Thursday, July 26, 2007
Many Scooters
Today as I was running errends I saw five other scooters, 1 Elite 80, a Zuma, and three other Chinese scooters. Here in Tacoma I don't see many scooters on the road, but at work there are four other people that commute to work on scooters, and about two or three dozen that do so on bigger bikes.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Funny comment
Why is it that when people see a large man on a scooter they feel compelled to ask stupid questions or do stupid things.
Take today for example, a guy in a SMART car looked at me and pointed and laughed, I lifted my modular helmet front and replied " You drive THAT, and your laughing at me, Erkel."
Take today for example, a guy in a SMART car looked at me and pointed and laughed, I lifted my modular helmet front and replied " You drive THAT, and your laughing at me, Erkel."
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Heat and safety gear.
As the weather heats up 80F or better I find myself with the thought of its only a short trip you don't need to wear that, a tee-shirt and helmet is fine. At that point I think back to the articles I read about crashes with people wearing just that, then I put on all my gear.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Brake job
Today i undertook a change of my front brake pad, I did not feel that this was going to be a hard or complicated job as I have the Yamaha shop manual.
I read the manual, made sure I had the proper tools, and the correct parts. This was not to be the case. The disassembly was uneventful as the three bolts were easily accessed being in the open.
Reassembly was the adventure had the caliper off slid the new pads in tried to put caliper back on and found out no matter what I did it would not go on. Took the casting that holds the caliper and pads off, and tried reassembly that way still no go, upon inspection found that the caliper is hitting the pads. I removed the pads and measured them and found out they were thicker than the factory stock pad, a little use of sand paper took care of that.
Put the pads in the casting installed the caliper on the casting mounted every thing on the fork leg and installed the 3 bolts and torqued them all down. completed a test ride to confirm I replaced all parts properly.
Total time 1 hour 12 minutes.
I read the manual, made sure I had the proper tools, and the correct parts. This was not to be the case. The disassembly was uneventful as the three bolts were easily accessed being in the open.
Reassembly was the adventure had the caliper off slid the new pads in tried to put caliper back on and found out no matter what I did it would not go on. Took the casting that holds the caliper and pads off, and tried reassembly that way still no go, upon inspection found that the caliper is hitting the pads. I removed the pads and measured them and found out they were thicker than the factory stock pad, a little use of sand paper took care of that.
Put the pads in the casting installed the caliper on the casting mounted every thing on the fork leg and installed the 3 bolts and torqued them all down. completed a test ride to confirm I replaced all parts properly.
Total time 1 hour 12 minutes.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Traffic lights
Why can't the powers that be fix the traffic lights so the sense motorcycles and scooters.
I mean really how long am I supposed to wait, I wait one full cycle and then when safe I go. This is only an issue at night, when there are fewer cars on the road. I know running a light at night is not that safe, but there is no legal way to do this. When I ask law enforcement I get differing answers depending on who I ask, And I cant find it in the RCW.
I mean really how long am I supposed to wait, I wait one full cycle and then when safe I go. This is only an issue at night, when there are fewer cars on the road. I know running a light at night is not that safe, but there is no legal way to do this. When I ask law enforcement I get differing answers depending on who I ask, And I cant find it in the RCW.
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