...And now for something different...

You know, strange things happen when I'm alone with a scooter on a cold, snowy day. And to clarify the matter, although I DO live in Arizona, I still see snowstorms now and then here. It doesn't stick for long though. I think it stayed on the ground yesterday for all of, oh, twelve or thirteen seconds. It snowed for about an hour though. Once again, I digress.

So there I was, with nothing to do but wrap Christmas presents, clean the kitchen for company Christmas day, do the laundry, change the oil in both scooters, clean the guest bathroom and vacuum the living room. Plus do the shopping for Christmas dinner for about twelve or so. So see, I really needed something to do. So I decided to paint the Buddy.

I began to disassemble it; headset, seat bucket, speedometer assembly, and attempted to remove various plastic parts that proved to be smarter than me and stayed on the scooter. So I broke out the masking tape and, after about 3 rolls, had the parts I wanted to remain black taped off.

Then I moved to my "paint shelf" and grabbed a couple cans of Krylon Fusion paint in the color red. This paint is advertised to be specifically designed to be used on plastics with no need to prep. So I didn't. I just cleaned everything moderately well and commenced to spraying. The headset, nose piece, side rails and rear wrap-around were all sprayed a shade of red that had a bit too much orange for my taste, but, hey...it's what I had! Then I sprayed the speedometer bezel, passenger footboards, rear grab-bar and headlight bezel black. Someday, the fork legs will be black, the rims will be red and there will be a racing stripe of black down the center of the nose-piece. Anyway, it didn't turn out too...um, well...I've seen worse. But they used a broom. Naw, it ain't too bad. I'm happy with it and I think it looks better than it did. And the bonus...it's the ONLY one like it!!

I like that part!

C-ya...ride on,

--Keys