Woman of Mystery

It was no dinner and a show, folx... it was all show and ride. And some good coke, of course.
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Tales From The Shop

Yes, folks -- it's time once again to tell you about strange or humorous happenings at my local scooter shop.

Photo used under Creative Commons license. Photo by Jeremy Page.

I wasn't there today when the man brought it in, but he had a nice, new-looking Genuine Buddy 125. Rooster described it thusly: "So, the guy comes in, and he's got electrical tape all over his turn signal lenses, front and back. He says, 'The thing's actin' all crazy! I can't get the blinkers to stop!' So, I pull off the electrical tape, start it up... reach over and turn off the 4-way flasher switch, and the guy cusses, and walks off to talk to James. Next thing I know, he's stormin' out of the shop!"

James was with a customer while Rooster was telling the tale, but he later explained that the gentleman is an attorney in town, and was about to be late meeting a client, so he left in order to make that appointment. Yes, the poor guy felt like an idiot, and he later came to retrieve the scooter, carrying a six-pack of Miller Lite tallboys as payment, which James gladly accepted. Funnier than the n00b who forgets to set the kill switch to run, and wears out a leg trying to kick start it? I'll let you be the judge.
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WANT.

Hey... gonna have most of the body panels off when I replace the engine... I wonder if there's a kit.
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As Of Today

... there is an official scootnashville.com scooter, and this is it. As of today, scootnashville will have three very active members who own a 2-stroke orange Stella. In a town filled to the gills with Buddys, whodathunkit?
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Winning The Big Lotto

Yes, the big jackpot games are definitely a tax on the mathematically-innumerate, but it's still fun to dream (and throw an occasional $1 at). Two scooters I'd pretty much get right off the bat:
Kymco Downtown 300i. This would replace BRU for all intensive porpoises. The "get from A to B quickly" bike.

Honda PCX125. The everyday grocery-getter, errand-runner. Gets fantastic gas mileage, and I bet it's really fun to ride.
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Odd Man Out

On my most recent ride with fellow scooterists (seven scooters, total), I was the only one not stylin' on a Genuine Buddy or a vintage Vespa P200E. :lol:
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Loosers!

I expect Chinese and Taiwanese bikes to have some hilarious misspellings in the manual, on the decals, etc.

But the Italians, too?
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Draggin'

oellrichm talked me into going up to Music City Raceway this past Friday. I figured it'd be a fun way to see just what my stock, nothing-special scooter could do, and it was, but it was less exciting than I expected. Maybe it was watching the crotch rockets better than lap my time. :)

I made two runs (why waste gas?). The deets:

Run One:

Reaction = +0.3000
60ft = 2.7760
330ft = 7.9298
ET @ 594ft = 11.6947
1/8 ET = 12.5620
1/8 MPH = 51.88

Run Two:

Reaction = +0.3570
60ft = 2.7448
330ft = 7.9020
ET @ 594ft = 11.6639
1/8 ET = 12.5327
1/8 MPH = 51.79

No, I dunno what most of that means. :) It was just for fun, and for $15, I guess it was fun enough just to ride up there with oellrichm and touchton (who's in the photo, above).

Probably won't do it again, though.

UPDATE: Here's some footage of touchton and oellrichm gettin' their drag awn.


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$4 Yamaha T-Max

... and, depending on the value of your time, perhaps hundreds of dollars in labor costs, but still... a papercraft T-Max sounds like a good way to get frustrated on a cold, wet weekend, indoors.

Amazingly, Yamaha has a variety of papercraft projects on their Japanese site, and not all of them are motorcycles and scooters.

h/t to ProvoScooterForums.
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Do One Thing, And Do It Very Well

The Onion rawks. h/t to 2strokebuzz.

That said, I don't know of anything Yamaha makes that's considered less than good quality. They make some very nice guitars... or used to, anyway.
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My Thoughts

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Best. Scooter. Video. EVAR.

NSFW -- Gangsta rap language. ROTFLMAO.
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Isn't It Iconic

... don't ya think?

I took this off the back of my Icon Mainframe Halo, since it always wanted to come off, anyway (the front applique is not faring much better; may be a good helmet, but lousy detailing). I'm going to make a custom reflective label to go on the back of the helmet with the sample materials that StreetGlo sent me. 

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