Another OLD Noob

[FrankenMech]

I am still waiting to install mods and do maintenance. My health has improved a bit. The scoot just gets faster the longer I ride it. I saw 8350RPM today but I didn't get to check the max RPM memory since I was bombarded by questions when I made my next stop. I frequently get a lot of questions from bikers, even HD riders and just people walking over.

I have plywood for a seat reinforcement to install and to reinforce the tote bottom. It got squished when I loaded that 50# 10" Ryobi table saw on it.

I took advantage of the polar vortex to mow and weed-eat my back yard. I am cleaning out my sunroom to use it for storage etc. I should use it to grow weed for fun and profit. I have not rented out my ~13x24' living room to anyone so it is being transformed into my temporary wood-shop. The basement will be my permanent wood-shop. I have tools stashed all over so it will be great to get them all in one spot ready for use. It is a real PITA to have to find and dig a tool out of storage to use it. My ~10x20' storage room looks like something out of a Hoarder's episode. It is mainly filled with boxes of the Ex's and the children's stuff. When the sunroom is cleaned out then I can transfer more tools out of my metal-shop garage space and get my new electrical panel installed and the new compressor hooked up! It requires a 50A breaker and a #10 copper wire circuit. It draws 21A average but will pull 25A at full load.

My entire house except the kitchen/dining area is now officially a Man Cave. I seldom use the kitchen and dining area. Maybe I should put the area to use and cook meth or plastique for extra income... With my shakes I would blow the entire house apart. Damn, I haven't even posted this and I can hear sirens and helicopters... I didn't know tempest storm worked on LCD monitors. They must have a camera in the room here somewhere....
There is someone at the doo

[scooterpimp]

Franken your wacked!!! But don't ever change !

[2TDave]

Ditto and glad your feeling better!

[FrankenMech]

Yes, I am definitely wacko.

I am even certified as being nuts, BPD, psycho, PTSD, etc.

I have a sign on the front door that says: Don't Bother The Crazy Person

I had a high security clearance, Lifetime NRA Member, Libertarian.... There is a BIG file on me somewhere. No, make that big files on me everywhere. For fun and games in the wee hours when I am bored I use all of the verboten words in posts and telephone conversations then have one-sided conversations with the NSA analysts just to keep them awake and give them something to laugh about and I KNOW they are just as nuts as I am. Psychos every one of them.

One of my ringtones is a portion from:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxVkAhto0Ag

I try to have some fun while I still can...

[FrankenMech]

Checking in....

I decided to just use the living room as a permanent wood shop. Nobody cares what I do with it. I put up some more lights and mounted most of my miscellaneous woodworking tools on a mobile table. It makes them real easy to use.

I have been building a scoot trailer and hitch. I will probably post some build details in this other thread:
49ccscoot.proboards.com/thread/9534/trailer-hitch

I picked up a tire machine also:
49ccscoot.proboards.com/thread/9856/tire-machine

I hope to be able to get to my scoot mods soon. I suspect the snow will be flying by that time so it will be good weather to stay inside the shop and work on the scoot.

[blufloyd]

Nice. I like your style. My style is similar. My giant living room is now a pool hall.

[ScootACruisin]

Hey FrankenMech, Where did you get your amber strobe lights? I would love to add more LED's on the scoot!! Are they legal?

[FrankenMech]

Dec 12, 2014 0:56:46 GMT -5 ScootACruisin said:

Hey FrankenMech, Where did you get your amber strobe lights? I would love to add more LED's on the scoot!! Are they legal?

They really are not legal to use. A scoot is not considered a slow moving vehicle. Not to say I would not use them if I was caught out in a blinding rain/snow storm, or if my other lights failed for some reason.

I bought them off Amazon. I had to look around to find them.

[ScootACruisin]

Well rain get bad around here and most of the time you cant seen the car in front of you. I don't think the police would be to mad if I used them in that bad a weather.

[FrankenMech]

I cut the mount bar a few times to point the strobe elements in three directions. It makes them kind of crooked looking but it works. I prefer function over form.

[Clank]

:needpics:

[Clank]

Hint hint

[FrankenMech]

Hold your horses.

Go back and look at page two.

The roof repairs did not get done, the weather is not cooperating.

I took a fall today off a short ladder with a twist resulting in a very minor face plant & twisted ankle that probably caused the fall. It made my sore ribs from the last two falls hurt worse.

I got a load of paperwork delivered to complete for the city.

I did get a couple clamps for the exhaust to secure it properly.

I didn't get much else done. I did start and run the scoot a couple times...

I don't move very fast.

[Clank]

Whoa!!! Bro slow it down I was just joshing you. Don't go out and try smurf yourself out. Be safe old friend, but pics of the mods with the external jet would be killer.

[FrankenMech]

Pics, slideshow style:
link

The file titles are descriptive so I will have to work on getting them into the pictures somehow.


The roof replacement got done the day after Christmas. The weather has been crap. I did end up with a nail on my foot that I walked on all week.