Cabinet Derg @Motodrachen@awoo.space

@sneakerfox@snouts.online Wosh U Soul

@Felthry https://onyxmotorbikes.com/ Forgot about these guys.

They're Legit mopedheads who are making new frames that can take a Puch E50 Pattern engine, or an electric one. I'm stoked, but poor. ;_;

@Felthry Never made them here, and in Japan... Well, in JAPAN they got a bunch of 80cc bikes with 6 speed transmissions and real frames and stuff, and they're just Superior machines.

Same with Europe, they moved on to legal status for 50-100cc light motorcycles, and I think Hero Puch in India might still make their Turbo Sport model.

Short answer: Capitalism.

@Felthry Only two remaining manufacturers are in Europe, and you can't get them imported, really.

There's still Thousands of them in Europe, and some of those bikes are Unicorns we never got over here in the 70s.

@Felthry Mopeds are usually made before 1985, and they're an Underbones style, have Pedals from the factory, and are under 50cc, and obey some other state laws.
Scooters are upright, with a floor/deck, smaller, fatter wheels and most now are 4 stroke powered. Still usually under 50cc.

Motorcycles are manual transmission bikes, over 50cc, and require insurance, title, and special licensing.

@Felthry Bicycle Motocross, they're the smaller bikes with taller bars for doing tricks and stuff with.

Most mopeds are a little smaller than a Mountain Bike in terms of frame, usually. Hobbits are on the Smaller size, and this is essentially a bootleg Batavus HS-50: (Except it's Japaneese, not Dutch, and actually Works)

@Felthry Mopeds are more like BMX bikes with motors, Scooters have the tiny wheels and you sit on them like a Toilet.

@Felthry Antique moped. But yes, now it's more like a tiny motorcycle

@internetwolf @pupy@chitter.xyz I keep telling @budgiebin@snouts.online that her superpower is being able to draw people's characters from her third eye.

Which is why nobody ever has any critique, they just gasp and go 'It Me!'

@maxine "Hey, I do all those things too, but I'm Not Autistic!!!" >:|

Yeah, uh, big mood with family saying "You're not autistic, you're just Quirky"

@sutter@snouts.online I had this revelation while working at Lockheed Martin on an antenna for an Ohio Class Submarine's encoded satellite receiver and realized that if the system I was working on building ever fulfilled it's intended purpose, it meant the End Of The World.

I was escorted from that job by security after the 2016 Election and it was one of the brightest moments of my life.