OldChopperGuy's Xingyue By oldchopperguy (Read 2,114 times)

[oldchopperguy]

Yeah, it looks like everybody else's, but we need to get some pix posted in here! Heck, at least I try to keep it sorta clean... LOL! Right...









"Lil' Bubba" is a 2007 Xingyue Eagle 150 with 2 years, and 2,000 miles on the clock. Shade-tree mods include strip LED stoplight in the trunk spoiler, pin-striping, steel-tube braced grab-rack, transparent kart fuel lines and filter with manual petcock, feeding an upgraded Mikuni factory-style carb, re-jetted with altered needle, Uni sock air-filter, Bando coil, performance CDI and cooling fan scoop. And yes, that goofy scoop actually DOES help!

Exhaust is stock, and it's running so well I hate to mess with it... but you can bet I will! There's a stainless-steel expansion straight pipe with a hollow stinger waiting for my next free time... Oh, are the neighbors going to love that! I don't feel too guilty though, as they have a 427 Camaro with straight pipes, and love to tune it and spin dounts around 2 am...

A Prodigy variator is also waiting for me to find time to install... It took 2 years and 2,000 miles to actually get Bubba running like he should, but... A fun ride now! Runs strong, bucks wind and hills well, and will hit 55 mph+ but at way too high an rpm, so the new variator is a must!

Incredibly, Bubba came with a premium Gates belt, rear disk-brake, AND (!) the speedo and tach are actually ACCURATE from the factory!



Post yer' pix, ya'll and ride safe!

Leo in Texas

[Bashan]

Very nice! Love the aluminum floorboards, cool instruments, and exhaust. Definately at least one tier up from my Green Earth 150, maybe two. Rear disc is very nice touch on a scoot. I put in clear fuel lines also with manual fuel valve, I hate those vac valves! Beautiful scoot; to anybody that knows scoots, it does NOT look like the others. Bashan

[oldchopperguy]

Bashan,

Nothing shabby about your ride! And if you want to upgrade it some, that should be fairly easy. These alumininum floorboards are OK, but fairly flimsy. You could make your own from diamond-plate with a sabre saw and REALLY have something!

You're too kind! The camera was just working REALLY well that day! 108 and BRIGHT sunshine! The little wheezer is pretty much "general Chinese issue", with maybe a little perfume added... but a hoot to ride anyway! I ordered it from ATVDiscounters back when they had REAL deals, and were still in business... It was ordered as a bottom-end, no-frills, partially disassembled $650 free-delivery special on eBay with no tach, no trunk, no aluminum floor, and no rear disk included.

Imagine my shock when the delivery truck dropped in in my driveway and I found it completely assembled, had the deluxe dash with tach, back-lit analog gauges, aluminum floor, nice trunk and rear dual-piston disk brake (even a cel-phone alert light, which is REALLY weird, not to mention useless...).

I even called them to be sure I didn't get somebody else's deluxe version. They said I specified a black one, (it's even metalflake black!) and all the black ones were deluxe. No problem. I thanked them profusely! Sometimes you're the dog, sometimes the fire-plug... It was a dog day!

On the down side, it did most everything these things do wrong, and required a lot of tinkering. The funniest one is the rear wheel... It turns concentric, that is it's true vertically with no wobble, BUT the hub is abuout a full 1/8" inch off-center! Yes, the wheel actuallygoes up and down nearly a quarter inch around the axle. BUT... the tire circumference runs true! There's not a hint of shake or shimmy at any speed. Even the rear disk follows the off-center pattern of the wheel, with no pulsating of any kind. It's smooth as silk.

How they can cast a wheel with the center off-center is beyond me. Somebody over there must go through the cheap, out-of-round tires, and match them to the off-center mag wheels, to compensate for the defects in both the wheels and tires, tall part of tire on the short part of the wheel! Yeah, I can picture that in China... Of course, when the rear tire needs replacement, the wheel will have to be replaced too! A round tire would buck like a bronco... Oh well... The outside of the tire tuns true now, so no complaints!

What a way to run a railroad... That's the kind of thing that makes these a challenge, but, they are SO cheap! And that's GOOD, because I can't afford anything more expensive!

Keep safe there in "Bama"!

Leo in Texas

[speedracer]

Your Tiger looks great. Well kept I can see. I have to learn how to post more then one picture on here. I am an idiot when it comes to posting pictures. I have 2200 miles on mine.

[oldchopperguy]

Speedracer,

Thanks! I try to keep it clean, but it's starting to show some signs of age... Just like us! At 2,200 miles, yours should just about be running at its best!

Posting pix is something I'm not particularly good at either. I use "Photobucket" as a storage source. For most postings, you have to use a site like that. To insert a photo, I start a message, then select the picture I want. Then mouse over the pic and get a little menu. On the menu, I highlight either the URL or Hotmail info (different sites seem to prefer one or the other). Then, copy that.

Now, I go back to the message and click "paste". This inserts the info I copied and the picture appears. I'm not good with computers, so this is the best answer I can give. The process may differ from one photo storage source to another, but hopefullly, you'll be able to diddle around until you find the combination that works for you.

You definitely cannot "drop and drag" from your own files, or, copy and paste from your files. You must have your pix stored on a PhotoBucket type of website and copy and paste from the info on the menu that goes with the chosen picture.

Best wishes!

Leo in Texas

[ccprof]

Great pix Leo. I like that color scheme!

[oldchopperguy]

Apr 14, 2010 19:52:41 GMT -6 ccprof said:

Great pix Leo. I like that color scheme!

Ccprof,

Thanks! So did I, and, my color choice even got me a sweet deal... I got this from ATVDiscounter back when they had GREAT deals, AND were still in business. It was their eBay bottom-end entry-level cheapo: a whopping $675 delivered to your front porch, lift-gate and all.

For my "first choice" for color, I marked "BLACK". For second choice, I marked "BLACK". LOL... When "Lil' Bubba" arrived, he was metal-flake black and silver. Had a nice matching trunk, rear disk-brake, chrome CVT cover, back-lit analog gauges with tach and remote start!

It was the model they were offering on eBay for around $1,100 at the time, and I even called to see if I got somebody else's deluxe scoot by mistake. They told me "You REALLY wanted a black one... and all the black ones are the deluxe version. Just enjoy it..."

Well, I enjoy it! They also did all the registration for me, and were totally first-class. Apparently something went south in their business later, as they got a lot of negative complaints, and are now gone from the scene...

I love bright colors, but on a motorcycle of any kind, if you're not sure, you just can't go wrong with black...

Ride safe!

Leo in Texas