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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on April 29, 2021, 01:16:14 AM
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My daughter said, "Padre, that'd be like me asking you to come in to Bath & Bodyworks!".....but, she did finally join me in my rare visit to the big local power sport dealer on the way home from coffee today.
I just wanted to see some new scooters.
They had 4 Kymco LIKE 50's and a 300, and a bike. I stood the 300 X up on the center stand to get a better look at it's profile.
I gotta say - though I never cared much for my Burgman 400's paint - the Suzuki's shape flowed better, and was more pleasing than this new large Kymco's.
(https://i.postimg.cc/66h1BSZ3/20210428-140317.jpg)
The 2 "never-wax" black Xmax's looked like they were all primed and ready for a nice gloss coat of something! A shame, that.
(https://i.postimg.cc/ZK77ddVz/20210428-140621.jpg)
My favorite scoot was the little Super Cub. (though I'd hunt for the blue/red/white version) What a precision looking little piece of machinery.
(https://i.postimg.cc/br6Tk709/20210428-140439.jpg)
Oh, and I figured out that I was mistaking the 2020 LIKE's weird new headlight reflector shape for an LED. No, it's not an LED....still a Halogen in there - just reshaped lens. Maybe produces a better result ??
(https://i.postimg.cc/fW55Gd4S/20210428-140711.jpg)
And while we were having our breakfast in town - the village's most famous celeb walked by a couple of times. I think he's checking on, & maybe financing, a new mural which is underway. Anyway - the procedure is to leave him in peace. And, after getting scolded by my daughter for talking scooters with him last summer - After getting "The Look" from herself....I behaved today. (Dave Chappelle)
(https://i.postimg.cc/PrZdqdtH/20210428-131856.jpg)
Stig
BTW...this local dealer seemed to be down 50% of floor stock.
They had 2 hiviz MeshTex First Gear jackets for $49....if they'd had my size I'd have bought a third!
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I was going to comment that your dealer had a lot of inventory compared to my local dealer! Inventory is tight all over. I can usually get my 11 year old daughter to come with me to the dealer when I order or pick up a part. She likes to sit on the big touring bikes and cruisers (her favorite was the BMW R18).
She also like to sit on the kid sized 4 wheelers.
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If that top pic is an X-Town Tom, then I really do wish we’d have got that paint job here. Sooo much better than the matte grey we got as our only choice. Really does spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar!
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If that top pic is an X-Town Tom, then I really do wish we’d have got that paint job here. Sooo much better than the matte grey we got as our only choice. Really does spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar!
When the scoot has the turn indicators on the mirrors - you're pretty much stuck with whatever a large shouldered rider can see on mirrors designed for petit Asians.
Stig
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Hadn’t spotted that. Mine are inset half way up the fairing. Guess too close together for the US market?