The Moped

I am going to be making a racing styled moped based on the Red 1977 Batavus VA

I received this moped a few years ago and I fell in love with it, it didn’t run when i got it but only had 656 miles on it, i cleaned the carb and she fired right up. Of course when I got it there was no petcock so I had to hold the fuel line full of gas in order to keep it running, I ordered a petcock from the Moped Junkyard and put it on right away.  She ran and idled perfectly.  Over the course of about 2 months I took apart and rebuilt various parts of the moped until I knew every part of it inside and out but the quest for more speed led me to the Moped Army Archives in search of some ways to make it faster.  I found out about the clutch trick, milling the head, and porting the cylinder.  All these mods boosted me up to about 40 mph without an exhaust pipe.  I knew that an exhaust pipe would make me faster but at the time I had no money.  Keep in mind I was 15.  Then one day after coming home from the doctors I decided I would go for a quick ride since it was such a nice day.  But before I left I decided to spray WD-40 into my brake shoes because the day before I had read about someones brake shoes dragging slightly and slowing them down, instead of taking them apart and checking I decided this was faster and easier method and if I needed to stop o well.  About 10 minutes into my ride I came upon a very narrow twisty road with overgrown trees and grass on either side.  I went down this road slowly at first but them picking up speed trying to hit the turns like a real motorcycle does on a race course.  Well i was becoming pretty confident in my turning ability but I needed the whole narrow road to make a quick 90 degree turn, well as I was going into this blind curve at roughly 25 mph i saw a Ford F-250 coming down the road with a big brush guard and a winch on top………… o **** I slammed into the guy coming towards me and couldn’t slow down due to the greased up brakes (Irony).  I immediately popped back up (helmet flew off) and went over to check out the guys truck, there were no dents but a skuff mark on his hood which I began to wipe off.  The guy said I better sit down and I Was like no its ok I’m fine, but then i started to see black so I sat down anyway lol, after I got my sight back I got back up and went over to my moped and was trying to start it, but again I started to black out, I thought this time i am going to stay down because I obviously cannot stand up.  A little later a woman drives by and stops she comes up to me and proceeds to tell me she called the cops.  WTF YOU DUMB STUPID BITCH I wanted to say but was holding my tongue, the guy didn’t want to press and charges anyway and offered to take my moped and me home.  My mom showed up and then the cops along with an ambulance… They put me on a stretcher and took me to the hospital with a neck brace on, what an uncomfortable overused POS lol anyway bla bla bla sprained wrist, concussion, and a broken toe ( was wearing sandles lol)  the guy dropped off my moped the next day and i took it apart to rebuild it totally, that got pushed aside and now I’m taking it back out to finish what i started…2 years later.

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