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But kind of cool at the same time.......

The Saturncycle does NOT appear to be a chick magnet.

The little four banger 3 series. Gonna do the euro delivery in Munich and if I can swing it, take a couple laps around the Nurburgring. The wait is killing me.

Nice Stang BTW Tried unsuccessfully to chase a Cobra down in my former car. Could not catch.

I read an article about helmets, and forgive me if I am explaining this incorrectly but it is from memory so here goes.......

The article said that helmets were all designed to protect the head from an impact with a stationary object at about 14 mph. Now some go much farther than that in protection but 14mph was a number used for a reason.

14mph was about the force where the head impacts the ground if the bike were to tip suddenly and slam the rider to the ground. It was not about hitting a barrier at 60 mph, because that will basically rip your organs to shreds anyway. It was about the average impact of a head hitting the ground from the average height of a riders head above the ground.

If you go into a slide and you head slams into the ground, if you are sideswiped by a car and get knocked off the bike and you head hits the ground, it is at roughly the same speed. At least that is how I understood the article explaining it. That if you were going through an intersection at 10 mph and got t-boned and knocked to the ground your head, from the height it sits for the average rider, would hit at about 14mph, if you were going 30 and got t-boned your head would still impact at about 14 mph.

There will be other forces on your body from the speed you get struck and how far you fly etc. But that helmets were designed to protect you from getting whipped to the ground from the standard height of a motorcycle and that impact was generally going to be 14mph in MOST circumstances. And that was easily enough to cause serious injury or death.


I hate to be spreading misinformation, but I believe this is what the article stated. You could be stopped completely on your scooter, get hit from the side and slammed to the ground, and you head can hit the ground with the same force as if you were doing 80 mph.

Picture in your mind doing a u-turn in a culdesac at about 15, hitting some sand and the bike sliding out abruptly and slamming the side of your head into the ground. I bet you can picture a pretty violent one. That is what I am talking about, even on a moped.

Back on the Scootdawg board somebody talked about a low speed slide on a gravel road, he talked about a bad concussion and showed pictures of a messed up helmet. Sorry for the long post, but take helmets seriously.

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I went to the store to get a gallon on gas for my weed wacker with the scooter, the one gallon can fit easily in my top box. What a dumb idea. It sloshed a little in the top box, and even though it was just a mile, it is probably dangerous. Whatever little container will get jostled around, who knows when it might start to drip, and you don't want that happening when you are driving. I know it still takes a spark but.......

Get a 2-5 gallon plastic gas can, keep it in the garage and just and just top it off every couple days if you can't keep the gauge working.

And if you want to find a silly benefit out of this idea, you buy the five gallons when gas is low, and when it goes up, you are still running your scooter for weeks at the cheaper price.

True, and but as a Kymco believer, I still would not pay more than a couple hundred for a ten year old moped. If it is a good deal though, yeah, you will be able to track down parts.