What more would you want from scooter scene in your country?
Jan 15, 2018 12:35:36 GMT -5
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Post by paydem on Jan 15, 2018 12:35:36 GMT -5
It's a useless topic but it would be interesting to hear your opinions about it... Don't think that I praise my country in any way, it's just the memories that kicked in.
Let's begin with me. Lithuania, the country that made it's name for toxic people, alcoholics, corrupt government. And there's one thing that got stuck in my head. Scooter tuners. Tuning here appeared in early 2000's and became less popular in around 2013, when first generation stunters became separated from their scooters.
There was a big scooter forum called Scooter Factor which was filled full of information, and if you need any information, you went over there, thousands of topics about scooter projects, and one in particular.
Yamaha BWS/MBK Booster/Prebug build with a sports 50cc cylinder, don't know how much power it pushed out but it was insane. 50cc'er with every mod around it, ignition, intake, porting, crankshaft, exhaust, CVT, etc... Not an ordinary 50cc when you ride at 60-70km/h, dump the gas and the front just picks up without any hesitation. Don't know what else he had done with it but even from watching the videos I wanted to go to a garage and build one right away...
What's more interesting, that tuners back then didn't even have 15 years of age! The tuner who built it, was 14 at the time, he never had any money support from his parents and he worked for it! He himself bought the scooter, bought the parts, assembled the engine, tuned it, painted the scooter, personalised and everybody respected him. There was over 100 videos of him stunting, like driving from one city to another on the back wheel, insanely long stoppies, etc... I remember he had it till like 2011, he sold the thing to another a guy who crashed it in the period of one week, the engine, frame, and everything got totaled. The rider survived, luckily.
There was some insane videos that I remember, like flying past a cop at 120km/h (in 2006 that was insane speeds for a scooter in our country, about that later). Also there was a video how a 13-year old went to scooter season opening and seized his BBK in a parking lot, from what I remember, he knew that that would happened and he carried a spare BBK and tools with him. He replaced the cylinder and everything and went home after. Sadly, the videos are gone, just like the forum. It was pure joy watching them. Till 2006 you could ride a scooter without any license, if you was 12 you could ride it wherever you want. Because of the problems the tuners caused (including flying past a cop at 120km/h), they introduced a new rule, you needed to have license, which you could get when you turn 15, to drive 49cc scooters. The tuners didn't seem to matter about it that much, though...
And then it started going downhill, first generation tuners stopped uploading videos in 2012, the forum shut down carrying down over a decade of information. 1st gen tuners were replaced by 13 year olds who could replace their exhausts and call themselves "tuners", or, better yet, replace org cylinder with the weakest sports class cylinder and call it "mid-end cylinder, baby"... It still happens now.
The difference is, the OG tuners had meaning in their videos, posts, blogs, etc. They teached us something, like new tricks that nobody knew back then. Now, in the other hand, these "tuners" can only upload a blog with a single meaning inside it - "look, my mommy paid for my parts and I payed a person to assemble the engine, another person to tune the engine, another person to paint my scooter". What's even more important, that you don't see anything but Yamaha Aerox's getting tuned by these little
, all they think is that Aerox is the best scooter of them all, and if you ride a lower tier scooter you instantly get flamed at. I know only one person in Lithuania who tried to build an fuel-injected engine (Di-Tech Morini) and the project was active from 2011, he reprogrammed ECU's himself, modded fuel pumps etc, it was amazing how much work he had done. Basically, he sold his project because everyone thinked "oh what a , why don't you just buy an aerox". It wasn't as common to meet these people but when new forum opened up, they showed up at full force. It's sad.
And what you want from your country more, regarding scooter tuning? I just want it to be like the old days.
Let's begin with me. Lithuania, the country that made it's name for toxic people, alcoholics, corrupt government. And there's one thing that got stuck in my head. Scooter tuners. Tuning here appeared in early 2000's and became less popular in around 2013, when first generation stunters became separated from their scooters.
There was a big scooter forum called Scooter Factor which was filled full of information, and if you need any information, you went over there, thousands of topics about scooter projects, and one in particular.
Yamaha BWS/MBK Booster/Prebug build with a sports 50cc cylinder, don't know how much power it pushed out but it was insane. 50cc'er with every mod around it, ignition, intake, porting, crankshaft, exhaust, CVT, etc... Not an ordinary 50cc when you ride at 60-70km/h, dump the gas and the front just picks up without any hesitation. Don't know what else he had done with it but even from watching the videos I wanted to go to a garage and build one right away...
What's more interesting, that tuners back then didn't even have 15 years of age! The tuner who built it, was 14 at the time, he never had any money support from his parents and he worked for it! He himself bought the scooter, bought the parts, assembled the engine, tuned it, painted the scooter, personalised and everybody respected him. There was over 100 videos of him stunting, like driving from one city to another on the back wheel, insanely long stoppies, etc... I remember he had it till like 2011, he sold the thing to another a guy who crashed it in the period of one week, the engine, frame, and everything got totaled. The rider survived, luckily.
There was some insane videos that I remember, like flying past a cop at 120km/h (in 2006 that was insane speeds for a scooter in our country, about that later). Also there was a video how a 13-year old went to scooter season opening and seized his BBK in a parking lot, from what I remember, he knew that that would happened and he carried a spare BBK and tools with him. He replaced the cylinder and everything and went home after. Sadly, the videos are gone, just like the forum. It was pure joy watching them. Till 2006 you could ride a scooter without any license, if you was 12 you could ride it wherever you want. Because of the problems the tuners caused (including flying past a cop at 120km/h), they introduced a new rule, you needed to have license, which you could get when you turn 15, to drive 49cc scooters. The tuners didn't seem to matter about it that much, though...
And then it started going downhill, first generation tuners stopped uploading videos in 2012, the forum shut down carrying down over a decade of information. 1st gen tuners were replaced by 13 year olds who could replace their exhausts and call themselves "tuners", or, better yet, replace org cylinder with the weakest sports class cylinder and call it "mid-end cylinder, baby"... It still happens now.
The difference is, the OG tuners had meaning in their videos, posts, blogs, etc. They teached us something, like new tricks that nobody knew back then. Now, in the other hand, these "tuners" can only upload a blog with a single meaning inside it - "look, my mommy paid for my parts and I payed a person to assemble the engine, another person to tune the engine, another person to paint my scooter". What's even more important, that you don't see anything but Yamaha Aerox's getting tuned by these little
, all they think is that Aerox is the best scooter of them all, and if you ride a lower tier scooter you instantly get flamed at. I know only one person in Lithuania who tried to build an fuel-injected engine (Di-Tech Morini) and the project was active from 2011, he reprogrammed ECU's himself, modded fuel pumps etc, it was amazing how much work he had done. Basically, he sold his project because everyone thinked "oh what a , why don't you just buy an aerox". It wasn't as common to meet these people but when new forum opened up, they showed up at full force. It's sad.And what you want from your country more, regarding scooter tuning? I just want it to be like the old days.
125cc 4 pokes.
