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I think I've figured out my next "bike"

by Slideways on 07 Nov, 2012 21:43
I have this stupid rule. Only one bike in the garage. I love my Connie but she is a big girl for running quick errands to town and I live just far enough away to make the bicycle not a great option. Okay there's also the 500' elevation gain in the last two miles on narrow twisty roads with no shoulder coming back also. Well my boss has an Aprillia SR50 scooter with all of 40 miles on the clock he'll sell to me at a fair price. Great in town transportation and bonus, the wife said she'd learn to ride it and she has shown zero interest in being anything other then a passenger. Breaking my stupid rule is easy to rationalize because it is not a motorcycle, it's a scooter.

Any thoughts? I mean aside from the "riding a scooter is like dating a fat chick..."

Reply #1

by Conrad on 08 Nov, 2012 04:51
One bike, one scooter in the garage. Nothig wrong with that. Besides, if anyone asks, it's your wife's scoot.

Reply #5

by twowheeladdict on 08 Nov, 2012 10:19
What is wrong with having more than one bike in the garage? Of course you may have other toys in there that we don't know about.

Reply #6

by ZG on 08 Nov, 2012 10:54
Quote from: Tom V on November 08, 2012, 08:23:35 AM
Better then dating a fat chick on a scooter huh?
http://youtu.be/T3AeRbqhi0I

Oh ya, one bike in the garage......BAD RULE!

Reply #10

by Slideways on 08 Nov, 2012 13:50
Jeezzz Tom V you and that avatar.

I like it. "Naw, it ain't mine it's the wife's scooter."

The Connie ain't lonely there are are about ten bicycles in the garage. Pedal bikes, my other obsession. Also my 2003 Honda Insight. The Connie is always giving the Insight crap for being slow but the Insight scoffs and calls the Connie a gas hog. It never ends between those two but I lov'em both.

Reply #12

by Slideways on 08 Nov, 2012 14:46
Over 130,000 miles on the Insight. Avereage mpg since day one has been 69mpg. This is the original Insight, not the new Prius wannabe. Had it up to 113 mph once on a downhill just to say I did. In the Insight community there is a saying, "80mpg @ 50mph or 50 mpg @ 80 mph." it is pretty spot on actually.

Reply #14

by Elfmaze on 08 Nov, 2012 16:56
right now i have a z1000 and the connie. I have talked about getting a honda ruckas, ninja 250, or sportster when the z1000 dies. same concept.

BUT i will say the concourse has became my goto vehical. I almost never drive the truck and the z1000 doesnt have the cargo space. I even grocery shop with the connie anymore.

Reply #15

by Gumby on 08 Nov, 2012 17:53
Quote from: Elfmaze on November 08, 2012, 04:56:10 PM
I have talked about getting a honda ruckas, ninja 300
FIFY

Reply #16

by Slideways on 08 Nov, 2012 21:23
DONE !!!!

The Aprillia SR50 came home with me tonight inspite of a less then auspicious start. Rode the thing from the seller's house back to the shop in the rain (hey, I am in SoCal rain is like, well you know...). At the bottom of the hill from his house I grabbed a fist full of left hand lever to pull in the clutch. That was exciting a little. Then it stalls at a light a mile from the shop. At this piont I have had exactly z-e-r-o instruction and know pretty much nothing about scooters. It doesn't want to start. Sigh, rain and pushing. Once I make it back I am asked if I held the brake lever while trying to start it. DOH !!!

Time to R.T. F. M.

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