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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 05:04 AM
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Smile I got my Track day Scooter!!!

Kick'n it old school!!!!


Man Im so excited!!! I used to have one of these back in the day!!! I got this KENT brand scooter on Craiglist for $40 bucks!!!! Owner told me that its AT least circa 1985!!!

I didnt want that electric crap! screw dat! I wanted old school - keep it real scooter.........none of that little skateboard wheel RAZOR crap either! LoL...




It has 14x2.125 inch wheels, lots of thread left on the rubber and shitty brakes!
I plan to order some spare tubes online at a mobility scooter website and gonna hit up the local bike shop for some new cables and brakes.

If you look close, it has the threaded holes in the rear for "PEGS"!!!! LoL....I'm gonna make some so i can give Conky rides!!! LoL....

-J

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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 06:21 AM
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lol.. makes me want to start searching for my old Haro freestyle bike.
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 06:47 AM
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Dope! I have bought and sold stuff on craigslist many times.
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 07:00 AM
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My buddy has a ruckus the lucky ***** lol
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 07:01 AM
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ruckus are kick *** to mod...and CHEAP...
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 07:12 AM
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Sweet I always wanted one when I was young. (Parents too poor to buy one for me.)

Jason, you should put white tires on them.
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 07:19 AM
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LOL..........the one i had as a kid had white tires....

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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 07:39 AM
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We should've made a white tired Skoooter crew then. I'll never forget my sick a$$ skooter I had when I was 6. Razor=Fail
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 08:11 AM
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The infamous Mini-Bike of Death! Responsible for more track road rash on the West Coast then any other pit vehicle during the early 2000s. It was last seen at El Mirage running through the SCAT timing lights at 47.6 mph.



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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 08:49 AM
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^ LOL I had two like that when I was a kid as well...........my brother and I each had one..

One was a Briggs & Stratton engine and the other was a Tecumseh...

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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 09:26 AM
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My friend had a yellow mini bike, until I tried to ramp it and trashed it. My bad C-Homes.

I miss building ramps and then breaking bones and machinery on them. If it's got wheels I've probably ramped it at some point in my life.

Bike, Wagon, rollerblades, 240sx, skateboard, jet ski, gas powered scooter, moped, four-wheeler, dirt bike, golf cart, my mom's 1990 Volvo station wagon, Jeep Wrangler hunting vehicle with people in the raised rear seat. I've probably gotten the Z pretty close at some point.

Don't believe me. I've got some pretty mean road rash in various places of my body.
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 10:03 AM
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should get one of those powered coolers that you can ride lol

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Old Dec 8, 2010 | 10:29 AM
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I did some upgrades and named it the "RED DRAGON" after one of my favorite movies!!!

Originally Posted by JasonZ-YA
The scooter I got off CList had the really old school levers on it.......Since i have tons of bike stuff from my mountain biking days I decided to replace the cables, lube up all the bearings and even replace the brake levers, now i can do rubber burn marks when i stop!

Old school brake levers:


New brake levers - spares i had:



I then

"took the restrictor plate off, give the red dragon a little more juice....but uhh, lets keep that on the down low, it's not exactly street legal" - FTT


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj2HgPM82zI

LoL...

-J
and

Originally Posted by JasonZ-YA
my next mod for the Red Dragon is some rear pegs........

I went to the hardware store today and found that the rear peg holes are M12x1.50...I got some bolts and gonna look for some pegs online.


-J
another pic:


-J

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