Haximoto was an SVM scooter and was incredibly reliable. In a continuous, 3000-kilometer scoot, nothing broke although she got a bit sick at one point which seemed to happen due to condensation in the fuel tank (perhaps). She was probably fried at the end of it but she was still running. (The way she disappeared is just one of the reasons it was so vital to get out of Scotland)
This is what she looked like:
The SVM RV 200 is roughly the same as mine but nicer with better features and in much better condition. She lists new for about four grand.
There's someone on eBay just now with a KYMCO 500 scooter. This is one expensive scooter and it lists for about six grand when it's new. He's asking $1500 for it so the first thought is what's wrong with it. The KYMCO line has been verified and they're one of the most widely-distributed scooters in the world. They seem to be well-represented in US.
That's about the biggest motor you will find for a motor scooter and it's not clear yet what kind of design as the inline four-cylinder motor for the Honda 500 was one large beast so one tiny question on this scooter: where did they put it. Also, what design is it. Do we have one 500 cc cylinder or what.
Brief moment of silence in respect for the Honda 500 as it was the only bike which ever came through the house which no-one ever crashed. I still get a laugh at thinking of leaning her down on corners but she couldn't handle it very well. A peg would hit which would lift up the back wheel and you would get a tingle until it came back down again.
(Ed: how will you pay for it?)
The music kit is hanging by a thread and not for any reason anyone needs to know. There is zero interest in hanging about listening to people with their fingerpicked wizardry on acoustic guitars ... unless they really are wizards such as Voodoo Shilton and some others. Once the music stops, it stops altogether, and likely the Internet will go with it since it's been waving its paws in the air for years and watching the final rotting in Facebook is getting progressively more tedious. There's never anything real in the news, etc, etc.
The scooter isn't likely to happen because I probably can't ride due also to reasons you don't need to know but it makes one peach of a fantasy. Whether it would be safe in America is unclear since the autoroute in France has a speed limit of 130 kph / 80 mph. The KYMCO 500 could probably handle that speed but the SVM definitely could not. I never managed to get her over 99 kph / 60 mph and she was most comfortable cruising about 80 kph or about 50 mph. That's death on a US Interstate but it was surprising, hugely surprising, to find it was survivable in Europe.
(Ed: you were driving 80 kph on a road on which the others were doing 130 kph?)
They did that and more so ... yep. Imagine that on a U.S. Interstate and imagine how long it takes for Cell Phone Annie and her miniscule brain to make strawberry paste out of you. Or maybe it would be Deadeye Daniel with his seven DUIs. Either way, you're probably going down.
No clear theory on why I did not get splattered over there. No-one ever tailgated me, tho, and I never had the feeling anyone was trying to push me. That goes to a general hypothesis Euros are more laid back but you can see from National Front that's not true (i.e. Marine le Pen and her family of Fascists).
Unlikely the scoot would be safe for the Interstate but that's the worst way to see anything anyway. The real Americana is on the two-lane highways and it's the same thing in Europe. Here the danger would be roughly equal as you haven't (cough) lived until you have had a big semi rig blow past you on a two-lane road while you ride that scooter and that will definitely make you see the Lord, although ideally not for too long. It could easily be on a permanent basis, tho, as that's some seriously scary stuff.
Why?
Photograph the Mail Pouch barns before the last of them disintegrates. You want yer Americana? You won't find that anywhere else on the planet. Their times are gone but the barns are beautiful in collapse and a whole anthology of stories comes out of them. Farmers who own them would probably be happy to let you come on their land for photographs to commemorate the barn so it could be kind of a groove.
There are valid objectives and they're probably not possible but I like dreams, especially in a time when so few seem to entertain them anymore.
This is what she looked like:
The SVM RV 200 is roughly the same as mine but nicer with better features and in much better condition. She lists new for about four grand.
There's someone on eBay just now with a KYMCO 500 scooter. This is one expensive scooter and it lists for about six grand when it's new. He's asking $1500 for it so the first thought is what's wrong with it. The KYMCO line has been verified and they're one of the most widely-distributed scooters in the world. They seem to be well-represented in US.
That's about the biggest motor you will find for a motor scooter and it's not clear yet what kind of design as the inline four-cylinder motor for the Honda 500 was one large beast so one tiny question on this scooter: where did they put it. Also, what design is it. Do we have one 500 cc cylinder or what.
Brief moment of silence in respect for the Honda 500 as it was the only bike which ever came through the house which no-one ever crashed. I still get a laugh at thinking of leaning her down on corners but she couldn't handle it very well. A peg would hit which would lift up the back wheel and you would get a tingle until it came back down again.
(Ed: how will you pay for it?)
The music kit is hanging by a thread and not for any reason anyone needs to know. There is zero interest in hanging about listening to people with their fingerpicked wizardry on acoustic guitars ... unless they really are wizards such as Voodoo Shilton and some others. Once the music stops, it stops altogether, and likely the Internet will go with it since it's been waving its paws in the air for years and watching the final rotting in Facebook is getting progressively more tedious. There's never anything real in the news, etc, etc.
The scooter isn't likely to happen because I probably can't ride due also to reasons you don't need to know but it makes one peach of a fantasy. Whether it would be safe in America is unclear since the autoroute in France has a speed limit of 130 kph / 80 mph. The KYMCO 500 could probably handle that speed but the SVM definitely could not. I never managed to get her over 99 kph / 60 mph and she was most comfortable cruising about 80 kph or about 50 mph. That's death on a US Interstate but it was surprising, hugely surprising, to find it was survivable in Europe.
(Ed: you were driving 80 kph on a road on which the others were doing 130 kph?)
They did that and more so ... yep. Imagine that on a U.S. Interstate and imagine how long it takes for Cell Phone Annie and her miniscule brain to make strawberry paste out of you. Or maybe it would be Deadeye Daniel with his seven DUIs. Either way, you're probably going down.
No clear theory on why I did not get splattered over there. No-one ever tailgated me, tho, and I never had the feeling anyone was trying to push me. That goes to a general hypothesis Euros are more laid back but you can see from National Front that's not true (i.e. Marine le Pen and her family of Fascists).
Unlikely the scoot would be safe for the Interstate but that's the worst way to see anything anyway. The real Americana is on the two-lane highways and it's the same thing in Europe. Here the danger would be roughly equal as you haven't (cough) lived until you have had a big semi rig blow past you on a two-lane road while you ride that scooter and that will definitely make you see the Lord, although ideally not for too long. It could easily be on a permanent basis, tho, as that's some seriously scary stuff.
Why?
Photograph the Mail Pouch barns before the last of them disintegrates. You want yer Americana? You won't find that anywhere else on the planet. Their times are gone but the barns are beautiful in collapse and a whole anthology of stories comes out of them. Farmers who own them would probably be happy to let you come on their land for photographs to commemorate the barn so it could be kind of a groove.
There are valid objectives and they're probably not possible but I like dreams, especially in a time when so few seem to entertain them anymore.
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