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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 13, 2017 19:25:00 GMT -5
Is that really a bullet-nosed sidecar in the "after the ride" pic? I've wanted to do a group ride, but the ones I've found all started from KC proper. Too far for this wet-ears to go. >'Kat At my age, I'm finding I don't have the stamina to do a LOT of things I'd like to. (cheesh, I even missed the slow-drag race and rider tire-toss while recuperating in the air-conditioned showroom...) You have the stamina, but if attending a group ride is too far, it "is what it is"... LOL! If a the ride is a dealer "event" like mine was, with festivities, it's worth attending in the family car just for the fellowship (and of course, the food and fun)!
My last group ride with buddies must have been back about 1968... on "Old Blue" surrounded by a hundred or so saddle pals. Nothing sounds quite like a herd of classic choppers, high-compression, hot cams, straight-pipes... popping and cackling, grinding down through the gears as the tribe of steel ponies grumbles into a freeway oasis to gas up... every 20 miles to top off their peanut tanks... LOL!
Those are fabulous half-century-old memories I'll never forget, but while SO different, this short ride from Moxie Scooters is just as memorable. All attending riders were pretty much "born to be mild"... LOL! And such nice folks. I guess I was the oldest rider, with that teen on the funky Stella the youngest. The second most "senior" was a lady on a brand-new Kymco 500 from Moxie... She was GAME! Too short to touch ground with both feet... more than a little wobbly, and pretty much intimidated by more than half-throttle... But by the end of the ride, she was doing fine. A gentle ride tailored to ensure the youngsters, soccer-moms and new-riders on less-than-frisky 150's could keep up... I sunburned the tops of my wrists something awful! Then, after a completely safe ride, walked into the house, tripped over a pair of boots and tore my left rotator-cuff and split a bone in my left arm... Duh! Today is the first day I've been able to wrestle "Minnie Mouse" off her center-stand.
I must admit, even in my prime, I'd have been uncomfortable on a bike I couldn't plant both feet down on... I'm betting that stalwart granny visits that upholstery shop next to Moxie and has the stuffing "exorcized" from that 500, to plant her geriatric butt on the frame and get an extra 4" closer to the tarmac! A REALLY swell scoot though! Fifty years after my chopper days, a ride with friends is a much more sedate experience... No flying club colors... No "dragging for beers"... No seeing whose pipes could actually break windows... No youthful macho... But the scooter crowd is a mighty fine bunch to run with. Choppers, crotch-rockets, baggers, scooters... They're ALL fine rides... As we say in Texas "Ya dance with the one what brung ya". It's all good knuckles in the wind fun... And, the older I get, the "gooder" scooters seem to me. Getting old I guess.Ride safe!Leo in Texas the reason I ride this little one, is my dad is too old to ride anymore,and on blood thinners, not a good combination, he always rode bikes as long as I can remember , but he brought it down, and now it's mine. I plan on getting a 650 Burgie eventually, I was hit head on by a car about five years ago, while on a bike, and I can't throw my leg over a full size bike, as I broke my back. so scooters for me. The Chinese 50cc are a mechanical challenge to put a lot of miles on them, and keep them running, so it makes them interesting |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 13, 2017 19:18:36 GMT -5
they make high performance fans to replace the stock ones, they take a little more power, but so does a hot engine
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 11, 2017 3:36:02 GMT -5
I have the pictures but I cant get them to upload here
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 10, 2017 12:49:29 GMT -5
it should be fine with trucks I get passed on the 50 all the time by trucks and that's on 55 mph two lane, that has to weigh more then my 50
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 9, 2017 20:05:57 GMT -5
anything new on these? mine has a VIN that shows it was manufactured by Yiben, which is a decent manufacturer, and imported by JMstar group. they sell more Jonways then anything else, but that's a different manufacturer, other then teething issues, it's been good, it only had 200 miles on it, the Contra spring is toast, which is expected, I have a new one coming but now we have a dam hurricane on the way. The factory tires have to go, but I found a good deal on Kenda. I've got over 2000 miles on it, I switched to royal purple after break in, and went to a Keihin carb, and 5 gram rollers and a decent belt. It will do 45 GPS when it has time to open up, it's a 50, |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 9, 2017 13:17:53 GMT -5
Boots are a must your feet are the closest thing to the ground And the first thing you try to save your self with. any and every time you fall on a bike your feet take the brunt. I also think it's a good idea to find a gym or a dojo and learn how to fall. It will take a month or two of practice to teach your body but the potential to fall is life long. A good investment in my book its a good idea but falling off a bike is different then falling while on your feet, and falling off a scooter is also completely different and in a crash you probably won't have time to react and fall properly, all you have is your gear, I wear my Justin lace up work boots, they make great riding boots, The scooter landed on top of me after some dumb..k hid a brick at the end of my driveway, and if I hadn't had the support of tightly laced tall boots, I'm sure I would have broken my ankle, plus the exhaust burned a hole in my jeans, on top of the boot, before I could get the bike off myself |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 9, 2017 11:08:31 GMT -5
