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Post by jaksonbrown on Oct 4, 2012 20:38:20 GMT -6
Switch wires on the pigtails to them colors vary, doesn't matter which one you hook up to what, it's a simple on/off switch. You are correct black to black and yellow/green to yellow/green and both do the same job turn the brake lights on and send 12 volts to the starter relay.
When you press the start button you complete the starter relay circuit by supplying the ground side to it.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Oct 3, 2012 20:02:12 GMT -6
That's impossible. Both brake light switches feed the brake lights and stater relay through the yellow/green wire going to them.
The start button is not connected to this side of the circuit rather when pushed supplies ground to the starter relay/solenoid alone.
Since the brakes feed off of the yellow/green wire from either brake switch and the starter relay is attached to this wire if the left brake starts the scooter so will the right and if the brakes are working with the right one pressed it again feeds down to both bulbs on this scooter which again the starter relay is connected.
I would check the brake light again on the right side. Know this cooter well especially the wiring, own one.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Sept 15, 2012 5:31:47 GMT -6
Simply put endurance is a skill. Yeah,in people. Machines are either well built or not. Yes, some bozo could blow up anything that someone else could ride, trouble free, forever but I don't know of any skillful machines. Definition: 1.[noun] having a wide variety of skillsYes, a Jetmax can be used on interstates, mountains and State roads. Agreed. The Jetmax is versatile. Yeah,in peopleExactly, if the people ( I'll remind you Chinese) don't have the proper skills they don't build a Durable machine. So if the scooter endures then it was skillfully built and will be durable.600 mile ride, riding on all forms of terrain and 3 opinions isn't enough to know either way. Now if they don't show up on Craigslist like you hope for where they are affordable then you'll know someone is still riding it or still making payments.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Sept 10, 2012 11:00:20 GMT -6
VERSATILITY
Definition: 1.[noun] having a wide variety of skills
Simply put endurance is a skill.
In the English class you took in schhol you learned by adding letters to a word you added meaning lots of times to the word. You didn't say versatile = adj. You said versatility = noun.
So if you say the machine has versatility then it means speed, good gas mpg, reliability, endurance, freeway and small road capable, etc.
But you can't put price in that description for sure! ;D
There is another word you can add to this discussion, OPINION
At this point you have two you're read about and this poster is working on one. It's takes time to know if it's Durable
If it's till running well 5 years from now and doing what it is now then you can add that to VERSATILITY
If it's not then it'll be on what you mentioned earlier since the only way it's affordable to many and that's Craigslist ;D
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Post by jaksonbrown on Sept 10, 2012 6:47:07 GMT -6
Aussies ride on flat ground and straight roads and any machine no matter what it is wears and loses engine endurance, speed and reliability ran at higher speeds than at less agressive slower speeds, not a hard thing to know.
I'm like the other fellow, not going to get out on the interstate with the idiots, besides what's the hurry? When one thinks about it scooters except here were never thought of for 70MPH plus riders. Small wheels, light weight and small engines, yes I know you could put a goldwing engine in one if you wanted to but why?
Lot more fun to go to the store for that milk easing along a pretty two lane highway at about 50 and just looking at creation.
On the interstate you're looking at other idiots just to survive in any machine. If you're looking at anything else you end up being a statistic.
Here's what I know. At least two reporters took a Jetmax on the freeway. To me that's the true test of versatility
If it does it for kkkkkkkk's and normal PM then you can say that. Part of versatlity is endurance and two reports doesn't cover that.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Sept 8, 2012 21:36:12 GMT -6
It isn't just a question of nerve. You have to have the ponies to maneuver in traffic, not just aerodynamics. I don't flinch at riding the interstate for just this reason: Two years ago I'm rolling along in a 55 mph zone on the local interstate on my 650 Kawasaki. I'm reading 65 mph on the clock. Cars are passing me like I'm standing still. So you say, "Well you're too slow". So get this. A few minutes after the sedan blitzkreig I see a tiny spot in my rear view mirror, a few seconds later the spot is much bigger, a few seconds after that a NY State Trooper blows by me in his Crown Vic doing upwards of 90, no lights, no siren. I guess he was late for the end of his shift and had to get back to HQ. The moral. You watch your mirrors because on the interstate nobody can move fast enough on any wheels. My 650 would kick any scooter's butt and even I was chum out there. AND before you say, "See Interstates are dangerous" I saw a clown in a Toyota Camry running away from a hot pursuit at 90+ on my local State road. Yes, he crashed, eventually. So I don't believe there's any such thing as a "Safe" road for a scooter. Or it's more powerful brother, the motorcycle. 70mph on a scooter on any road is just dangerous and IMO the smaller state two lane highways make you somewhat safer just because unlike the idiot in the Camry people do obey the law some and 55 mph gives one a better chance of survival. If you do have the ponies at 55 you have more left to get out of the way than at 70 mph. Where I live they seem to keep the big trucks more inline on the speed limit on the smaller highways while on the interstates they run wide open. I'm not going to play chicken with a semi no matter how fast my scooter will go.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Sept 8, 2012 10:35:24 GMT -6
But not on interstates or freeways, apparently. Unlike the ability of CF Motos to do it. All depends on if you have the nerve to do it? Personally I don't think any scooter belongs on a freeway or interstate. One why take the risk of being blown off the road by semis which was one of the reasons interstates were made for and second why would you want to ride a scooter that is so fun to ride in an enviroment that every second you have that worry? I ride a scooter for fun pleasure and at times for savings and any place I go with the exception of one large city where I have children at I don't have to take the risk of getting killed or run over on a interstate where people run 70mph. Not only does this kill fuel savings on any scooter it takes away from it's longevity no matter what kind you ride. If I get in big enough hurry that I want to move at 70mph plus I ride in a cage or fly in a airplane. One last thing riding on smooth flat interstate no big deal, bring your scooter out in the heat and hills and push the 70 mph envelope and then tell me it's gonna hang in there. Bring it to where your everday riding is like this and push it 70mph. I quit mowing on my yard yesterday at 12:15 p.m. and hopped on my 250 and headed up to the country store 5 miles up the road for a cold glass of ice tea and the gas station digital sign read 105F. It ain't no fun riding in that either! ;D
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Post by jaksonbrown on Sept 8, 2012 7:44:16 GMT -6
Glad you like the scooter and it by all means should be better than the Jonway it cost more and you should get more.
