78 Degrees SoCal By beachbum (Read 478 times)

[beachbum]

It was a perfect day for a long ride down Pacific Coast Highway. Love this weather!

[kepps1280]

Enjoy that nice California weather. Here in western NY we probably have 4-6 weeks of winter yet. I won't ride untill the temp is at least 40. Too much black ice around here when the temp is in the mid to upper 30s.At least the snow melts now within a few days. Last weekends 15" storm is all but melted. Even then this city does not shut down for that little snow.

[Alleyoop]

That is really NICE BEACHBUM, rub it in(HAHA).
Alleyoop

[beachbum]

Feb 15, 2013 21:17:54 GMT -6 Alleyoop said:

That is really NICE BEACHBUM, rub it in(HAHA).
Alleyoop

Hahaha

[bailey]

its nice here in central florida too. I ride every day being retired.

[Alleyoop]

Oh Boy, now I have THREE rubbing it in Mike6736 from Florida, Bailey from Florida and Beachbum from California. And here I am currently below 20, wind chill is about 6 right now tomorrow calling for even colder JUST BEAUTIFULL RIDING weather around here(HAHA).
Alleyoop

[mike6736]

Well Al, hope your happy as no shorts for me today as only about 48 or 50. Sure I hope I do not loose more than a total of 7 days this year of riding weather..... It is so cold and windy today. HHOPE i do not get frost bite!!!!

Magoo

[jct842]

I just came back from an hour and a half ride on the majesty. Boy am I out of shape, was so stiff from the ride I could hard walk in the house. It is still about 50 out.

If I had a bazooka I would probably be forced to use it. Had a big ol red suburban or Suv turn left in front of me in a 45 zone. Sure glad I got a good front brake, with only a back brake I would have been a dent in that pricks passenger door. A month or two ago there was a guy here who wanted to swap out his back drum brake for a disc cause he was afraid to use his front brake. Had he been on highway 178 this afternoon there would have been an article in tomorrows paper about him.

[kz1000st]

Wait a minute!! The Majesty is back together?? What was the final answer on the lack of compression and where are the pics?

And it's 9 degrees here with a wind chill of -10. I got in a pair of short rides on the Cub clone two days ago when the temperature soared to 38. I even started the Fashion just for yucks and to hear it run.

[jct842]

Oh crap I missed posting pictures on it. I did on the majesty forum. Any way it was back running last summer. The compression loss was rings. I had almost a 8mm gap on the compression ring. It was bored for $35. The piston and oversized rings had to be back ordered from japan. (hurry up and wait) yamaha is not a good bet if you ever need parts as even an oring straight from your local dealer will take a min of 8 days to arrive. I like my chinese scooter a whole lot better. The majesty is broke in again and runs better than it ever did. (maybe even new) I wouldn't wish a yp400 topend overhaul on anyone out side of a mortal enemy, but it can be done if you have the patients to work on the poorest engineered scooter on the market./ The airfilters suck up the dirty air coming off the bottom of the front wheel, the cost of factory airfilters, 3 of them is $92 and the previous owner neglected changing them due to cost. They need changing in 1000 miles on dirt roads. I am using uni green in them now. The motor is high tech but the scooter has to be the poorest design on the market. takes an hour and a half of pulling plastic crap to even see the motor. If your fuel pump fails, the dealer will have around $1100 of charges. mostly labor as you have to split the frame, tank is clamshelled in the frame and pump is in tank. no matter if you order parts off internet of dealer they all come from the same warehouse and none of them stock any parts at all. about 30% cheaper off internet. I get parts for my chinese in 3-4 days. I will probably never ever look at a yamaha again. Honda must be better as no one could be that bad.

[kz1000st]

I'm glad to hear it's up and running again but what a nightmare. I thought my transmission shaft was bad but you win the "Hell and Back" Award. I neglected an air filter once, but all it did was choke the engine to a halt. Three filters and the rings were sanded to death? That's harsh.

[jct842]

As far as I can tell it is a good high tech motor then some fools stuffed it in a make believe scooter and made it next to impossible to service. 4 valves, double over head cam, shimmed adjusters, fuel injection. I was real tempted to put all the crap plastic in the burn pile. Got to laugh when some guy bitches about breaking a tab or two on a chinese scooter. Was real tempted to weld up a decent frame with a real step thru and use some sort of a one piece tub to cover the engine. Can you imagine if your jap car took an hour and a half just to bare the engine so it could be serviced?

It has 2 filters for the engine and one for the belt/trans. When it was new in 2007 there were no after market filters and now there are some but they are still the paper copys of the $92 ones. My 1200 cc bandit had one half the size in K&N and would go a year with out cleaning it, course it was under the seat away from under the front wheel.

Oh there was a set of over sized rings in this country at the yamaha usa warehouse, they shipped but ups lost them so they also were backordered from japan seperately from the piston.

If some one is ever thinking about yamaha do your self a favor and just check if any dealer carries any parts at all. The fellow who did the boring did say that you are still better off with yamaha than kaw/suzuki as far as needing a cyl bored....they use a aluminum cyl with a painted on chrome liner that can not be bored. I imagine the way the japs price parts a cyl would cost in neighborhood of 6-700 bucks for a single cyl scooter that sized. That just leaves honda and they do not make a similar sized scooter for sale in usa.

I still want to see a real scooter with a true step thru in the 250-350cc that has a tip off tub to cover the engine just like my first scooter had. My idea of a scooter has always been a vehicle to scoot around town that is convenient to ride and service, preferably aircooled. make it simple. A touring scooter is a oxymoron, if you want to tour get a big road bike or trike.

The 50s and 60s ads show a guy in a business suit and a girl with a dress riding....thats a scooter.

[kz1000st]

The fellow who did the boring did say that you are still better off with yamaha than kaw/suzuki as far as needing a cyl bored....they use a aluminum cyl with a painted on chrome liner that can not be bored.

Not to sound like a know it all but they don't do chrome liners anymore. They stick a wire made with nickel and silicon (Nikasil) inside an aluminum barrel, run a zillion volts through it causing it to explode, coating the barrel with this very hard material and bore it with diamond cutting tools. It's very hard stuff, lasts forever and transfers heat better with less air gap than a pressed in steel liner. You're right though, it can't be rebored and if it does wear through it's time for a new one.

And just to sort of stay on topic it's 8 degrees this morning and a light coating of snow adds to the fun of below zero wind chills. No riding this week.