May 22, 2013
I decided this morning to get my big scooter inspected at the local Kawasaki dealer. What I like about them is that even though they're in a building the size of aircraft hanger they still maintain their personal way of dealing. I called this morning to confirm that I could have it done and the woman that answered the phone thanked me for calling to check. They still appreciate a customer that treats them like people and not robots in a factory. When I first moved up here they were in a much smaller store and now that the business has moved on to selling ATVs and Side by Sides they needed a larger place. I was looking at Can Am All Terrain Vehicles that were as big as my first car (1963 VW Beetle) on their sales floor and marveled at the extent people go to in self amusement. I saw on my last visit there that they had installed a car lift in the repair area so they could work on them. It's amazing the change in Motorcycle dealerships. If you ever need the name of a good one, Klinger Powersports in Walton is up there.
Of course the scooter passed with flying colors, it's a scant few years old and only has 4,600 miles on it. The luck part was how the weather held off for me. Thunderstorms are raging right now and I'm sitting here, nice and dry. Hopefully they will stop soon. Sara decided to risk the prediction of a 50% chance and took the Rebel to work. If she was riding now she would be soaked but she doesn't leave work for another two hours. This front should move through by then and things will be dry.
I'm on a roll right now in terms of riding. Starting this past Sunday I decided to count how many days I could get on the bikes and ride. Today's run to have the scooter inspected, and a short shopping trip on the 50cc bike, have brought the count to four. I've commuted to work twice in that time and saved another $12.00 in gas expense. Let's see how long this lasts.
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May 17, 2013
I went a long time without hearing from anybody commenting on this site but I just got a second, ok maybe third, message.
Hey Jim, I read just about every post you've put out about you're Roketta
and just had to grab one for myself. I think it's a shame that the US
no longer embraces small displacement engines in our current situation.
But I digress, Bike just arrived and I was wondering if you had any tips
and tricks you could pass on the a guy. At 21 I'm looking forward to
finally get i... Continue reading...
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May 8, 2013
I just checked the score sheet that I use to keep track of commuter trips and saw that I had reached ten trips. The ramifications of that, while minor, are sometimes pretty sobering. For one thing ten trips to work means that I saved $60 in gas over using the minivan. It also means that I didn't put 350 miles on the aging vehicle. While that distance doesn't sound like much it's approximately a trip from New York City to Rochester, NY. Since we only recently started having bike riding weather...
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May 5, 2013
Sometimes you can only put off a job for so long and then it catches up with you. I finally ran out of weather and time excuses yesterday and had to replace the rear tire on the big scooter. While it wasn't exactly torturous, it was time consuming and I learned a few things along the way about the scoot. In removing the wheel from Galileo, my name for it since "Fashion" just doesn't cut it for me, I found it was in need of another muffler bolt. One of them had sheared in half and was just han...
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May 1, 2013
This is what I call weather. It's 70* right now and a perfect day for riding. I got in two trips to town today on the 50cc bike and my big scooter. You see when the thermometer starts to climb and the sun hangs out all day my grass takes that as a sign to shoot up quickly. I had to make a run into town to fill up a pair of gas cans and get some groceries. Since I don't believe it's healthy to stuff gas cans and food into the same box I made two separate trips. The gas run was first with a pai...
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April 24, 2013
I know I promised to cut back on the weather reports but it's so nice today I just can't resist. Take a look at this picture
I put the two motorcycle types on the driveway in warm, brilliant sunshine. The 50cc bike on the right has been back and forth to town many times, the Honda on the left has been champing at the bit waiting to be used. The weather in the mornings has been bitter, a scant 32 degrees this day, unlike the 62 degrees at present. It's day will come. As I noted recently the H... Continue reading...
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April 17, 2013
Today is finally the fulfillment of a season's promise. It's about 50* outside and the sun is blazing in the sky. I keep looking for a reason to ride into Town or take the scooter or small bike out on an important errand, but there aren't any. I had another chance to ride the big scooter to work on Monday and it felt great. It's nice to have something I can cruise along on at 60 mph just like the rest of traffic. After two years on either a 150 or 50cc two wheeled conveyance, hugging the shou...
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April 10, 2013
I'm hoping that this will be the first of many ride reports that actually involves more than a weather report. While today is gloomy and rain is about to start, yesterday was a peach. Sara and I knew that the weather was supposed to be in our favor so I had both bikes ready to ride. I disconnected my big scooter from the trickle charger and filled up Sara's Rebel with gas after starting them both to make sure they were ready to roll. Sara's bike always amazes me. I hadn't fired up the Honda i...
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March 31, 2013
When I set up this blog I hadn't foreseen anybody actually writing to me so I accepted the messaging capability that came with it. Today I actually got a response from someone outside my circle of friends. They usually comment on Facebook when they want to tell me something. The response came from a man named Dan who it turns out is a fellow 250 CF Moto owner.
Hello my name is Dan and I am starting my third season with a CF MOTO Fashion, identical to the one on this website. I put 12,500 miles... Continue reading...
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March 27, 2013
Sorry that it's been so long since I last wrote. I feel silly after a while saying, "The weather stinks so I didn't ride" so I tend to stretch out my entries. The temperatures are finally looking up so I've been itching to have a reason to hit the road. Today I made one trip into town for groceries in the car since it was about 29 degrees this morning but it warmed up this afternoon. I discovered I had missed a few items and given the incredible gas mileage of my 50cc mini-motorcycle I didn't...
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