Scooter Mods

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/20/2020 at 09:50 • Filed to: two wheels good

I did some simple mods to each of my scooters recently. The biggest change I made was to my Hooligan. I added a pair of surplus Musette bags as saddle bags to that. Not my idea, that one came from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and his Project Super C ubby. I did the lower straps a little differently, and frankly I think the bags look better on the Super Cub than on my Hooligan. O ll I am happy with the way they look, and more importantly, their function.

With this mod, the Hooligan is officially my commuter scooter. Between the bags and it’s huge under seat storage area, I can haul everything I need back and forth from school and home each day. One of the bags is the perfect size for my lunch bag and my water cup. The storage area can swallow my 15" school laptop, my GoPro, a small tripod, and a small tool kit. I added a cup holder for my coffee, and that leaves an entire extra bag for any random extra stuff I may have on any given day.

In the past I’ve always left my stuff at school, but in pandemic times .. who knows when things will get shut down and locked up again!

There is a tripod and a tool kit in there too!

I also made a change to the Zuma. I bobbed the rear fender with a jig saw, so that both of my scooters would fit in the bed of my truck, with the tailgate up. Previously the fender of the Zuma stuck out, so either the tailgate had to stay down, or I’d have to put the Zuma in at a weird angle. It was a PITA, and it looks better this way anyways. I still need to clean the edge up a bit.

Here’s the before pic.