True story. He is a nice old buffer from Oamaru and the two heavily tattooed wimmin advancing on him, one carrying a fence paling, both shouting obscenities scared shit out of him. Location rough street in Papanui.
Tell your colleague not to buy Chinese made as there's no parts backup and I hear of scooters given away for scrap cos they can't get a minor part...
Ahh, Drew's sage like safety tips.
Perhaps you can regale us with some anecdote about throttle use with the word both in it?![]()
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Yeah my lovely wife had one of those "Sunny 50" scooters as her first. Thing was a fuckin nightmare, spent every 2nd weekend fixing the damn thing.
On the day we moved in to our first home from our rental she was riding it across town, was waiting for her and thinking where the fuck is she, thing had given up half way there and she had to push it the rest of the way.
Went to Emoto and got a Piaggio Zip the next day (just what you need after buying a house). Thing has been brilliant, is assembled in China but designed in Italy, only time it has given us trouble was just as I was getting on a plane to aussie earlier this year, luckily got Askor on to it and he fixed the issue (blocked carb). Not bad for over 12000ks on a scooter with virtually no servicing. 2 strokes for the win.
I had the displeasure of doing a WOF road test a while ago on a hardtail chopper with a 300 tyre on it and an aggressive rake.
It actually scared me. I got to the end of the road and virtually had to paddle my feet along the road on either side just to get it around the corner. It was like I'd never ridden a bike before.
Did I think it was safe for our roads? Absolutely not.
Did it get a WOF? Yes it did. It was only a couple of years old, it ticked all the boxes on the WOF sheet and clearly someone saw fit to certify it for our roads a couple of years ago. (I wonder if anyone actually rode it before they signed off on it though).
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