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Post by wheelbender6 on Feb 2, 2020 23:16:26 GMT -5
Rode my scoot to the hardware store to get a feeler gauge. My wife's scoot was not due for a valve adjustment but it was difficult to start it. After a quick valve adjustment, it fired up on the second kick.
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Post by SylvreKat on Apr 12, 2020 18:26:06 GMT -5
Not today, but scooted yest.
Y'alles will be happy to hear I finally got new tires. Had to go with Pirellis 'cause the shop couldn't get the back tire's size in Michelin. Who doesn't make the same type anyways. Austin at ScooterWorld scolded me in a nice way for having 15 (17? most likely) yo tires. But it's partly their fault--I had them check them every year at tune-up, and last year was the first time they mentioned my tires were starting to look a little aged.
So new tires, new oil (throw out almost unused oil from last year's t.u.), new fluids, new sparks, total check-over. I'm good to go!
Drove to work after 'cause all that took longer than anticipated. Happily the rains held off 'til later that eve. Those new tires sure made the ride a lot less hard! Wow! I didn't realize how tires transmit all the little bumps in the street--I thought the shocks controlled that.
Since my hours are--well, will be again, once the Stay-at-Home is lifted--regular and earlier, I plan to drive my scootie lots more. Funky late hours the past couple years just weren't conducive to it.
Sure, it was a little stomach-clenching. Esp 'cause the ride home was windy. But it also felt so good to be back on Peej!
>'Kat
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Post by bandito2 on Apr 12, 2020 20:21:11 GMT -5
Ahhh...
Like a new pair of shoes... They'll feel a little different than the old ones. (better maybe?)
But once you adjust, you'll wonder why you didn't get them sooner. Enjoy the ride while
you acclimate to the more responsive fresh tires.
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Post by shalomdawg on Apr 17, 2020 18:14:58 GMT -5
howdy there, and hullo to all y'all. i rode today and yesterday and so on but that was after a winter where i wasn't feeling so getupngo. i was abourd the last complete cruise of the ruby princess from sydney australia to new zealand. we had 148 people aboard that admitted to being sick but they let is disembark. the next cruise left that day but cut off the cruise after a few days because they had many confirmed covid19 ill aboard. now 600 of the crew are confirmed and hundreds of the passengers as well. i heard my room steward caughing on the sheets he was putting on the bed after they were washed. i know we had covid even on the cruise i was on. i self quarantined for three weeks after arriving home and now have been officially shut up for over a month. but back to riding, i have run a full tank of fuel so about 150 miles since getting home.i can't imagine how stir crazy my ride was after 5 months of "lick and promise". she's purring now though.
maybe we can soon come out like daiseys in the spring.
ken
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Post by SylvreKat on Aug 26, 2020 21:31:45 GMT -5
I filled up Mon after work. I think it's the first time I hit triple-digits on one tank of gas! That felt really good!
I lost my wonderful new job, but I had never fully left my nasty old job and that boss VERY HAPPILY and excitedly took me back full-time. Sadly, I'm back to irregular hours. Worse, I bounce around store-to-store. Yest I even worked one store in the morn, a different one after lunch. Either one alone would've been a joyous scoot, but not both the same day. Sigh. And then I work at the shop inside Wallyworld, so I can't scoot those days (where would I safely park Peej for eight unattended hours?). And I work across State Line, and there is absolutely no way I'm scooting that far when I can car on the interstate in less than half the time.
But I'm scooting when I can. And lovin' it. Not as much though as the two times I scooted to the new job--absolutely jaw-dropping beautiful vista that I never knew existed!
>'Kat
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Post by w650 on Sept 13, 2020 13:36:17 GMT -5
Does a motorcycle ride count? On Friday night my brother came down from Rochester and the next day we rode a motorcycle event. It was a sixty-four mile escorted ride through Dutchess County, NY. My brother was on his 1100 Honda Shadow while I pulled out the Kawasaki 750. We hadn't done a ride together in over thirty years so it was a special day. There were about thirty other bikes in a long line and was impressive to see. The weather was amazing and the route was scenic and it all made for a great day. When we got to the end we took off for home at a casual pace and it was as enjoyable as the event. If time had permitted there was even an event today we would have liked to do but he had to get home.
We decided we have to ride again soon instead of waiting another thirty years.
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