errantember: (Little Cowboy Scott)
Rupert, my incredibly-unreliable-but-incredibly-cheap-to-operate EVTA R-20 Electric Scooter is once again ready to roll! Our latest round of Drama involved a leaking valve stem (minor) and a fairly badly bent front axle (major.) I was very impressed with the help at Urban Moto Shop on Lamar just north of Barton Springs. They not only fixed the valve stem on a busy Saturday afternoon in under an hour, but they gave me a new axle for *free*! Preliminary investigations online indicate the replacement cost would have been closer to $50 from other sources, and I wouldn't have been so certain it fit.
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errantember: (Little Cowboy Scott)
Much like a foreign country searching for it's previous respect for the U.S., I find myself unable to locate the charger for my scooter because it's been so long since I've seen it. After waiting for months to get a replacement controller for the broken one, then more weeks of waiting for an explanation for why the replacement didn't *fit*, and then another few weeks of physically altering the body to *make* it fit, and finally a wet, miserable night of putting all but one of the body panels back on, I *finally* took a demi-legal trip to HEB. The mirrors are all fucked up, it hasn't been charged in who knows how long, it's dirty, the attachment for the trunk will have to be re-fixed after having already been fixed once after falling off the bike in the middle of Lamar during rush hour, but the scooter actually started at Point A and carried me to non-co-located Point B, then back again from Point B to Point A. The new shocks seem much better than before (didn't bottom out once) and I bet I'll get sprayed in the face with greasy water less often when I put the front faring back on. Gas isn't $4/gallon anymore, and my health insurance will be running out soon, but at least the fucking thing can move under it's own power again.

Halle-fucking-lujian, Ho-cakes-sona, Hu-babybaby-ray.
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errantember: (darth bobo)
After three weeks since getting the parts and two weeks since sending my first "the new controller you sent me doesn't fucking physically fit into my scooter" message to EVTAmerica, I finally got a response and an admission that the cut on the back of the power supply wasn't as steep as it should have been, which is why it doesn't fit. This isn't strictly true, since the current power supply is mounted on top of *exactly* the same holes as the old one, so what they're *really* telling me is that they fucked up and made the wires stick out too far, and they expect me to fix it by cutting into my new power supply with power tools. Despite or perhaps because of my anger, this seems fitting somehow.

At least, it will be once I'm done.

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