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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 4, 2020 14:11:27 GMT -5
Big bird sucked into the engine intake...
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Post by milly on Sept 5, 2020 7:48:33 GMT -5
Removed all the emissions stuff of Violet putt the Sito exhaust back on and up jetted. Put first coat of paint on bedroom now drying so off to test and americano with cream and poached eggs on toast.
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Post by aeroxbud on Sept 5, 2020 9:20:48 GMT -5
I like your style of testing. We should all be testing like this.
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PDub
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Post by PDub on Sept 5, 2020 11:38:56 GMT -5
This week I figured out a way to ride my scooter around as part of my job. I made a banner stand that I attached to the Vespa and rode around with a 36x15" banner dangling from the back as a form of advertising. Even though it was 90 degrees with high humidity, it was still fun (and funny at the same time). I'd call that a win. NEED PIX!!!
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Post by wiscootsin on Sept 5, 2020 20:38:26 GMT -5
This week I figured out a way to ride my scooter around as part of my job. I made a banner stand that I attached to the Vespa and rode around with a 36x15" banner dangling from the back as a form of advertising. Even though it was 90 degrees with high humidity, it was still fun (and funny at the same time). I'd call that a win. NEED PIX!!! That's a reasonable request. lol I mounted a 1/2" PVC pipe flange to the rear rack and that's really all it took.
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Post by aeroxbud on Sept 9, 2020 15:56:36 GMT -5
So the rear cradle and engine mounts are done on the habana. I thought I would look at the advisory notice of slight play in the front end. It's got a funny leading link fork with lots of bushing and mounts. The play was coming from both top shock mount bushes. Aprilia don't stock them as spares any more. And two shocks are $450! 😯 Spent hours trying to source some similar. But being a v taper bush, no luck. Plan B as there is only slight play, press in a slightly larger inner sleeve. 🙈
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Post by oldgeek on Sept 9, 2020 20:00:18 GMT -5
Decided to go for a much needed, nice relaxing ride this evening. It was still daylight at the time, 4 blocks from my house a cager pulled out from a side road in front of me and another car coming from the opposite direction. He stopped and backed up so I continued on, no worries. About a mile down the road he pulls up behind me at the light and starts screaming at me that I am crazy, something about a dead M*****F***** and that I am a fat piece of S*** Sometime during his outburst I moved into the left turn lane cause I dont need a mad cager running me over. He stopped next to me I laughed at him and he burned out to the right. The speed limit on the road was 35 and I was doing around 40, I get a real kick out of someone getting mad at me for their mistake! I cut my ride short, he kinda ruined the mood.
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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 10, 2020 12:16:39 GMT -5
People are going completely insane nowadays...
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Post by aeroxbud on Sept 11, 2020 16:31:12 GMT -5
Thought I would find out how fast the typhoon goes. It will get up to 50mph on the speedo. Then it just hits a wall. Even down hill it's the same. On a mile each way it did a GPS 46 mph there. Slightly up hill following cars. And slightly down hill coming back. The same 46! Wonder if it's hitting the limiter?
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Post by aeroxbud on Sept 12, 2020 11:38:44 GMT -5
Fitted new bushes to the front suspension, as it was an advisory on the MOT. Put it all back together, and you can hear one of the wheel bearings is going. Never ends! Aprilia want £21.48 per bearing! Makes you wonder how they can charge so much.
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 12, 2020 19:59:06 GMT -5
Thought I was gonna crash.
I was doing 65-70MPH on a back road on T2. Had passed a car just before this. I saw what I thought was a garbage bag on the side of the road up ahead. Brown lump with something red coming out of the top. I slowed down to 50-55MPH. As I came up on it, it ran out in the road. I braked, the whole time wondering how many bones I was going to break this time. I got slowed down and he didn't run all the way out in front of me. Then I'm doing 5-10MPH and he's running beside me screaming or whatever it is that turkeys do. After a few seconds of that I lifted the wheel a bit and left his ass. I'm not chicken, you're a turkey.
It was kinda funny after it was terrifying. Lemme say it again; CRASHING SUCKS!
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Post by oldgeek on Sept 12, 2020 20:53:23 GMT -5
Thought I was gonna crash. I was doing 65-70MPH on a back road on T2. Had passed a car just before this. I saw what I thought was a garbage bag on the side of the road up ahead. Brown lump with something red coming out of the top. I slowed down to 50-55MPH. As I came up on it, it ran out in the road. I braked, the whole time wondering how many bones I was going to break this time. I got slowed down and he didn't run all the way out in front of me. Then I'm doing 5-10MPH and he's running beside me screaming or whatever it is that turkeys do. After a few seconds of that I lifted the wheel a bit and left his ass. I'm not chicken, you're a turkey. It was kinda funny after it was terrifying. Lemme say it again; CRASHING SUCKS! You got video of this racing turkey?
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 12, 2020 22:42:29 GMT -5
You got video of this racing turkey? Of course :
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Post by pinkscoot on Sept 13, 2020 9:37:21 GMT -5
You almost had your Thanksgiving Turkey.
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Post by oldgeek on Sept 13, 2020 9:41:59 GMT -5
You got video of this racing turkey? Of course : I am glad you did not wreck and all. I dont know about anyone else, but the video cracks me up!
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