Post by damin69 on Jun 27, 2010 21:09:34 GMT -6
Went out today scootcaching with my dad today. He runs a Linhai 260 Mainstreet it is a quite a bit heavier than my Jonway.
So I had decided to take it easy today and drive keeping the rpms down around 4000 since the temps were around 82 today I wanted to keep my scooter cool which worked quite well. It was stop and go from 10 am until after 6 pm. My scooter never missed a beat I always had plenty of battery to start the scooter. After 6 we are on the way home I just told my dad ok just going home so we can just cruise hwy speeds now picked up the pace stopped for gas 40 min later. Scooter would not start. Go figure as soon as i brought the RPMs up over 5000 the cooling fan comes on and stays on the whole time we are running. Ok so that had nothing to do with the gravel. Now on to the gravel issue.
SO anyway taking it easy and backroads probably the only reason that what happened was not worse. So we are just coasting along about 35 mph I come around a corner and the whole corner has gravel accros we are on the our lane was the inside corner and had some gravel on enough that it caused me to drift into the other lane. I was like crap. I sure hope dad makes it around that one with no problems and does not end up in that other lane much as there is a LOT of gravel there. So I am looking in my mirror and my worst nightmare happens I am watching as he comes around the corner sure enough the gravel throws him out and worse than me he ended up drifting way outside up and hits the worse gravel. Ends up locking up the brakes and hits the shoulder with wet grass all is see his him going down bam right now and then he was gone could not see him any more. I make a quick U turn and get back over there to find his scoot laying on its side he is up walking around where he left the pavement he lost a shoe we thought it was under the bike as his leg had ended up under the left side. There was a bit of a bank we had to roll the scoot back up on to the shoulder. We then evaluated the damage. Mostly just dirt on the left side. and it tweeked the handle bars a bit NO major damage. My guess is that had it not been down pour the night before the ground would have been really hard and would have done more damage to the scooter as well as my Dad. Both are fine couple of band aids and are good to go.
What we learn from all this is be very careful of less traveled roads corns seem to have gravel on them all the time and after storms sholders really wash down bad. So Everyone be very careful.
So I had decided to take it easy today and drive keeping the rpms down around 4000 since the temps were around 82 today I wanted to keep my scooter cool which worked quite well. It was stop and go from 10 am until after 6 pm. My scooter never missed a beat I always had plenty of battery to start the scooter. After 6 we are on the way home I just told my dad ok just going home so we can just cruise hwy speeds now picked up the pace stopped for gas 40 min later. Scooter would not start. Go figure as soon as i brought the RPMs up over 5000 the cooling fan comes on and stays on the whole time we are running. Ok so that had nothing to do with the gravel. Now on to the gravel issue.
SO anyway taking it easy and backroads probably the only reason that what happened was not worse. So we are just coasting along about 35 mph I come around a corner and the whole corner has gravel accros we are on the our lane was the inside corner and had some gravel on enough that it caused me to drift into the other lane. I was like crap. I sure hope dad makes it around that one with no problems and does not end up in that other lane much as there is a LOT of gravel there. So I am looking in my mirror and my worst nightmare happens I am watching as he comes around the corner sure enough the gravel throws him out and worse than me he ended up drifting way outside up and hits the worse gravel. Ends up locking up the brakes and hits the shoulder with wet grass all is see his him going down bam right now and then he was gone could not see him any more. I make a quick U turn and get back over there to find his scoot laying on its side he is up walking around where he left the pavement he lost a shoe we thought it was under the bike as his leg had ended up under the left side. There was a bit of a bank we had to roll the scoot back up on to the shoulder. We then evaluated the damage. Mostly just dirt on the left side. and it tweeked the handle bars a bit NO major damage. My guess is that had it not been down pour the night before the ground would have been really hard and would have done more damage to the scooter as well as my Dad. Both are fine couple of band aids and are good to go.
What we learn from all this is be very careful of less traveled roads corns seem to have gravel on them all the time and after storms sholders really wash down bad. So Everyone be very careful.
