I went to college, I buried all my mopeds in a big hole in my backyard…
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sorry?> I do this for now, kinda: http://gotspark.tumblr.com/
Very productive day considering driving back from Berkeley this morning and recovering from celebrating Zacks graduation last night!
Mr. 2
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I finally got some working capital free’d up so I was able to purchase some parts to get Magnum going. The Mike Thomas Puch 5-star disk rotar came today…when I opened it I was surprised how big and beefy it is. It definitely inspires confidence.
Took about 40 min. for me to install it. I made sure the surface of the hub was clean and free of all debris so that the aluminum spacers would sit flush. Installation instructions are here.
Mounted up.
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Went to visit Cal Poly SLO this last weekend. I have conditional admittance as a transfer student so the S.O. and I went down to see what’s up in SLO. Saw a Banksy or Banksy look-alike on campus (on Grand I think?)
Also saw some sweet tractors at the farmers market that they were showing off for the tractor pull on saturday! When all 4 engines fired up, this thing was awesomely loud. Too bad they didn’t have any diesels, I wanted to see some black smoke block out the sun gosh darnit!
Go Stangs!
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This is Smily, he was my first moped. He was a good old moped, had some of my best rides with Smily. Brings back memories of a feeling that one gets when they first get a moped. You have no clue what you are doing or how your machine works, all you know is it’s super fun to ride!
I sold Smily to Mike a couple of years ago and he promptly rode Smily along with myself and Zack all the way up to Sacramento for our first rally. After months of providing economical transportation (and plenty of smiles and giggles) for Mike, Smily began to have some issues and sat for a long while.
Mike will be moving away soon to go to school and he has started to get Smily up and running again so that he can sell it before he goes to school. So this is a tribute to Smily, one of the OG mopeds in the Cuperteens’ arsenal. Long Live Smily!
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I ordered a new piston from Ireland. When I opened it, I noticed that the ring pins were in different spots than the original piston. At BDC the pins are exposed in the top boost port, but the boost port is small so I don’t think it will be a problem? Matt suggested that I move the pins, but I have never done that and it kind of freaks me out to be honest. If it breaks I will just get an AR80 stock cyl. or kit.
Some Pics:
the original gasket was unusable, so I cut one out of gasket paper.
a quick clean up of the transfers and exhaust in the cylinder.
new piston, pins are closer together than stock.
transfers in case
The tachometer on the AR50 is spun off of the oil pump at the end of the crank. I want to keep the tach and get rid of the oil injection, so temporally I just made the oil injection a close-loop system so that it doesn’t sieze or something b/c I think it needs the oil to lube the pump.
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This is my favorite soda. Hot Lips of Portland Oregon. So far, I have had Boysenberry, Raspberry, and Blackberry. If you are from Oregon or if Hot Lips is sold at a store near you and you are coming down to the Bay Area or to the San Francisco Rally or the Sacramento Rally, I will pay for them and happily treat you to some Hams or PBR if you brought some down with you.
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