Modern Buddy

First I was all This is a Brilliant Idea, Wont be rained on while I work on the bike and it won't be hot either.



Now I realize I cant open the fridge.

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My friend almost killed himself by working on his Vespa P200 in the house. His bedroom carpet (and the wood floor under it) got soaked in gas, oil, spraypaint, and Simple Green and I don't think he's ever recovered from the fumes, that apartment is still surely a superfund hazmat site ten years later.

If you're seriously going to work on a bike INSIDE your house, please be careful, and drain the gas/oil and degrease/clean the whole bike before taking it inside.

I know you're probably just being silly for a photo op, but I just know so many people who have tried to do major (or even minor) scooter surgery in an inappropriate place with inappropriate tools, without taking the time and patience into account, and it rarely ends well. I saw a Lambretta LD almost entirely consumed by a german shepherd because it was left in bits all over the house, it never got put back together. The aforementioned P200 was running fine and in nice original condition when it entered the house, with dreams of becoming a slick cutdown racer, it left the house dubbed the "P2crappy" and looked like hobos had put it together out of old oil drums. I know people that have had clutches soaking on their kitchen counter so long their wives threatened divorce.

Just be smart about it, is all I'm sayin'. : )

Bb.

Focus!

Before I brought the bike into the house I took it down to the local car wash and put $7 worth of quarters into degreasing and washing it, It's just about a s clean as it can get.

Fuel tank is empty, No oil tank as it's a 4T. There is still oil in the lower engine but the bike hasn't dripped a drop of oil on the drip pan it's been setting on since I brought it in.

Brake fluid has been the only problem but I've been cleaning it up as soon as any escapes from the bike and washing afterwords.

No Dogs, Children or anyone else around to stick parts in their mouths.

Should be fairly safe the way it is currently. Hopefully I'll have it together in the next day or two and then it'll be chained up outside.