Like your site!

Got a Crescent 2000, 1957 that I would like to show off to the people out there.

Built/customized it this winter. This style was popular in my neighborhood in the early 70:ies.

Sending you some pictures showing a/ my "new", b/ my "first", c/ how a Crescent 2000 looked originally and d/ how my "new" looked when I found it.

finding mopeds pimping them out, riding like some biker gang looking real cheesey..but it is all for fun..I am actually serious when I say start a club..who wants to join us?

please e-mail me and if you want you can look at my web site which has nothing to do with mopeds..just pictures, art stupid personal stuff I am shareing http://members.aol.com/CorpsePupt/index.html

P.S. if you have a club in the so cal area and need some more mebers, or don't have a club in the so cal area and want a chapter in that area e-mail aswell

Thanks

If it ends in "09" contact me with the other numbers and I'll send you the registration I inadvertantly kept when I sold this bike about 2 years ago. It's good to see the Net put to good use getting fans of all mopeds a place to exchange info. And to think /I considered them extinct.....

Three months after having it repaired,I bought (in a local newspaper) a marvellous red peugeot 103 RCX, with a polyester seat, an expansion exshaust (famous brand in france NINJA,) a 15 mm carb (brand dell'orto), carbone intake valves (brand adige), and an improved vario(the gear-box) which permits to exploit at best its power, and to be always faster than the boosters!!!;

It runs like on hell, a friend says: we've the ass on a missile!. Now, I always try to make it more reliable, because it dates back yo 1988, and at 90 km/h, the old parts don't like!

I have also an old YAMAHA RD 50, in restoration,and a big YAMAHA DTR 50, with a cylinder POLINI (wow!), a trail which climbs anywhere.

I really enjoy riding "mobs", as it is said in france, these are minutes of real pleasure, especially the RCX (a real bomb!):one day, I burst a scooter after the red signal. At the other red signal, he looked at me with enormous eyes, an asked "70?"(he believed i had a 70 cm3 cylinder), I answered "No, origin!!!",but I'm sure he never believed me.

One thing: Never forget your helmet!!!

Finally i bought the ill-fated Suzuki GSX 450 which left me on crutches for 6 months and a walking cane for a year. I love riding my supercub because it is just so much damn fun! Its light, zippy and it feels great to ride (it gets a lot of attention too). I guess I've always had the most fun on little bikes. I ride my moped to work everyday and everywhere I go on my own and it costs me about $6 a month in petrol which is really cool.

I like Mopeds because they aren't heavily regulated like motorcycles are. Back in 1968 I use to own a 1958 Triumph 650 TR6 motorcycle. That was was first motorcycle.

The kids and I have had a lot of fun kicking around the neighborhood on the mopeds. I will put up a moped website soon. And I'm still looking for more mopeds to own.

I've loved and ridden all types of motorcycles since 1967.A good friend of mine does motorcycle/moped restorations and has done many showbikes.

Our mopeds are used regularly in the summer to run errands at our shore house.They're a lot of fun where the speed limit is 25mph and you can ride with traffic.We even use ours to go to the beach,and our 4 year old son loves to ride with his Dad on my Puch tank top.

Thanks-it's good to know there are other moped nuts out there.

I like riding it, because after 33 jears it's still a very comfortable relyable machine and also cheap using it (no tax, less of fuel, low cost of assurance.)

After a long period Mopedriding is new discovered by many in this country, Roads are getting full of cars, not enough parkings, expensive fuel (about 1 Gallon for 4 USdollars) With a moped You can get everywhere, and park free on the sidewalk wherever You like.

I drove it the 25 miles to my friend's house and then home again to see how long it would take, and how it would feel. There is a series of smooth back roads that takes me directly there, and it only took 40 minutes each way. It's a 1996 Puch Korado (I wrote you about it before) and this ride put me in love with it to stay. This is amazing stuff. Heads turned...you could tell people hadn't seen a moped in years. I'm hoping by riding it around enough I can spark some kind of comeback in this area (upstate NY).

To those of you in other places who view California as the Paradise seen in Movies and on T.V. the economic, legal, and social conditions that now prevail are far from that!

A moped is treated as any other vehicle, you must have a drivers licence, proof of insurance, registration, (autos must pass ever more restrictive and expensive smog checks) I gotta tell ya, folks, it's become a real rat race, and don't leave home without your helmet, either.

Increasingly the lower income people of Calififornia have stood by the side of the road, watching their vehicle being towed away to impound.

There is, however, a tiny crack in the Vehicle Code, it is called a Motorized Bicycle. If you take a bicycle and add a motor, no registration is required , thus no insurance, no drivers licence. and ,glory be, no helmet, may the breeze be ever in your hair.

