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Common for some folks - rare for me!

Early this morning, an elderly lady of means, apparently, slid out of her Escalade and walked past.
Looking at my LIKE parked by the curb, she asked, "Is that yours?"
"Yes ma'am."

"It looks like fun!"
"It is!"

Later a mail man rode up on his scooter. He pops into Tom's most mornings on his way to the post Office, just down the street.
We chatted about his scooter. It's a 50 and he lives in the village - so perfectly good for intown use.


Later a passerby asked, looking it over, "Is that a Vespa?"

"Oh goodness....no! that kinda stuff can get a fellow beat up! It's Chinese!"

He was puzzled at my remark. He doesn't know Vespa owners.


Low bright sun in my face on much of my ride home...so stopped and put the painter's tape on. Works a treat - much better than my drop-down sun glass thing. That darkens everything. Including shadows. In and out of tree shadows all the way home - any one of which can be hiding a deer standing in the road. Ask me how I know!

It ain't elegant. But look at the rider!

Stig

I think the Like is a vast improvement over the Vespa!

Put it back together!
The key goes into the slot lined up with tiny triangle at the top of the black cover held on with three tiny screws. The key opens the cap with a quarter turn to the right. Make sure this action works like this after you reassemble!

I'm getting old. Any one have an extra black spring? It's in the shop somewhere...

White arrow points to where vent hole is to be drilled.

Solved my problem with sudden death and slowly  dying scooter engines. Modern setups have a vacuum operated vent valve that sticks shut.

Remove these two screws and have a good grip on this cover and the two catches because they are spring loaded!

Great car with great potential ruined by some California granny over speeding a cloverleaf and spinning out. Ralph Nader, a hungry lawyer, writes a book about this accident/crash, "Unsafe at Any Speed" which kills the car and gets the "Consumer Protection" bureaucrat agency started.

Most sports-minded drivers and hot-rodders bought an Empi "camber compensator" which eliminated the axle-tuck/rollover thing. Had GM limited the wheel travel it never would have been much of a problem

The 60/40 rear weight bias still gave the car a frightening oversteer when pushed but definitely similar to Porche, VW and Renault Dauphine. A driver interested could deal with it but was beyond most drones driving in this country in the 60's.

The engines these days are quite popular with home-built aircraft people... big power at less money...

Yes, thank you and him!

Recently there were some software updates to M3 tool. I upgraded my M3 tool from v1.47 to V24.03.05 and on my 2011 Kymco Downtown 300i: 1. I can't no longer communicate with ABS 8M module - communication error. 2. TPS Reset function is gone - it wasn't working in my case anyway. Good thing that I can downgrade back to 1.47.

The ham radio guys are real big on "upgrades" for the firmware on these modern software defined rigs. They come away, bunches of them, after turning their once working radios into "bricks!" Fortunately, many are able to do what you did and return to the previous version (that worked!).

Oh, that wheel damage is just rotten! I still fume about a local Honda shop kept a farmer friend's 4-wheeler for over a MONTH for a radiator fan problem. Changed the spark plug, charged him over a hundred bucks and the fan still did not work!

I have ranted on this forum loud and long about AMERICAN repair shops and mechanics (Ruffus and others here are NOT included since Euro and Asian techs are way ahead!) have the swagger and nothing else. Not all but it seems most.

Do yer own work as much as possible. Tires and brakes on most anything suck. Just gather your skirts and tough it out. You will know then who and how the dents and scratches got there. Then you won't hate some poor, witless mouth breather for being a clod.