She's ALL finished.

Just waiting on my new decals from Miguel Rivera (Puddle Cutters) and she's 100%

Enjoy the pics.  Thanks to everyone who helped me out on my first ever build.

Featured!

My Maxi was just featured on SHA 14.12 a blog dedicated to all moped things.  Check out the story.  Thanks to Bob P. for the feature story (although I hardly would call myself the last real man...)

Almost there.

Just need to hook up the 12V wiring and she's done!

Bars and Forks are on!

First Coat

This is the first coat in a low res image.  I left the pedals on the frame becasue they were a pain to take off.  They were surprisingly easy to tape around.



Removing the wheels

Ok.  This usually doesn't go so well for me.  I had some problems with my Tomos doing this.  This looks more confusing because the maxi has 2 gears and 2 chains.  The rear wheel should already be loose since I loosened it to get the main drive chain off.  

I basically took my hand and released tension on the little gear arm and the chain came right off.

After the chain is loose, note the notch where the rear tire mounts to the swing arm.  Slide it off of that and the rear wheel will be free to come off.

Now that the wheel is off, remove the little gear arm that puts tension on the pedal chain.  One bolt should do it.  Note the washers and where they are on this.

Next, remove the front wheel.  Note the washer positions, etc.

Crappy picture... but there is 2 screws (one on either side of the front forks) that hold on the front fender to the forks.  Remove them and off it comes!

Here is what the maxi looks like now.  All that's left to do is remove the forks, pedals, swing arms, and rear tail light.  Then, it's time to de-rust, etch, and coat the gas tank.  Then, finally, sand, prime, and paint this thing.

Oh, I almost forgot to remove the wire for the rear tail light.  Details on this soon...