This brings us back to Velo-Solex: of all the bicycle motors I've seen, this one is the best, the magneto powers a 6 volt lighting system, the engine itself was refined over a production run of several million units. You'll want a later model, specify a 3800 model , for many years, solexes came in black, if you find one in blue, red, white, or yellow it's definitely a later model

If the laws where you live are amiable, enjoy your moped. For my purposes, however. I must remove the front fork, and re-attach it to a bicycle frame. Today's mountain bikes with 21 or more speeds, cantilevered brakes, and supension options seem ideal. If you'd like to try a trike please remember that 3 wheels are inherently unstable. Take it slowly on uneven ground, get your butt up off the seat and stand on the pedals when cornering, this transfers the center of gravity from the seat, from where you'll surely tip over, to the pedals, much lower. If you ride a trike, odds are high that you'll take a spill sooner or later, so wear protective clothing.

The Moped needed the points rebuilt with a new spring and I must thank Gary Reeves who is an engineer and runs the Volks Electric Railway in Brighton Sussex, England with me, for all the hard work he put in to getting the bike running after laying undercover for 16 years or more.

The petrol tank had to be cleaned out and the carburetor needed to be rebuilt. The tappet bucket cups (6mm. dia.) were missing but I found them in the crankcase.

One cup was OK the other had been crushed under the cam. I could not find or buy another so I turned one out of an 8mm. Allen screw. Then hardened/ tempered it in a flame I stripped and rebuilt the clutch (Twice I to get it to release better. The whole job was great fun and only cost me the part for the clutch which I did not really need after all.

I am 41 years old and have had about 20 motorcycles.

My last bike was a Kawasaki LTD750 Custom which I found too big to keep upright.

Mopeds are cheap, fun and do not cost a lot to maintain.

HAPPY MOPEDALING!

Batavus sat in the garage in the original plastic wraps until 1995, when we decided to title and run it. The gas tank had corroded from the moisture and condensation cycles of 15 Pennsylvania winters. We needed to have the mechanic fill it with some nuts and bolts, and to shake it on a paintmixer, and then coat it with Kreem, a product for rusty motorcycle tanks. Now it runs great. Only has 75 original miles. The seat is long enough for two, but the engine really doesnt have the guts. We have the original owners manual, and it does suggest not running with a passenger during the first 500 mile breakin period.

I ride my moped for me, not for anyone else -- including my buddies. I love the sensation, as I sputter along the backroads here in Belgium, of hearing and feeling every part of my moped functioning as it brings me to my destination. I get a true appreciation of what an internal combustion engine is all about, and there's an odd sensation of pleasure in the magneto generating enough current for my head- and tail-lights. Of course all this exists in my truck, but there I am insulated from the process of propulsion and generation (I just stomp on the gas pedal and the truck moves.); with the moped I'm a part of it.

Everyone who rides a moped chooses to do so for a different reason: For the youngest among us, it may be the only motor vehicle to which they have access; for others it is a matter of cost and fuel economy and lack of licensing and insurance requirements, for others still it's the pleasure of the "minimalist" sputtering through the countryside. The attraction for me is a combination of the minimalist and the economist, but that's really irrelevant: What's important is that I ride a moped because I like to.

Now, are there those who will sneer? Of course! It's the same kind of person who, on his Cannondale bicyle, sneers at the fellow riding a Huffy. By the way: That Cannondale rider is being sneered at by the rider of the supercharged Tomos, who is being sneered at by the rider of the big Kawasaki, who is beeing sneered at by the driver of the Hyundai, who is being sneered at by the Cadillac driver, who....well, you get the idea!

Ride what you want because you want to. Let others do the same. If you want to think that, somehow, you are superior to me because you drive something that is more expensive -- well, I hope that gives you some pleasure! I get my pleasure from enjoying what I chose to have, not by trying to make myself seem superior to others by virtue of my posessions!

Eons ago, when I was young, I did a lot of motorcycle riding, but I have found I enjoy the slower pace of mopeds a lot more. It gives a guy a chance to see what he is passing that higher speeds don't allow. Since buying the Kinetic about two months ago, I've put 635 miles on it as of this morning. Mostly on the county roads around Lake St. Louis. I have ridden up to Quivre River State Park a few times.

Pat Dore

Friday 06/27/97 ...hope site stirs up some interest. Today I had a great ride on the moped. I had to go to the post office annex about 5 miles away at rush hour, and it was bumper to bumper traffic. Riding the moped at 25 mph up the shoulder past 6 blocks of dead stop traffic was a pleasure. Why would anyone in their right mind want to sit in that traffic in a car???

Recently I bought a '80 Peugeot 102 SP moped, I finally got it together. Now, I am looking for others who have mopeds who might be able to help me get this one in tip top shape.

Hi,

I have one (Bike Machine) too. Bought it in about 1983 (I think). Bought it from COMB Liquidators who advertised it in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science. It was $88 + $12 shipping, grand total a whopping $100!!! I couldn't pass it up!!! I may still have the original operators manual - if you want I'll check and see if there's an address for K&S. I think I still have the original carton it was shipped in - with the advertising & features touted on the box. I was about 24 at the time and I think I was fulfilling a childhood dream - a motor on my bike!!! (I already had a full-size motorcycle at the time.)

It's cool. I have since moved it to my wife's bicycle. She's faster than me now!!! My nephew's ***love*** it too!!!

The engine has a good fiability,but the comfort is not very good,and the top speed is not very high(45km/h=30MPH) If you want further information,mail me!