Wild Child: A Daelim Citi Ace street tracker from Seoul
Scooter customization has been a thing for years, but the movement is mostly underground. Recently the moped scene has started intersecting with the ‘regular’ moto scene, and that means that established custom shops have started taking on pocket-sized builds too.
Crazy Garage in South Korea have spun the spanners on everything from the BMW S1000RR to the Kawasaki W800. But their latest project is a humble Korean-made Daelim Citi Ace 110 scooter, built for Deus ex Machina’s relatively new Seoul outpost. They’ve hit a home run too, turning the modest moped into a wily little street tracker.
The City Ace 110 is mega popular in Korea, and often used as a delivery bike. Like most of its ilk, it’s mostly shrouded in plastic?but that’s all in the bin now, revealing a chassis similar to the Honda Cub’s. But this custom moped is more than just a teardown job. The Crazy Garage crew has not only changed the City Ace’s clothes, but thrown a whole slew of interesting upgrades at it too.
For starters, they’ve scalped a FB Mondial Hipster 125 for its forks, yokes, wheels and swingarm. It wasn’t exactly a walk in the park though?the front end needed a custom steering stem made to make everything fit. And the Hipster’s swingarm had to be shortened, and installed with a custom pivot.
The Hipster lent its disc brakes too, and its 18F/17R wheels now wear Shinko Trail Master tires. Crazy Garage added a new pair of no-name b...
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