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Post by rks on Mar 17, 2015 5:49:07 GMT -6
People have the right to run their business as they see fit. If you don't like it, go down the street, and spend your money elsewhere. Or, spend a few hundred thousand dollars, and start your business, then you can set the rules. Or, just take your helmet off, when you park your bike....like most of us do.
Life is full of rules....we don't always get to do as we please.
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Post by rks on Mar 17, 2015 5:12:00 GMT -6
No one has asked if Lindsay knows someone with mechanical ability and tools. Any advice given here will useless if not. So, do you have a friend or family member who tinkers with motorcycles,cars, etc, and has more than a screw driver and a pair of vicegrips to work with?
I don't mean any disrespect to you Lindsay.....but I have 2 daughters of my own, and 2 grand daughters (the oldest just got her learners permit)....so I kinda know what most young girls specialties are. Fixing broken vehicles, getting dirty greasy hands and nails, and scrapped knuckles, don't rank too high on a Favorites List, of the average school aged (or close to) young female.
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Post by rks on Mar 11, 2015 16:26:54 GMT -6
As far as Chinese scooters go, I believe the biggest problem, and the most difficult to fix, is the ineptness of so many operators. Most feel... all you need to do is keep gas in the tank, and everything else will be just fine.....a 50cc should run 50 mph....a 150cc should be able to do 65 - 70 mph...and so on. Seems like everyone wants to rocket down the highway....so they go out and buy a 4 or 8 hp scooter....then try to prove to the world they are the fastest thing around....wot all the time.
Then there are those that don't where to find their spark plug, or what is meant by check your valve clearances.
But you don't sound like a member of that group....you have a motorcycle (as many of us here do), and you know how to turn a wrench...so I think you'll do fine with a Chinese scoot. Just operate it the way it was intended to be operated, and keep up with the maintenance.
My little plastic 150 will be 3 years old in 5 days.....has never let me down....and still amazes me how well, and economically it runs. In another month or so, it will be out of the hibernation, and starting season number 4.
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Post by rks on Mar 11, 2015 15:10:47 GMT -6
A car tire, a truck tire...I'd plug it.
A scooter tire, a motorcycle tire....I replace with new. Have two tires just like the one you described, (nails are still in them)....one off my scoot, and the other from one of my BMW's. Will haul them to the dump. I have too much to loose, to take a chance on a plug.
And by the way...those tire plugs are probably made in China, from the same rubber as their valve stems, and fuel and vac lines (lol)
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Post by rks on Mar 8, 2015 5:31:03 GMT -6
You say the air filter is new. You didn't by chance happen to replace a factory type air filter with a high flow filter such as a K&N, or a Uni..?
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Post by rks on Mar 7, 2015 11:11:04 GMT -6
I'm with you jct842.... OP states he's burped the system a million times, yet still sees a steady stream of bubbles....building enough pressure to bypass the two different 16# pressure caps he's tried, water temp would have to be over 268* to boil at that pressure. Considering the parts that have been checked out.. (thermostat, water pump impeller, hoses and radiator flush plus 2 pressure caps) .... Sure sounds like a bad headgasket is pressurizing his cooling system to me. |
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Post by rks on Mar 4, 2015 3:27:25 GMT -6
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Post by rks on Mar 1, 2015 10:38:26 GMT -6
I think you need to make sure you have an inline fuse between your battery and ignition switch. Sounds like somehow or another the original was removed/bypassed.
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Post by rks on Feb 27, 2015 16:11:04 GMT -6
Yup, it can be too icy to ride, maybe too foggy to ride, and possibly too windy to ride, but if the scooter will start, it isn't too cold to ride.. just my couple a cents worth... (oh, and I didn't always live in the desert..) You would have to be one hot blooded son of a gun, to ride your scoot in my part of the country these last few weeks. So far this week, we have had 3, subzero mornings...tomorrow will be the 4th. Last week 5 of the 7 days started below zero ( -13* to -3*), and the high temps for those 5 days ranged from -7* to +7*. Today was a beautiful sunny, not a cloud in the sky day...high temp reached at 3:00PM or so...10*, back down to 7* now.....headed into the negatives again before morning. If you want to ride in those temperatures, all I can say is....knock yourself out. |
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Post by rks on Feb 27, 2015 15:30:07 GMT -6
I don't have a led voltmeter, but do have a VDO analog model mounted on my scoot.
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Post by rks on Feb 26, 2015 6:24:50 GMT -6
I have one like this. Nothing fancy, not lit, a bit slow to register changes in rpm's, but does it's job, is very affordable, and a snap to install. I wouldn't put one on my BMW R1200C.......but on my little plastic Chinese scooter it is just fine. Installed it 7/3/2012....still works fine.....when it quits, I'll spend $12 for another one just like it. [img src=" ![]() i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj622/rks3526/_57.jpg" src=" " alt=" "] |
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Post by rks on Feb 24, 2015 19:10:54 GMT -6
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Post by rks on Feb 21, 2015 20:37:06 GMT -6
I should have quoted jomama0867's post, for it was his lack of revs I was addressing. If drivetrain is unaltered, don't see how he'd be getting more than 40 mph out of it. I'm very happy cruising around at 40, but wouldn't be if that was all my 150 had to give.
Alley, if you are talking about your 350 pound trike, with those tall gears in the tranny, I can fully understand why it won't rev beyond 6k with heavy weights in the variator.
Now my 239 pound scooter, with it's stock 157qmj (except a 115 main jet, and K&N airfilter), and standard tranny gears, has no problem exceeding 7k with 14 gram sliders.
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Post by rks on Feb 21, 2015 19:38:08 GMT -6
brunop39, Alleyoop, jerryscript, jomama0867, rks, cyborg I have the little red light on my scooter too, with what looks like a outline of a cell phone next to it.it blinks all the time it got so annoying at night I blacked it out. it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the oil or brakes, a friend said maybe it told you when you were in in-range of a cell tower.maybe you need to know that in china but to me it was just annoying.anyway it's been blinking like that for two years so it must not be that important.not to say your red light is not important it may very well be.still I would like to know just what it's for. It is supposed to tell you when you have an incoming call. They do go off if someone close to your scooter, (a passing car, someone on the sidewalk, etc) is using a cell phone. If yours is lit all of the time, and it bugs you, just pull the wire.  |
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Post by rks on Feb 21, 2015 16:37:45 GMT -6
I think tvnacman is on to something. I can't picture jomama0867 being content with a 150, that only turned 6000 rpm's. My 157qmj, at 6000, is right around 46 mph, but that's with 14 gram sliders in the variator. If you have a more standard 11 or 12 gram roller (mine came with 10.5), you wouldn't be getting but 40 mph or so at 6000 revs. Wouldn't be many happy 150cc owners, if they all maxed out at 40 mph.
Think your tach is off.
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