Ouch, I was lucky cos i did not hit my head. By the way i haven't had to go to a petrol station yet to fill up so now i will be paranoid about that! Haven't been to see my moped again because its still in town where i left it (we live about 10 miles from town hence reason why i needed one in the first place) so i don't know yet if it still runs ok but i think it will. I am desperate to get back on it but probably won't be able to ride it home till after my stitches come out which will be after christmas...but yeah i think now i will probably just patch it up and keep it going since i really don't want to go back to using shitty public transport again.

No need to be paranoid about petrol stations, just best to be aware there might be hazards and exercise a little more caution than normal. Diesel's much like ice, only a serious problem if you want to either stop or turn in a hurry. If there's enough of it to be dangerous, you can usually both see and smell it, which can be enough of a warning to throttle back gently and keep the bars straight...

Personally, I quite like bikes with that "scarred through use" look, if only because I've had so many (not all the battle damage caused by me, I hasten to add - it's more because I only ever buy used bikes!), so good luck fixing it up.

>> ex silens nox noctis <<

Otherwise its all fixable i think the bodywork can be repaired easily enough and there's nothing wrong with the engine it runs fine.

Front wheel and mudguard are a fair way out of true, but the big question would be why. Quite hard to tell from the pics, but it doesn't look like the wheel is at all bent or buckled. If you're lucky, it's possible that the front forks have twisted in the yokes, in which case it's an easy fix. The forks themselves could be bent, in which case it's an easy but expensive fix. Or it's the frame or headstock which is twisted, in which case it's a horrible, complicated and expensive fix.

Think you need to get the front plastics off and have a look at what's going on with the forks as the first step.

By the way, there's a Runner 50 on eBay, £25 reserve, no bids yet and only 17 hours to run if you're interested. May be worth a punt and you'd have this one for spares/repairs or break and sell.

>> ex silens nox noctis <<

But...when we took the front off my dad noticed there was no brake fluid in the back brake. Fine, we thought, we'll just put some more in. So we did. Then we tried the brake...it worked, but brake fluid came squirting out of a hole in the brake pipe thingy (i don't know what it's called!). So said thingy needs to be replaced.

Other problems include the speedometer not working (dunno why because it was working when i got it) and i think the wirings messed up somewhere because when i put the indicator on the indicator light flashes but the oil warning light flashes as well!

Fortunately i can't ride it now anyway because of the icy weather, the road through our village hasn't been gritted and it's tricky in a car let alone a bike. So i'm not too bothered about it being off the road.