Goodie Mob

Variety is the spice of life. For her second scooter, it all started with wanting to have a little more giddy up! I installed a big bore kit along with a digital fuel injection tuner. I also upgraded the cam, variator weights and final drive gears. Before running a tune, I got a Honda Ruckus intake system with velocity stack and modified it to fit this Metropolitan. Also purchased a WirusWin exhaust system which sounds a little too tame for my taste. After that, I set out to tune her and was able to go over 50mph! Months go by and I was again handed the Met and now armed with another crazy idea. No one (that i’ve known or seen) has ever installed a mini fatty wheel to this generation Met. So, we had the rear wheel sent out to FLP and they made us a 1/1 rear hub. I used a 10×5″ solid dish wheel. I had also turned to RDR to make a minor stretch mount just to give her a little length now that she had a little girth! The next crazy part was to lower her squat. The rear end was easy, a lowered shock fit no problem. The front end however was like solving the three body problem! The steering tree on this Met was made with integrated forks, so you could not remove them. I had to take a first generation Met steering tree and marry it to her original tree. Turned to my friend at Pandora Motorsports and they knocked it out fairly quickly, as a matter of fact they thought it would be safer to press out the shaft instead of cutting and welding and I couldn’t be happier with the result! I just didn’t want to lower the front end, I wanted to match the rear wheel and convert to disc brakes. What a freaking journey just to source the 10×2.5″ wheel. Not to mention the 190mm rotor to fit the 2 pot caliper. Just spacing the wheel and the caliper was a pain. She was able to source an good condition front fender and we had it refinished by Possession Industries. Now that she sits right, I had to figure out how to fit the master cylinder on the bars which had a headlight cowling. Cut, trim, shape, that was scary. Then to complete the bars, I got rid of the analog speedometer and installed a digital one, inside the housing of the old speedometer. Did I mention the wiring conversion sucked the life out of me? Now the only thing to do was small details, like the galaxy powder coat on the wheels and velocity stack. Gloss black exhaust bracket, rear grab and bar controls, all done by Possession Industries. The last pieces was to get rid of those bunny ears mirrors and use stubby Honda Rebel mirrors. At this point she was done, no! I always do something special on every build and I figured since I commemorated someone on her Ruckus, why not on this one! This one is for you, Goodie, the goodest girl!

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