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General Discussion / Re: Cover for Spade 150
« on: November 26, 2021, 06:38:01 PM »

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General Discussion / Re: Cover for Spade 150
« on: November 24, 2021, 04:03:53 PM »
   We got a nice inexpensive one from Walmart.    :D :D

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General Discussion / Re: Not a Scooter nor Motorcycle -
« on: September 14, 2021, 03:26:12 PM »

 Just purchased our second set of ebikes that are foldable style.  Can collapse and put in SUV or for me under PU truck cover -  RAD mini.. Great fun.  While at the store this weekend noticed quite a few scooter riders coming in to Demo the ebikes!! 

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Super 8 150 / Re: 800 mile round trip
« on: September 02, 2021, 04:09:05 PM »
   Good for you!!  *From another WA geezer!   Ride on!   Riding HWY 20 is suppose to be beautiful and you get to bypass that horrible windy Gorge area.

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General Discussion / Re: Not a Scooter nor Motorcycle -
« on: August 19, 2021, 08:44:02 PM »
I went down and talked to him about the electric bike he has ordered. It's a Delfast  3.0 built in the Ukraine. It is the Geinness world record holder and Forbes -fastest electric bike.  It has  pedals, 182 nm torque, mirrors, ABS, and a motor capable of 6k watts with the larger battery. Supposed to have a 200 mile range at lower speeds.   His 2nd choice was the Rimac G-12S but went with the Delfast because of the range.  He said the battery is supposed to last 8 years with a replacement cost of $1k.  He is supposed to get it in the 5th of next month

Heck, file that under with someones time and another person's money anything is possible.   I was talking about LEGAL, run of the mill, what is available to the average person and I am on an Electric bike forum with peeps way smarter than I about electricity. Here is their web site for Delfast https://urban-ebikes.com/collections/commuter-e-bikes. Most of their stuff is run of the mill legal and hold little percentage of the market.  https://www.bikeforums.net/industry-news/1216632-delfast-creates-world-s-best-most-powerful-top-e-bike.html

Have not even touched about it being legal on bike paths or streets for out of the ordinary steroid built bike. As we grow into this new technology I assume it will grow to outlandish proportions and then be regulated unlike now.

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General Discussion / Re: Not a Scooter nor Motorcycle -
« on: August 19, 2021, 04:12:24 PM »
Stig a person I know bought a electric bike from Europe.  He is legally blind but has vision but cannot drive a car.  He bought a high dollar electric bike that is supposedly capable of running 60 mph.  I will have to check it out when he receives it.

Not my cup of tea but seeing more and more electric scooters running around town.

NO factory electric bikes can run 60mph and Europe has a law keeping the power suppressed to half of what is available in the US.  Deep due diligence on my part.  Disk braked bikes can be invigorated with an installed $1100 mid drive kit but even then 35mph for any length of time is hard.  Batteries only come with so much wattage to use and when it's gone it's gone. These bikes can get very heavy and the bigger the battery the heavier and unwieldy it becomes.  Mine weighs in at 65 lbs before any added accdessories and I carry tools, etc.

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General Discussion / Not a Scooter nor Motorcycle -
« on: August 18, 2021, 09:08:46 PM »
After "cycling" through a Kymco Downtown 300 and a new Kymco Spade 150 mini motorcycle over two years time my S/O finally found something comfortable for her 4 10 frame that she can handle with a motor.  It's an ebike!!  LOL.   I admit I loved keeping her Kymco vehicles running but this is a hoot that both she and I can do for many more years since we are both bicycle riders anyway!  No fear of hills now since the electric motor will help with the pedaling.  Those with weak knees or legs will appreciate this a lot.  Our bikes even come with mc style throttles to power the rear wheel if you don't feel like pedaling.  The 14 amp hr battery will put out only so much power depending on how much you call for. So uphill  = some wattage ... throttle alone takes a lot more. Weight weather and motor assistance dictate whats left in the battery bank.  Really a game changer for us.  I will be giving up MC riding not tomorrow but soon.  Bicycling, this takes it into many years ahead with no fear of going up any hills or off to the grocery store a few miles away.  with Pedaling I expect we can comfortably go 40-50 miles comfortably.

