The VIP I picked up a week ago is rippin. I had to change the gas, and oil, fill tires, make a new seat, lube throttle cable, fix intake, and tighten all of the nuts and bolts. Every single one was loose. 

Now its ridding very well and goes 32 mph. Its a smooth 2 speed and is very comfortable. 

Finished the seat for the Garelli VIP. I used Nicole’s sewing machine from the Casserollers. It worked perfectly. Sew it inside out and flip it around. I used a hair dryer to warm the pleather and make it stretchy to fit over the seat easier. 

I used the stock seat cover tabs to attach the new one. 

I picked up a VIP and  Super Sport. Both in decent condition. 

I started work on the VIP and got it running well. It takes off with the 2 speed and brings me all the way up to 31 mph. I am re upholstering the seat right now and will clean up the rest of the bike soon. 

I got it started but it ran light crap. I thought it might have bad gas and when i drained the tank it came out BLACK. After a tank flush and a carb clean she started and ran great. 

Here is the seat cover pieces before I sew them together. 

This is the Super Sport. Ill get this going soon as well. 

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So here’s a pretty common one, you put a monster expansion chamber pipe on your moped and now you can’t use your pedals since they don’t spin all the way around because there’s a big exhaust pipe in the way.

There’s a lot of different hacks and approaches to this problem, but this is the one I feel will work pretty much universally with any pipe on any moped.

Just make the pedal itself a little wider using… some pedals. Hack the end off an old pedal or two and weld them on to your existing pedal to extend it out. This way you’re not actually messing with the original pedal shaft, you can make use of the cotter pin holes and if you change pipes and it’s no longer necessary you can just grind off your extra pedal nubs.

Special thanks to Will Daloz of the SWOOPS for the idea!

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