Re: anyone riding?

 

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|>> Is there anyone here who's currently riding their scooter? Here in
|>> northern Ontario Canada, it's sadly another 6 weeks at least until the
|>> scooter can come out.
|>> d.
|>
|>I rode mine a week ago. And again today since it rainned yesterday and
|>washed all the ice and snow away. Plan on doing the same the rest of
|>the work week. New London CT

    So did I last week, the battery was dead, so I boosted it off
another backup....drove it 20k parked, stopped, went to start it again and
it was drop dead....

    I waited til the rain subsided, and changed the battery with an old
backup, it started twice, drove a bit, parked at an overnight place, stopped
and restarted, with the old battery.....seemd ok.

    The current batt I changed, is only 1 year old, it used to charge up
even when idling with 120w head lights on, but it dropped to 10 volts, the
last time, and doesn't seem to want to recover past 12.1 volts after a week.
    
    A fully charged batt that takes a dead drain down  is really hard to
recover, hell the shop manual says if the batt is down to 12v, discard
it......at $250/dealer a pop, I'll be looking for generic brands, since this
GS and Yuasa main brands aren't much better for X2 the price......It's worth
a shot anyway....Yeah I tried all kinds of charging instruments...

    If you ever changed a batt in a Yamaha Majesty 400cc you know quite
a bit of hell there, with the panels and grab bar removed. Getting the 1st
battery cover is a bit of an awkward nightmare even if they have quick
fasteners way at the back....
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:42:58 -0500, streetweyes@webtv.net (N O) wrote:

|>I'm in S. Fla (martin county)  as well. But work so much this time of
|>year, I don't have time to even get it ready to ride. I need to replace
|>a battery and a slow leaking tire.
|>
    Cost you a few bux, but you may have a rim leek that a bit of M/C
tire foams can cover if the tire is any good at all.

    Batts can be revived, but if it can't hold a CCA (Cold Cranking
Amps) for more than 5 days, it'll leave you stranded in a bad place after a
city drag....

|>But I vacation in the poconos, so I hope to ship it up there and ride
|>while I'm off  almost every day..
|>
    Why not ride it there and get some re-practicing..whatever.

|>I really don't enjoy riding on 2 wheels here anyway. Too many mr. and
|>mrs. Magoo's who can't see or hear what's around them. Very hairy..
|>C

    You hear that Paul .ac , does this guy know a Magoo??
     I know what he's referring to, the world is full of lead foot
cagers, some fast lane changers signal, some take advantage of the Scoot,
and don't signal, some are brain dead all over.

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|>The other day a guy from San
|>Francisco who moved to Vancouver was telling me he was giving up his
|>scoot because one "can't ride year-round here"

    I'd never leave The states, if I wasn't so heavily rooted here, I'd
be gone like a shot, or at least a bat out of hell....

    Maybe the dude likes his 15mpg 'vette more, maybe he's allergic to
cold and wet like most are....especially if he's a "suit".....

    Good of you to change his mind....Magoo!
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On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:45:08 -0600, cuhulin@webtv.net wrote:

|>Yes, she had a
|>cell phone glued to her ear.If it was up to me, I would outlaw all cell
|>phones in America.

    Census says that about 93% of the American world has a Cell phone,
they might die without it....as for me, I'm working on an emergency call
only plan on my inactivated one....

    But then if you put a piece of tinfoil under the sims card, it will
only allow emergency calls.....
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|>One nice thing
|>about the relatively classic Honda Elites and Helixes is that they have
|>a motorcycle-style rear foot brake and being clutch-handle-less leave
|>the left hand free for stylish low-speed tours down Commercial Drive here.

    I found the foot brake had to be real sloppy (not like the mechanics
adjust it) in order to have a good control from such a vertical position,
and sitting on top of the rear tire to boot.....pretty easy to do flying
side leap that way...right both wheels off the ground flying leap from a
miscalculation of front-->back---front-->front-->back---front brake
emergency stop...took a 100  foot skid on pavement there.....

    I always wondered what to do with the left handle bar, I tried to
mount a camera rig with totaclamps, but I'm driving the Majesty now....

    Commercial Drive??? I pass there a lot, seen some Hells Angels
driving up there on the LEFT side of the road.....
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