Powder pics

Here are a few shots of some of my recent stuff. This is a 5 star wheel in full gloss black. It's for Brony's Maxi N, which has been shot in Gun Metal and now clear coated. The gloss on the clear is awesome, and when you get up nice and close, you can see a slight metal flake. Nothing wild, just awesome.
In other news, Joel needs to get back to Seattle so I can stop taking pictures myself in the kitchen and let him do it so they turn out nice.

Merry Christmas

Gabe Bandit took a trip to Handy Bikes where I requested that he purchase me the smallest and cheapest moped part they had, and then the other day I got a letter postmarked from Kentucky. What a guy! And on the back side of those Christmas wishes are two stickers that each say "MOPED". I want to put one on my wife's car.

Gun Metal

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.

Brony Rigid

Responsible Jon's DeLuxe Powdercoat also does custom mopeds. Here is a Maxi N frame I'm working on for Mosquito Fleet member Tony. 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.

DeLuxe pt3

Check out my new website, www.deluxepowdercoat.com

I've got myself a little business now and hopefully it will provide me opportunity to build some sweet mopeds. I can do bicycle frames, which will include a lot of fixies, car parts, wheels, small jobs and any manner of small to medium objects. I can do many different colors and special effects! Stay tuned to my other page as I add photographs of my work. If you are looking for powder coating in Seattle, give me a shout!

Derbi TT Variant

I came home for Thanksgiving to Nebraska, and had eye-balled craigslist for something to go look at, but all I could find was a nice set of AMF Roadmasters about two hours away. I decided I wasn't buying any mopeds this trip, and then my sister called me from an auction and said "Hey, there is a moped here". Nebraska never had any dealers other than Honda and the occasional Vespa, so I was expecting a Bravo or Hobbit, and I asked what kind it was, so she replied it says "DERBI" and I said "I'll be right there!" We said a lot. I had to stand around all day and wait for this thing to go on bid because there was no schedule for the auction, but after about 5 hours of standing, it was time to bid on "the yellow scooter". 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.

DeLuxe pt 2

I decided I wanted to powder coat after visiting those fine gents at MotoMatic this summer. Any way, people who spend any amount of time with Devin from Motion Left Mopeds will also be able to sing praises of powder coating in moped applications. Since I don't have the big fab tools to take two ovens and stick them together like MotoMatic, I wasn't sure how to build an oven on the cheap. Then one night I sat up in bed with the answer that I had dreamed, and immediately got on craigslist and started searching for file cabinets. I found a nice 5 drawer legal size unit, which is about as big as they come with out going lateral, and big enough to hang a maxi frame in. 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.

The tank pictured is one I'm shooting for Mrs. Rocketman, and it is actually a beautiful teal color.

Also, to help keep costs down, find cheap labor to run your blast cabinet.