What do you drive / ride?

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^There are quite a few electric scooters around the city now ridden by all kinds of people. Ninebot seems to be a popular brand. Some of them, no idea which brand, are quite large and pretty cool looking. There are also some area with fleets of rental scooters from a few different companies that you see laying around in various colours. I tried one once for a few seconds inside a building - would take a bit of getting used to.

LOVE my scooters!





Darron

Those may very well be electric scooters, but we're referring to these style:

I also have one that's sorta half way there (or all the way there, with the seat removed):



It does also have a floorboard for standing up, not installed in this photo...

I don’t have one even remotely similar.

I do have a 2 wheeler, though. Considering a suspension upgrade.. shame it wasn’t pitched to me when I needed a new rear shock last year. :/ Different shop.

Online review I found says springs wear out and the stock ones from 1993 were never great to begin with and that switching to progressive springs makes it a whole new animal. Only potential drawback is the rear spring in this setup lowers the back by 25mm and I’m a tall guy and like the height when stopped. Hmm - will explore. Might do it anyways just for better feeling/handling - spend most of the time in motion, not stopped, anyways.

I guess one bonus is that this kit, as far as I can tell, doesn’t have a new rear shock option - new spring over existing shock, so maybe wasn’t a total waste getting a normal shock installed last year.

I’m somewhat tempted to call them shop and say do it asap so I can feel the difference this riding season.. buuut, it’s an expense I can easily put off until Spring.

edit: I just remembered we have a $925 credit at that shop.. I could use it for the suspension upgrade and then if any of my siblings b***h and want $x share of credit towards a new jack/gloves/rainsuit or whatever I could just give them cash then. Hmm.

Woohoo!
I just asked the seller of this fiberglass pickup bed cap in Winnemucca if he'd take $120, and he said yes.
I asked him many months ago, and he was still firm at $175, at that point.
I go grab it tomorrow at Noon...
I'll need it for the Winter.
It is a direct-fit for my 1997 and 1999 Isuzu Hombre short-bed pickups.

Darron the "Happy Boy"

i'd like very much if i still had my avalon. it was a rare japanese made [not american made] taxi model with a bench front seat and column shifter. a japanese buick it was.

2006 Toyota Tundra

A horse with no name.

so definitely not a bronco or mustang or maverick.

Actually, a black mustang is very significant in a blabby (psychic) kind of way.

Just got home with my "new" bed cap...

Darron

^much more useful storage that way. I have one on the Ranger. Thinking about maybe adding an external ladder/gear rack over top of the canopy later - something probably custom fabricated. Would enable me to put ladders and scaffold parts etc up on top and then tools & materials inside the 6' bed. Would have to just be damned careful not to scratch the black paint.

~5 weeks until my motorcycle has a custom Hyperpro suspension setup in it. Custom build rear shock to match my weight + gear + luggage, progressive spring to match and progressive springs up front. I'm Hoping that I notice a massive difference in handling/stability -> people describe the upgrade as like a magnet to the road. Figured I may as well just do it Now and enjoy it for as long as I own the bike vs. hum & hah about maaaaybe doing it later and then doing the upgrade, riding it, and then maybe buying another/different bike in the future.. but I figure I'll ride this one at least another 2-3 seasons to squeeze some value out of all the maintenance costs already incurred. Plus I'll wait until at least 2026 to potentially buy a 2021 bike that's then old enough for collector plates. (cheap insurance)

Indeed! I may mount this bed cap on my other Hombre (a '99 model), if I get it running soon. This Winter, I'd like to drive the '99 cross-country to Northern Vermont, and leave it there. I'd like to have a vehicle I can leave in the Northeast for when I'm visiting friends out that way.

Having the bed cap and a trailer hitch on the '99 will allow me to make money on the trip, rather than just spending it.

I am a shipper for uship.com, and it's great to be able to haul some smaller loads long range like this, and have my fuel costs (and then some) covered by the delivery fees.

I have a similar plan. I've had the ladder rack that my '97 Hombre came with on and off the truck during the nearly 4 years I've owned it:



The rack is at times very useful, such as when I carried a very long railroad tie on it, then dug a hole for the tie, and slid it off of the ladder rack directly into the hole, to become a huge gate post:






I'd like to be able to have both a ladder rack and a bed cap on the wee trucklet, for long range delivery trips, so I decided I want one of these "Universal" Harbor Freight ladder rack kits meant for a full-sized truck.

The flexibility of the kit, plus some minor fabrication and welding should allow the ladder rack to be mounted to the pickup's box rails all the time, with the vertical legs of the ladder rack OUTSIDE of where the bed cap will sit.

So, the bed cap can come on and off as needed, without disturbing the ladder rack.

And, if I make the legs of the ladder rack detachable from the base that they plug into, the rack should also be independently detachable from the truck, regardless of the presence of the bed cap.

"Best of all worlds"




Darron

At the moment I'm looking at acquiring a donkey.
If I'm able to ride said donkey remains to be seen.

Donkeys work well with ladder racks!

Darron