View Full Version : my ten dollar moped, and why you bastards should know something.
IF YOU HAVE A VEHICLE, IM ASKING YOU, BEFORE YOU START RIPPING OUT WIRES AND MESSING WITH THE ENGINE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
I bought a piaggio bravo vespa for ten dollars because it didnt run.
so close to getting it to run with the guy who's helping me on it goes "well what the fuck?"
I'd draw a diagram, im too lazy- apparently, the person who owned it before me was a dumbass and tried "fixing" some parts of the engine, mainly the shaft and the points, "the points" basically split up electricity to help distribute power to the sparkplug, and back into the engine, without these, it doesnt run, so were sitting there, picking through the grime (it was made in 77, not a good year) and noticed the wheel on the engine that fires the points squeeks and was stiff, not good, so he's going to tear apart the entire engine, try to cut the shaft more (it usually has a square tip, its completely round, hahaha gay joeks) and put it back together.
So please, once again, before you throw something away, or try to fix it, think of people like me, PLEASE KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE DOING.
HOMERCHESTRA
08-23-2005, 05:34 PM
POINT TAKEN
brokensirunit
08-23-2005, 05:37 PM
why not save your money and buy a bike instead? less maintenance and cheaper on gas.
HOMERCHESTRA
08-23-2005, 05:38 PM
v
you bedda lisin to da broke sir
WHATS A PSA
IT IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT MAN
why not save your money and buy a bike instead? less maintenance and cheaper on gas.
Because I live in the country now, and my neighborhood is connected by long-ass gravel roads and many hills.
bikes and gravel roads/gravel hills dont mix.
brokensirunit
08-23-2005, 05:46 PM
So? makes for good exercise
ln_e_is_1
08-23-2005, 05:50 PM
Go vespa boi!!!
BeastDad1987
08-23-2005, 05:57 PM
I got a free Honda Metropolitan today. I won the contest back on grad nite at Disneyland, and after filling out the tax forms, picked it up. Finally.
<img src="http://www.mid-citieshonda.com/assets/images/metropolitan_salsa.jpg">
Isn't it cute?
I'm so looking forward to selling it, as I have no use for a scooter whatsoever. I can probably get rid of it for $1500 (I think it goes for $1859 or something).
give it to me please
PLEASE
CHRIST COME ON.
ln_e_is_1
08-23-2005, 06:03 PM
I'd ride it instead of sell it. Not as cute as a Vespa, but not bad. What do you owe for that in taxes, around $180? Oh, how is gas out there in CA? Are you over $3 a gal yet? We're at $2.77. It's sad when it costs $14 to fill up my motorcycle. Back when I started driving, $14 filled up my truck. I switch from a truck getting 13miles/gal to a motorcycle getting over 50miles/gal and pay as much to ges the bike as I did to gas my truck 9 years ago. No inflation my ass. Oh, and the median house in central Tucson in 2002 was $90,000. Now they are going for $325,000 in town. At over $300 per squre foot, I think I'd rather be in L.A. or Portland.
exemplary citizen
08-23-2005, 06:21 PM
That's weird, linny; we're neck and neck with gas prices. i just filled up for 2.78 a gallon today. I was under the impression gas would still be cheaper out in Tucson.
BeastDad1987
08-23-2005, 06:28 PM
I really can't ride it. I can't even get up the hill to my house with that thing. Plus, I'm probably going to be commuting to college, and a scooter isn't going to transport 23"x26" drawing boards, giant pads of paper, and boxes for art supplies. I need to take the freeway to get to college also, and it only goes up to 40mph. No freeways, no storage, no power, no use.
Gas is $2.81ish in La Canada, and the median house price was around $800,000 in 2000. It's probably around $1.5mil, I'll have to look it up.
ln_e_is_1
08-23-2005, 06:30 PM
Not really. I do bitch because the car and the bike both take 91. 87 is $2.60ish. That would make a full tank on the bike $13. w00t! Oh, still trying to get your Vespa sold. Check your email.
