Comments on: Resignation and Acceptance

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:27:32 +0000

Dear Mr. Riepe: The battery was an add on to the original issue which I did successfully repair my own bad self.

The drama was tightly confined to the test drive upon which the battery decided it had reached it's limit. I did learn a valuable lesson though-- you can push a Vespa a long way. I suspect I could have gone two or three miles before thinking hard about a truck or tow. Try that on a K bike.

The K bike was sold. Now that the Vespa is back on the road all other machines look, well, impotent... *grin*

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:24:49 +0000

kz1000st: That's what they did and determined it was the battery rather than the more expensive alternatives. The repair I did wasn't involved in the problem -- just a perplexing coincidence.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:23:14 +0000

Bryce Lee: You've done a fine job summing up the general pattern of thought save for the occasional mental recriminations focused on laziness and sloth.

The scooter is back and I have been able to sneak some short errands by Vespa into the evening.

And so it goes, a slow return to a riding life...

By: Jack Riepe

Jack Riepe — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:24:40 +0000

Dear Steve:

I have to used to looking at your blog for new episodes again. You looked like cannibals had just eaten your best friend when you were sitting in the truck.

And now the issue is just a battery?

Honestly Steve? All that drama for a battery? What happened to the K75 you were looking at?

Fondest regards,
Jack/reep

By: kz1000st

kz1000st — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:17:14 +0000

They have to wait until they get a battery in?? Couldn’t they just jump it with a donor battery and tell? If it starts and runs, voila. If not start looking elsewhere for a mechanical fault.

By: Bryce Lee

Bryce Lee — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:53:51 +0000

Such a sad tale; and yet realistically, perhaps for the best.
Your employment is keeping you
occupied, and suspect if and when you arrive home, the last thing you want to do is fiddle with some form of mechanical device. You have an evening repast, sometimes from a waring oven as once again you were kept late at work; you eat, maybe let your good wife know you love her, talk with Junior or maybe play catch. Then you just want to sit and relax.

Household chores, family responsibilities, and then maybe to bed. The next day more of the same. You relish your Sunday mornings coffee, same town of employment but for a whole different reason.

You make thoughtful notes, prepare yourself with excuses for not doing the picture a day with the three prints project, sip your beverage and wait for friends.

And the unwell scooter sits, awaiting the hand of the owner or now the mechanic who shall put things right. During our lives we infrequently have to admit sometimes we can not accomplish all which we would like to be able to complete.

The scooter repair is one of these; allow somebody with experience do the dirty work so to speak.

Perhaps one day soon you'll do that Sunday morning journey, on an operational scooter, to
a place of respite, to speak with friends and enjoy the day.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:11:59 +0000

Lol W: I got the sparkplug lead fixed and that was a positive experience. The rest of it was just accepting that it’s out of my control what else goes wrong…

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:10:48 +0000

Coop: What happens when a Vespa GTS400 comes out????

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:09:44 +0000

bob skoot: The dealer ordered a new battery. Once that’s in they’ll determine if all the problems have gone away. If so I should be riding again soon.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:08:44 +0000

Brooktown Geezer: I should have qualified the list with “In no particular order”. If I had a big pot of money I”m not sure which one I would grab first.