Tag: motobecane

MBK Commercial Circa 1987

Riding Mopeds to The Bearded Lady

There's this motorcycle show in Minneapolis that we try to make it to every year. It's called the bearded lady and it's kind of a conglomeration of every type of two wheeled vehicle you can imagine. We (The Casserollers) try to make it every year…

Runaway Exhausts and Gazelle Whiskers

I've had the exhaust fall off my Motobecane a couple of times, it's a somewhat common problem with them and it usually only gets worse as the exhaust port gets worn from continual retightening. The last time I had it out it fell off on…

The Streets Are Ours!

Some video from our last weekly ride.

How To Put A Pull Start On A Motobecane

Since I'm running a clutch pulley with a clutchless variator starting my moby requires a bit of finagling from time to time. I've got to pull the belt off wedge a piece of cardboard into the variator cheek so it's somewhat closed, put the belt…

Mopedgal Shelly's Website

Shelly B. of Becker,MN aka Mopedgal as known throughout the moped community has a new website. She does some of the most amazing restorations of mopeds back to factory condition not just in Minnesota, but nationwide in my opinion. Here's some samples of her handy-work...…

Pull Start Teaser

I put a pull start on my Motobecane tonight, it's not the prettiest but it works. I'll be putting up a video and full how-to shortly but here's a shot of the final result.

Casseroller Wrench Session

I had a bunch of the guys over to do some winter wrenching this weekend. We got a bunch of stuff done in preparation for summer blasting. A little bit of leakdown testing, Kim's hobbit engine was air tight, Brian's Gila E50 not so much.…

Motobecane Woes

So my Motobecane has been out of commission for a while now. I have this really elusive issue where gas spews out of my carb when my engine reaches higher rpms and variates. So I through this video together to see if anyone out there…

Moped Glamour Shots

I put three of my complete moped builds up on Garage last night. Since both my Tomos and my Motobeace have gone through several incarnations I needed to get some up to date pictures taken. So I rode over to a local park and snapped…

MPLS Mopeds Rally Day 2

I didn't bring my camera with me for our first ride, but here's the meetup on day two. It was a pretty awesome ride, we went from Pizza Luce in uptown Minneapolis to Maynards on Lake Minnetonka and then down to one of the rider's…

Winter Projects 2011

Here's a video I shot of some of the projects I've been working on over the winter.