Scooter nearly mobile...

[errantember]

After a night of work by myself and trippedbreaker, the R-20 is nearly ready to ride again. A new controller, throttle, DC-DC converter, and shocks were installed, and the motor is responding to throttle. Installing the new controller require physically re-constructing the controller mount, because the new one they sent is two inches longer than the old one. Now I just need to figure out how much of the body, which I'd like to re-paint, should go back on. In the short-term, I may decide to simply try to airbrush over the imperfections rather than re-doing the entire bike in hot metallic pink, which was my original plan.

Comments

[bouncyone.livejournal.com]

A bet you didn't think your scooter was going to be this kind of adventure, did ya?

[errantember.livejournal.com]

I knew to a certain degree. This is why I'm not really an early adopter anymore. I got kind of tired of this kind of drama, which previously used to be fun. In this case, I wasn't expecting it to be *this* much fun. :) I still got the thing for $2400 delivered, and the new one is $3150 delivered. Hopefully the new one is more reliable, but it should be, since the list of "improvements" pretty much exactly overlaps the list of problems I've had with the R-20.

[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

Just in time for icy roads - yay!