MOPED ARMY

So cool. I want one!!! Be nice on the minarelli trike I'm gonna build

Wait, what? That doesn't make any sense. Does it have a centrifugal clutch inside the bell?

That throw out bearing used for the starter clutch in a regular v1 is marginal enough already, can't image it being used all the time with a manual clutch.

So you have to use two fingers to shift? Wait, how does the clutch work? The pictures don’t tell me anything. I must be retarded still.

Looks like it would be perfect for some kinda vintage bicycle-y thing like that other build you did. It's cool that it's a vintage looking motor but can take all the conventional v1 performance junk

Yup. I'm already looking at all my old bikes and figuring out what I'm going to use it for.

It's in really great shape, too. Really clean inside. Same seals as the V1, so an easy rebuild.

Funny thing, is it was supposed to come with a pancake exhaust. It arrived in the USA from Italy in July, then the tracking just stopped.

Found out from the postman that it had to be repackaged because the box was soaked with oil and it smelled like gas, so by whatever postal rules apply, they opened it up, took the exhaust out, reboxed it and finally sent it to me.

It still had a bunch of oil in the case.

So moral of the story, if you're shipping an engine, drain the oil first, and wrap it in plastic.

It wasn't full, but still had maybe 2oz in it.

But yeah, after two months, I figured it was lost forever. Or some moped guy who works at the dock stole it.

No thanks. It smells like captain Lou Albano's armpits.