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General Discussion / My newish Spade is so lonely
« on: August 05, 2021, 12:44:29 AM »
 Back again.

 We bought a new 2018 Kymco Spade in 2020 and can't say enough good about it. It really is a fine small 3/4 size motorcycle with all the nice things of a 1979 UJM standard bike but this get 90 mpg and fuel injected with a 5 speed!
More fun riding a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow.   Looks miniature beside my Touring Victory.
 

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General Discussion / Re: Riding while on Blood Thinners?
« on: October 13, 2020, 07:12:40 PM »
My intention was to encourage you to keep your chin up no matter what the doctors tell you. (They can be wrong.) I took what mine said as literal truth and sold my Mini Cooper, Motorcycle, and sold my home in the mountains of NC and moved down to the flatland of SC... all of which I would have waited to do if I thought I'd have another five years to enjoy those things. Although being stripped of all those external enjoyments has given me more time to enjoy some more important things like my family, so I can't complain. (And I still have my Kymco to putter around on when I feel up to it and the weather is nice.)
 ;)

Yup,  It is all risk management odds.  :^) 

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General Discussion / Re: Riding while on Blood Thinners?
« on: October 13, 2020, 06:18:16 PM »

 Thanks for the insight Old Coot.  I am humbled and while not believing in such religion as such I have come to accept no one gets out alive and things that use to anger me seem to have fallen by the wayside.  I have begin to take inventory of what time I have left.  Prior to the last few months I am a strong and very physical 65 year old who acts like someone much younger and have a much younger girlfriend and a geriatric cat who make me happy.   Seeing the end is not something I have spent much time wondering about but my mortality looms ahead.  I am mostly asymptomatic at this time but have found there is no rhyme or reason for brain tumors and the havoc they can release upon a body is very scary from what I have read about, much like earthquakes.  Tumors can lie dormant for any period of time before growing again, even after being cut out via cranial surgery.  Have a week to wait for neuro appointment.  Can't even comfort myself with some nicely aged Macallan scotch for fear of internal bleeding now on NOAC's...  Maybe the time to try something else I know is legal now for anxiety not in pill form!  Smile.

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General Discussion / Re: Riding while on Blood Thinners?
« on: October 09, 2020, 03:51:15 PM »
my GF is recently on Eliquis, for those who think asprin is a blood thinner, its like comparing 3.2 beer to Everclear, and the Eliquis sh** is expensive, over $500 a month and many time more potent than asprin for thinning blood


Randy,  If cost is an issue she can get Coumadin for about $4.00 a month but then has to test every week or so.  I have gone off Eliquis and now on Xaralto for side effects, but the good news is I only take it once a day now versus Eliquis twice a day.     You are right, Aspirin is not a alternative to Anti-coagulants and in reading I have found it to be as DEADLY as many over the counter Nsaids.   The good news is NOAC's like Eliquis cause no more internal bleeding than Aspirin, but no less either.

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 Hi karl,

   My buddy did the bending magic.  I know it had to be heated up to be malable without breaking it -  like I normally do!  :"^)

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General Discussion / Re: Riding while on Blood Thinners?
« on: October 06, 2020, 05:36:36 PM »
  Now that is has been a month I got out and got a nice ride in.  WEARING my medical bracelet saying on Anti-Coagulants in case of emergency but I always wear all the gear all the time or ATGATT as we say in the MC community.  Just getting use to being cognizant of it but not rule my life after 48 years of riding..    ;) ;)

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   Went from the Downtown 2011 i300 to a new Kymco 2018 150ccv Spade.

Could not find a rack ANYWHERE in the world let alone North America and the only company that makes them is ALWAYS out of stock. So I made my own with help.  Here is is.


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