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Thanks Alleyoop. I guess I can save my pocket money for something different.

If it cools down a bit my scoot will come out of the garage more often.
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I am a 6'3" person and when my scoot first arrived at my house I thought the windshield might be too short. I have a Roketa MC 54 250 which means it has the vertical 250 CC engine. So far, even though I felt the windshield was too short I have no problems with it when riding. It appears that the wind is driven high over my face. But then I do use a helmet with a built in face mask too. Maybe that is why I don't feel the wind. I will have to try with the face mask up some day and see what is happening. I prefer the face mask down and I really don't want to get hit with a bug on my face.
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ellpee, you are quite right about expanding the borders where they can. Much of the land around Casa Grande is already owned by the original native tribes of the southwest US areas. And a bit north of Phoenix we enter into Navajo Nation, the largest of the native lands set aside. It goes from the Grand Canyon all the way into New Mexico and from I-40 all the way up into Utah, and across Arizona into New Mexico.

The land grabbers are very much excited to get control of what is around that is not of native control.

Will try to make any visit determined to be possible.
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Hello ellpee. I just drove that road on my computer. It appears to be good to Casa Grande. I followed from Ina Rd, coming from the east on Ina you cross the railroad and turn right. You end up between the railroad and I-10 heading north. At first it is called I-10 frontage road, then changes to Casa Grande Rd and then to Camino Adelante Rd. Then just north of Picacho you will join 87 going east then turn left onto 84 going NW also called Casa Grande-Picacho Rd. After crossing under I-10 it becomes Jimmie Kerr but still rt 84. Keep going on 84 till you reach Peart Rd and turn right. I live just off Peart near Cottonwood. More details if asked.

Get on Google Earth and follow those instructions. It does look doable. I looked at those routes to Florence and they do look somewhat lonely and far between civilized places. I might be wrong but do think this route would be better. Maybe some day I will try it for a ride. At least parts of it.
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I don't know any that are bakeing in the desert. We have been in the 30's in the morning and slowly warming up to the 60's by mid afternoon and shortly after that down to the 30's again over night. Today it was 45F this morning and I rode to the post office, about 3 miles away. I was wearing my winter coat I had in Colorado and still got pretty cold with that ride.

I did find out my gas gauge likes to show half way all the time. Took that out and fixed it once so, now I guess I should buy another one and then when the weather is too hot to ride, summer temps of 100F to over 115F then take the covers off and put the new gas gauge in. Plenty to do for that as I need to release the front of the back panels, remove the running boards, loosen the front side panels, just to get the floor off the scoot.

I am in no hurry as I also have a mechanical way of judging the gas that I carry in my trunk. It is a piece of 3/8" dowel that fits nicely in the area under the seat. I stuck it in the full tank and using a marker put a line around around top of tank, location of the cross bar, and half way from the cross bar to the bottom of the tank. To me, that is more accurate than a gauge that won't work.
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That periodic warm up has been my way of doing it also.

Now for many years, probably about 20 years, I have had a 7 HP snow blower. I always used summer gas to fill it and of course my riding and hand mowers. I tried to get my 5 gallon gas can filled before they started putting winter gas in the gas stations. So I have always used gas that was not fresh from the pumps and never have had any problems. I never used any additives either. Sometimes months would pass and the snow blower would never be run, but it still started right off when needed. All the mower and snow blower experience was up in north Colorado in Longmont and then in south Colorado in Cortez. Now we are working with the scoot in lower Arizona south of Pheonix AZ.

I guess I have never really concerned myself about gas quality and also had no problems either.
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North West New Mexico, sounds like you might know of Kirtland, Waterflow, Shiprock. Any of those near where you live? Of course there are Farmington and Bloomfield or Aztec too. While living in Cortez CO we did a lot of driving down that way for just looking and some shopping as well. Of course we would often drive through the Ute Mountain Ute area and lots of driving in the Navajo Nation going south or west. I preferred that area over south Arizona where we now live but my lungs were getting weaker so the doctor said we needed air tanks or leave the area. My Chicago born wife refused to go north so we came south to Casa Grande AZ.
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