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me and morgan broke it off. i’m still living with her at the moment, but i’m going to be moving back into the moped shop once some space opens up. honestly, i just want to pack up and leave town, but i have too much riding on the moped race team and the shop at the moment.
speaking of the racing thing, you guys it is the most fun i have ever had on a moped. i sold my new tomos for 1100 just to help fund my racing.. i pretty much want nothing to do with mopeds at the moment other than race prep and racing, that’s how awesome it is. erin, i know you read this, you need to get on it before it’s gone. you would hands down dominate the ladies class, and probably be in the top 5 of the open class.. i know you have a house and stuff, but damn it, you own that house and it will be there forever! who knows how long this racing biz is going to last!
anyway, i am bored and tired and hungry and don’t feel well. everyone else is having fun, though, so that’s good.
bye.

025

i have a mustache and i keep taking pictures of it with morgan’s laptop. it’s fun! and funny.
bmx is a ton of fun, just like i knew it would be, though it’s kinda not the same cruising around on my own. i’m building a flatland bike to help with that, flatland seems like a ton of fun, and ok to do by your self.
i’m getting josh jones and casey to go have sparks in the park with me at the skate park this monday. we will probably have to drink our sparks in the car, but it will be a fun time, i hope. i haven’t ridden a skate park in six years. that’s a long time.. and i’ve never ridden park pegless. should be fun.
new place is rad, but still not completely put together. it’s getting there, though! we need a large tv for movies.
ok bye.

024

i’ve been spending the most of my time at a computer working on the 1977mopeds blog and not really getting anything else done. at least it’s been a fun learning experience, though.
tomorrow i’m headed for portland for the weekend with morgan. not really for valentine’s day, but kind of because of valentine’s day. morgan was able to easily get an extra day off due to the holiday, so we’re taking advantage of it. sweeeet.

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i hate it. new place is rad though!

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the sunday is done for now, i’ve been riding it around, so rad! kind of awkward still, but it’s coming back to me. years off a bike did me no good. i was hoping to go out and play on it today for a while, but it was snowing. i am sick of winter.
anyway, it is a rad bike for being mostly second hand. it could use a few things here and there, a new sprocket, a better fork, but it is ridable and i am riding it!

021

i think the moped kids who actually notice i haven’t hung around much recently blame running the moped shop for a waining interest in mopeds, when it’s really just that i don’t feel like if fit into any of mosquito fleet’s current ‘friend cliques’.
i love mopeds, they pretty much define my life right now. i may not get as stoked to run out side and look at mine after work as i did when i worked at mke, but that’s because they sit inside with me while i’m at work, often within view.
ain’t no lack of interest in mopeds, just not stoked on kids right now is all. it’ll pass.

bmx bike is so close. so retarded how long it’s taking me to build a fucking bmx bike, but that’s ok. most of the parts were either free or super cheap, and it’s turned out to be a quality build, even though it’s mostly second or third hand parts.
once the brake lever i got from a kid on bmxboard shows up, and johann’s package of goodies arrive, all i’ll need to get on the road will be the seat, seat post clamp and some brake cables. so excited!

sunday and tomo are rad.

020

last week was fucking rad. cut off all my damn hair, finally got a cell phone and was randomly flown to sf to hang out and party and ride mopeds and bicycles for five days.
so far this week is rad too, probably because it started off with me still in sf. if i can get my bmx on the streets by the weekend, i will be super happy!
unrelated: i somehow fucked with the settings on my camera and now everything is washed out.
morgan is wearing her jacket tall.

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i’m all stoked on bmx again, wtf. i just need a few parts and i’ll be rolling again like i was in 04. for some reason i assume i will be better at it than i was then, without being on a bike in years. i’m probably right about that.

018

went ahead and added hello tomo to mopedwhorehouse.com even though i wanted to wait until i had more pictures up. it’s not going to be a blog like ciaociao’s, just photos of the progression i make with the bike. you know, yarding off stock parts, bolting on awesome new parts. that kind of crap.
also, seattle mopeds is undergoing some severe changes.. should be pretty freaking rad when done.

017

a new 08 tomos st kinda sorta fell into my lap for cheap. i still have to borrow money to pick it up (thanks creature rally), but that’s no big deal. too bad it’s red. i hate red.
ciaociao is toast for the time being. i need a frame.
i beat call of duty 4, the extra map at the end is awesome.