If you’re going to ride something with two wheels, then why not a bike, why not a scooter or a motorcycle? What’s the advantage?
PT: I think that for lot of people, the advantage they see is being able to customize their moped to their selves. You can tailor a moped more to who you are, what you want to do, and how it fits what you perceive your image to be, a lot more than you can with a scooter or a bicycle.
CC: Mopeds just have a lot more character.
PT: And they’re in a price range where anyone with a little extra money can throw one together and gain a serious mode of transportation. There’s also a community aspect to it. People really get into that.
CC: That’s how the whole Warbux thing started. We were getting mopeds for dirt cheap, buying a lot of them for like $200, which would give us eight bikes to work with. We’d make, like, two or three bikes out of those, sell them to our friends, make our money back, and have more people to ride with. Then we’d roll up to a party or something and someone would be, like, “Let me ride that.” They’d go around the block and come back, like, “Dude, I need to get one of these!” It was crack on wheels.
PT: Exactly—mopeds are like crack on wheels.
What’s the mission of Peddy Cash?
CC: Jokes and fun.
PT: The overall mission is that we don’t really care. We’re just here to have fun. People get into big political conversations about two-stroke laws and how mopeds are the wave of the future, and we’re just, like, “Shut the fuck up and let’s shotgun a beer.” We love mopeds. We’re all about them. We ride them. We make really fast, cool ones and really funny joke ones, but at the end of the day, it’s like “Dude, we’re dealing with mopeds.” It’s not that serious.
What do you say to people who aren’t the ones taking it too seriously, but instead, not seriously enough, thinking that you’re all just a bunch of losers and ratchet dorks?
CC: They’ve probably never ridden a moped. It’s a “don’t knock it ’til you try it” kind of thing. Everyone has their stupid jokes, though, like the one about the fat girl…
PT: Yeah—“Don’t tell your friends that you banged a fat girl or that you ride a moped.” But we just kind of brush it off of our shoulders. Look at everything we have because of mopeds—press, stores, songs, videos—and look at where we’re going. You’re being close-minded if you’re just, like, “That’s lame.” That’s just a really uneducated statement at this point.
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