Leg cover?

[TBR125]

Do the zippers remain waterproof after a few uses? That has been the main failing of several pants I have tried.

[john grinsel]

Yes in my experience.

[Neil955i]

I just can't justify the cost for riding what everyone around here calls the "liquorcycle".

Driving a scoot in these parts is equivalent to wearing an "I'm a drunk driver" t-shirt. I see a bunch out front at the local pop-a-top pub.

Do I deduce from this, that a 50cc scooter can be ridden without a licence in the US?  Hence becomes the go to mode of transport for banned drivers?  In the UK even a 50 needs a licence so it's not an option for banned drivers.

[Iahawk]

I believe the rules vary from individual state to state. Here in Iowa you don't need a car driver's license for a 50 cc scooter. 16 is the minimum age to legally drive a car but a 50cc scooter can be ridden by 14 year olds.

You still need some sort of license to ride them...back in the day we called it a moped license...

I recall reading that in California you need a full motorcycle license for a 50cc scoot.

[Neil955i]

Thanks Hawk.


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[Kansas kymco]

I believe the rules vary from individual state to state. Here in Iowa you don't need a car driver's license for a 50 cc scooter. 16 is the minimum age to legally drive a car but a 50cc scooter can be ridden by 14 year olds.

You still need some sort of license to ride them...back in the day we called it a moped license...

I recall reading that in California you need a full motorcycle license for a 50cc scoot.

Hawk it's the same way in Kansas as Iowa. That's why 50cc is so popular. Actually 49cc under 3hp and top speed limited to 30mph. I don't believe they require insurance as well, just a moped/scooter license. 

[TBR125]

Here in tn there is no required license or registration. They must be 49cc and under with a top speed of 35.

[Snorvey]

In the old, old days, buying a restricted (2 stroke) moped demanded that you invested in a set of Riffler Files and gently filed a mm or 2 from the exhaust port roof.

Then, pleased with the new 'power' band you had created, you took another mm from it. Then another. Until you had created an unridable monster where all the power lived in a 200rpm band somewhere north of the red line.
Basically, you'd wrecked it.

<sigh> Those were the days.

Right, where were we? Ah. Winter gear in California.
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<snort>

[Stig / Major Tom]

In the old, old days, buying a restricted (2 stroke) moped demanded that you invested in a set of Riffler Files and gently filed a mm or 2 from the exhaust port roof.

Then, pleased with the new 'power' band you had created, you took another mm from it. Then another. Until you had created an unridable monster where all the power lived in a 200rpm band somewhere north of the red line.
Basically, you'd wrecked it.

<sigh> Those were the days.

Right, where were we? Ah. Winter gear in California.
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<snort>

Hemingway of the scoots!
😊good stuff

Major T.

[Stig / Major Tom]

Do I deduce from this, that a 50cc scooter can be ridden without a licence in the US?  Hence becomes the go to mode of transport for banned drivers?  In the UK even a 50 needs a licence so it's not an option for banned drivers.

Yep, we had a 'built' 50 LIKE rider such as that. A real screamer. ..60gps, the whole banana. ..until he crashed.
Perhaps the judge was trying to protect his hide by taking his license.
Or, more appropriately, us.
Those guys just think we're being petty by trying to get them off the roads our families drive on.
And of course,  taking their license doesn't stop them from driving.
They risk only another slap on the wrist.
Stig

[Neil955i]

Yep, we had a 'built' 50 LIKE rider such as that. A real screamer. ..60gps, the whole banana. ..until he crashed.
Perhaps the judge was trying to protect his hide by taking his license.
Or, more appropriately, us.
Those guys just think we're being petty by trying to get them off the roads our families drive on.
And of course,  taking their license doesn't stop them from driving.
They risk only another slap on the wrist.
Stig

A problem all over Major. We have a local banned driver whom everyone knows is still driving - even caught on dashcam footage, but seemingly unless the cops catch him red-handed...

Almost has you sympathising with the vigilante mindset!


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[Stig / Major Tom]

Speaks a jealous Scot lol. Bet the California Dreamers couldn’t survive a Scottish winter?


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Or a February coffee run in Ohio.
Stig

[Neil955i]

Or a February coffee run in Ohio.
Stig

Yep, that’d run it close [emoji848]


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[Snorvey]

Scottish winters aren't too bad (or maybe I'm just used to them). My missus has a pal that lives in Saskatchewan....now that's hardcore wintertime.

Brrrr!

[Kansas kymco]

My place up North gets a little cold as well , not to far from the nation's ice box International Falls. I beleive they have a record of -55F. Where my Aunt &  Uncle lived Sioux Lookout Ontario it has got as cold as -60F.

Remember a story my Aunt told me who worked at the hospital.  She had a battery heater,  oil heater and engine block heater with the car in the garage.  When she got up to go to work the car started right up but wouldn't move the  rear differential oil was so thick/ or froze the car wouldn't move. She had to call a cab. The garage towed the car to the shop where they put it inside to thaw out.

I have seen neither Canada or Ely MN in the dead of winter.

Remember stories of building the Alaska highway where they built fires under the equipment engines to warm them up in winter.

Those Northerners are some Hardie folks.