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oldbeer
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This was 6-7 years ago when I went through a minibike phase. It was a challenge to find vintage 70's minibikes in barns and forgotten in garages. I had a Rupp Scrambler when I was a kid, so it was probably a futile attempt to recapture my youth.
It was fun to track down parts and figuring how to get them running. Not to mention the puzzled look of neighbors seeing a grown man zipping by on one of these little buggers. It was always my goal to find a Rupp Black Widow in the "wild" but they are few and far between.
MotorcyclesMotorcycles have figured prominently in just about every aspect of 20th-cen…