{"id":72184,"date":"2012-01-09T20:36:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=72184"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:39","slug":"spanish-spacey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20120109\/everyday-events\/spanish-spacey","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Spacey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not great about announcing moves, that&#8217;s us.<br \/>\nSomeone tracked down this Spanish-made scooter and brought it in.<br \/>\n&#8220;Battery&#8217;s no good. Kick starter&#8217;s no good.&#8221;<br \/>\nOkay, okay, I&#8217;ll take a look. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63045167_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> I mean, we don&#8217;t usually work on scooters, but&#8230; the old-timers who&#8217;ve been around forever get a pass. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63045167_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> What the heck is this? The battery cover&#8217;s lifting up and there&#8217;s corrosion.<br \/>\nGenerated voltage was good though. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63045167_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> Kick starter won&#8217;t come down\u2014what a beast. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63045167_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> Took a close look at the mechanism and it&#8217;s fine.<br \/>\nLooks like the powder-powder mode and the quick-flick kick aren&#8217;t doing it any favors.<br \/>\nBattery swap and we&#8217;re done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not great about announcing moves, that&#8217;s us. Someone tracked down this Spanish-made scooter and brought it in. &#8220;Battery&#8217;s no good. Kick starter&#8217;s no good.&#8221; Okay, okay, I&#8217;ll take a look. &nbsp; &nbsp; I mean, we don&#8217;t usually work on scooters, but&#8230; the old-timers who&#8217;ve been around forever get a pass. &nbsp; &nbsp; What the heck is this? The battery cover&#8217;s lifting up and there&#8217;s corrosion. Generated voltage was good though. &nbsp; &nbsp; Kick starter won&#8217;t come down\u2014what a beast. &nbsp; &nbsp; Took a close look at the mechanism and it&#8217;s fine. Looks like the powder-powder mode and the quick-flick kick aren&#8217;t doing it any favors. Battery swap and we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-72184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}