optimus primer

got a lot of shit done on the tank today.
lots of sanding and bondoing and primering.
hopefully start painting it on saturday?








trying to get this thing done in time for the Chicago rally.
STOKED!

flex your head

exhaust arm finally taken off extra murray frame and welded onto top tank frame. which means, i can finally finish cleaning up the other welds and start the painting process. hopefully going to cut down the bars so they arent so obnoxious this week. hopefully put together my other e50 next week. so ready for a gila.


in other news, my new job (http://www.louisvillephotobooth.com) is kind of amazing. and fun. i just set up these fancy ass awesome photobooths at different events, watch people take photos for a few hours, tear it down and go home. pretty awesome, eh?


ps. i was prom queen at bomb prom. no bigs.

motivation!

treats came in the mail today. well... now i just have to put it all together. 2nd E50 rebuild, here i come!

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TBS rally is tomorrow. SOOOO STOKED!!

i suck.

So I work open to close what seems to be every single day. I have had no time to get anything done on my moped. Plus, I am not motivated. At all. And I'm broke. So, there's that.

In other news, I had my first real moped wreck. In cinci visiting TBS. mashed up my shoulder, scraped up my ankle, then got drunk and ripped one of my pockets out of my jeans. real cool. (the maxi doesnt even have a scratch on it somehow.)


New tattoo. Love it.

bomb prom is so soon!
so stoked!
-a.

womp womp

I feel totally overwhelmed thinking about all of the things I still need to do to this project before it's even close to being finished. It's starting to bum me out to the point where I haven't even felt like working on it at all. I know that doesn't even make sense. Sooo... I'm writing out a damn list of all the shit i need to do so I don't freak out...and so I can be reminded of how little motivation I have. Maybe it will help me on my days off. Meh.

-weld brace onto seat/rack area so my ass doesn't get dumped onto the tire
-weld tank mounts onto the crossbar
-strip paint off the tank
-rough up/prep the rims for the rattlecan session
-find an old leather jacket to cut/sew for my seat cover
-touch up the welds on the seat/rack
-powdercoat everything(another complete nightmare)
TO BUY:
-headlight
-grill
-handlebars
-some sort of taillight
-pedal crank & arms
-rear shocks
-fancy bmx pedals
-fancy cables & colored cable housing
-fancy bmx grips
-other fancy odds and ends for detailed sweetness

IN OTHER NEWS
Ghost Rider Peter hooked me up with another general cap WITH A KEY. super stoked on that. And Bandit Maggie shot some pretty amazing photos of me and my maxi last week.


Spring is almost here. It's time to GET SHIT DONE!

spring is just around the corner..

wrapped the seat with the foam and duct tape...

another shot of the crossbar weld-cleanup.

close up of the reweld/cleanup job on the engine mount plate.

welded on a plate on the base of the back rack to screw the seat into.

cleaned up the most rusty shitty looking wheels with a wire wheel brush.

so far, so good...

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whenever I get out of this rut and make some money I will buy everything else I need. Or continue to salvage everyone elses unwanted parts like I've been doing thus far.

(I'm so excited for the Latebirds rally!!!)

long overdue....

So i've been working on this winter project for a little while now. some friends had this frame sitting outside collecting rust for a while and said i could take it and give it life again.... and so i am.
this is what it started out as:

i stripped all the paint off of it with a wirebrush wheel.

then cut the seat post down so it was flat with the back rack.

found an old fence post in my friends garage that happened to be the same width as the rest of the frame. stripped all the galvanized coating off of it, and welded it on for a crossbar.

close up of the welds:

smoothed everything out with a little grinding and lots of hand filing.

used an old skateboard for the base of the seat. (it totally says "skate or die" written by a 11 year old)

cut the sides down and sanded everything so it was closer to the same size as my tank.

bought some foam from hobby lobby.

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as soon as i can get the rest of the pictures, i will post up the rest of the updates. (i dont have a camera)
:)