Post by doomsday on Apr 7, 2012 19:33:16 GMT -5
As rides goes, it was pretty boring for those who ride a lot, but this was my longest trip away from the house thus far. I decided that I was going to go to my barber today and get a hair cut and I was going to ride there with my scooter. It's only about 7 miles one way there which took roughly about 20 minutes to get there but it was a fun ride! I only have 2 pieces of safety gear at the moment, a helmet and gloves and it was around 55 degrees when I left this morning. I took a light jacket and a pair of heavy thick sweat pants and the ride was as warm as it could be. Funny thing, I am so used to cars that when I got on the scooter and was getting ready to head out, I was like, where is my seat belt? lol. Maybe it was to early for me to be going lol.
Anyways, the trip there has a few hills on it, and on the way there, the scooter performed admirably. I know there was a few hills that I could have easily hit 45 or so on but I kinda held back on the throttle and kept it around 40mph. The entire trip there, I only had maybe 5 cars get behind me the entire trip so that was pretty uneventful. Everyone hung back and gave me my distance. I was very pleased. One thing I found is that you can't really tell when there are lots of small jolting bumps in the road. That takes some getting used to.
The trip back was basically the same, those hills were much bigger coming back though lol. Going up the hills, I was probably lucky to do 25ish up them but frankly they were pretty steep and to haul my big ol butt up them, the scooter did a fine job lol. I had one particular patch of road kind of confuse me though. A small section only on the way back was extremely vibrating. I mean only the front end. I was doing 35-40 and it seemed no matter where I road in that side of the road, it was vibrating the heck out of me and the front end. Maybe a quarter mile section or so and then everything was back to semi smoothish riding. The little scooter performed admirably! So got my first real set of miles on it actually doing something besides just riding up and down the main road around here lol. I am getting closer to my first 100 miles, I am currently around 72miles so far!
It was fun for me and kinda tiring actually. Sad to say that, at the age of 44 and 10am in the morning lol. I figure me being up for 24 hours and then heading out with only 6 hours of sleep, probably played a huge roll in that.
Anyways, the trip there has a few hills on it, and on the way there, the scooter performed admirably. I know there was a few hills that I could have easily hit 45 or so on but I kinda held back on the throttle and kept it around 40mph. The entire trip there, I only had maybe 5 cars get behind me the entire trip so that was pretty uneventful. Everyone hung back and gave me my distance. I was very pleased. One thing I found is that you can't really tell when there are lots of small jolting bumps in the road. That takes some getting used to.
The trip back was basically the same, those hills were much bigger coming back though lol. Going up the hills, I was probably lucky to do 25ish up them but frankly they were pretty steep and to haul my big ol butt up them, the scooter did a fine job lol. I had one particular patch of road kind of confuse me though. A small section only on the way back was extremely vibrating. I mean only the front end. I was doing 35-40 and it seemed no matter where I road in that side of the road, it was vibrating the heck out of me and the front end. Maybe a quarter mile section or so and then everything was back to semi smoothish riding. The little scooter performed admirably! So got my first real set of miles on it actually doing something besides just riding up and down the main road around here lol. I am getting closer to my first 100 miles, I am currently around 72miles so far!
It was fun for me and kinda tiring actually. Sad to say that, at the age of 44 and 10am in the morning lol. I figure me being up for 24 hours and then heading out with only 6 hours of sleep, probably played a huge roll in that.
