More nice emails…but no movie deals

Lots of good stuff coming our way folks, and I wanted to share it with you. 

On yesterday’s blog, I mentioned that M&M Motorsports just sold a Greaser, and Mike promised to get some photos for us.   Dianna (of Mike and Dianna fame) sent us some great shots and a great note…

Heather, Cody, Ethan, and Jacob, with their brand new CSC Greaser!

And here’s Dianna’s email to me…

Cody on his CSC Greaser

Hello Joe,

We at M&M Motorsports just sold a Greaser 150.  Here are some pictures of the new owner and his family for the blog.  Cody said, “The minute I walked through the door and saw the Greaser, I knew that it was the bike for me,” and according to his wife, Heather, he couldn’t stop thinking about the motorcycle.  Cody was already wearing the CSC shirt we gave to him and we have already ordered another Greaser 150 for the store to fill the spot. 

Thanks,

Dianna, M&M Motorsports, Kansas City, MO

Well thank you, Dianna, Mike, Cody, Heather, Ethan, and Jacob, and thanks for buying a California Scooter!  You’re going to have a lot of fun!

And TK received a real nice email from our good buddy Fred Warden in the great state of Texas.   Fred just jumped on our introductory offer for the Service and Parts Manuals, and here’s what he had to say…

Hi T.K.:

Just wanted to let you know I got my service manual yesterday.  It’s a good deal and I’ll use it to keep up the maintenance.  I feel you guys did an outstanding job by not getting too technical but included enough real mechanical stuff to keep the scoot running.  I shutter to think of my scoot if you were to print up manual(s) like my two GMC’s.  I have three giant volumes for each vehicle and it is all I can do to carry one set of three books to the table to study.  Sometime just trying to find a procedure takes a while as a user has trouble identifying the proper terminology to locate the fix.

Our good buddy Fred, riding tall in Texas!

I tested the chrome muffler pipe up to 300 miles and recently I changed back to the standard black one for the next 300 miles.  Since I wear hearing aids, the wind and muffler noise really freaks me out above 30 mph……so rather than turning the aids off, with the stock muffler I can leave them on around town so I can hear surrounding noise better.  With the quiet muffler I noticed lots of little clacking and banging that I never heard before.  While idling in the drive way, I started touching different pipes and tubes to see if I could find something banging around.  Never found anything making noise but in the middle of checking stuff, the motor suddenly shut off and I didn’t think I touched anything but the carburetor! 

I tried to restart and nothing happened, no lights or anything.  I immediately remembered to check the fuse…but that was fine.  Checked the battery and it was at 13 volts.  Cleaned the battery terminals and found the ground wire a little loose.  Still nothing and I was afraid I was going to have to call you guys the next day for help.  I sat on the bike all frustrated and wondering if this was going to happen while I was a long way from home.  I then started checking all of the switches on the bars and lo and behold I had bumped the kill switch!!!  Talk about a mechanic who felt totally dumb as a door nail!  (My bikes have always had a little red button that needed turning but only affected the engine….so when the whole bike was turned off….it was a mystery to me.)  However, this is a super feature and insures no sparks will be available should you get down the shiny side down with gas pouring out.  Thanks for thinking of the extra safe stuff.

Tell all the guys and gals hello for me and I still read Joe’s blog daily and look to see if there is another item I need to add to the bike.  Catch up to you again soon. 

Fred

Fred, don’t feel too bad…we’ve all done that.  In fact, a few of us have been known to turn the kill switch off on our buddies’ bikes when they’re not looking just to watch the show when it’s time to roll…

The rest of you guys…the CSC Official Factory Parts and Service Manuals are making a good impression, and they’re still on sale for a little while longer.  You need to buy the books…don’t wait for the movies on these.   We talked about a movie with a couple of the local studios (after all, we’re only a few miles from Hollywood), but I wanted Leonardo di Caprio or Matt Damon to play me and the studios balked.   Universal suggested Danny De Vito instead, and our negotiations broke down.   So, the bottom line is don’t wait for the movie…buy the books!

Oh, and our caption contest for that battle Vespa we found over the weekend…we’ll announce the winner shortly.  We’ve had a lot of inputs and it’s been fun, so standby!