Here She is!

Here she is, my new little scooter!

The weather gods have been kind to me. Buying a scooter in October… in Vancouver… is a step towards insanity. But someone paid up the sunshine bill and we only had rain last Tuesday and Thursday. Since then it has been glorious and the scooter has been scooted upon every day since it came home. On Saturday we went and got a helmet for Kirk and then went on a double-scoot and she performed well.

Sunday i came home from the run and discovered that Kirk has stolen my scoot so when he came home it was my turn. I took it straight up Capilano Road all the way to the base of Grouse Mountain. i wanted to know if it could withstand that hill and not leave me holding up traffic. Again, she did very well bogging down only to 50km/hr near the steepest parts. More than enough power!

Yesterday I decided to try her out on what I pretty sure is the shortest steepest hill around, 29th Avenue off Lonsdale. Near the top we were down to about 35km/hr. And you know… that’s pretty good. I don’t think I could walk up that hill without stopping for breath so those 50cc’s did me proud.

She does have a bit of an engine hesitation at between 5000-6000 RPM and we need to get that sorted out since that’s the RPM that is taking you off the line and it makes me a bit nervous to know it’s missing power at an important point. I think she’s probably just sulking because I took her from a nice shiny showroom and put her into a dark underground parking lot…but I have taken her out in the sunshine every day since so she needs to get over it.

I’m having so much fun on it that it’s made me start to think about getting my Class 6 license…. bigger bike in my future somewhere?

But I’ll scoot for now!