Post by hawk on Jul 10, 2011 9:17:07 GMT -6
Thank you all for your thoughts so far.
Learn from other peoples mistakes, as well as your own.
We shall do it then. Just to little information out there on the Newport 50.
You all are right about the speed. Actually what happened before this was.......Newly purchased speed 34 mph. Then it started to just (intermittently) not go over xx speed and get slower as I headed home. Finally top speed was only 10 mph.
I was able to isolate the problem to temperature and then to the CDI. I didn't realize then that the RPM was possibly restricted by the new CDI. The CDI did fix the problem but now top speed is 22mph.
Yep, still in warranty but after the bike shops only answer to the problem was "it doesn't do it for us" after several visits to them in which the last time they crashed it. Sat in their shop for a couple of months waiting for parts. Somehow feel better cutting them loose. They have since stopped selling them.
Studied the web about the 50cc including de-restricting. The overall goal being to be able to flow with traffic reasonably.
Think I will go with the new engine and keep the old stuff for spares as suggested.
Will order today. Keep ya posted.
Later, David
Learn from other peoples mistakes, as well as your own.
We shall do it then. Just to little information out there on the Newport 50.
You all are right about the speed. Actually what happened before this was.......Newly purchased speed 34 mph. Then it started to just (intermittently) not go over xx speed and get slower as I headed home. Finally top speed was only 10 mph.
I was able to isolate the problem to temperature and then to the CDI. I didn't realize then that the RPM was possibly restricted by the new CDI. The CDI did fix the problem but now top speed is 22mph.
Yep, still in warranty but after the bike shops only answer to the problem was "it doesn't do it for us" after several visits to them in which the last time they crashed it. Sat in their shop for a couple of months waiting for parts. Somehow feel better cutting them loose. They have since stopped selling them.
Studied the web about the 50cc including de-restricting. The overall goal being to be able to flow with traffic reasonably.
Think I will go with the new engine and keep the old stuff for spares as suggested.
Will order today. Keep ya posted.
Later, David
