Foot in mouth, again

[Rebel]

As most of us are, I'm a member on another forum. This particular one has a member here and he has always been polite on here. He has been a valuable contributor to the 2 stroke forum here.

Well a couple days back I logged into his forum and read a thread where one of the members had asked about Chinese scooters. This forum has a mostly non Chinese scooter membership and one of the posters there I guess owns a scooter shop and has a very low opinion of Chinese scooters and she stated so in this thread. Well I get a bit sensitive to that because of my personal experience with a similar shop not wanting to speak to me because of the Chinese scooter I owned. So I stated my negative opinion about shops such as hers. Of course there was a response, and then my response to their responses. Well what do you expect, sleep with dogs, you should not complain about the fleas biting.

The problem is that I should have just stepped back and left it alone, I was a visitor, not really a member of that scooter family.

[kliff]

I wouldn't worry. You stated an opinion representing thousands of Chinese scooter owners.

As for Scootergurl, turning away work, during a recession, more power to her. Her Financial security must be well established. Don't worry about it. All she'll do is help a competitor enter the feild in her area, with a cheaper product, that just might work on everything.

Whereas, if she were to cater to the Chinese scoots, possibly take on a line or 2, she could be even more secure.

But it's her business, let her roll with it. But you ain't done nutttin' wrong.

[jmkjr72]

hey dont worry about
it if you read my later post after bagga it may not be the scooters in our area but it is more of the scum in this area that sell product and dont support it and they wont give the guy who bought it the time of day most of these places charge a good fee for setup but they dont do any pdi
then the guy with the scoot says i need this and that but cant tell you what kind of engine it came off of heck 1/2 of the people that i have worked with dont even know if its 2 stroke or 4 stroke till you ask them if you have to add oil to a tank then when you ask them if they can get the parts for you to fix the scoot they look at you confused and then when you tell them you may have to charge them to try and find parts they get upset(this is from my experiance of working out of my own garage on scooter projects mods and just fixing things for people) if i have a site saved to get the part and can find it easily then there is no charge to find parts but then when you have to look all over gods green earth and spend 5 or 6 hours of searching(you guys can understand the isues about finding some parts every now and then but over the last 2 seasons i have a fair list of places to get parts) to find where to get a body panel from or a gas tank sending unit(i do need to make something for all my time invested in fixing a scooter for some one else i cant do everything for free)

or you get the guy that has a scoot with problems and i do a pdi after the fact and spend 3 or 4 hrs replacing conections and fuel lines to make sure he wont have any mor problems in the future now if the car lot or parts store or lawn and garden place had done a pdi then he wouldnt have been by me getting it done

this has been a big problem in our area im not down on the off brand scooters but the guys that sell them and dont support them and i think thats what gets her the most and she is a bit out spoken

but please dont let that stop you guys from coming by and posting up

and thanks for posting about the racing site we dont have many moders on the site just yet

it is a small group as most of us are from the same riding group in my area and we do have all sorts of bikes in the riding group

[astroprof]

Don't lose any sleep over it Doug. We ride what we ride and there's certainly differing opinions among us about who's scoot is the best. Hey, if anybody wants to snotty. Let em and move on.