Thursday, July 4, 2013

Garelli Eureka Restore

Finally got to work on the garelli, unfortunately because I needed to get something sellable for a personal emergency. I bought this bike from Austin Mopeds (super awesome local shop) years ago as a project bike from their boneyard. I bought a tank from a gentleman on moped army buy in sell, so figured since the tank paint was nice I'd repaint the bike to match the tank. 
Here's some early shots of the bike.
This is the bike as I received it with tank added. I decided to use a generic performance pipe from eBay. 
I made the mistake of not putting the expansion chamber closer to the header, but the bike performs exceptionally for stock. Shortly after this photo was taken I took the bike on a ride and had it up to 41mph, which is crazy for a stock non kitted bike. 
I was in a bit of a rush and had already serviced the bearings, so I was left with little choice but to mask things off and start painting. I used duplicolor engine enamel.
 Fenders
Post assembly. Not bad for basically a rush paint job. More photos to come.