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Post by kz1000st on Jul 8, 2014 15:56:05 GMT -6
As you all recall last year I put a new cylinder head from Scrappydog on the 150cc. Over the last year I've put nearly 1,000 miles on it and figured it was time to check the valves. Today I dug into it, expecting the worst, and came away amazed. I set the intake last year at .004 and the intake at .005. Guess what? The intake was still at .004 and the exhaust was at .003. Given the reports I've seen over the years I was expecting the intake to be at zero and the exhaust hanging open. I also replaced the original "P" head with a standard head and the scooter seems peppier. If this is the state of Chinese parts and scooters after the six years I've been involved, please, please, give me more.
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 8, 2014 15:42:47 GMT -6
hahaha you should see one in person, anyway, we cant trust your taste in scooters, we are talking scoooters with class! how can you trust the taste of a person who rides a chinese scooter, uses all chinese products in his house and who goes to 99¢ and dollar store to buy canned goods and kitchen utensils. omg...no wonder he cant differentiate a solid scooter from a disposable one. but yah, kymco is a reliable scoot Ha, Smart Guy, I have seen one,....in blue. I almost fell off my Kawasaki laughing at it. It looks even worse in person than it does in pictures. The only thing missing was a giant hot dog bun and mustard. The Morphous is the only scooter I've ever seen that makes my Fashion look pretty. How can you trust someone who can't get a 50cc scooter to run around the block, buys the world's ugliest scooter and is so ashamed to be seen riding it that he puts it on a trailer and pulls it with an SUV with dark tinted windows. Can it be that you trailer it since you know it won't make it? Can it be that it's so terrible to ride you can't stand the pain (Your own words)? Oh yes, who can you trust for an opinion on a machine's integrity? Someone with almost 21,000 on his Chinese Fleet (Me) or someone who can't get 50 miles out of the China scooter he bought and couldn't prep it well enough to run? (Luke). I think my record is proof of what I know. The Morphous is proof of what Luke knows.
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 8, 2014 10:21:59 GMT -6
I'm casting the dissenting vote here Buy it. That amount is less than a Chinese 250 new, the Japanese build good stuff that lasts and lasts and if it runs it will probably give you your money's worth and more. If it was a car you wouldn't call 43,000 miles a lot. Why people hang that on bikes and scooters is beyond me. Do you have any idea how many Gold Wings, BMWs and other bikes are out there with waayyyy more than that. The only mistake the Japanese make occasionally is in styling that turns people off. Look at the Morphous. Mechanically sound and able to last a good long time if you can get past the bad looks and mediocre handling. The Majesty is much better looking and maneuverable than that. Buy it.
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 7, 2014 18:30:05 GMT -6
Did you see the part about smoke and noises? A ride will reveal compression. If it runs good compression is fine.
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 7, 2014 17:44:54 GMT -6
And what do you think they would tell him? "Check the service records"? A clue Luke. Motorcyclists have been doing this since Indian first started doing business in 1901, scooters since 1946. Guess who knows what to look for in a two wheeled vehicle first? GM look at the tires, look at the oil, feel the brakes, start it and listen for odd noises, look for blue smoke, put the bike on the centerstand and grab the wheels and check for play in the wheel bearings. Grab the front brake and bounce the front end. Then push the bike back and forth to check the steering head bearings. A test ride will tell you the rest. Listen for noises, odd vibrations and how it tracks. That should tell you all you need to know.
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 7, 2014 16:15:47 GMT -6
I know the answer to this so let me say it first. Make sure the services have been kept up with. JCT842 will tell you the troubles you'll have if the air filters weren't changed at regular intervals. Worn rings and cylinder will follow. Especially at 43,000 miles. If it's been cared for 43,000 shouldn't matter, if not---Brrrrrrr.
