Ray8 wrote:
OMG Chandler...
Well, another pic to send my son!
I rode off a month ago with the rear nuts FINGER TIGHTENED. I thought there was something wrong with the front end. The wobble only manifested at slow speeds, before the gyroscopic effect took over I guess.
May I suggest riding a bit.. slower?
You can suggest anything! Of course, the beauty of suggestions is that I don't have to take them, too!
I'd have snapped a picture as I landed, but considering I was on a busy on-ramp with a median strip that was about 18" wide, I just focused on getting it the heck out of there, which meant turned around and pushed/dragged back off the ramp. Who says I don't know how to live?
Honestly, if I'd had a box exhaust, that wheel would have come flying off and I'd have gone down hard. As it was, the pipe & silencer kept it from coming off the rim, which is the only reason I was calling my wife and not an ambulance.
Ray8 wrote:
Btw fair warning these critical mistakes seem to start piling up almost exactly on one's 60th birthday
And hat's off to you for taking on a SF project.
Those smallies are inverted, backwards, upside-down hocus pocus vs the LF.
My new friend has two. Thought I'd help him sort some things, until saw a pic of the gear selector:
Now that I've got my head wrapped around the design a little, I really like the smallie motor. Sure, it's a bit more complicated than the largeframe, but it's also a complete blast to ride.
That's not to say there's not still a P200 project lurking in the back of my head, but that'll come after a couple other projects, namely paint & bodywork of Smallstate, plus a refresh of my mint green Stella, which I'll then probably sell off. So...late 2024...?