Located in the Houston Texas area, MopedRich is a blog created for vintage moped enthusiasts. The mission is to bring you classic, restored, and custom mopeds from around the country.
What does Moped Rich mean?
Mopeds for the most part are fairly affordable. It isn’t difficult to buy a moped especially if it’s a “project” bike. I know of a lot of moped enthusiasts that have garages full of mopeds and most of the time about a few of them run. Moped Rich can also be thought of as Moped Horder or Moped Collector. Simply put, Moped Rich means to own more than one moped.
The Story about the website.
I (Lou) grew up in the custom car scene of the ’90s. In Houston, the Lowrider scene was big in my community. I enjoyed looking at Lowrider Magazine and going to Lowrider car shows. As I got older and my passion for mopeds grew, I found myself just wanting to see more moped builds. I like how auto magazines show more than one picture of a build and kept looking online for something similar to that for mopeds.
Another inspiration for the website came from moto blogs I enjoyed visiting. On these blogs, I would get excited when they covered a moped or small displacement moto. I would get my “fix” of moped build content from various sites like Garage.1977mopeds.com, MopedArmy.com, pedshow.wordpress.com, and mope shop websites of their inventory.
From that inspiration, I built MopedRich.com as an additional site to visit for moped lovers. The mission is simple to just bring more moped content online for our community.
About Lou
I’m Lou from the Moped Army official branch Magnetos of Houston Texas. My first moped was a Vespa Grande that my friend Little Jose helped me get back around 2010 or 2011. A few weeks later I got another Vespa Grande to use as a parts bike. Both of those mopeds sat in my garage not running for about 3 years. This was because of finances and mostly not knowing how to work on moped engines.
After I got my first moped running, I decided to build another moped for my wife to join me on rides. I ended up building the second Vespa Grande, which was a parts bike, for her. That was technically my first build from the ground up. I learned a lot on that build and thankfully I had my running Vespa Grande to help with problem-solving for hers.
When I “finished” her moped, is when I really went deep into mopeds. My friend Jesse and I started our own moped club and went crazy purchasing any moped we could find within a 10-hour drive radius. I believe our biggest haul was 8 complete mopeds that we picked up in 3 different states in one weekend.
Since then our collections have thinned then increase and thin again. A dream of mine would be to make a living as a moped shop owner here in the Houston area. Until that time I help service, repair, and restore mopeds in my home garage in my spare time.
