A weekend outing, a puncture and some slipped nuts...

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We - me and my family - wife, brother in law and Sister, went for an outing couple of days back. It was great, nice sunny weather, empty roads and riding the scooters, it was awesome.
We hit a snag on a village road - one of the scooters got a puncture. We got out the toolkit but we were not much helpful with it. Thankfully couple of villagers helped us. The problem is the scooter wheel has four nut-bolts holding the wheel to the drum with size 14 bolts. The drum is held to the main shaft with a size 24 bolt. What happpened was the toolkit had only size 14 spanner. So we got on work on the four bolts. Turns out couple of the bolts are made of low-quality soft metal, and the spanner slipped twisting the edges and the wheel could not come off.
We did not have size 24 spanner, so we took the other scooter and got a mechanic from 10km away, he had the tools, and soon we had the scooter running.
Lesson learned - keep extra spanners - proper round type - flat spanners suck. And bolts are shit on the Hero Duet. Hero - you suck!!!

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