Seems that the reviews are all on including the cheap things you mentioned and I'll agree for the price you paid a tripometer would have been easy and IMO a trunk too.
The EFI and four valves have nothing to do with the fastness of it in fact on EFI no adjusting or changing the fuel input will happen while on a carb adjustment is easy and cheap but I wouldn't think you would need to add any speed anyway? EFI is the future for several reasons mainly EPA crap but if it ever does go down then if it's out of warranty you'll need a deep pocket to fix it. Was reading just the other day about a fellow who had to have his re-done on a Honda and it hit him to the tune of $1250.
High mileage trips can and have been done on a cheap Chinese scooters also with confidence, I know, have done them. The cost of it was less than $1600.
Congrats on your scooter.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Sept 3, 2012 14:15:06 GMT -6
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Post by jaksonbrown on Sept 1, 2012 5:34:20 GMT -6
No way I would pay that for a 50cc scooter of any name, IMO 50cc scooters are for kids and have no place on the open road except for a commuter in the city for say college kids which is a cheap way of getting around while in school. Or maybe for people who are retired and take one on a trip with the camper to just putt around on while on vacation.
Too many of them are used for people who can't keep a drivers license and their state lets them by with them which is also coming to an end.
Looks like Kymco is doing like CfMoto pricing themselves out of the US market. The reliability is not a question.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Aug 11, 2012 7:03:12 GMT -6
What? So now you are questioning Dave's review? One that does a fair and non-influenced review with no hidden things to gain by it? What about his final conclusion? It's apparent that it does not compare to the Japan and Tiawinese scooters. He gave it a good rating for the drivetrain but other than that his review was cheap scooter and he even compared it to another CFMoto scooter. There's no doubt the 250B is cheap quality on the plastics and such but the drivetrain on it has a good record too with both style engines. Lastly in the market if you're going to pay over $3k for a scooter you need over $3k quality and $3k quality means a $3k glovebox, panels etc. I'm betting old Dave could see it very clearly, who knows maybe they took his review to heart, made improvements and Vinters will be better? For the sake of his checkbook I hope so. Not a very good feeling to expect more for bigger $$$$ and get less.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Aug 11, 2012 6:50:15 GMT -6
Hey Park, I only get cranky when I read your rambling as in your reply #4. And of course when I get rear ended and loose a bike. That's okay Park, I understand that is just your style. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh great, i have the papal blessing of a scooterist. great another biker who was kicked around the living room for a child hood and then gets on a bike to vent his rage, reaches out to molests others with same like it was candy.. if you don't want replies why not write this stuff where no one will see it. your attitude is another reason scooter folk never band to gather and do something about the sorry state of the American roads, they are so busy flaming each other, they have no energy left to better there lives,, and nothing changes. mean while congrats on getting ripped off on the pay out. 3 years from now when you see how you where taken ,,,, maybe you will leave a post like my 4. what a bunch of emotional losers what a pity, to know so well nothing but nut and bolt sizes to the point of losing ones own soul and glad tidding to others. hell comes in many shapes, for sure one is a tool box. Glad that's over.
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Post by jaksonbrown on Aug 11, 2012 6:45:16 GMT -6
Well said but again he compared it to one scooter, ran in the city on smooth flat roads and made all his assumptions including the cheap look in hours. As far as the 250B no doubt it's cheap and it has a cheap price tag can buy two of them for one Jetmax, no way around that. Also I know of 2 linhais that have made 105F + city traffic and the haul of the hills and bad roads and are still running, give the Jetmax some time and we'll see if it holds up to that kind of running and in the meantime one who does buy the cheap 250B can used the extra money saved to buy high priced gas which on the average the MPG is better than the heavy Jetmax with the cheap Chinese glove box! For sure the cheap glove box is affodable on the 250B. Yes the flaws on a 250B are the same so it's fair to say the same flaws on the Jetmax make it a under $2k scooter a fair comparision.
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