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HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYBODY !!!

Have a great feast and enjoy your families --- even the weird, far left Uncle.  They are the only family you will ever have, and in the end they will be all that is or has been important in your life (NOT the scooter).

Eat up ..... drink but don't drive ..... kiss that sexy sister-in-law for me .... and don't forget to cheer for the Buckeyes this weekend!

I think Scooter mentioned this, but it worth seconding.

Why would you want to buy a kit with a crankcase cover when the one you have is fine (just needs to be bored out)?  All of this trouble about disk brakes would be avoided if you just used the cover that is already on the bike --- and simply opened the hole up enough to accept the 63mm jug.

If I remember correctly, we have spoken about this before - the issue for you was time ..... the time for a machine shop to bore the hole.  If you are going to 180cc you already have decided to separate the crankcase (the labor intensive part).  So, either way (bore out your existing crankcase vs. buy a new crankcase that is pre-bored) you have to take the engine down all the way.  So the machine shop turn around time is what is worrying you.

Why not simply coordinate with the machine shop, ahead of time?  The actual work time to bore the case is maybe 1/2 hour.  If you coordinate in advance - maybe PAY them in advance to hold a slot open for you on a specific day - surely they can turn the job around in the same day.  Then you avoid all the other things you are worrying about, like for example the brakes.

You get to carry your 1911 ?

Jealous.  Here in Kommiefornia the last thing imaginable would be to have a 2nd Amendment.

So let's think this through to it's logical conclusion.

It's late at night and you are driving along a country road in the rural countryside.  The first snow flakes have just started wafting down, but you know a nasty north-easterner is brewing.

In the distance you see the car pulled over, and slow down.  Megan Fox is there in her Bentley, the front tire flat as a pre-augmented actress.  She is so relieved to see you, and wiggles out to inspect the failed tire with you.  "Never Fear!", you exclaim, calming her rising panic.

You return to your trusty scooter and pull out the 1,500 foot extension cord, tell Megan you will be back shortly, and start out for the farm house across the field and through the woods, stringing out extension cord as you go.  By now the snow is starting to accumulate.

Unfortunately, the cord funs out a few hundred feet before you reach the house, so you return to your scooter to get another one.  Megan is sitting in her car, shivering because she is afraid to turn on the car for fear a flat tire might cause exhaust gas to back up (or something - who knows; Hollywood).

You finally get to the farm house, extension cord in hand.  When the 80-year old couple answer the door you start trying to explain you are NOT some weirdo trying to scam them out of their social security check.  You finally convince them you have NEVER voted for Obama, have never even been to San Francisco, and do NOT think the 2nd Amendment should be repealed (or ignored).

~~~~ HOWEVER ~~~~

While you were on your Odyssey Jerry Script came zipping by at break neck speed, passed the Bentley and realized it was Megan inside.  He slowed down and circled back to see what was the problem.  Megan emerged from her car chilled to the bone, now uncertain what to do.  You have been gone a long time .... and Jerry seems awfully handsome / knowledgeable.  Jerry retreats to his trusty scooter, lifts the seat and removes TWO things.  First, a blanket which, with great care, he wraps around Megan's chilled frame.  Second, his old, reliable $20 Harbor Freight impact wrench.  In mere minutes he has it hooked up, then "zip ... zip ... zip" the wheel is off, and "zip ... zip ... zip" and the spare is on.

Megan, blushing in both admiration and magnetic attraction to this Knight with Shining Scooter, suggests the two of them drive to the next truck stop for an intimate conversation over malts and burgers.

~~~~~

Later, as the two of them ponder baby names in the warm confines of Alley's Truck Stop & Diesel Emporium, you finally make your way through the now-thick snow to where the Bentley once stood.  Extension cord in hand you stare at the empty spot on the side of the road, fall to your knees, and break down in an anguished wail, "WHY, Lord???  W H Y "

Only then do you realize your scooter is nowhere to be seen.


I think that about covers it.

HUH???  After all that tire changing, followed by all that 'romance', she didn't even slip you a hundred?

Stuck up, entitled bit .........

Harbor Freight has everything you need - impact wrench, socket, even an alligator clip adapter so you can just hook up to your battery w/o a cigarette lighter socket.  Eliminates both the ratchet, socket & tool to hold the variator.  And it puts a smile on your face when it does all the work for you!  NIIIIICCCEEE.

And, if as you are riding along a deserted road Megan Fox is in her car on the side of the road, crying because of a flat tire, you can pull the lug nuts on her wheel w/o getting your hands dirty --- important for the after-tire-change activities.

I suggest you go to Harbor Freight before going back at either the clutch or variator ..

They have an ELECTRIC impact wrench, run off a car cig. lighter (12VDC) that is intended to take off the lug nuts on your car's wheels.  The included sockets include on just right for the variator nut; electric so no compressor or air hose needed, and only about $20.  With this you need not do anything to keep the variator or clutch from moving; the nut will come off just fine.