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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 28, 2018 12:18:17 GMT -5
I usually have some bicycle handle bars in my garage somewhere that I could use to mount the lights.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 25, 2018 19:21:42 GMT -5
I really welcome the shorter daylight hours this year, but adding some photon bling sounds like a good fall project for me.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 25, 2018 19:16:40 GMT -5
That's a nice looking scoot, but pricey for a Chinese fitty. There are other China fittys on that site for $800 or so. Passengers and 50cc scoots don't really belong in the same sentence (unless its a Chiuahua).
A 50cc scoot is good for 30mph and maybe 40mph if you de-restrict it. Your choice of appropriate roads are limited for the 50cc.
A 125-150cc scoot is good for at least 50mph. It is not near as fast with an adult passenger, but its OK on slower roads.
-I think that getting a scooter as a sort of 2nd car is a good idea.
-Depending on where you live, you could build a motorized bicycle for around $300, but the $800 scooter will be more reliable.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 25, 2018 18:57:59 GMT -5
I'll go with Stewart because he has crazy eyes.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 19, 2018 22:15:48 GMT -5
I have lived in areas where the sanitation truck has just a driver and automated arm. There are still a lot of places where the garbage men have to do it old school; riding on the back bumper and manually dumping the cans.
-I had to stake a natural gas pipeline across the huge Atascocita landfill site a few years back. As the refuse decomposes, methane it emitted. At most landfills, that methane is burned on site. producing no useable energy. The facility and pipeline that I staked put that landfill methane back into the local natural gas utility system to be burned in homes and businesses. Its the natural gas equivalent of biodiesel.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 19, 2018 21:57:01 GMT -5
Kool shoes, Kat. I didn't realize that one of our members had broken into the fashion design world.
I went to an outdoor tractor pull a while back and had a blast. Its harder to find them now.
Expensive hobby for the competitors.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 17, 2018 19:57:50 GMT -5
Chimney sweep. They usually work a long way above the ground. Their job is so tough that it will not likely be eliminated by machine automation anytime soon.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 16, 2018 21:56:46 GMT -5
"Part Whizzer, part flat-track board-racer and part fifties bobber..."
There is a Whizzer NE5 on my local craigslist for $250, Leo. Runs, but not for long. Its all there. Even if the motor is fully scorched, I could replace it with an industrial type motor like a Harbor Freight 212cc.
Unfortunately, business is great these days, so I would not have time to get started on the Whizzer until the Thanksgiving weekend.
I considered buying that Whizzer just to pedal it, after engine removal. It comes with a front drum brake and many other nice-to-haves.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 16, 2018 21:44:29 GMT -5
I had a colonoscopy last weekend so I was gonna ride this weekend, come or high water. I snapped this while we were beach combing. Its a local house (mansion?) we call the Hotel Del. I don't know who owns it, but I need to be working in his/her line of work.  |
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 15, 2018 15:18:23 GMT -5
I saw Crazy Rich Asians today. I was expecting a comedy, but it was more of a chick flick.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 15, 2018 8:02:31 GMT -5
Maybe my wife will let me by the 700 in Jersey if I can convince her the one of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" rode it.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 15, 2018 7:58:03 GMT -5
I love a beach cruiser bike with a Springer fork, Leo. That one is a real gem.I like those Nexus multi-gear rear hubs because you can get them with a coaster brake, which eliminates the need for a lot brake cables and gives the bike a cleaner look.
-When I was a kid, that curvy cantilever frame was just called a bicycle. Now they are almost called beach cruisers, even if they are sold in Tulsa.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 11, 2018 7:21:15 GMT -5
Henry was depicted as the only guy in town that actually got his hands dirty fixing things. Everybody else was a mere button pusher.
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Just Venting
by: wheelbender6 - Sept 11, 2018 7:18:00 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 11, 2018 7:18:00 GMT -5
That helps to explain the popularity of the Grom and its many clones. They don't have a lot of plastic that interferes with maintenance.
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Post by wheelbender6 on Sept 10, 2018 20:41:16 GMT -5
I like reading the Chopper posts; fact, fiction or otherwise. Its a lot like watching the news.
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