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evilgenious lets "cry" on each others shoulder. ;D ;D My "scientific" experiment got yanked too (darn - a lot of hard work too & wished I saved a copy), but hey Terra's dawg life has been cut (banned) and no now more of "those" threads allowed.
let's scoot on.

I've heard tires go hard over time. On the side of the tire should be a batch number which will tell you which month of which year it was manufactured. That tire is at least 5 years old and who knows how long that scoot sat in the shop perhaps in the sun.
My philosophy is ride that darn scooter in order for the tires to wear out before they get old and brittle. You will not catch my scoot out with old hard tires
On a serious note, thanks Luke for the warning, I'll check our other 2007 Xingyue scoot as it's a 2007 model.

Hope this does not bore you, but I had to deal this wonderful news with you. Yesterday morning I became a "Pop" with a wonderful grand daugter born to my eldest son. ;D ;D


Her name is Belle Fleur (Beautiful flower in French) and isn't she a beautiful little flower.
Going down to Dunedin tonight to look and see her, but don't think I'll do it on the scoot as it's not to tropical here, had a -3C/27F this morning. Apparently (I'm new to this game) there is a good and a bad grandfather in every childs experience, well I'm going to be the bad grandfather - I'll spoil them rotten!!

One of my favourite routes


Guess it will be a while before I could ride it again. Trashed by the earthquakes. This was a video (Click on it) of one of my rides there

Exact same spot. That's what I enjoyed - guess one's got to take the good and the "not so good". :dunno:
www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/videos/5146744
Video of fly over damage. @1:33 you can see a fly over the road - devastated. :dunno: :crying:

Well we're in for it again this week, 14 shakes over 4 magnitude, 125 over 2 this week, so far luckily only one fatality. Monday started with a 6.3 and 5.6 magnitude shakes. Yesterday we had 5 shakes over 4 magnitude. Our city just started to get on it's knees and now it's a mess again. People are a mess, relationships, driving, etc. Here you can get a picture of our life here.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/photos/

We just take it a day at a time. The greeting here is now "Are you OK?" (meaning you are alive) "Your home OK?" meaning it's still standing and you're living in it. It was a bit like being in a nightmare, but now it's becoming part of life. Unfortunately for some it's getting to much.
It is not the best of feeling to be in buildings during an event and hear the building groaning and creaking. You can't run as the ground moves sometimes up to 10cm/5" up and sideways. Our tolerance levels seems to go up too as we seem to take any quakes below 4 just in our stride. I've been fortunate that my home has only minor damage as I live in the north west which is away from waterways and the estuary.
But we can't complain as others have tornadoes, fires and floods.
take care, enjoy your ride and Smile Your Miles

speedracer -do yourself a favour and look at the Kymco Downtown 300i too. My SYM Citycom will be a second choice after the Bufgie 400 & Downtown only in the power department. If you are a tall individual like me then the Citycom (or other 16" wheel scoots like Bevery,etc) will be a better fit.