Time for new exhaust...

This past Monday I went out and hung with the Ghost Riders at Founder's, awesome bunch of people, met a few people and learned a few things. First thing I learnt was its fun to hang out with other moped "enthusiasts," I would encourage anyone with a moped to go out and find a crowd of like minded individuals. Even though I feel like a outcast to the group, they seemed not to mind me and I bet it'll be awhile until they warm up to me. Either way it was a blast!

At Founder's if you can't find them, stand by your ped and they'll find you, if you wish to find them just look for the nearest seating outside on the veranda. After standing around talking to everybody we all went for a ride and learned another thing, don't trust your speedo! Mine goes up to 40mph and it was bouncing off the 40 mark the whole way, yet everybody was blasting by me and I bet I was barely going past 30mph. Either way it didn't matter how fast I was going, I had fun even though I was the last person in the group for most of the long distance runs by the Grand River. The upside to having stock everything is that my low end power was great, so when we drove around in the city I was with the upper half of the group on speed since we hit several lights and those with crap bottom end power got passed.

At the end of the night we all headed over to a bar and had some PBR, $3 pitchers FTW! I was able to get advice on a lot of things, while talking with a group I was able to learn the best route to take for my moped with what money I have.

As for what I want to put on my bike, I plan on a low budget for this summer and save a few dollars here and there. I'll most likely get a Proma GP pipe and some Bing jets for next week, along with gaskets and sealant. This should get me to the back group crowd. Then come a month or so I'll get a hi comp head w/gasket and add that on and probably do some plug chops and make sure I don't need to up my jet. Then this winter I'll get new bearings and seals along with a Polini 64cc kit. I figure if I'm going to get a kit, I might as well get the best I can. As for the carb, I'll stick with a 14mm Bing and maybe move to a 15mm Bing next spring or maybe pick something else up cheap. All told I'll hopefully be spending less then $350 in parts w/o shipping which is about what I paid for the bike but I want to go at least 45mph, is it worth it? Considering a crappy motorcycle costs about the same and then I have to jump thru hoops to get a license and then the insurance which is a arm and a leg, I think I'll stick with putting money in my moped.