The Latest News from the Garage

It's mid January in Chicago, so its cold as hell. Not much wrenching happens in the garage when its 20 degrees but, we have whipped out the dice. Not sure who the winner was, pretty sure we are all losers... Gotta keep form for rally season. Photo credit to Josan's instagram where you will find 6 more copies of the same exact picture.

Earlier in the day, I think, Josan came over and timed Adam's newport. 5 min of work and it was running again. Not sure what Adam was doing and I'm not sure he does either. #noobwatch2013

So the Vikings lost to the Packers last Saturday and although I'm sad that the season is over, it also means that my newfound boredom on the weekends will result in more time spent in the garage. Case and point, this project:

This is Kim's Magnum, which used to have a za-50 on it. Now it has a E50 with 72cc Arisal kit, 21mm Dellorto PHBG and a awesome hacked up estoril pipe. Engine was rebuilt a while back by Noel of the Cranks and now it will be Kim's to enjoy.

Almost forgot! Steve, my tuning assistant, liked this build so much he decided he wanted to pose with it. Without further adieu...

  

Thats all for now. Going to try to fully tune this magnum on Saturday since its forecasted to be in the 50s. Also helping Sarah put her topend back on her freespirit after the kind gentlemen at M.O.P.E.D fixed a stripped cylinder stud hole thingy. who knows who else may come by and what weird shit may happen.

Until next time...

Food for thought...

Are treats tacos vegan?

I Love you Joe

Sooooo...

Joe over at Hippy Joe's mopeds and Babes Blog has been giving me a hard time about not updating my blog. Its been a crazy three months, got kicked out of the old garage, got a job, quit my old job, found a temp garage, ran away to europe for 5 weeks, yada yada yada...

New office Building

When i got back and had an income again, I went searching for a new garage. Found one, in Logan Square...

And it looked like this, and has temporarily been named 'The Sticky Throttles Garage'

Then we started moving stuff in and having a bit of fun. Adam, the newest Babel in Chicago also is in the garage and has some pretty awesome ideas for builds.

So after finally getting moved in, the finished (bit messy in this pic) garage looks like this:

Now is when the shenanigans started...

Justin, in his infinite wisdom of art and culture, decided to take a shot at adding some class to the new spot. The results were, in my opinion, spectacular.

'Models in Space'

In addition, Justin was also able to find himself a new rally girlfriend. I hear she plans on making the trip down to the Zombieshop for the Nashville Rally. We can only hope....

Meet Derek, another resident of the garage, who just picked up a Newport at CBBG and decided it needed some adjustments...

We also came up with an innovative way of opening wine bottles. Cause ya know, gotta be classy sometimes...

Now to get us caught up to the present day (ya happy yet Joe?)....

Last weekend we had a garage party which started early, maybe too early for some. Justin was singing REO Speedwagon into his beer can microphone at 9pm...

which then evolved to garage hockey...

Thats it for now. Expect some actual moped related posts in the future. I got that app for my phone.

One last thing, joe need company...

Moped night plus M.O.P.E.D

So last night was Tuesday, and Tuesdays in Chicago are moped night. We met up at my garage, hung out, wrenched a bit, then headed over to check out HnR Will's new shop; its pretty swanky. Should be quite convenient to run down the street to pick up little bits needed to finish builds and maintenance.

JON FOLKS looking rad on his Hobbit

Mopeds outside of Seb's Used Parts

Powered by Dante's Pizza

Jon wouldnt even look at the squashed rat...

Inventory @ M.O.P.E.D 

Rain Delay!

The rain came suddenly and hard so our hopes for a ride got washed away, but we did manage to shuffle back to my garage, grabbing beer on the way. Crazy Chicago weather always has us on our toes. Oh well, still and awesome night. 

Steve's bday

Wow. Awesome orange