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Post by blu on Apr 19, 2016 20:42:56 GMT -6
I need to get it on the center stand! Still haven't been able to do that. Came close the other day, one more shot and I would have had it, but my back was shot first! I'm still working on technique.
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Post by jct842 on Apr 19, 2016 20:52:50 GMT -6
I need to get it on the center stand! Still haven't been able to do that. Came close the other day, one more shot and I would have had it, but my back was shot first! I'm still working on technique. I have seen videos of 98lb girls putting a goldwing up on a centerstand. It usually does not take much lifting force. The trick is to stand with all your weight on the kicker part of the stand after leveling the bike on both feet of the stand. Then with just a little lift up it goes. If the bike is not level on both feet it is ten times as hard. |
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Post by blu on Apr 19, 2016 20:59:20 GMT -6
I had a Kawasaki ZN1300 I could put up on the center stand. I was younger and in better shape, but that was an 800 pound bike. I'll get it, I'm just afraid of my back and focus too much on that than the operation.
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Post by blu on Apr 20, 2016 10:56:06 GMT -6
Anyone around? Got the scooter stripped down some. I don't understand this crap. I look for continuity, and it's everywhere. The power comes to the front brake switch on the black wire. Then goes down the green/white wire to somewhere, but I don't know where. I have the center cover off so I can get to the rear brake switch and the sidestand switch. They are connected on the same harness, then it goes into the main harness to unknown parts. I really want to fix this since I'm this far, but I really don't want to have to take the front crap off to follow that harness. Afraid I'm going to have to.
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Post by Alleyoop on Apr 20, 2016 11:14:04 GMT -6
Yep follow the Green/White Wire from the front brake that one disconnected someplace.
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Post by blu on Apr 20, 2016 12:36:40 GMT -6
The front has to come off. Had to put it back together, I need it in a couple days when my truck goes into the shop. From what I could see, everything from the front cover back looked intact. It has to be between the handle bars and the tunnel (middle section). What a pain in the back this thing is! I'm done for a while.
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Post by Alleyoop on Apr 20, 2016 13:33:45 GMT -6
This may help get at it:
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Post by jct842 on Apr 20, 2016 14:45:43 GMT -6
Any reason you could not tap the two brake switches together? Thats all that is really happening on most scooters anyway except your one must have some thing in series or is just plain disconnected. From what you say both have 12 volts on one terminal. What if on the brake light side you touch them together. I don't know what else the manufacturer or old owner did but I would just take off the brake light wire from the front brake and add a new wire to the brake light wire on the foot switch and it should work fine.
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Post by blu on Apr 20, 2016 14:56:46 GMT -6
I may just do that if I can't find it behind the maintenance panel.
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Post by blu on Apr 20, 2016 18:12:32 GMT -6
Well, this is interesting. I took the maintenance panel off and tried to find that green on white wire coming out of the harness. The green on white wire does not come out! I figured the two wires from the brake light would just go into the harness from the handlebar switches. They don't, they jump into the switch housing where the start button is. Maybe it splits right there and not under all those covers. The light is bad now so tomorrow morning I'll take a closer look. That would be great!
This scooter is really an enigma. I've doubted the 2100 miles on a scooter as old as this. But what I see under everything is clean, not dusty and cruddy like you would expect. The guy I got it from had two other scooters, beat to hell and outside under a cover. This thing was in his garage. I think he got this thing for nothing, had it serviced and new tires put on, and flipped it. As far as I can tell, it's a nice scooter and it should have been used.
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Post by blu on Apr 21, 2016 8:03:50 GMT -6
It's green and yellow, not green and white. it goes straight into the main harness and down into never never land. Screw it, it starts, I should be thankful for that. Got to know my scooter a little, but I'll live with it until......
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Post by 2stroked on Apr 27, 2016 13:39:21 GMT -6
It's green and yellow, not green and white. it goes straight into the main harness and down into never never land. Screw it, it starts, I should be thankful for that. Got to know my scooter a little, but I'll live with it until...... I wish you much luck and happiness with your scoot. My real Honda Helix doesn't have the starter interupt wired to the front brakes either. From what I can tell, it never did. I have traces all if the wires, looking for another issue, and the front brake switch is not connected to the starting circuit anywhere. The rear brake peddle on the floor is hooked to it though. If it were me, and if I had trouble holding that heavy a$$ thing up while awkwardly stardling the bike to reach the rear peddle, I would do one of two things. 1 I would disconnect the interupt circuit al together, OR 2 I would just wire the interupt to the front brake switch so there was still a brake on when you start it. Good luck, and be safe. chris |
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Post by Alleyoop on Apr 27, 2016 13:52:44 GMT -6
Yep GREEN and YELLOW is the HOT WIRE GOING TO THE SOLENOID when you squeeze the brakes. The pic is wrong I will change it.
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Post by blu on Apr 27, 2016 21:06:49 GMT -6
Thanks 2stroked! I've been thinking it wasn't there to begin with. It is in really nice shape, and I just couldn't see how this could have happened. I may disable it, that would probably be easiest. And BTW, the problem isn't the weight of the scooter, the problem has to do with physical issues with my legs and hips.
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Post by 2stroked on Apr 28, 2016 8:56:24 GMT -6
Thanks 2stroked! I've been thinking it wasn't there to begin with. It is in really nice shape, and I just couldn't see how this could have happened. I may disable it, that would probably be easiest. And BTW, the problem isn't the weight of the scooter, the problem has to do with physical issues with my legs and hips. Sorry blu, didn't mean to insult ya. I have been in so many wrecks, and my lower back is torqued so bad, that it's kinda hard for me to twist and get on and off the Helix, all the while trying to get it started with my right foot on the brake. The Cyprus is taller, but easier for me to balance and start. IMHO, the brake switch interupt is a good piece of safety equipment, if not a bit awkward. If you stall in traffic, without the safety interupt, it's a lot easier to wind up hitting someone. I can't talk much, I unhooked the interupt on my Roketa Cyprus cuz it was bugging the he!! out of me. |
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