night rider

[speedy1125]

I tried to just keep this bike as a grocery getter/errand runner but I just cannot resist.

Went for about a 30 mile ride tonight. Nice and cool here in central NC...about 50 degrees, great air cooled engine weather. I'm like many of you, ride at night...light traffic and cooler out.
I decided to adjust my carb after riding about 15 miles. Did a plug read and it looked like a new one out of the box (lean). I thought I would mark the position of the a/f screw and count the rotations while running it in. 2 turns exactly. Ran it out 2 and a half which is a good rule of thumb on just about every carb'd motor i have ever worked on. Took off and it felt like i was riding into a headwind. Hesitating and a bit of a bog. pulled over and did a plug read. No change. I put it back exactly where the little fellow across the pond put it and it runs like a top. Wow a little 50cc is very sensitive to any changes.
My chinometer has been bouncing from about 20mph on up. The bounce was about a 5-7 mph swing but I just dismissed it as being the nature of the chinometer, my 150 did the same thing and nothing i did would cure it like trying to lube the cable, greasing the gear at the wheel and tightening the axle nut. I got some red loctite to put on the exhaust bolts and a few other things and thought well the axle nut would be a good place to put some too. The nut was jussst about to fall off! For the life of me I cannot remember how tight I put it on during assembly...i must have gotten distracted. I tightened it up real snug an put on the loctite. No more bounce so if it happens again I will know whats up.
For the money I am really impressed with this bike so far. Its a much better bike than the Chunal (sp) Adventure 150 I had. Sure its slower since its a 50cc but its much faster than I thought it would be. Better lighting, better brakes, better controls. I really dont see why a chinascoot like this one cant rival its japanese and tiawanese counterparts as long as a good PDI is done like this one..
www.family-motorsports.com/v/Scooter_Tune-up.pdf

I didnt do all that but i think I'm going to. This bike just might be worth it. Seems like I remember seeing some pics of a chinascoot on SD back in '09 that had a shot of the odometer..if i remember correctly it had 40-some thousand miles on it! The owner claimed he had not done anything but change the oil and a new spark plug. Who knows. I think its certainly possible though.

Whats the highest mileage you have ever seen or had on a scoot?

Be safe out there friends!! :riding:

[speedy1125]

Might have been 20-some thousand.. I dont recall exactly but I know it was a 5 digit figure.

[lagerhead]

I've heard several stories of older Vespa with over 100,000 on them.
The highest I've seen on a modern scoot is 40,000.

[90GTVert]

I've never left one alone for long so any mileage I've seen is kinda irrelevant to the topic I suppose. The 150 sitting in my garage has 2,500 miles on it over nearly 4 years now. I told the owner I would do a full PDI when he got it and he just kinda wanted to leave it alone till something happened. It's had one valve adjustment and oil changes and the header nuts came off once. That's all of it's problems not related to sitting. Thanks to sitting so much, the battery is shot, it's had to have the carb cleaned. I built a muffler for it, added a K&N, and re-jetted it as well, but I don't really see those as serious mods that affect engine life much. This was the cheapest Chinese 150 he could find at the time, so it's nothing special (Roketa Cayman). It has surprised me considereing how everyone pushes for immediate complete disassembly and parts replacement. I do still think PDI is a good idea, but I was expecting the cheap fuel lines or something to screw up by now.

[shakerdriver]

My wifes Yamaha Vino 50 2t had 18,000 on it when we replaced it with her Metro. It still ran good but the flange on the exhaust broke off and i didn't know enough about them yet so we sold it.

[Thebatman]

My ZX has 22,000 at the time i parked it for the build on it....(kymco)

A fellow scoot owner had 54,000kms on it at the time the bearing failed.. (it's a kymco agility). he's going to swap bearings and ride on...