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Nice bike. Especially if the owner likes it......but can it Scamp!

I'd certainly drill before shelling out the cash for a performance exhaust. But that's just me i guess. I figure when this nice new one wears out, I'm going that way with the replacement anyway.

My exhaust is a little louder sure, but not very much. The tone is deeper and to me less offensive than the rest of the scooters running around my area. It's certainly not as loud as the performance pipes I've heard recently. I'd almost say it just sounds "different" instead of louder.

Different types of OEM exhaust might react slightly different in tone and volume. The one my scoot came with was a rather nice one, and I have seen at least 3 or 4 different configurations out running around on other bikes.

The head case running the local Kymco dealership, told me it was a "Deluxe" stock pipe. Since the bike cost 600 new, i strongly doubt that, but he also throws away seat bucket bolts, and anything else he might find annoying or unnecessary when doing customer repairs.

Now you should have almost as good a working knowledge of your particular scoot, as the average dealer out there selling them.

If it runs perfect out of the box, and no PDI gets run, then when it does go south, you would have no idea and little to go on, to enact the fix. Just knowing which lines and parts are which, and where they go, what they do, along with how to start trouble shoot diagnostics, will go a long way towards keeping a scoot running and out of the repair shop.

I replaced and reran Vacuum and Fuel lines during my PDI and got a vacuum line too close to a threaded bolt post. Wore a hole out fast and would not start after about 300 miles.

The few days spent lining that out, along with the PDI, and Scooter Doc gods. taught me more about scooters, than the local shops around here surely ever wanted me to know.

I'd like to do some "Scamping", next spring, and I'm interested in finding and mounting a front rack on my Roketa. The very few I see out there, are for Vespa's and other Euro's, haven't seen anything for chinascoots.

I also have a couple what look to be knock outs, about 2/3rds of the way down the front of the cowling, and wonder if anyone knows just why and what they might be for. It looks to almost be about where you might want a lower support for a rack, but I really find it hard to believe, that's what these are. You tell me.

Need a plug chop to tell for sure about the #88. 85 or 88 for sure w/o the BBK, I would think.

I would certainly open up the exhaust some as well. It's one of those cheap Mods, that doesn't cost you anything as long as you have the drill and bit. More A/F in will almost always want a little less restriction on the way out.

I just took the chrome end cap off.(3 bolts) and made 3 evenly space holes. I think I used 3/8" bit. Be sure and have a drill bit long enough to reach and penetrate the interior baffle. The result in sound for me was only slightly louder, with a deeper tone. Nice actually.

Heh. My Meitian Expresso mirrors were plastic and came pretty much stripped right out of the crate. Had to spend $30 bucks right away for a decent set, because they would send only one replacement at a time, under warranty, and it would have been exactly the same as the junk it came with.