Tag Archive | "Damn"

Scooterists, be on the lookout for the one-armed scooter jacker

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Really!  I nearly had this happen to me once.  Luckily there was about two feet of clearance at the end of the arm, so I just swerved around it.  Don’t let this happen to you!

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Wanna make your own Chinese scooter? So did Chris

Monday, January 11, 2010

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(“這裡是我們安裝燈泡爆炸。” Image source: Telegraph.co.uk) At some time in our lives we’ve all thought about it, us people in the scooter industry. The idea starts with, “I bet I could design a GREAT scooter, have it built inexpensively in China, bring it back here and build an empire!” That’s exactly what “Chris” (real name withheld) thought […]

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Vespa show-off fail

Monday, December 21, 2009

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This is one of those common mistakes. Yer showin’ off, smokin’ a little rubber then *ERRRRT!* the bike goes flying off without you. I have to think he would have been better off making this mistake whist showing off for an unknown lady as opposed to all of his mates… with video cameras. Poor guy. […]

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Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow!!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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Scooter Showoff Owned by Pole – Watch more Funny VideosI can’t figure out how he didn’t see the huge pole, unless he just wasn’t watching where he was going which is rule number two on scooters. Rule number one is wear your helmet you dummy.

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Friday Moment of Zen

Friday, June 26, 2009

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Believe it or not, this is a mid-80s Honda Aero 50 scooter: It started out looking something like this:

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Ooops! Technical glitch fixed

Sunday, March 1, 2009

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(click to enlarge) We were down last night after some tinkering under the hood. After a solid 7 hours of sleep we had built up the mental fortitude to figure out that we had inadvertently left out a “/*” and broke everything. Well, the “/*” is back in place and tightened to 78 ft/lbs of […]

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