Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The More Things Change...

So I'm back in LA, for those of you who missed the last post. While I was gone, our workshop got bulldozed. What remains is a jumble of boxes inside a "temporary storage" (how temporary we can't be sure.)
 This is what my nightmares look like.

In the meantime, moped work continues as usual. 
(My balcony)

I also got a nice little collection of parts from Adrian 'Bird. He's one of the first moped people I ever ever met. Before I had even bought my first moped, I walked into Choke. (This being not long after it had opened.) He was sitting on a couch and proceeded to give me a sales pitch on a new Tomos. I almost bought one, but decided then that I liked the looks and style of the vintage bikes better... a decision I have stuck with, actually.
Just to decode this a little for you, that's a Jolly Moto pipe, wheels from a moped shop in Denmark (or the Netherlands, I forget), and a magnum swingarm. The wheels are 17" & 15" (or 14?) and have interchangeable hubs for weird chopperin'... but were made for Puch, as they take the same hubs as the 5-stars.

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