A few years ago, some dumbass at an anti helmet rally got in a 15 mph wreck while refusing to wear a helmet and died. Sometimes actions speak louder then words, he hit his head on the pavement I believe, he was saying helmets kill you in a wreck, oh the irony. I notice that more scooter riders are now wearing full face helmets, then regular full size bike riders, this says a lot, I see a lot of shorts and t shirts, but it's progress, I just have a personal issue with road rash, I hear it's not "manly"to wear a helmet espcialy a full face one, well it's real manly to be fed applesauce by a male nurse, while drooling on yourself, and wearing a diaper, in some nursing home, because you damaged your BRAIN because you wanted to be cool, the safety statistics on motorcycle deaths are completely screwed up, they lump all regular bikes, scooters, and even pedal mopeds and electric DUI bikes together. So all the idiots who got killed when their tiny half helmets flew off, plus all the Harley wrecks that were DUIs, and all the riders who died for refusing to wear safety gear, are lumped into the statistics of the good riders who never ride not geared up. Eval Knievel always wore a helmet and told riders never to get on their machines without one. (As for being "macho", lets see how many of these tough guys would jump the fountains at Caesar Palace?) he also got a lot of us addicted to riding, I know my Evil Knievel stunt rider died an untimely death, when he tried to make a jump out a second story window |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 9, 2017 10:56:28 GMT -5
50cc is plenty fast enough to be seriously hurt or killed, there is actually very little difference between a crash at 30 mph and a crash at 70mph, in other words you sustain the same injuries at 30, that you do at 70. 30 is called the death speed, 50cc are supposed to be restricted to 30, but many aren't, or the restrictions are removed. and many quality ones will do 45. If you fall off or get hit, it doesn't make a dam difference what cc you are riding, whether a harley rider, or a sportbike rider, or a scooter rider,we all end up injured the same way
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 9, 2017 9:19:15 GMT -5
A few years ago, some dumbass at an anti helmet rally got in a 15 mph wreck while refusing to wear a helmet and died. Sometimes actions speak louder then words, he hit his head on the pavement I believe, he was saying helmets kill you in a wreck, oh the irony. I notice that more scooter riders are now wearing full face helmets, then regular full size bike riders, this says a lot, I see a lot of shorts and t shirts, but it's progress, I just have a personal issue with road rash, I hear it's not "manly"to wear a helmet espcialy a full face one, well it's real manly to be fed applesauce by a male nurse, while drooling on yourself, and wearing a diaper, in some nursing home, because you damaged your BRAIN because you wanted to be cool, the safety statistics on motorcycle deaths are completely screwed up, they lump all regular bikes, scooters, and even pedal mopeds and electric DUI bikes together. So all the idiots who got killed when their tiny half helmets flew off, plus all the Harley wrecks that were DUIs, and all the riders who died for refusing to wear safety gear, are lumped into the statistics of the good riders who never ride not geared up.
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 9, 2017 8:22:40 GMT -5
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 8, 2017 23:20:53 GMT -5
now they are talking about us evacuating, we are already full of evacuees and I'm in south georgia
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 8, 2017 22:30:19 GMT -5
at the moment with Irma here, I'm about to put it up, because all the crazy stupid drivers from FL are now up here, and it's not safe to be on the road, there is a reason I hate going down there, now they are all here, I was nearly run down 6 times in a half an hour, people riding my and honking, then swerving around me, always FL plates
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 8, 2017 22:04:36 GMT -5
well I bought a truck, because I use it like a truck is supposed to be used, if your truck has no dents or dings, you're doing it wrong, cars shouldn't have dents, but they are character to a real truck
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 8, 2017 21:59:08 GMT -5
In Florida the dumbasses can ride around with no helmet now, if they can show extra medical coverage, this is so when a texting soccer mom, or gray hair, knocks you off the bike, and they have to scrape your off the pavement, then life flight you to a trauma center, and hook you up to life support, while your brain swells irreversibly, the tax payers won't get hosed with the bill
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 8, 2017 21:46:59 GMT -5
of course all these Harley guys have to show up the Gubment by wearing those tiny half helmets with the giant DOT sticker, what are you going to prove ending up brain dead or with a smashed face? I'll show up those politicians, as soon as they unwire my face. makes me wonder, wear a dam real helmet,live to ride another day
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