Korea, Tracs and the Argentinean moped craze.

I've had some neat projects, but my camera on my phone won't work until I find a way to get all the videos on there off. So until then here's some nerner action for trac owners.
Did you know that Daelim (made Trac bikes in Korea) made models related to the liberty (kickstart 2-speed version of the olympic) for a super long time? And did you know in Korea they call the Trac Liberty the Daelim Handy? Good thing they changed the name for the states.

Also did you know the US distributor in the early 2000's got fed up and moved to Argentina? Well, I don't know that for sure but i've assembled that as a basic theory. In Argentina, the bike that's all the rage looks very familiar to the owners of Trac Liberty and Olympic bikes. Search Daelim Liberty Tuning on youtube and you'll see what I mean. Here's a sample of what goes on.

http://youtu.be/E2tYGX6rsNE

Trac Liberty of Silver Ships

Here's some photos my friends Naomi and Joseph of CraftPOP! here in Austin shot for Silver Ships promo. Silver Ships is my music project btw.

SilverShips.bandcamp.com for anyone interested.

Ok, more posts coming this week about moped projects!

Moby to the rescue, and moby cylinder info

Been a while since I've worked on or posted about the mopeds, but a friend of mine who is ill and needing to have a cheap form of transportation asked me to get a moped going for her so I've got a good purpose. The goal will be to get my orange Mobylette 50 (variator converted) to run and idle reliably (it's always died intermittently at idle) and performing well as a basically stock bike for her to use.

By the way, here's a good mopedarmy.com thread on moby cylinder identification and differences, i.e. fast cylinders vs. slow cylinders.
The information is insightful but not a complete guide.

http://www.mopedarmy.com/forums/read.php?7,1996359,page=1

Also got paperwork through to get plates on my Hobbit and Trac Liberty, so I'll be posting soon about those bikes as well.