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Scooters - 125 to 300 => Downtown 300 => Topic started by: kymcogrampa on May 24, 2018, 03:00:56 PM
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Hello eh!
I'm new here and thought I'd introduce myself. I'm a 60 yr old moto sport gear head that's been riding for 48 years. I first started riding my brother's Rabbit 90 (import from France, I believe) up and down our gravel back lane. I've since graduated to all kinds of bikes except crotch rockets. I currently have 3 bikes. A C3 Yamaha 50cc, A Kymco Downtown 300i and a Suzuki V-Strom 650.
My wife had bought the 300i 6 years ago and parked it 3 years back, with only 2500 kms on the odometer. I recently dusted it off, installed a new battery and drained/rinsed out the gas tank. It started right up and is working great.
I'm looking forward to chatting in the near future.
Kymcogrampa
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Howdy and welcome! There are a bunch of "gramps" here that ride the DT and other things. We have lotsa fun!
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Welcome from a former Winterpegger now in Oklahoma .
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Thanks guys...why in the world would someone ever leave "Winterpeg"? ::)
Kymcogrampa
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I like this site very much. I did not make that kind of thing. Now it's all learned.
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Hello Sarabine.
It is good to know that this forum is helping you learn to fix and service your scooter.
Where are you from?
Gramps
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We love our Canadian neighbors.
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You speak pretty good English for Canadian!😊
Welcome, welcome!
Stig
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I can talk English pretty goodly, eh?
Seeing that we are part of the English Commonwealth...
Here, we are a bilingual country with English and French as our official languages. We can get by quite well with either. I speak both, but neither perfectly. I can surely curse in both and that's all that really matters to me! ;)
Gramps or Grandpere
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We love our Canadian neighbors.
That's good to hear these days!
Gramps
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I can talk English pretty goodly, eh?
Seeing that we are part of the English Commonwealth...
Here, we are a bilingual country with English and French as our official languages. We can get by quite well with either. I speak both, but neither perfectly. I can surely curse in both and that's all that really matters to me! ;)
Gramps or Grandpere
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you said it ;'\,./3#@%from a old great grandpa from Regina now in Ottawa and I speak Canadian American, and a little English and got by in France, & Germany even Scotland,
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you said it ;'\,./3#@%from a old great grandpa from Regina now in Ottawa and I speak Canadian American, and a little English and got by in France, & Germany even Scotland,
I too would like to be a great grandpa, but so far I've only been able to be a good one!
Gramps
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you have the makings for a great grandpa , I had to wait till I was 75, now he is 10 years old,
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I think I have 14 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. Hard to get them all to stand still for a count.
...my wife even knows all their names!
I do know my teenaged daughter's name, most days.
Stig
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you have the makings for a great grandpa , I had to wait till I was 75, now he is 10 years old,
75 minus 10 equals 65...hmmm, how's my math so far? ;)
Gramps
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I think I have 14 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. Hard to get them all to stand still for a count.
...my wife even knows all their names!
I do know my teenaged daughter's name, most days.
Stig
Stig, that's funny! ;D
Gramps
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Stig, that's funny! ;D
Gramps
must be the one that goes riding with him and does not complain?????
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75 minus 10 equals 65...hmmm, how's my math so far? ;)
Gramps
try 85, rider in S.F. Cal. 91 years old said Im good for 90 at least, as he bought the Piaggio same time I did a B V 350 sport, don't know how many miles he is doing a year , I got 14,400 Km. on mine so far ,. almost ready for my first tire change on it, some say 1 MM tread left , time to change,. on my downtown I went to bare thread before changing it, a couple of times, just not checking before each ride, that last ride the rubber goes fast,.
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try 85, rider in S.F. Cal. 91 years old said Im good for 90 at least, as he bought the Piaggio same time I did a B V 350 sport, don't know how many miles he is doing a year , I got 14,400 Km. on mine so far ,. almost ready for my first tire change on it, some say 1 MM tread left , time to change,. on my downtown I went to bare thread before changing it, a couple of times, just not checking before each ride, that last ride the rubber goes fast,.
Telling the wife about the rear tire , she said would you let me go on a worn out tire ? I said NO , she said go change that tire, NOW!!! for me,.
it was the first time I had the tire off on this scooter , all most the same as my downtown, just more expensive, $ 113.00 plus shipitshop fee $ 4.00 and a trip to Masenna N Y with bridge fee,. $ 3.50 each way to & fro total $ 125.00, tire cost here $ 195.00
mileage in Km. today 14,447 Km.
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Telling the wife about the rear tire , she said would you let me go on a worn out tire ? I said NO , she said go change that tire, NOW!!! for me,.
it was the first time I had the tire off on this scooter , all most the same as my downtown, just more expensive, $ 113.00 plus shipitshop fee $ 4.00 and a trip to Masenna N Y with bridge fee,. $ 3.50 each way to & fro total $ 125.00, tire cost here $ 195.00
mileage in Km. today 14,447
Wait a minute!
You gotta pay a fee to cross a bridge with a tire?
I'd try tossing it over....or put a string on it, throw it in the bay and casually stroll over the bridge holding the string.
By the way....many of us were thinking the same as your dear wife!
Stop riding on threads - and 1 bleedin' mm does NOT qualify as tire tread!
Something happens to you we won't get any more reports on that pretty scooter of yours!
How do you say Knucklehead in Canadian?
😊Stig😊
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"How do you say Knucklehead in Canadian?"
A Knucklehead, eh?
Gramps