Mopeds, Mo-Money??

I love Clean builds.  Painted/Powered everything, new hardware, and nice hidden electrics that tell you your head temp, rpm's, and what time it is in Egypt.  I also like going fast!  I mean bore out your carters, find the smallest form of ignition that they make, while somehow locating the largest millimeter Mikuni this side of the Missippi, and don't forget a pipe that resembles something of a whales penis.   But this gets to be expensive.  While I love to see these bikes, it's not mandatory.  I see more and more new guys that want to put life on hold until they some how amass a fortune of the most expensive parts that Treatland.tv can source.  "Hey man! You riding tonight?"  "Nah, I'm waiting on the *super rare blaster kit*  to come back in stock..."  You don't have to be Blasty McBlasterson to have a good time riding with your friends.  But if you absolutely can't stand to be slow, breathe easy because you don't need loads of money to be fast.  Take a few notes from Terry Cain's "R. A. Guzman"!

"$50 50cc Maxi that went just about 50 miles per hour! Ok, it only went like 46mph or something, but it totally could have went 50.  Built from parts I had collected/found in the scrap piles at Motomatic Mopeds in 2011 or something. 
Read about the build on Moped Army" -Terry

Puch Maxi, with a stock internals e50.  Tomos a55 stock cylinder, 16mm Dellorto PHBG carb, stock points ignition, and a  "scrap bin custom" pipe that Terry welded together himself.  The spark plug "boot" is my favorite!

Thanks Terry for reminding us of the fun, DIY side of mopeds.  This is the type of building that made me fall head over heals in the first place.