Wiring the Batavus E50

I don't know what to call it. It's the Batavus HS50 frame with an E50 engine welded up.
Today I made a clean wiring harness with brake lights, horn, headlight, tail light, and turn signals.

The rats nest is hiding inside the headlight bucket with the flasher relay.

The CDI, adjustable voltage regulator, and wiring junction will all hide under the side panel.

It's looking alright so far.


I'm moving at the end of the week for a number of reasons. I'm really going to miss this shop.
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Moped Racing 6/23/11

This weekend we race at Portland International Raceway. This is one of my favorite places in Portland. There's a proper road course for cars and motorcycles, a quarter mile drag, and a great dirt section. It's also so close to my house that I can hear it loud and clear. It's the only time of year that we get on a big track.

On my Peugeot 103, the gas shock setup wasn't holding up to the torque when the clutch pulley grabbed on. It broke the shock mount. I ran a skinny belt, so it could slip during takeoff and absorb some of the initial torque.
With this band-aid on the problem, I had bad starts, the belt couldn't ride to the outside edge of the Variator (couldn't reach top speed), and I had a lot of surging under braking.
I made this bracket, which can hold a long spring in the center, and a gas shock on the side. I'm running a 20lb gas shock, so it doesn't provide too much force, but can still dampen the rebound.
Hopefully this works.



Now i'm running a 24mm Flat Slide Mikuni carb.
God I hope this works.


At this point, the set up on this bike is:
Malossi race cases (huge intake)
Polini aluminum W port 65cc cylinder kit
Peugeot CDI ignition
Doppler exhaust
MotoTassinari V Force3 8 petal reed cage
26mm scooter intake adapted to fit (wouldn't fit in a normal peugeot frame)
24mm Mikuni Flat Slide Carburetor
Doppler clutch pulley
Malossi Variotop Variator with proper thick belt
Doppler spring/gas shock as described above
Hydraulic ebr forks up front. Some kind of decent shocks out back.
Hutchinson GP1 2.5x17 tires

JJ delivered some fun parts for the SF Vespa.

That's a custom clutch insert made by Dayn Longlade. This runs 8 springs in a primavera clutch bell. The corks that fit in the stock primavera clutch have more surface area then the XL2 clutch that I was trying to run. I'm running the thick polini corks, thin steels, and one thin carbon fiber cork with a DRT top plate.
The DRT clutch top plate is dished by a couple mils, so you can stuff one more clutch cork in there. Ideally five thin ones, or four thick ones. I found that I would have to bend the shit out of the tabs on my top thick one, so I'm running one thin one in there. It seems to be holding on.
The Polini corks are made from aluminum, which is soft, but displaces heat quite a bit better. The tabs are also about 2mm thick, where the tabs on the thin steels are less then 1mm thick. This should put up with a lot more beating without bending up like my past cork tabs (see picture below). Once this happens, the clutch can't fully engage or disengage. It's just always slipping a little bit.

This picture is after I disassembled my XL2 clutch. It was putting out enough power to do this while running that wimpy LeoVince exhaust.


At this point, the setup on this bike is:
Malossi 135cc cylinder kit
Case port matched to kit, rotary patch removed to flow transfer gas to intake
Reed intake on case
26mm Dellorto PHVA carburetor running a 130 main and a 62 idle (this may need to change more with the new exhaust)
Gear box out of a PK
The above described clutch
Vespatronic ignition
Mazzucchelli crankshaft (unfortunately not full circle) with 24/25mm cone to prevent breaking off flywheel at high revs.
Stoffi's Garage exhaust.
Some cheap suspension that works better then the original stuff. I bought it off JJ. Thanks buddy!!

E50 HS50

Made some engine mount brackets


Welded them to the frame


And mounted up the engine.

Who knew this would take all day?

Microcar show

On Sunday a couple buddies and I rode the long way out to Forest Grove for the microcar show on some old scooters. It was about 50 miles out and 40 back. We got picked when it started to rain hard for the ride back. We're wimps.



Messerschmitt KR200 (Kabinroller)



Running a two-stroke Sachs Engine.

Here's Mark P Hatten driving it.


Vespa Car Unfortunately, the owner didn't have the original engine and fit an air cooled VW engine in the back.




The original "Little Deuce Coupe."
So cool.


This is basically a Jawa motorcycle with two wheels up front and a tent wrapped around it.





One of my dream cars. These vans, trucks, and cars are powered by a two-stroke twin engine.


Here's a shot of the engine.



Mini cooper made by Innocenti. It's kind of a Lambretta car, right?


Puch Halflinger work trucks. Some were used for military, as ambulances, or as regular work trucks.



Here is one with no body in crawl gear.

Portland Swap Meet

The Portland Swapmeet is the largest on the west coast. First week of April, and it always falls on the same weekend as the Spring Scoot scooter rally.
It takes up the entire race track (and most of the service roads) at PIR, and the entire parking lot and inside of all buildings at the EXPO center. It takes about 10 hours of walking to see everything, while walking fast.



Piles of expansion chambers.


Awesome mini trails.
As a side note, there must have been 50+ Honda trail 90's for sale.



I bought this tank.




We got there as the gates opened. 7AM. By the time we found this two-stroke Subaru truck, it was already sold. The rain had washed away the price sticker, but it seemed to say $800. Fuck.

This AMC Javelin is amazing. My dad used to drag race one that looked just like this. Mo-Par or No-Car!


Looks like a Motobecane logo.


They used to stuff 350 V8's into these tiny things and put an X next to the name. Pacer X! Gremlin X! I read that they used to twist the frame with the V8 in there.
Mo-Par or No-Car!







My Loot.