homemade goped start
showing how i start my goped without a pull start
RoadTek Trikes & Scooters Low Impact Security Patrol
The RoadTek 101/ 102/ 104 150Trike is a unique machine designed lightweight, maneuverable and fuel-efficient. Its an alternative to standard 2 ...
El Coche, Our First 'European Car'
It was the winter of 1974, and I was headed to Spain to propose to my bride and spend 6-8 months touring Europe. Having owned a scooter and motorcycle previously, I had my heart set on a motorcycle to tour Europe. Hitchhiking from Idaho to NYC in December, and attempting to do the same from Luxemburg to Spain, convinced me of the folly of that plan. So I was interested in a car on a motorcycle budget. We took one of my fiancée, Linda’s, Basque professors with us on a car-buying tour in Spain. I can vouch for the fact that used car salesmen are similar all over the world, or at least in Spain. He started showing us the most expensive cars he could, with all the “necessary” extras, such as a radio. A radio was not on the top of my list, especially since my high school Spanish was long gone. So we kept saying “menos, menos” (less, less) and finally ended up in the dirt-floor basement of the building. The salesman was still doing his best to sell me the most expensive car among the cobwebs, but a little green Seat 600 caught my eye. A Seat is the Spanish version of the Italian Fiat. This little beauty sat covered in dust and grime, and the salesman kept dismissing it with a wave, but I persisted and he finally located a battery to put in it, and voila, coche started right up! The monstrous 600cc motor purred on all four cylinders, the suicide doors opened and closed, and the lights worked. There was one immediate hitch, however. It was illegal for a foreigner to own a Spanish-registered car in Spain, but Linda had a fix for that. One of her fellow students was dating a nice Basque kid, Jesus, who was 18. We asked Jesus if we could put our car in his name, and he said of course and was VERY proud to tell all his friends in the small town of Onati that he was the owner of an automobile! For a shakedown cruise, we headed out on a two-week cruise through Spain and Portugal. Coche burned no oil and only had one...