Kathy ([info]kathygnome) wrote,
@ 2008-09-24 18:23:00
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Nice Ride
I took Lemon Squeezy for a little checkup. They pronounced her fine, changed her fluids and filters, and adjusted her cables. That was in Plymouth, so I did another trip over the bridge. This was a little bit under 100 miles round trip. What a beautiful ride. It was pretty cold. I need insulated gloves, not the summer armored vented ones I have now (I knew this--my size isn't available locally). But the jacket was fabulous even though its just a summer mesh with the liners put in. And Lemon Squeezy performed like a champ. I even got her up to 65 on the way home!

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[info]radargrrl
2008-09-25 12:20 am UTC (link)
A Plymouth? I thought she was a Vespa!

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[info]kathygnome
2008-09-25 01:19 am UTC (link)
IN Plymouth! Like THE Plymouth!

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[info]radargrrl
2008-09-25 04:13 pm UTC (link)
You drove your Plymouth to Britain?

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[info]kathygnome
2008-09-25 04:14 pm UTC (link)
:P

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[info]radargrrl
2008-09-25 04:32 pm UTC (link)
Heeheehee!

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[info]waxmedusa
2008-09-25 01:25 am UTC (link)
Wow, 65 mph on a scoot...I didn't even know they could go that fast. Sounds like a great ride.

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[info]kathygnome
2008-09-25 01:34 am UTC (link)
Most people think of the little ones, but the ones that actually look like a scooter from Vespa go as big as 250cc water cooled and fuel injected and will easily do highway speeds.

Mine isn't that big, but it's very solid on regular roads and I can hit 60-65 if I'm on a long straight--and it helped I was going downhill.

It was pretty scary, but I did want to know what she would do now that she's officially out of the breakin period.

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[info]yeopenbooke
2008-10-30 05:26 am UTC (link)
Whoo! Have you heard of the reputation of scoot speedometers to read 2 or more miles faster than one's actual speed? I simply count back 5 miles on mine.

Will PM more on this...

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[info]kathygnome
2008-10-30 11:11 am UTC (link)
Yeah, Modern Vespa actually has a chart for the LX150 and it's about 10% That's part of why I put 60-65 is the speedometer was a little over 65, but I figured it was probably more like 60ish. I honestly didn't spend a lot of time looking at it, with 10" wheels, that's really really fast.

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[info]karythe
2008-09-25 11:31 am UTC (link)
laughs at the name and refrains from comments and bout femms :)

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