Warmth??

rode to work today. it was so nice out and really awesome to be riding again. gotta make a fork brace though. 40+ on stock forks is a lil frightening.

Theres something just so awesome

about taking a completely fucked up cylinder and reviving it back to life. what an awesome feeling. it runs so much stronger than before!

fuck! awesome!

just for reference I’ve included photos of how messed up it was…

siezmonini

Yup. It’s a badass pipe. I can JUST barely get into the powerband, but I swear to god it’s the fastest I’ve gone on a moped.

Oh, and then I siezed. w00t. Only a soft sieze, but a pretty bad one. Rings are on the way from treatland.

Here’s a pic of the beauty, once I fix my cylinder up, I’ll toss the mikuni on there and we’ll see what happens next.

get jealous

eyeballin’ it looks like it might just bolt right on. (bolt right on as good as any aftermarket exhaust, so, not at all – but we’ll make it work) just gotta make a bracket to hold that big boy up.

New toys coming

order up!

got a mikuni vm20 coming my way, and get this: puch simonini!! that’s right. simo, on a garelli. let’s hope I can hit that powerband. I’ll catch you all next week when I’m freezing my balls off testing out my new toys.

Getting all the kink’s worked out.

So newped is coming along nicely. Got a polini 19mm intake on the way, then onto PHBG land… wanna get a new pipe too… Either one of the bennassar style ones or the polini circuit for NOI’s (only one left in stock @ 77, so don’t buy it cuz it’s mine!)

Currently she’s got a 15.15, homemade pipe, 70cc polini kit.

I pulled the cylinder off for the first time yesterday and it looks pretty nasty, doesn’t seem to have a loss of compression though, and she runs good… We’ll see if it holds up…

pic of black beauty:

pic of nasty piston…

Let’s give it another go, yeah?

GNARELLI PART DEUX: The Not-So-Gnar elli

NEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW SUPERSPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s right bitches, I got a new ped. Since my old SSXL got stolen it’s only fitting that I get another. This ones black and it’s an ’80. Current setup:

15.15 Dellorto SHA (converting to spigot tomorrow night)
Homemade pipe (one part estoril, one part homoet 4p) – not pictured
Polini 70cc

Going to be putting a lot of work into this bike, it’s gonna rip for sure. Thinking about carb/pipe setups, race rubber, etc etc. I can’t wait to tear into this thing. The only good thing about winter is projects.

And she’s gone.

11/06/09 Never Forget. The day someone walked off with my pride and joy.

Wasn’t even done tuning her. Had just experienced the joy of a kitted garelli supersport xl.

Stolen.

Gone.

This sucks so much worse than I ever could have imagined. People: Lock up your peds and guard them with your life. One day you might have a building manager interrupt your morning meeting to tell you your precious joy was stolen from you.

polini kit

FUCKING RIPS

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

IT’S SO FAST

ok, I’ll put up a real update later when I GPS, and take some pics, etc.

out

airfilterin’ bitches.

Did some reading last night. Dellorto tuning guides… I’ve come to the conclusion that my high-flowin airfilter on my SHA has been fucking up my bike!

Ok, some backstory:
When I got the bigger carb (upgraded to 16.16 a stock 14.12) I made a new intake, and portmatched too. I also bought a high flow filter to go with the bigger carb. Sounds great right? Not so much, top speed remained virtually the same, and in fact the damn bike could barely idle.

So reading the dell’ tuning guide and looking at the difference between PHBGs and SHAs, I’m speculating that perhaps because PHBG’s have an inlet at the mouth of the carb, and SHA’s just have a flat opening, perhaps the SHA needs some sort of restriction to achieve proper venturi effect.

So, I threw my stock garelli airfilter on there… Fired up, idled like a dream, and fucking BLASTED on the way to work. It felt like a puch for christ’s sake (say whaaat?)

Shit’s sweet. Gonna order me a new-better airfilter when I order my kit (TOMORROW! FUCK YEAH)

Oh, p.s. check out garellibaddudes.blogspot.com some bad dude shit right thur.