Brony's frame fresh out' the oven. It's a gun metal gray, and it will get a clear coat tomorrow.
The gloss black 5 stars really stand out against this bike, I think it will look pretty killer if it gets some white decals, as suggested by Mr. Knarpsworth.
Yes, this is the rigid that will be racing MF member Dr. Voltron's Plan B racer in a high dollar grudge match.
I've boxed up the swing arm to reinforce this little flimsy guy. A cross brace also stiffens the frame up for a colon jarring ride. The rectangle braces look so much better than those bolt in round bar jobs. The largest hurdle in this job was figuring out how to clear the gas cap with the brace. 
The notch has been boxed up on the inside as well, so no worries there. 
I should toss it back into the blast cabinet and have it shot sometime before Christmas. 
The bid started at $500, and no one made any noise, and I let the auctioneer get down to $75 before I made an offer, and then it was back and forth between me and some soccer mom. I scowled at her, and I think my tough wrangler flannel shirt showed that I wasn't an auction rookie, so she backed off and I got a heck of a good deal on it. It's a piston port, and it's all complete, including a very odd dealer extra, a Derbi sissy bar. 
Look at that! My first Derbi! I think this ones a keeper.
Then I got a free electric oven, pulled the coils, thermostat, controllers and then chopped down the wiring harness removing the flim flam and what nots. I chopped the faces off the drawers and welded hinges on. A bit of fireplace seal ropes plug up any gaps, and with both coils running at the same time I can heat this little leaky hot box up to right around 400 deg.
Very simple to make, and it fits just about anything moped related fine. 
and built myself an oven that can be disguised as a file cabinet or robot, 
and now I'm doing this! 
Huzza!
Daniel from Tennessee came to visit and had a good time with the Mosqutio Fleet, enjoying the AD for a nice ride. It ran like a champ, he was perhaps too friendly and well liked by everyone, and then promptly crashed it trying to start it on the way home. No damage to the bike, and small damage to the rider. Nice to meet you!
Strangely enough, I do enjoy soldering, so I was a little disappointed. Here is the main drive that is responsible for the engine being locked up. The jug looks great, the crank bearings are nice and fresh, but this weird shaft bearing is locked up. It has little metal barrels, caged by a ring, so it's kind of like a giant needle bearing from the little end of a crankshaft. The manual I have says the big gear pulls off of the shaft, but mine refuses to budge with a large puller. I can't get in there to clean out the bearing and re-pack it, so it's time to find a used one. 
Anybody got one laying around?
In this picture you can see the square port clearly outlined on it from being used on a square port cylinder with appropriate gasket. 
So a little bit of dremel, and presto, a square port intake. It's not quite as nice looking as a factory job, but let me get my hand file in there and give it another look in a bit.
Since everyone knows that pedal mode on a Moby is better off served by removing the drive belt anyway, we decided the best course of action was to relocate the arm for maximum contact and weld. 
Tada!
Here is the stock mount, which didn't hold up too well to the elements and time. 
And here is a picture of the mount removed next to its new counterpart, and the wonderful tool in the background. The new motor is bolted up and all it needs is a spark plug, a belt and some gasoline, and then it's time to ride the Panda Express to happy town!
I've used a 50cc TCCD kit before, and I really enjoyed it. With a 14bing and a Boss exhaust and normal-ish gearing, I was able to hit 40mph on a Maxi, which was a lot of fun. I really enjoy a moped where you can go as fast as that tiny little piston will push you, always. I've got some 50+mph bikes, and they accelerate to rip your arms off, but something is fun about going wide open and not worrying about blowing up your bike or getting a speeding ticket. Anyway, so here is the port shot of my Racey kit. My first impression is that it reminds me an awful lot of my old Parma 50cc kit, of which I was never able to coax that much speed from. Although with the Parma, the exhaust port was very small, and the ring pin ran very close, so I was never brave enough to open it up. 
This one has a very large exhaust port, and the ring rides the groove that splits the boost port in the top of the cylinder. Here is a shot of the case with the gasket snug on it, you can see the transfers open up a bit wider, but not too crazy. 
I didn't take a clear picture, but the cylinder skirt is very similar to the low torque puch aluminum cylinders, with open side transfers skirts instead of closed ones like a high torque. I'll bet this cylinder will really wrap out the RPMs if a fellow put a man sized pipe on it, like a Homoet or Motomatic. I'm going to try it out for starters with a Bullet exhaust, because I think the Bullet is really designed for high rpm better than the Boss, and I'll also try out a Proma Circuit pipe on the same bike.
and here is the after. 
It really isn't very hard to recover a seat. The most tedious part is perhaps the ripping (or un-sewing) of the thread that holds the original cover together. Then you just lay the pieces out on new vinyl, trace it, and sew it together. I borrowed Mrs. Rocketman's sewing machine and did the deed in less than 3 hours all together. It isn't perfect, but looks 3.5x better.
I find creatures in my back yard enjoying my mopeds pretty frequently. Here is our little squirrel friend enjoy some nuts on the wheel of the hobbit trike.
In this photo, you can see a wild "Nerdspeed" in it's natural habitat. Nerdspeeds are attracted to shiny objects, and will grasp them with both paws as they admire their newly won prize.
Next, I just poured the acid in a funnel into the tank (don't want to dribble and ruin my paint!) and watched as the level rises every so gently up the tube. I'm just letting the acid bake away at that rust for about 1/2 an hour, and then I'll go put the tube back into the jug the acid came from, let it drain, and viola, a less rusty tank!
Rinse it out a few times, chase it with alcohol, and keep it full of good old premix. Tank treated for less than $12, and I can re-use the acid on the next poor moped that comes my way.
I just want something to carry a little fuel that could be used in rust tank bikes and also for servicing mopeds or what not, and would perhaps be very cheap. I might try my hand at making my own out of something or other.
