1977 Mopeds: like old motorcycles, only smaller
1977 Mopeds is a San Francisco shop specializing in restoring, upgrading, customizing, fixing and hanging out with old mopeds. Where our rocker machismo would normally have us dismissing pedal-powered scooters as the preserve of effete mods, then running a comb through our greasy hair like it wasn’t a thing, we’re actually super impressed with the period upgrades and workmanship demonstrated in these custom peds. Instead of looking down on mopeds like these as bikes without balls, we’d do better to see them as a halfway house between bicycle kids and real bikes.
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