amanda Bandit for the most crucial meeting of female tuners I’ve ever witnessed.
It was… like long lost twins meeting for the first time.
Building the Freespirit in rat form this week / weekend so I can set to work on painting the Maxi-N. Still need to throw down on the right stuff for my fairing and dash.
alright.
IRE shop has been running smoothly and taking up all of everyones time. here are some photos from the past week.
Maxi-N got new forks, building a Metra 80 with a Korado Kickstart as the base (<3), freespirit has been put on hold until I get those wheels from mark (hopefully soon!) some good forks, and I don't know what else…
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It’s time to barrel down and start looking at pipes and all of the info needed for the Freespirit.
The base is going to be a normal e50 bottom end, top end will be a metra50, 19mm phbg for starters, might upgrade once I start digging through it’s powerband. The tricky thing I am sitting on now is the pipe. I need to find one and get it’s mounting mocked out so that I can push the frame further into Powder realm. Going to spend sometime tonight digging, but these are the 4 pipes I am thinking about for the MK50. If anyone has any reviews or knows someone that has run any of these pipes, let me know! I gotta ask questions…
peugeot doppler:
peugeot ninja g3:
derbi ninja circuit:
minarelli v1 ZEN:
This is when I really wished I lived closer to Treats or 77, so I could make a drive out, hold the parts in my hand before I buy them, measure things, mock things up, checking porting out on cylinders. It’s a bummer the midwest is a dryland.
Other news, once I get the photos sent back from Mike I can post them, but did some hacking and welding on the Techno Boss. Hoping to make it a little poppier, reduce where the powerband hits and make it float in that band a little longer, I hope it worked…
Alright, reading and writing mopeds is done for the day, time to clean up so I can wrench up.
If you read MA and you read this place, then I bet you saw this stuff, but here it is again.
We got ourselves a shop all set up and operational. It’s pretty rad to be able to walk in and weld, powder coat, sand blast, and pretty much anything you can think of in this room. I love it!
Couple of more Photos:
LTR: Phil, Me, Scooter, Ricky.
This is Old Smokey our Toaster Oven and the Powder booth, for now.
Scooter…
Alright, and as I said in an earlier post I have been doing some work for Mark on Mopeds, here’s a couple of snapshots for that…
My “office” haha
The 14mm Pile.
Cleaned up e50s
This is the bike I have been wrenching on lately, it should be up for sale sometime next week. full rebuild (top and bottom) 2hp. Woo.
This one IS for sale, and we’ll ship. It has side covers now…
Other, Other news…
I’ve decided on the build for my Rigid Freespirit, and I am hoping to have it totally built, powdered, and done by mid-march. Metra50 all black racer. And I mean ALL BLACK. No chrome, not gray, no white, bolts will be black, and so will everything else.
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Been building Bikes for cash for Mark, it’s been the best 2 weeks of work i’ve had in a long, long time.
I have a post for tonight, promise! but here’s a 4 in 40 new record for me.
9:30 – 10:08.
