QMB139 82cc Braaap. 26mm Pumper carb. Time to sell!
Nov 2, 2020 10:57:52 GMT -5
90GTVert, 190mech, and 5 more like this
Post by drc174 on Nov 2, 2020 10:57:52 GMT -5
Hey Guys!
I... am back. Took me a while to get settled in, but I opened a shop. I am situated in Atlanta, you can find the place by googling ThatScooterShop.
But the point of this thread is bound to a story. When I opened here, Jan. 2020, I took on a lot of work with QMB139 scooters. Truth be told, there are a ton of "warehouse" places here that sell them and then never pick up the phone when customers have issues. In the end, the work on them, as a business, is not profitable, in the mix of my custom Vespa builds, engine builds and general maintenance. So I stopped taking on QMB139 and GY6 bikes.
However, not before I got one myself and will do to it what I do... build something stupid. I will try to combine my usual HQ build approach and throw way too much fabrication, suspension work and money at this thing. So i bought your run of the mill QMB139 Chinese bike. This was from one of my very first customers at the shop. She put on a solid 1600 miles in just a few months. Right now it runs, it has some valve issues. But as it is with these bikes, it is very slow.
Picture:
The plan, which always deviates.
Step 1:
Run it, see what I can squeeze out of it.
Step 2:
Drop the motor.
- I got a 82cc kit with large valve head. I really like this kit, the piston looks much more solid than the 88cc. I build a few of these before I stopped GY6 work.
- Hot cam.
- Complete Naraku variation
- PWK 24mm intake. I will see what other possibilities there are, I have been toying with a Si24mm intake idea, as it is insanely short intake length.
- Leovince exhaust because "fancy parts make a crappy bike fancy"
Step 3:
Drop, stretch, fancy suspension, solid brakes, slicks, cuz... lol
Step 4: Deal's Gap.
Somewhere in between, custom paint job/decal job.
I... am back. Took me a while to get settled in, but I opened a shop. I am situated in Atlanta, you can find the place by googling ThatScooterShop.
But the point of this thread is bound to a story. When I opened here, Jan. 2020, I took on a lot of work with QMB139 scooters. Truth be told, there are a ton of "warehouse" places here that sell them and then never pick up the phone when customers have issues. In the end, the work on them, as a business, is not profitable, in the mix of my custom Vespa builds, engine builds and general maintenance. So I stopped taking on QMB139 and GY6 bikes.
However, not before I got one myself and will do to it what I do... build something stupid. I will try to combine my usual HQ build approach and throw way too much fabrication, suspension work and money at this thing. So i bought your run of the mill QMB139 Chinese bike. This was from one of my very first customers at the shop. She put on a solid 1600 miles in just a few months. Right now it runs, it has some valve issues. But as it is with these bikes, it is very slow.
Picture:
The plan, which always deviates.
Step 1:
Run it, see what I can squeeze out of it.
Step 2:
Drop the motor.
- I got a 82cc kit with large valve head. I really like this kit, the piston looks much more solid than the 88cc. I build a few of these before I stopped GY6 work.
- Hot cam.
- Complete Naraku variation
- PWK 24mm intake. I will see what other possibilities there are, I have been toying with a Si24mm intake idea, as it is insanely short intake length.
- Leovince exhaust because "fancy parts make a crappy bike fancy"
Step 3:
Drop, stretch, fancy suspension, solid brakes, slicks, cuz... lol
Step 4: Deal's Gap.
Somewhere in between, custom paint job/decal job.
