Excuse my anxiousness!

[herrgeist]

I was so wrapped up in getting advice for my scooter that I forgot to introduce myself. Forgive me.

My name is Kevin. I'm in Tampa, Florida where I have lived off and on since I was a teenager. Now I'm in my early 30s and I've been all over the world (not with the military). I recently spent about a year in my home town of St. Louis tending bar at a great place in downtown called The Crack Fox. If you're ever in STL, go check it out. Great place to get your fix of underground music and awesome drinks. Now I work for Microsoft in Tampa. Not nearly as fun as all those years of bar tending, but the pay is stable and there's a future in it.

In the past few years I have started my own burlesque troupe here in Tampa but I handed that over to my co-producer and traveled to England for six months to pursue burlesque in 2009. I lived in Brighton the whole time and I love that town. I ran my own web design business during that time which I did until I went back to bar tending in STL.

My car was stolen recently which is why I got the scooter in the first place, but I have fallen completely in love with my little 50cc Schwinn Collegiate and I want to take good care of her. Give her a little more power and learn to love her the right way. I still need a car, especially in Florida where it rains frequently in the warmer months, but I'll never give up my scooter.

If you wanna know anything else, just ask.

This seems like a pretty good place to get all the info I could ever want and there doesn't seem to be a lot of fighting. Looking forward to becoming a regular here.

[imnts2]

Welcome to the forum. You are right. little fighting, a lot of courtesy, a lot of good eperience etc.
If anything, I would be careful around tampa with a 50cc. And before I spent a nickle trying to make a 50cc run like a 150 or a 250 I would really consider getting a 250 and getting legal.

Interesting carrer so far. Have you decided on any work that really gets you inspired? Not just money maker, but would rather work than eat? It seems to me that is the key.

Lost of luck in your quest.

From NM Florida
Cheers

[herrgeist]

Well, the thing is that I love my Schwinn. I'm not looking for huge power gains. Just a little bit of pep in the take off. The scooter already does 45ish when it's in top running order so that's fast enough. If I push up to 50, that'd be fine, too. Not looking for a racer. Just enough to get me moving in traffic if I need to. Plus, I don't like most of the other scooters I see. The style of the Collegiate is what I love. If I could find a 150 that handles like it and looks like it, I'd take it. Hell, if I could put a 150 in this one, that'd be great haha. But, yeah, Tampa gets hairy at times on the scooter and a little more oomph couldn't hurt in terms of safety here. I've had motorbikes most of my life so I know how to handle myself on the scooter, but there are times I wish I could have cranked the throttle and moved just a slight bit faster when traffic called for it.

I have definitely decided that my "job" is just what I do to keep me fed and financed for other things. I like my job, don't get me wrong, but it enables me to pursue the things I really like doing. Web design was nice because I was working for myself, but it's like being a mechanic. No matter how much you enjoy it, it's not as awesome to do when it's your job.

I still produce in the burlesque world. I've laid off in the past year but I'm coming back strong this summer. Luckily, my job is flexible so it allows me to do what I need to when it comes to pursuing other endeavors.