MOPED ARMY

EPIC!!! HAPPY B-DAY ALSO!

Happy Birthday Justin.

Thanks all.

I spent 300 today (birthday cash) on new moped goodies : )

70cc Athena (had to mod the head so the piston wouldn't touch)

Engine cases/transfer ports matched to Athena kit

Modded Reed Plate

Boysen Reeds

21mm Malossi Intake

21 Dellorto PHBG with Malossi Air Filter

Motomatic N8P Exhaust

Malossi Racing Gears

Custom Aluminum Roller Weights in the Vario (7g each)

I'll try out the ped tomorrow afternoon if the weather holds out...

Gotta go to be early tonight so I can get up early and go fishing with my dad : )

Good stuff.

Happy BDay J- mine was the 5th. We won't go into my age though...

Sweet looking drive setup. I know nothing about Hobbits but I'm beginning to pay more attention to them in the event one rolls into my stable. I'll look froward to your report.

I was just out tuning my Urban adjustable fly clutch, playing with center springs and variator weights. It's nice to be able to tune your drive train.

Sweet present for you!

Hmmm, looks like your belt could/should be sitting much higher on that rear pulley.

Yeah Tommy, that's why I had to switch to the new belt.

The old belt had worn down and was a bit thinner so it sat even lower in the pulley and had some slack too because it was stretched out.

Maybe I'll look into finding a bit wider of a belt.

Either way, it's gonna be better than it was I'm sure...

Tate, my old pulley was just shredded because it has had lots of extra power tugging at it daily for four years.

And as for gears... ummm, I already have the tough to find Malossi racing gears installed... and yeah they rock :)

Of too bed now gotta go catch a buzz and maybe some fish in the morning...

J

Belated Happy B-day man!

MALOSSI GEARS!?!?!?!?!!! Now I'm jealous!

Any chance you could e-mail me where you found the gears at? How much did the pulley set you back? my hobbit's rear pulley is pretty dinged up, chewed up and spit back out (doesn't travel nice anymore)

So whats up? That bad boy go like 88 now or what?

Went fishing all day today. From like 5 a.m. to like 3 p.m.

Caught a 5lb. bluefish.

Briefly hooked about a 10lb. tarpon and had on a 4-5' shark of some sort... blacktip? bull? Not sure on the species but he bit the body off the 11" baitfish I was using .

Just the head was left on my hook!

The coolest part of the day was that we were surrounded by as many as SIX manatees for several hours. Complete with a mom and baby manatee that was only about 3' long.

No riding tonight.

Sunburned.

Drunk.

Tired.

I'll test it tomorrow.

I'm off to bed.

J

I love that damn hobbit. I got to ride it once and def love the variated shit.

I just replied to your TJT post, but I'll repeat it here...

I'm gonna test out my bike in a couple hours when my wife and kid leave for the day : )

Right now I have the six heaviest rollers made even heavier by me putting 2 split-shot fishing weights in each roller.

We'll see soon if I need lighter or heavier...

Gotta get ahold of TJ and get his GPS to see what my new top speed is like too...

Similar take off...

Insane mid-range!

The top end doesn't feel as fast as it used to...

Gotta play with vario weights looks like...

The new rear pulley is performing nicely tho... Maybe I'll crack it open and put in the TJT spring and see what happens...

First, roller weight experiements....

Dying how?

GPS'd 55.5 with the stock vario and pulley with just custom aluminum roller weights...

I've got to do some experimenting with this setup again, I just have not had time. Runs so good the way it is, I've not been in a super duper rush. So, I've had $320+ dollars of spiffy vario components just sitting in a box : (

I will say that the new rear pulley does not feel as smooth when slowing down as I had hoped for... I'm gonna crack it open and have a look at the internals and see what I can do... Possibly spring swap/mod??

We'll see soon and I'll bump this post when I'm dialed in.

Happy belated to you as well Adam.

We share B-Days with all these peeps too:

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/08-june/births.html

Not sure. $50-100?

Mine was $193 new... cough cough