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by: kz1000st - Jul 7, 2014 14:34:50 GMT -6
Post by kz1000st on Jul 7, 2014 14:34:50 GMT -6
Oh yes. "You sold someone a $140,000 lemon to pay for a Used Vespa."-Luke 2014
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by: kz1000st - Jul 7, 2014 11:59:24 GMT -6
Post by kz1000st on Jul 7, 2014 11:59:24 GMT -6
The Fashion is a 2009 that I picked up two years ago with 1900 miles on it.
John. If Luke was actually using his scooter then I wouldn't have a leg to stand on about his claims of Chinese inferiority. He doesn't. He brags about having 28,000 trouble free miles on it. He doesn't. He's put 21,000 miles on it over the same span of time that I've put 20,000 miles on my "Inferior" Chinese fleet,...and about 4,000 miles on other bikes in that time. Luke bought it used with 7,000 already. By his own admission he services his clutch and variator periodically to avoid trouble.
Yet he blathers on about how reliable his Morph is even though he scarcely uses it and trailers it anywhere further than 100 miles. Want reliable Luke? My wife's Honda has almost 10,000 miles on it. You know what I do to keep it running? I oil the chain and change the oil and could ride it anywhere, at any time.
Lastly, John. He hurls insults like confetti. We're all ignorant peasants. "If you can't afford a quality scooter then you have no right to be in the world of scooters."-Luke 2013.
"People who sell Chinese scooters are like drug dealers. They hurt people everyday to make a profit."-Luke 2012
"I'm just here to tell people there's a better way and they don't have to suffer bad scooters to own one."-Luke 2013
"I wouldn't own a Honda Silver Wing. They have bad clutches and break down all the time."-Luke 2013
"I bought a SunL 50cc and it was terrible. I couldn't get it to last. It was always breaking down and giving me a nervous breakdown."-Luke 2013.
We all kid around here but respect each others choices. Calling Vespas "A Girl's Bike" and all Chinese scooters "Junk owned by people who don't know better" isn't kidding, it's derisive and Classicist.
And that is what this all about.
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by: kz1000st - Jul 7, 2014 7:10:26 GMT -6
Post by kz1000st on Jul 7, 2014 7:10:26 GMT -6
my morphous deserves respect!!!
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by: kz1000st - Jul 6, 2014 19:18:22 GMT -6
Post by kz1000st on Jul 6, 2014 19:18:22 GMT -6
I had to run into town to get some CHINESE takeout on the 150cc scoot. Once again all the bikes waved back. It restores my faith in my peeps on bikes.
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by: kz1000st - Jul 6, 2014 18:08:47 GMT -6
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 6, 2014 18:08:47 GMT -6
I was happy that all the bike guys waved to me. It blows the "Unfriendly Bikers" myth to heck.
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by: kz1000st - Jul 6, 2014 12:15:34 GMT -6
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 6, 2014 12:15:34 GMT -6
I had to take some video equipment to my stepson-again-at his summer job in a 4H camp. It was a fabulous day for a ride. The Fashion did it's best Sport Bike imitation on the road around the reservoir and handled the curves like a much shorter bike. With some concentrated counter steering it carved the corners easily and only suffered from some of the headwinds slowing it a couple of times. It is fairly comfortable and sitting on it for an hour straight was no problem. Here's the kicker though. As I rode I passed numerous bikes going the other way. Except for one Gold Wing everyone waved. But. As I rode thru Walton I spotted a guy on a Honda Metropolitan stopped in a driveway. I waved, he didn't. Darn scooter snobs.
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 6, 2014 7:30:52 GMT -6
Dude. Really. It was created by a flood from the Colorado River around the turn of the century and has little feeding source. It became a big resort area in the 1920s but died as the sea dried up and salinity rose. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_sea
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 5, 2014 15:24:33 GMT -6
Yeah, you're right. I should know better than to argue with a.......Let's see, what would be more politically correct? I know, I should know better than to argue with a Morphous Owner. Especially one who can't get a Chinese scooter to run.
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Post by kz1000st on Jul 5, 2014 15:21:56 GMT -6
For $2300, a great buy!
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