Modern Buddy

Our little town, Duncannon, PA, had its community yard sale today. Joni and I decided to take the 50cc Brit instead if the car. We bought: 1 giant teddy bear and 1 extra-large stuffed elephant (my wife is a reading specialist, and has a zoo's worth of stuffed "reading buddies" for the kids to choose from), a 40 pound bag of ice melting salt, a 10x10 foot awning kit, a window blind, about 20 feet of garden fencing, and several bags of various books, games, and various bags of who knows what. Oh, and three baskets. And a food processor. It is Amazing what you can fit on a scooter! But we DID use the car to pick up the church pew for the back porch. I don't think I have enough bungee cords to properly secure it to the rack!

Sounds like a blast!

And you didn't take a picture? Shame on you.

Of course I got pics, but I need to figure out how to shrink them down to fit on this board. I used to be tech savvy, but 1980 was a while ago!

Clydeo wrote:Our little town, Duncannon, PA, had its community yard sale today. Joni and I decided to take the 50cc Brit instead if the car. We bought: 1 giant teddy bear and 1 extra-large stuffed elephant (my wife is a reading specialist, and has a zoo's worth of stuffed "reading buddies" for the kids to choose from), a 40 pound bag of ice melting salt, a 10x10 foot awning kit, a window blind, about 20 feet of garden fencing, and several bags of various books, games, and various bags of who knows what. Oh, and three baskets. And a food processor. It is Amazing what you can fit on a scooter! But we DID use the car to pick up the church pew for the back porch. I don't think I have enough bungee cords to properly secure it to the rack!

I would have liked to have seen a picture of all that especially with 2 up. Where exactly did you fit all that stuff?

Skeptical Bill in Seattle
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I ought to point out that our very small boro was having a community yard sale, so our scooting was all done at VERY slow speeds! We never left town: I never would load a bike like this out on the road!
The bear sat in front of me and helped me navigate. Several assorted bags sat on the foot well. The elephant, melter, awning, shade, and who-knows-what-else was on the rear rack, and Joni had baskets and bags hanging on her everywhere. I must confess that we had to go back for the roll of fencing after dropping off the rest of the stuff. We had planned to make more trips back to the house, but we didn't really need to; everything just sort of fit. I have used my Suzuki tu250 for yard sale-ing before, but the cvt transmission was really nice for the quick stop and go shopping we were doing. We got a lot of odd looks and thumbs up from the other saler's, as you might imagine!

I do a little of this, it does keep the volume of purchases down to a managable volume. Books mostly... R

We were SUPPOSED to be getting books for Joni's classroom: she is a k-3 reading specialist. Other stuff just kept on jumping on the scoot. Or so Joni still maintains.

Yard Sales are a guilty pleasure for me I wish I would have more of them and go to fewer. R