On a side note, Heather and I went to IKEA on Saturday. ROCKED!!! Everything was great, the GLBT caravan, trading the convertable and motorcycle for a day to get my parents styation wagon. Having a day off work:):):) Dinner at Z Tejas and hanging out at Solar Culture at 24th and McDowell. Only complaint: All the fucking people at IKEA. God damn, it's like a breeder bomb exploded. Why the fuck does everybody bring thier three year old to IKEA so shop for four hours? I have a hard enought time shoping for that long, kids have an attention span of what, 15 sec? No shit your kid is gonna cry all day!!! And we were the only ones without kids. Oh, the pain. Getting bags and bags and bags and bags of cute stuff to put in the house for $50 and a loft for the office for $150 was worth it though.
ln_e_is_1
08-23-2005, 06:33 PM
I really can't ride it. I can't even get up the hill to my house with that thing. Plus, I'm probably going to be commuting to college, and a scooter isn't going to transport 23"x26" drawing boards, giant pads of paper, and boxes for art supplies. I need to take the freeway to get to college also, and it only goes up to 40mph. No freeways, no storage, no power, no use.
Gas is $2.81ish in La Canada.
Oh, good call. $1,500 buys art supplies for what, half a semester? Hey, it's money you don't need to borrow fcor school:):):)
<small>I don't know how art majors do it. They spend tremendous amounts on supplies. Books and software for an engineering semester runs about a grand, art supplies are more. How the fuck do you people do it? I atleast chose to be underpaid doing somehting I love at $40K when I got done. Hats off to all you artists; you are all better than me.</small>
banky
08-23-2005, 06:40 PM
2.59 in my Seattle suburb.
But as for my engine, I dont touch it at all. I can do a temp oil change to last me an extra 300 miles or so. But yeah, Im just too scared Ill fuck something up messing arround 'under the hood'.
exemplary citizen
08-23-2005, 06:40 PM
Not really. I do bitch because the car and the bike both take 91. 87 is $2.60ish. That would make a full tank on the bike $13. w00t! Oh, still trying to get your Vespa sold. Check your email. Oooh! *runs*
On a side note, Heather and I went to IKEA on Saturday. ROCKED!!! Everything was great, the GLBT caravan, trading the convertable and motorcycle for a day to get my parents styation wagon. Having a day off work:):):) Dinner at Z Tejas and hanging out at Solar Culture at 24th and McDowell. Only complaint: All the fucking people at IKEA. God damn, it's like a breeder bomb exploded. Why the fuck does everybody bring thier three year old to IKEA so shop for four hours?
It's because they started putting those "playplace" kind of dealies on every floor, which people seem to want to treat as free daycare, even though there's posted signage saying "don't leave your ill-mannered primates unsupervised to run loose in the store". RAAAAAARGH. I hate it when lazy parents take that "It takes a village" shit to heart. Since when did I sign up to raise your booger beast? *rage*
BeastDad1987
08-23-2005, 06:43 PM
Oh, good call. $1,500 buys art supplies for what, half a semester? Hey, it's money you don't need to borrow fcor school:):):)
<small>I don't know how art majors do it. They spend tremendous amounts on supplies. Books and software for an engineering semester runs about a grand, art supplies are more. How the fuck do you people do it? I atleast chose to be underpaid doing somehting I love at $40K when I got done. Hats off to all you artists; you are all better than me.</small>
I don't really have anything to do with money in my family. They pay for everything art related without a question, so I really don't have to worry about that. Also, I probably have a lot of what they require (books too), so I'm sure that helps.
When it comes to programs though, my dad usually buys one version and downloads the rest or gets it from a friend.
Look at me, I'm uchan. *rich rich rich rich*
In other news today, daammn. I think I might have to save up for a vespa now. I have no idea how I'm managing on two legs.
ln_e_is_1
08-23-2005, 06:52 PM
When the breeders assumed that they are better than you because they shat crotch dropings. They think that they are saving the species and doing god's work my ensuring another generation. That's all fine and dandy when infant mortality is high and the life expectancy is low. Yeah, have lots of kids, we need them. But in modern society, there are already too many people. Anybody ever been shopping, tried to buy a house, apply for a job? There are too many people and not enough resources (how else do yo uexplain $150,000 for a condemmed (not even section 8) 500 sqft single bedroom house that is a complete restoration, it's in too bad a shape to be listed as a fixer upper, in a town where the average income is $20,000 a year. I think there are alot of shitty parents out there. You have to ba a horrible parent to force your kid to endure four or more hours of shopping. And they make family field trips of it too. What ever happened to one parent staying home with the kids where they are comfterable and have some stimulation while the other parent does the shopping? Switch off every week so that one does not get burned out. Worked just fine for my parents.
ln_e_is_1
08-23-2005, 06:58 PM
I don't really have anything to do with money in my family. They pay for everything art related without a question, so I really don't have to worry about that. Also, I probably have a lot of what they require (books too), so I'm sure that helps.
