Another Scooter Lover in Scooter Town. By daddue11 (Read 655 times)

[daddue11]

Hello friends,my name is Steve,I live in Mountain View,Missouri.
I have worked at just about everything from doctoring cattle in west Texas in my earlier twenties to being a cert.nurses aide and med tech in my thirties and now I'm a director at two different Shelters for victims of domestic violence and sexual crimes. I have been at that career now for apr.10 yrs,but have worked along side them for around seventeen years now.
I love coaching and waching sports,boating,fishing,hiking and just about any family stuff,the main word being family.
I've owned six different scooters so far and the same amount of motorcycles.
I'm in the process of finding my wife a scooter so we can ride together,I wish she would get at least a 150cc but I think she has her mind set on a 49cc so she doesn't have to take a drivers test.either way it'll be a blast.
I have 4 children and 3 grand babies and I adore and am proud of all of them. I just turned 50 and I refuse to grow up or slow down. That's me in a NUTshell.PEACE my brothers and sisters of the scooter afliction.

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[daddue11]

Oh yeah,that's my new Sunny Roadrunner 300 trike in the pic above,had it for less than a week so far.

[Alleyoop]

Welcome Daddue11,
Good to have you on the forum, and you are a wrencher if you had all those rides. That is a nice looking Reverse Trike. When you get more familiar with it do a write up on it in the Trike section not to many people have one of those. They usually have the 50 or 150 reverse trikes but not the 300.
I like the color looks good on that frame and body.
Ride Safe
Alleyoop

[daddue11]

Thank you so much sir,my first choice was an Icebear Compeller,but,the only shop that carried them around here weren't very keen on them and were supposedly having trouble with the warranties and other stuff and so my other choice was the Sunny from another shop. I really like the trike in your sig,that sucker is sharp.I've ridden mine twice for about 15 min all together and you have to throw out almost everything that you thought you knew about riding trikes or bikes with this one.If I can get out of the habbit of puting my foot down and only leaning into turns then I'll be ok.Old habits are hard to break.

[Bashan]

You won't believe this, my Dad grew up in Mountain Grove. I've been through your town many times traveling to see my grandparents when I was a kid in the '60s.

Six scooters? We call that a stable around here. You might be the only guy on the forum with a reverse Trike. Like Alley says, we'd all like to hear about it. I really want to hear about how it handles. Automotoguy has a new....er...Automoto, but that is two wheels on the rear. That bike leans too and I'm really curious about the mechanisms that provide for that. Welcome to Scooter Doc, we're proud to have you. Rich

[daddue11]

Wow that's cool,I also used to live in Mountain Grove about 17 yrs ago.I use to work in the nursing home there.

[mnfitz]

Mar 23, 2012 2:38:39 GMT -6 Bashan said:

You won't believe this, my Dad grew up in Mountain Grove. I've been through your town many times traveling to see my grandparents when I was a kid in the '60s.

Six scooters? We call that a stable around here. You might be the only guy on the forum with a reverse Trike. Like Alley says, we'd all like to hear about it. I really want to hear about how it handles. Automotoguy has a new....er...Automoto, but that is two wheels on the rear. That bike leans too and I'm really curious about the mechanisms that provide for that. Welcome to Scooter Doc, we're proud to have you. Rich

Not the ONLY one, but one of only a few (I've got a 150cc). I DO think he might be the only one with a 300cc, though.

[fireman]

Wow, I just found this site today & read about your trike. I have been looking to get that same trike. I could use any advice you could share in my search. There are many horror stories out there but this site has been great for me sort things out.
Thanks

[Bashan]

Mar 24, 2012 6:42:57 GMT -6 mnfitz said:

Not the ONLY one, but one of only a few (I've got a 150cc)

Cul, I might have to open a reverse Trike board.

Mar 24, 2012 10:52:43 GMT -6 fireman said:

Wow, I just found this site today

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[daddue11]

REPORT: I've taken her on her first semi long outing.
At first I took her out to our local high school that's about 5 miles outta town and rode her in and out of the pylons and didn't leave until I thaught I hand the handling down pat,you know,with the leaning stuff and all until I had that girl CONQUERED.
Ithen proceeded on a apr.30 mi. trip from Mt.View,Mo. to Birchtree,Mo. and back and about 5mi of wash board and gravelly dirt roads.
The handling on old sixty hwy was superb,the old hwy is more potholes than asphault and she dodges them with ease and rides fairly smooth over the ones I didn't miss. There was no rattles or vibrations or shakey fron end feelings,but,mind you now I never took her above 35-40 mph yet(breakin time) I had to keep her throttled down because she really wanted to run. There was however one little sound that bugged the crap outta me but I found it was just the speedo cable making a clicking noise but a little marine grease fixed that when I got home. It rode just as smoothly on the dirt roads at no more than 25mph there was a mile or two of washboards and she didn't walk all over the road like I thaught she would. The gravel or sand bunkers as I call them did would want to jerk the handlebar outta your hands but when I slowed to 10-15 mph they were no problem. I was just wearing a half helmet and the wind through that was horrible at best,I wish it could have a taller windshield,Oh well,a full face helmet with a sheild will take care of that. All in all I was Very impressed with My Liberty.