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History seems to repeat it self..... do a search on 20TH CENTURY MOTOR CORP. The DALE car. A scam in the 70's. 3 wheel very similar to the elio. The scammer was liz carmichael a transsexual who's real name was jerry michael. Did the same as the elio people in asking for advance money. Think it was a card board proto type held together with 2x4's.

First thing I have in mind is to "fix" the seat. It is like sitting on a padded 2x4. Soon as the garage is cooled off today I am going to pull the stock seat to see what I will have to do to adapt a big bike seat on there. Wish I had put a bit more insulation in there then the air conditioning wouldn't take quite as long to cool it off.

Also noticed there doesn't seem to be any storage even for the registration papers. Will fix that too.

And it is almost 200lbs lighter weight.

I bought a 09 klr250 yesterday. Around 5k miles in great shape. Am really impressed on the ride it gives on my 2.5 miles of dirt road to pavement. Probably is 150 lbs lighter than the Majesty scooter I had been riding and my back can sure tell the difference. Will probably ride it as is for a week or so before I get into adjusting the shocks, will wait till I get it legal and plated tomorrow to go for blacktop riding into town.

The tires are dunlops and maybe 50% so I will be changing them out later on this summer. The clutch and front brake levers are less than perfect too. I may try to aneal the one and bend it back, the other has the ball broken off and both still very useable. Have all the service records too. I am not impressed with the rubber hand grips, so those will get replaced with some thicker ones. If it had had bark busters the levers would still be fine so an thinking about a set of them.

If the chinese bikes would come with all the paper work needed I probably would have gone that route and saved some money. I went thru that a couple times, once with a scooter and once with a car from a local dealer. 3 weeks on the chinese scooter and 32 days with the car. Never again. The dealer for car sold me a car taken in trade and apparently had a loan on it so he did not legally own it and waited till the last min to pay it off and get title! After that last time if the title or mso does not come with it I am not going to do the deal. John

Much better to pay an extra buck or two and try on the helmet than to order one. I am wearing a 3/4 I bought locally.

Don't know how much truth to the tale that a dot is a bit softer shell and better in low speed crashes where a Snell rated is a harder shell with less cushion and better to have in the worst case crashes. The idea is wear your hat and don't crash.

2 choices, travel to bigger city or shop the internet. Motorcycle superstore, bike bandit, Dennis Kirk, jp motors, gosh there must be a thousand of them on the net. Some times it is hard to distinguish a real dealer from a fly by night but those I mentioned are real and big dealers and I have used all of them.

Edit.... Years ago before the net usually any one with a big ad in a motorcycle magazine would be OK, but today with the internet any one can put up a big nice looking web site and not have any stock or even a real business. I have checked a few bike dealers out that operate out of an apartment building and one did have a store and on Google Earth it appeared to be the size of a 2 car garage yet his web site indicated 20,000 items.