John Michael was getting itchy about scooters and wanting something new. Instead, we decided to customize one of his current scooters, the Lucky.

We bought this when his Madd Gear scooter’s fork broke. The fork on the Lucky broke about three weeks later – he is taking huge jumps that scooters of this level (pretty damn good!) just are not built to handle. The Scooter Farm, where he bought the Lucky, gave us a more robust fork. (Later Madd Gear also sent us a better fork.)

Anyway, the Lucky was pretty beat up and covered with partially scratched-off stickers and looked terrible.

John Michael and I bought spray paint from Home Depot and then “we” got the stickers off, disassembled it, sanded it down, cleaned it with solvents, sprayed the various parts and reassembled it.

He’s pretty happy, I like it, the kids at the park are totally impressed.