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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…
In my own going quest to thin down my moped herd I'm selling this Puch Maxi I picked up on a trade for my MGB parts. It's very clean, powder coated frame, rebuild bottom end, new crank, 50cc TCCD kit. It's a nice little bike.…
Well I built it last year and rattle canned it flat black. I just wanted to ride it and figured I'd work on the aesthetics later. Well it's later, I had the whole thing sandblasted over the winter and painted it. I swapped out the…
If one of your shocks comes off while riding your gonna have a bad time. At least it's an easy fix.
So I picked up a Eurokit for the grumpy dumpies, I had a Metra80 on it, but I've been itching to try one out so I figured what the hell and picked up the angled port version of it. Death, Destroyer of Worlds! Oddly enough…
Holy Christ I'm ready for spring. Today it got close to 50 degrees out (maybe it did idk), the frozen tundra is starting to thaw. Sea levels in the Minnesota area are starting to rise! Moped Armageddon is almost upon us! Be ready for it!!…
Starting to work on hacking up the seat for the Grump Dumpies. This tomos seat I picked up is pretty close to what I want to be rocking, but it's a little long and the upholstery is shit. So the first thing I did is…
Well last year I got the Grumpy Dumpies up and running. I wanted to focus on just riding it and working out any bugs before I did anything aesthetic with it. I always end up wanting to weld a bracket here or chop this there…
I went to my dad's place recently and painted up 3 mopeds. They turned out great and I'm excited to start putting them back together!
Gave my za50 a nice coat of black engine enamel. I have to say it looks like darth vaders fist, I love it.
So here's a pretty common one, you put a monster expansion chamber pipe on your moped and now you can't use your pedals since they don't spin all the way around because there's a big exhaust pipe in the way. There's a lot of different…
Greg couldn't make it to the weekly ride so we thought we'd surprise him and drop by his house unexpectedly.
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…
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…
I'm closing in on finishing up another moped. I decided I'm gonna call it 'The Grumpy Dumpies' in honor of the millions of shitty diapers I've changed in the last year and a half since my 3 boys were born. Before you go "woah wait…
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...…
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.…
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…
Here's kind of what I've got brewing this winter. I've been picking up parts here and there and I think I've got the majority of the major pieces now.
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…
I picked up another project a few weeks back, a 1978 JC Penney Pinto. I'm horibble at grabbing before pictures so I figured I'd snap one tonight. I've got a few things I need to take care of on the army bike and my motobecane…
I'm happy to say I'm done with my wife's moped. She's currently preggers with triplets so we'll have to wait until next year to see if she likes riding it. She likes the aesthetics of it and the riding position, but no rides yet. So…
So I've been working on getting my wife's JC Penney Swinger2 in running order. I almost had it done over the winter, but I cannibalized the cdi to put on my tomos, I just bought another one so I'm back on it. It's a pretty…
Here's an awesome video that 1977mopeds and Motion Left Mopeds put together showing you how to install a Gila kit, but it's really the same process for most other kits as well. Enjoy!
Here's a video I shot of some of the projects I've been working on over the winter.