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Post by kz1000st on Jun 19, 2014 8:46:07 GMT -6
You know what I like best? Lukes's leather jacket looks just like a T shirt with bare arms.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 19, 2014 4:37:28 GMT -6
Now, now. Haven't you guys been paying attention? Luke is Malaysian, about 34 years old and now we know, judging by the scale, that he's about 5' 5" inches or less, and fairly fit, looking at his arms. Probably from pushing a very heavy scooter on and off a trailer in the blazing sun.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 18, 2014 19:53:16 GMT -6
I saw the Amerivespa 2013 tag and thought, "I wonder if......" and sure enough, there he was. It looks enormous in the sea of Genuines and Vespas. Even the silver Big Ruckus looks smaller.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 18, 2014 17:44:12 GMT -6
Check out the Morphous at 35 seconds into this video. Blue with a white front and a BMW badge.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 18, 2014 14:01:54 GMT -6
Is the sidestand really loose on the pivot? If not it sounds like the stand is bent. This is why the gods gave us bench vices and pipe benders to re-straighten things.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 17, 2014 12:17:54 GMT -6
When I lived on Long Island, Montauk Point was about 100 miles away. Now I'm 180 miles from there. I was thinking sometime in the future I would load up Rocket in the minivan and transport it down there. Then it would be a nice 200 mile round trip on very flat roads. Rocket would eat that up. My buddy down there has a 250 Virago in his fleet. We would have a nice small displacement tour.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 17, 2014 11:35:03 GMT -6
I'm semi retired now and working at Kmart in Receiving for yucks. I was an Aerospace machinist, Highway Construction Inspector and Office Manager, Substitute teacher, tried to get a Teaching Degree, worked with the Mentally disabled and now unload and sort merchandise from incoming trucks. Oh yeah, worked with my Dad repairing British motorcycles when I was a kid.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 17, 2014 6:26:21 GMT -6
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 16, 2014 13:22:23 GMT -6
Exactly. Do you remember the 1970s Japanese bikes, John? They were a dime a dozen, before being severely discounted because of dealer stock overload. Nobody fixed those bikes, even the dealers told customers they'd give them a few bucks on trade in for a new one, then sold off the busted bikes to salvage yards. The people who bought new Japanese bikes, flogged them, blew them up and bought new. It wasn't until after the 1980s Harley Davidson tax penalty on any import over 750cc that prices rose to where it became sensible to fix them. Before that a Japanese bike with over 10,000 miles was an oddity. Chinese scooters are in the same boat now. Who's going to buy a scooter for $850 and take it to a dealer for a ring or valve job. If it takes three or four hours at shop rates of $80 and up it's over $400 for the repair after parts, labor, tax and hazardous fluids disposal. You might cough that up for a $3500 Honda or $3800 Vespa 50cc, not a Chinese scooter. . For laughs I looked up the resale on KBB.com for a couple of China scoots. Here's the Roketa Sicily the same as my Bashan 150cc www.kbb.com/motorcycles/roketa/mc-17-150-sicily-150/2008-roketa-mc-17-150-sicily-150/suggestedretailvalue/?categoryname=scooterTrade in is really a laugher. www.kbb.com/motorcycles/roketa/mc-17-150-sicily-150/2008-roketa-mc-17-150-sicily-150/trade-in/?categoryname=scooterHow about a 250cc China scoot? www.kbb.com/motorcycles/roketa/mc-54/2008-roketa-mc-54/suggestedretailvalue/?categoryname=scooterTrade in will really make you gag. www.kbb.com/motorcycles/roketa/mc-54/2008-roketa-mc-54/trade-in/?categoryname=scooterNow I ask you. When Joe Citizen sees that, how much will he take care of a China scoot?
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 16, 2014 8:38:19 GMT -6
I hear you about the "Our Day" Borg. I only got a ride in because I have to work on Sunday mornings. The ride in and out is quite nice. Since it's only seventeen and a half miles it's a trifle short but a nice road with good curves and elevation changes. I also got in a quick run to Town to buy groceries on Rocket. My stepsons are home for the summer and need Coca-Cola twelve packs every other day.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 16, 2014 5:28:47 GMT -6
Oh Luke. You really have to educate yourself. Let's look at the first line of this thread.
hi well i got my bike into the shop ok, the Tomos Velo 150cc starting went from spotty to complety dead.
Let me school you on some facts. The Tomos Velo is built for them by SYM, a Taiwanese company, in China. Because the quantity of parts in it have a higher Taiwanese-produced percentage than Chinese it has an "R" VIN number, designating it as Taiwanese in origin.
Now as we all know from history the island of Taiwan was a Japanese possession from 1895 to 1945. Weapons and products for the Japanese homeland were built there for nearly half a century. So, in essence, the OP is having problems with a scooter that was built with Japanese engineering and quality control.
Anything has problems. Even your video is questionable. The type of people who buy cheap skateboard scooters will abuse them furiously compared to people buying Japanese engined/US built models. It's like comparing a Squid on a Kawasaki Ninja to a BMW K1600GTL owner. OR a Yamaha Morphous owner.
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Doh!
by: kz1000st - Jun 15, 2014 16:00:29 GMT -6
Post by kz1000st on Jun 15, 2014 16:00:29 GMT -6
There's an object lesson here for you. If you flog on a cold motor it will blow up. It takes a bit for oil to get to all the moving parts. I also went into the math previously. Take any RPM and divide it by 60 to get revs per second and then divide that number by two to get valve actuation figures. 6000 RPM is 100 piston strokes per second. The valves open and close 50 times per second. That's PER SECOND. Try and picture anything moving 100 times per second. If your brother was wringing the engine out to 7500 or 8,000 RPM, Well, I leave you to do the math.
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ALMOST THERE!
by: kz1000st - Jun 15, 2014 11:23:09 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by kz1000st on Jun 15, 2014 11:23:09 GMT -6
Dude. Check my signature. All those miles are on the original engines. Maybe not all the original parts, but the engines are years away from rebuilds if ever.
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 15, 2014 1:08:14 GMT -6
I have to be at work by 4 AM so it's still too dark to take pictures. Maybe later I'll get to ride Rocket into Town. I use the Fashion to commute. The instrument display is cool in the pitch dark of night.
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Fuelly.com
by: kz1000st - Jun 14, 2014 13:36:36 GMT -6
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Post by kz1000st on Jun 14, 2014 13:36:36 GMT -6
I think it's a cool site but I put it in the "Too Much Information" category. I have a calculator and trip odometer, calculating fuel mileage periodically is not calculus and physics.
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