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Hah hah, if you say so.

So he doesn't ride as often as you. That's not a valid point. I have over 22k on my B650, so what?

I'm not familiar with the issues John has had but it sounds like the previous owner didn't take care of it, as in letting it sit for years. A china scoot would fare better in the same situation? John has the option of fixing it himself or paying a mechanic, same as you or I. You can make the argument that a lawnmower mechanic is qualified to work on the china scoot so therefore it's cheaper to maintain and therefore superior to a japanese scooter with fuel injection but, jeez...

Kymco isn't Chinese. Kymco makes decent scooters, as does SYM.

Roketa has been advertising a 400cc scoot for about 4 years now. Don't have the engineering skills to make it work or bring it to market yet. Give them a few more years and they will. It will be 1/3 the price and 1/3 the quality.

Yes, he has to because the manufacturer doesn't care.

There's a tiny bit of debate as to whether Honda or Suzuki or some other company designed the gy6 but there is no question as to who perfected it and made it as reliable as it is. There is also no question that the Chinese copied that successful design.

There's a handful of people that get 20k out of a China scoot. I put 5k on my 260 before I even did a PDI, though it turned out that PDI was long overdue. Why are you asking where the Honda scooters are now? They're still on road and have been a very long time. The china scoots are out in the back yard rusting or on craigs list for parts.

I've looked at your posts and you seem to have a big chip on your shoulder regarding scooter prices. If it's not Chinese it's overpriced. I've always thought Vespa's were overpriced and they probably are but I don't make it a mission to tell everyone. The only thing that made me respond to the original post was the nonsense that Chinese scooters are actually superior. You lost all credibility with that.

1/3 the price because they're 1/3 the quality. The one and only reason Chinese scooters stay running longer than 6 months is because they have Japanese designed engines in them. Everything else about the scooter is crap. I enjoyed my Chinese scooters while I had them because they were dirt cheap to buy, but I never had any illusions about the crappy quality.

Burn 87 grade fuel. Your scooter will love it, it will perform better and your mpg will go up to the mid 60s. You didn't say how many miles are on it, but the mpg will be better when she is fully broke in too.

The Linhai 257cc engine takes 8-1/2 ounces of gear lube.

Most people like to break in the scoot with dino oil and wait until 1000 miles or more before going to synthetic. I change mine about every 1000 miles so I just keep using dino oil in it. It's cheap and it it gets replaced frequently so I don't see the need for synthetic. I do however use synthetic for the gear lube so I don't have to change it as often. Gear lube won't get as dirty as fast as engine oil so I feel I could leave it in there longer. So far though, I've been changing the gear lube at each oil change just because it's easy and takes so little fluid. Well I have 5k miles on it now and will change the fluids again this weekend but after that I think I'll just do the gear lube maybe every third oil change.

I use Castrol 4-T 10w40 dino oil in the crankcase and Mobil 1 75-90 synthetic in the gearcase.

Like the new scoot.... it's looks so... new :-)`

I use Mobil 1 LS 75W-90 - .25L or 8.45 ounces and usually change it when I change the oil since it takes so little.

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/sarcasm