the kinetic tfr project

I just posted a ton of info on a moped army forum and though i would capture it here as well:
You can get Polini Evo engines a few places like:
http://www.50cc.nl
or from one of these two places that are in Germany and Switzerland respectively - unfortunately, their sites are in German but you can use Google […]

After getting some email from a nice guy in Sweeden (Johan), I was told that the Kinetic TFR was marketed and sold in Sweden under the name “Baghee”. I am not sure what the word means in either Swedish or Hindi. Here is what Johan had to say about them:

I don’t think they are being […]

So here is my TFR as of right now. It is sort of in a pile in my garage. I have been trying to find the time to work on it lately, but work/family obligations are keeping me. I am also in the middle of modding a Vespa Bravo, Grande and a Puch Maxi that […]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I bought a case splitter from an eBay store called “sportingforless.”
I also have another call in to Mike, the parts manager at Cosmo. Hope he has some better news than last time. Or at least returns my call. That would be a start.
Anyway, the splitter looks like this:

And […]

So I pretty much knew that this would end in disaster, but I did my first round of port maching/boring a little while ago. Not that you really get “rounds” to do this. Smitty from smc uses the phrase “boat anchor” on his site in several places to describe a crank case that was incorrectly […]