figured this thread belongs in the tavern, because you gotta be drunk to get this involved with a moped...
i picked up this running 1977 Tomos 2 speed automatic moped a month or so ago for 200 bucks and decided to make it better.
i raked the front end out by making my own triple trees for the forks. normally you'd cut and rake the neck, but the frame/tank wraps around the neck and is all welded up so i couldn't do it without basically building a whole new front part of the tank, buying a new headtube, and a whole lotta time consuming fabrication.
i wanted to keep this cheap and easy.
added a 24" worksman wheel and it's done. more or less. i'm gonna swap out the dynohub that's on it now for a non-brake hub. old school choppers don't have front brakes. or fenders.
the rear end was stretched 6'' and i made some strut rods to replace the shocks to make it rigid. i'll be throwing a Pirelli ML75 tire on the rear.
boxed in the rear triangle with some sheet metal, and made it so the whole thing comes out as a unit.
chopped the top of the seat section a few inches and made a mount so the seat flips forward. i'll weld a lid on the bottom so the rear triangle becomes a storage box.
the Tomos engine starts by kicking the pedals backwards like a kickstarter, so i'm gonna ditch the cranks and make a custom kickstarter, and weld on some footpegs.
for the rear drum brake, i'm gonna make a linkage set-up and have a foot brake, so the only cable will be the throttle.
i'm gonna paint it a spraycan metalflake fade, from orange to blue to green for that 70's LSD look.
my only cost so far has been for the moped itself, not counting parts i have on hand, and i figure by the time it's done i'll spend another 100 bucks. like i said, cheap and easy.
picture one is the stock moped, pic 2 is moped superchopper mock-up so far...
i picked up this running 1977 Tomos 2 speed automatic moped a month or so ago for 200 bucks and decided to make it better.
i raked the front end out by making my own triple trees for the forks. normally you'd cut and rake the neck, but the frame/tank wraps around the neck and is all welded up so i couldn't do it without basically building a whole new front part of the tank, buying a new headtube, and a whole lotta time consuming fabrication.
i wanted to keep this cheap and easy.
added a 24" worksman wheel and it's done. more or less. i'm gonna swap out the dynohub that's on it now for a non-brake hub. old school choppers don't have front brakes. or fenders.
the rear end was stretched 6'' and i made some strut rods to replace the shocks to make it rigid. i'll be throwing a Pirelli ML75 tire on the rear.
boxed in the rear triangle with some sheet metal, and made it so the whole thing comes out as a unit.
chopped the top of the seat section a few inches and made a mount so the seat flips forward. i'll weld a lid on the bottom so the rear triangle becomes a storage box.
the Tomos engine starts by kicking the pedals backwards like a kickstarter, so i'm gonna ditch the cranks and make a custom kickstarter, and weld on some footpegs.
for the rear drum brake, i'm gonna make a linkage set-up and have a foot brake, so the only cable will be the throttle.
i'm gonna paint it a spraycan metalflake fade, from orange to blue to green for that 70's LSD look.
my only cost so far has been for the moped itself, not counting parts i have on hand, and i figure by the time it's done i'll spend another 100 bucks. like i said, cheap and easy.
picture one is the stock moped, pic 2 is moped superchopper mock-up so far...
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