When it comes to programs though, my dad usually buys one version and downloads the rest or gets it from a friend.
Nice. You are one lucky person. Enjoy it. I had to smuggle drugs across the border to be able to eat once. The other time, I traded some weed and oxycotton that a freind had given me for groceries so I could have something to eat until pay day. I financed one months rent and spring break one year byuy bringing back 100 vallium. Turned $100 into $500 buy selling "la rocha" to staff in my undergraduate department. I recieved $20,000 in scholarships ($12,000 of wich came my second senior year), worked part time the first three years and full-time the last three years, paid in-state tuition, and I still owe over $18,000. College is fucking expensive. All this to make $40,000 a year. Then again, without a degree, I could never make over $30,000.
BeastDad1987
08-23-2005, 07:11 PM
Does it sound like I'm bragging? I don't mean it to come off that way. Sorry.
I always get the feeling that you hate me or something.
Meat Load
08-23-2005, 07:16 PM
Iodine that is not the best way to make friends.
Meat Load
08-23-2005, 07:19 PM
But but but...
Don't you know?
<i>THE SEAWEED IS ALWAYS GREENAH
IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S LAKE
YOU DREAM ABOUT GOING UP DERE
BUT DAT EEZ A BEEG MISTAKE-AH</i>
Meat Load
08-23-2005, 07:24 PM
Betcha on land they understand.
Bet they don't...
Reprimand their daughters.
Meat Load
08-23-2005, 07:31 PM
Le poisson, le poisson.
HEE HEE HEE HO HO HO.
banky
08-23-2005, 07:33 PM
Wasnt there some big fiasco with the cover of The Little Mermaid?
banky
08-23-2005, 07:37 PM
Haha. I bet it was a stoner.
Meat Load
08-23-2005, 07:45 PM
It actually did look kind of like a dick. But the artist said it wasn't, so whatever.
banky
08-23-2005, 07:51 PM
Im not seeing a johnson ... (http://www.fpx.de/fp/Disney/Posters/little_mermaid_89_style_b.jpg)
Meat Load
08-23-2005, 07:52 PM
Wrong poster.
It's the one with the yellow coral on both sides.
Meat Load
08-23-2005, 07:55 PM
oh wait uh
Never mind.
ln_e_is_1
08-24-2005, 11:28 AM
Does it sound like I'm bragging? I don't mean it to come off that way. Sorry.
I always get the feeling that you hate me or something.
Oh, no no no. Just well prepared. You sound like you'll do well, pay taxes, and support yourself without becoming a burden to society. And so your parents cover your books and tuition; that's nice. Live if California is expensive anyway.
BeastDad1987
08-24-2005, 11:56 AM
Ah, sorry. That was directed at Vile. Gah, should've quoted the post.
Forever Finite
08-24-2005, 12:04 PM
a disney song show down and i wasn't invited... life just got a little bit crueler.
Does it sound like I'm bragging? I don't mean it to come off that way. Sorry.
I always get the feeling that you hate me or something.
wouldn't you think she's the girl....the girl who's got everything.
she's got gadgets and gizmos aplenty. whose-its and whats-its galore.
but who cares? no big deal. she wants more.
Ah, sorry. That was directed at Vile. Gah, should've quoted the post.
haaa, no. I'm just jealous. Trust me, like the rest of the whole wide world, I love you.
AngryGoatFace
08-24-2005, 01:58 PM
IF YOU HAVE A VEHICLE, IM ASKING YOU, BEFORE YOU START RIPPING OUT WIRES AND MESSING WITH THE ENGINE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
I bought a piaggio bravo vespa for ten dollars because it didnt run.
so close to getting it to run with the guy who's helping me on it goes "well what the fuck?"
I'd draw a diagram, im too lazy- apparently, the person who owned it before me was a dumbass and tried "fixing" some parts of the engine, mainly the shaft and the points, "the points" basically split up electricity to help distribute power to the sparkplug, and back into the engine, without these, it doesnt run, so were sitting there, picking through the grime (it was made in 77, not a good year) and noticed the wheel on the engine that fires the points squeeks and was stiff, not good, so he's going to tear apart the entire engine, try to cut the shaft more (it usually has a square tip, its completely round, hahaha gay joeks) and put it back together.
So please, once again, before you throw something away, or try to fix it, think of people like me, PLEASE KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE DOING.
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okay.
DAD.</font>
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