The tires on one of my old unrestored motor scooters were so bad they were dangerous. But it runs OK, so I bought it some new tires. Can't put on new tires without new inner tubes, the man said, so I bought the tubes.

When I got home I looked at the scooter and decided that it would be a shame to put new tires and tubes on those ugly wheels, so I took the wheels off and painted them. Then I mounted the new tires on the freshly painted wheels and before I put them on the scooter, I notice those ugly hubs. So I took the hubs off and I'm in the process of sanding and painting them. I know where this is going. When I start putting the wheels and hubs back on the scooter, I'm going to notice the front fender, so I'll have to take that off and paint it.

You can't put a nice freshly painted fender on a shabby looking old fork, so I'll have to disassemble the fork and paint that. Then it's going to be the frame and the body. I can't put that old tattered seat on a new body, so I'm going to have to buy a new seat or have the old one recovered. By the time I get all that done the tires will be old and rotten and it will be start over time.

Actually, I enjoy working on scooters and I am planning a full restoration on that scooter. It should take about another year or two. In the meantime, I'm just going to put the wheels and hubs on there so I can ride it at the spring scooter meet. It's normal to assemble and disassemble a scooter several times during the course of a restoration. This is my 50-year-old Cushman Pacemaker. It will be one cool scoot someday.
Howard