The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: montmil on July 03, 2014, 03:09:19 PM
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Yep, I've owned a Chinese 50cc scooter for nearly six years now. Pretty Wife wanted one. She rode it ONE TIME and that was that. Go figure. Anyway, I use it for the four block ride to the hardware store or a quick errand nearby. It's a slug with the GY6 50cc engine. Some engine tweaking now gets me 32mph... eventually. On a flat street. With a fair tail wind.
The "brown truck" just dropped off a Big Bore Kit. Gonna get that little engine built up to a monster 72cc and see if I can't get at least 40mph outta the little bugger.
New cylinder and the stuff that goes into it. Milled head with high performance -;D- valves and cam. A performance -there's that word again- coil and CDI ignition with a few more degrees of advance and no rev limiter. Some carb and filter upgrade bits plus a full stainless steel, free flow exhaust. All this stuff for $131.00. It is Chinese.
Pulled the scooter's file and finally read the "Operating Instructions for Motorcycle"
Page One: 1. ITEMS FOR SAFELY DRIVING
[size=14]When driving please you keep the relaxing moon and wear comfortable clothes, obey the traffic rule and prohibit the moon impatient[/size].
I must have missed this in the R65 owners manual.
USA folks, stay safe over the 4th of July holiday. Don't piss off the moon.
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OMG, Monte, you must really be getting bored!
Don't ya love those direct machine-translated manuals with no proof reading? At least when I worked for AST Research Samsung would send over translated manuals for us to proof and correct before final printing for a laptop we might re-label and sell...
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Ah yes. The 1976 or thereabouts Honda 400/4 manual contained "with the left hand clutching, in gear putting"
Cannot really explain why I still remember that, it seemed screamingly funny at the time
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Toss it and get a lambretta. ;)
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Toss it and get a lambretta. ;)
I'm a Vespa guy from the 60s. Loved my big GS, especially when the cats on new Honda Benleys -150CC?- got whipped drag racing me. Later, moved up to a 1953 Triumph T100C. World of differences -some good, some not so.
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OMG, Monte, you must really be getting bored!
Truth, Justin.
Yesterday, I even "re-adjusted" the eccentric shafts on the twin ATE disc calipers of the R100S just to have something to do. The three Airheads and the Triumph Triple are, and I hope I don't jinx myownself- running beautifully and need nothing more than a light dusting.
Anyway, nothing stays "stock" round these parts for very long...
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Keep a calm moon, Monte, and enjoy your holiday weekend!
Mike "Bad Moon Rising" Fugere
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http://www.motorcyclecourse.com/HOWTORIDEMOTORCYCLES1962.pdf
I like the one about the festive dog...
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Monte,
I have worked on those Chinese scooters a little for other people and the only good thing that I found other than the mileage was the real cheap parts. First time I came across an automatic petcock. Threw me for a while when it wouldn't start and I couldn't find where to turn the gas on. Enjoy your 4th and your new more powerful scooter.
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Truth, Justin.
Yesterday, I even "re-adjusted" the eccentric shafts on the twin ATE disc calipers of the R100S just to have something to do.
Geeze... Well, I don't want y'all to think I'm going soft, but Monte, I hate seeing you suffer like that so I'll be more than willing to let you help me spread around a couple yards of dirt I got coming in a couple weeks! ;)
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My 1967 Kawasaki Avenger manual warned me to "beware the nutting". Words to live by...
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Truth, Justin.
Yesterday, I even "re-adjusted" the eccentric shafts on the twin ATE disc calipers of the R100S just to have something to do.
Geeze... Well, I don't want y'all to think I'm going soft, but Monte, I hate seeing you suffer like that so I'll be more than willing to let you help me spread around a couple yards of dirt I got coming in a couple weeks! ;)
Actually, in the past couple weeks, I have shoveled and wheel-barrowed two yards of Dyno Dirt into planting beds, low spots and top dressing my yard. Dyno Dirt is a blend of sandy loam, composted mulch and bio solids. So you could say I'm pretty good at shoveling the s**t.
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Monte,
I have worked on those Chinese scooters a little for other people and the only good thing that I found other than the mileage was the real cheap parts. First time I came across an automatic petcock. Threw me for a while when it wouldn't start and I couldn't find where to turn the gas on. Enjoy your 4th and your new more powerful scooter.
Ah, yes. The vacuum-operated petcock. My Triumph has one as well as the scooter. I have a Briggs&Stratton fuel shut off valve that I plan to install on the scooter... some day. That way I can shut off the fuel and run the float bowl dry-ish. That tiny little idle jet in the Chinese CV Bing-like carb is easily clogged if the engine has not run in a month or so.
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I'll PM you my address... ;D
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My 1967 Kawasaki Avenger manual warned me to "beware the nutting". Words to live by...
Nothing like getting nutted during a nutting.
If you think those translations are bad, you should see this.
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pimsleurapproach.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Ffire-extinguisher-hand-grenade.jpg&hash=d1232cc2edaad90c0db1f0acf0bcb9066903d9c5)
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Scooter Update, aka: Avoiding the boredom doldrums:
Grandson and his younger sister are due here next Saturday for a week's vacation from parental rules, order, bedtime hours, nutritious snacks, G-rated movies and whatever else rubs 'em the wrong way. It's my job and I'm danged proud of it. I have been told by their parental units that it requires a minimum of 30 days to re-train them. Damn, I'm good!
Plan to solo the lad on the SunL scooter -and doing so without checking in with parents- so have put off the Big Bore install until they return to their wardens. However, I did fit the higher voltage coil and the performance CDI ignition unit. Test ride imminent...
The neighborhood street in front of my back fence Beemer buddy has a slight uphill gradient. In a one-block run, 30mph is the best I've ever achieved. The new ignition components alone gave me a 20% speed improvement to 35+mph. That's with a $19.95 investment.
Stay tuned as I'm sure there will further be further adventures to mention in despatch. Oh, and photos or it didn't happen.
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Careful Monte. Next thing you know you'll be installing a stretched swingarm and a tuned exhaust. :D
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And a bullet fairing!
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Careful Monte. Next thing you know you'll be installing a stretched swingarm and a tuned exhaust. :D
It ain't no Ruckus. I've seen some of those extreme scooters. Now then, that new Honda Grom...
No bullet fairing, Justin. It already has a semi-sorta partial "dustbin" Dempsey-Dumpster bodywork. I did attach a leftover BMW tank roundel to the front leg shield. Amazing how many peeps see it and marvel at, "your small BMW scooter".