480 mile trip TN-LA completed with no problems By brndnpnt (Read 932 times)

[brndnpnt]

OK yesterday on my xingyue tbx-260 xy260t-4 I completed a trip from Fayetteville TN 37334 to new Orleans LA 70094 at speeds from 55 - 73mph. I tryed to take HW-11 as much as possible to avoid the interstate but it traversed like a champ.

Before I left I did a run through of checking bearings and greasing ware needed. Varaitor exct. I also purchased castrol Power RS Racing 4T SAE 10w-40 which ran me $18 for just 2 quarts I also replaced the drive belt and rear tire.

Thanks to everyone here who gave me the knowledge to have my scoot running for over 11500 miles and counting.

[kiwiscoot]

Fantastic - congratulations on a nice trip and good maintenance. How about some pictures of the trip?? ;D
Kiwiscoot

[fubar05]

sweet ride
ya what kiwiscoot said ,where are the pic's ?
how long did it take?,any close call's ?, did you steel butt the ride or take butt breaks? <<...lol.
did you wish for a taller windshield?(will be ordering one for our stile scoots tomarrow,pm me)
do you have sliders or roller,s?
ok ok i'll stop there ,.wait... did you go back yet ? if you need a place to change oil..you can stop at my place for dinner and an flued change..lol

[brndnpnt]

Sept 28, 2010 6:55:15 GMT -6 fubar05 said:

sweet ride
ya what kiwiscoot said ,where are the pic's ?
how long did it take?,any close call's ?, did you steel butt the ride or take butt breaks? <<...lol.
did you wish for a taller windshield?(will be ordering one for our stile scoots tomarrow,pm me)
do you have sliders or roller,s?
ok ok i'll stop there ,.wait... did you go back yet ? if you need a place to change oil..you can stop at my place for dinner and an flued change..lol

Ha ha ha your funny.. looks like we have the same bike.. I left at 430am and got back around 430pm 530pm ish Its was and easy ride I thought. It only took me about 4 fill ups or 7 gallons of gas so 2 fill up`s and one gallon. I hoped on and off the interstate 65 and 59 south but try-ed to catch as much of HW11 as I could. I wanted to take pics but I forgot I packed the camera up in the back of the truck :/ Yeah I really I made the whole trip in one day which was this past Saturday. I had to drive the scoot down because I had a job transfer from TN to LA. I work for UPS :/

All in all I stayed cursing at speeds from 55 to 73 with some room to spare but I knew it was a long hall so I went easy. But if anyone wants to make a long drive like this I would buy the $9 Castro's racing oil.

Thank you for all my readers

Should of seen the looks on those faces on the HW when the scoot was passing them up.

I am closeing on 12,000 miles
E3.36 dimond fire plug
change drive belt at 10k
chaged rollers 8k they look ok 14g
I use Q-horse power Full Syn 5.86 per QT
Sea foam 1oz per gallon about once per month
I added a larger battery and installed a radio
I have done 3 valve adjusts
Ill add some pics

I need a new variator seal any one know ware I can get one.

[brndnpnt]

Now that I am new orelans, I am going to make a helmet video of me driving around the city on the scoot to share with yall.

[260orbust]

Must be nice.... I used to dream of taking trips on my *bike* Now I just dream of the day it will be GONE! LOL