My wife and I went to the Sacramento Kings and Oakland Warriors Pre-Season Basketball game last night. It was our first trip together. She had never really expressed a ton of interest in riding 2-up and I didn't have the gear for her. She started expressing interest so over the past few months, I found good, used gear so I finally had the gear and opportunity. We had a nice time. We stopped for dinner before the game and you could not have taken the smile off my face. We rode to the arena and we parked in our normal area near the arena parking. It is in a surrounding business park with several other season ticket holders. We left our gear in the bike and walked to the arena and watched the game. We enjoyed a win and walked back out to the bike. As we got close to the parking space, we saw that the bike was on its side. I had parked the scoot in a very small "regular" car spot where you could not back a car into the scooter without hitting a car or a tree first. Basically, I felt safe there.
I guess some hooligans from the opposing team (we saw them) had decided that a scooter in the parking lot needed to be dumped over to pay for their team's loss. It was up on the center stand making the bike very stable. I always use it. They had to try real hard to push it over. It was not an accident, it had to be a focused effort. The bike was dumped on the right side onto what was existing damage from a tip-over that occurred at the mechanic's shop last month (working with the shop on that one). This new damage was worse than any other prior damage. It was also the most forceful 'event' and included damage previously undamaged areas of the front fairing and right mirror mount (un-investigated at this time).
To those reading this who don't know, my scooter has plastic body panels made from ABS and other plastics that are affectionately/unkindly known as "Tupperware" by scooterists. In my case, it is most cost effective to replace the panels with new panels from the Kymco dealer as opposed to having them fixed.
So, when I get my new Tupperware, I will get a new beauty shot; but until then, it's duct tape and zip ties for me.
