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How to shorten pit bike forks for a moped
Here's what I had to do to shorten a pair of KX80 forks for my moped. Most other hydro forks will be similar, but your mileage may vary.
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Coming out of moped retirement
It's been a while but I figured I'd be coming back so I kept most of my moped stuff. I drove to Eau Claire over the weekend and picked up another Vespa Grande. I'm pretty excited to be wrenching again. My plan is to fix…
Mopeds
MopedGP North - Totfest Race Day
Here's a couple of videos I streamed during the races this year at Totfest. Stock Races - First Heat Stock Finals Variated Finals Variated & NonVariated combined finals
Motorcycles
SV650 Project
I picked up a new project recently, I got a really good deal on an sv650 that just need a bit a TLC. Here's a video of the bike before I dug into it... To get it roadworthy wasn't too bad, below is how it…
Mopeds
Mylo at the junkyard
I brought my son Mylo with me to Sport Wheels, he loves it there. I got lucky and scored some plastic the new vespa was missing
Mopeds
Grande Teardown
I started going through the Grande I acquired recently. Overall its in pretty good shape, but it sat for a while the crank bearings didn't sound the when i tried turning the engine over and the carb most certainly needed to be cleaned. Subframe off…
Mopeds
Got A Grande!
Local Vespa aficionado Tyler Augustine like to go on and on about how amazing and awesome Vespas are. He built a pretty fast Grande for our raffle bike this year. I took it for a spin and thought it was a blast. So it seems…
Mopeds
New Kicks for the Grumpy Dumpies
I recently acquired some puch snowflakes, I hate spokes so I decided to put them on the Grumpy Dumpies. The rear was no problemo, but I wanted to keep my disc brake up front and I was running a stock 17" kx80 front wheel prior…
Mopeds
Fume Free Moped Tuning
I was getting pretty sick literally of tuning my bike in my garage with all the fumes so I tossed some dryer hose I had lying around on my exhaust, worked like a charm.