I took the bike out for its first real ride on Christmas Eve day with Wahoo, who drives a 49cc TaoTao scooter.
We hadn’t gone maybe 8 blocks and I found that the bike wouldn’t take off from a stop. It wouldn’t shift into low so that I could do so either. I was stuck on the side of the rode, we hadn’t even left town.
The Honda Trail 90 and 110 have a high and low setting on the transmission, for off-road and on-road, and each setting has four gears.
Soon, however, Wahoo figured it out: operator error. I was shifting backwards, so I was putting a lot of effort to put it into 4th (high) gear instead of 1st (low) gear.
Back on the rode we ranged all over the gravel roads between Higginsville, Corder, and Dover, and ended up doing 24 miles in all. It was a great time, and we had no problems.
I ended up taking the bike out two more times on Christmas Day, once while everyone was still sleeping in (23 miles), and another while everyone was napping (29 miles).
However, by the end of the day I was pretty saddlesore.
Comments are closed.