Never let friends ride your scooter. Seriously.

Cubey · Post by **Cubey** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:35 pm

I went against my better judgement. I have a 55 year old friend who has ridden motorcycles and ATVs all her life. She has a $40k Goldwing trike and a 4 wheeler. She has been riding motorcycles for some 30 years.

She got on my Spree and barely got 150 feet away before she crashed it. Luckily she's ok. She said the throttle got stuck. I guess her weight put the throttle cable in a bind and it wouldn't close. And she didnt hear me point out the kill switch. So she kind of paniced and was headed for a ditch but laid it in dirt/mud/grass of someone's driveway rather than going into the deep ditch.

The carb had to be readjusted for some reason after that but now it's finding just fine. It's just cracked the upper plastic piece around the speedometer up by the headlight on the left side.

It knocked the handlebar out of whack with the wheel (it's not lining up completely straight) and the headlight isn't pointing straight. I'll fix that stuff tomorrow. Both easy fixes.

So now I'm off to look on the for sale forum to see if anyone has one. She'll probably pay for it if I tell her how much it'll be even though It's really minor damage. Probably better off leaving it be since it didn't lose the piece of plastic that was bent backwards. I was able to bent it back to normal. Some super glue and touch up paint would probably do just fine being such a tiny piece. But I'll see about replacing it anyway.

Dac · Post by **Dac** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:56 pm

yeah, this is like the 50th time someone has posted a topic like this.

i let someone ride my 92, someone who races dirt bikes. He deiced he was going to hit the "clutch" (clutch on a dirt bike, rear brake on a moped) and dropped it in a gravel pit. busted up the front plastic, and put minor scratches over the hole right side.

Friends+your moped=BAD IDEA.

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:58 pm

To fix the handle bars just whip them the other way till they line up.

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:58 pm

Dac wrote:yeah, this is like the 50th time someone has posted a topic like this.

Friends+your moped=BAD IDEA.

Cubey · Post by **Cubey** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:17 pm

Kenny_McCormic wrote:To fix the handle bars just whip them the other way till they line up.

Tried that. Didn't work. Better off just taking off the 2 pieces of plastic and doing it the right way with the adjusting nut.

Cubey · Post by **Cubey** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:20 pm

Dac wrote:Friends+your moped=BAD IDEA.

My new sig!

Scooterspal · Post by **Scooterspal** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:47 am

When I called the fellow who was selling, what is now my Spree, he told me up front that I would probably not like it since I had owned a larger scooter. He said the tires were small and narrow and you really had to keep your head out of your * to ride it.

He was right. There is a lot of difference between the Spree and even my larger TBG Key West 49cc scooter. It is way more difficult to handle, very unstable in the wind and I would not recommend it for older riders who may not possess the skills to control it safely.

That said, I'm 54 and I love my Spree.

Dac · Post by **Dac** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:25 pm

i dont know what that has to do with this topic but cool.

i love the color of that spree.

dr.ona · Post by **dr.ona** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:31 pm

Sweet looking Spree for sure....
I've had nothing but luck I guess...
I've let at least 8 people ride any of my Sprees....all who have never riden a scooter before.Maybe it's becuase they've never been on anything other than a bike, that they are very carfull. I had one girl bump into a picnic table and put a minor scratch...no biggie.

Robert

mopedman · Post by **mopedman** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:33 pm

my girl road into a door on a storage unit, with my elite.... it was the first moped she road, she was yelling how do i turn then bam

Dac · Post by **Dac** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:46 pm

when was this????

mopedman · Post by **mopedman** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:01 pm

when i first got it