david’s goliath

remember the kid? well this is that dad! he fell in love with his kid’s ruckus and wanted one of his own. he secretly made sure to tell me make his faster than his kid’s. he was tall. so i had to figure out a way he can be comfy on this tiny scooter. i decided his seat had to be set back as well as lowered. his leg is going to have to be forward as well as his handle bar. starting with the frame, he knew it had to be purple. i found this new powder called candy barney, it was a chrome based top coat. but, problem. our frame was not chrome. nor was it polished. so, i did a 2 stage powder coat job. first i used a chrome powder coat, which looks so much like chrome, just without that super mirror finish. now that we have a high shine top coat, i applied the barney purple on top. wow! never seen a purple shine like that. cleared it and called it a day. we decided we were not gonna use a super fat rear wheel on this build so we opted for a 12 by 7 rear wheel. it will give the ride a little more agility. with that decided, we used once of the original engine mounts out there, since we weren’t using a 12 by 8 wheel, it was perfect for the wheel offset. we found a seat frame that was exactly what we were looking for, lowered and set back. this caused me to re imagine the tail light and signals. i decided i will mount the tail light off to the side, right above the license plate and i was going to fabricate rear signals to fit under the seat using led bars. the power plant was a torque monster 180cc with a stroker crank which pushed it to 191cc. high lobe cam too! he has the same transmission as his son, but with a 1000rpm spring. a taller final gear was used for that top end speed improvement. we chose a corvette style wheel set since he loves muscle cars. a custom made, short exhaust with a swept up exit. for the handle bars, a bar clamp stem and tall frisco bars angled to his arm length. this was a very quick build with not a lot going on. it does look like it would cruise nice and slow but i was able to test ride this on one of the san diego rides, and this thing fucking goes! it goes so fast i ended up loosing exhaust studs. luckily the homies had tools and just replaced them with bolts until i can get new ones. the seat was nice and pretty. full vinyl seat with double stitched diamonds in purple! she’s very pretty…pretty fast!

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