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Post by aeroxbud on Aug 22, 2024 14:23:31 GMT -5
On dear. Not a great start to his ownership.
Did it blow both high and main beam then Milly? Otherwise I would have ride it home on full beam.
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Post by milly on Aug 22, 2024 14:44:11 GMT -5
On dear. Not a great start to his ownership. Did it blow both high and main beam then Milly? Otherwise I would have ride it home on full beam. Yes high beam blew on the scooter then low and a nightmare trip on the main road home Owen was saying. And what with his Suzuki not starting after I road tested it before he picked it up. I think I shall tell him to get a new one like he was thinking a Lexmoto ZSB for £1690 I think which seems a good price for a new bike.I shall discuss that with him tonight when I pick him up from work as he needs reliability as he been offered a chef's job closer to home with more pay at £15 an hour which is top money almost for this area, probably earn a lot more when they move to Cardiff. Better than what I earn with the council. |
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Post by aeroxbud on Aug 22, 2024 14:52:53 GMT -5
The main thing with Lexmoto, is buy from a good dealer. As it probably will go wrong at some point.
It's half the price of a Honda CB 125F. So very tempting.
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 22, 2024 15:18:29 GMT -5
The electrical systems on scoots are terrible, probably nearly the same with motorcycles. They only 'work' as long as everything is 'working' perfectly... Check the regulator on that motorcycle. A blown headlight on a scoot can overload and ruin the regulator.
-BTW, I have only studied the electrical system on a few motorcycles and only worked on one Yamaha. Electrickery sucks, -but oh so useful.
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Post by milly on Aug 22, 2024 18:27:39 GMT -5
I have told him tonight to get a new one I am to old to be stressing about his bikes and working on them. He starts work at 7 in the morning and gets a break for 2 hours at 3 and then back on till 10 in the evening.
I told him I will let him have the £350 he owes me to put down as a deposit and I will be hassling him from 3.30 onwards to see if he has.
So far I substituted a coil but no spark but coil has 12v going to it with ignition on.
Next step whatever that might be.
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 22, 2024 19:21:31 GMT -5
Does it have points and condenser and 12V on the other side of the coil that gets grounded by the points? A lot of old motorcycles had dual points (mechanical electrickery).
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Post by milly on Aug 23, 2024 6:31:01 GMT -5
Does it have points and condenser and 12V on the other side of the coil that gets grounded by the points? A lot of old motorcycles had dual points (mechanical electrickery). No it's modern elecktrickery with pulse sensor and CDI. I understand the old points system much simpler. There we are technology is an improvement they say 😵💫 |
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 23, 2024 10:42:14 GMT -5
Modern 'black box' electrickery is seldom a real improvement from the understanding viewpoint. It can be better from a maintenance, performance, and ultimate reliability perspective. When we do get something of a picture or questionable schematic of what is inside of the black boxes very few people understand the squiggles and scribbles. It only gets worse when microprocessors are involved with software 'code'... Understanding high level code is hard enough even if it is well documented. Understanding machine language for an unknown microprocessor is next to impossible unless you are some movie actor instantly understanding code while glancing at a screen with a stream of 1's and 0's flying across it. LOL
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Post by milly on Aug 24, 2024 18:33:14 GMT -5
Half past midnight and found correct wiring diagram but that can wait time for bed.Bit more done, trigger reads ok with the ohms setting, coil is constantly live when engine turns so no collapse of the windings to earth to induce a high tension spark so think CDI at fault. Testing coil by flashing a lead to earth after disconnecting one of the leads make's a good spark at the plug so ordered a CDI which will be here from china early to mid September which no problem as away for the funeral next week.   |
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 24, 2024 19:12:29 GMT -5
You mean you manually triggered the coil  What a novel idea. I don't suppose that has been done since caveman days... Milly the Neanderthal  Next thing we know he will be inventing fire, just in time for the coming ice age.
Sorry about the funeral, -condolences
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Post by milly on Aug 25, 2024 3:31:03 GMT -5
You mean you manually triggered the coil What a novel idea. I don't suppose that has been done since caveman days... Milly the Neanderthal Next thing we know he will be inventing fire, just in time for the coming ice age.
Sorry about the funeral, -condolences
All I need now is a cam made of bodyfiller on end of crank a set of points and a condenser and do away with the rest of the elecktrickery 🤣 |
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 25, 2024 5:49:09 GMT -5
Yeah, that strange usually red or brown fiber filled plastic stuff they used for cams. I remember that stuff. -Brings back memories. I dimly remember that plastic crap had a name. Sometimes they used it for the rubbing block on the points with a steel cam. They used an oily nylon plastic also. -More memories... Damn, more memories of filling dents or sculpting plastic and fiberglass polyester custom bodies, the smell of that crap mixing with hardener on a sheet of cardboard, a cereal box, with a putty knife or plastic spatula, sanding, the dust filling the air............-memories-
Reminds me of my favorite movie quote: The monologue is near the conclusion of Blade Runner, in which detective Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) has been ordered to track down and kill Roy Batty, a rogue artificial "replicant"(portrayed by Rutger Hauer). During a rooftop chase in heavy rain, Deckard misses a jump and hangs on to the edge of a building by his fingers, about to fall to his death. Batty turns back and lectures Deckard briefly about how the tables have turned, but pulls him up to safety at the last instant. Recognizing that his limited lifespan is about to end, Batty further addresses his shocked nemesis, reflecting on his own experiences and mortality, with dramatic pauses between each statement: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die. |
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Post by aeroxbud on Aug 25, 2024 7:21:11 GMT -5
Great movie from my childhood. I just couldn't bring myself to watch the second one.
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Post by FrankenMech on Aug 25, 2024 8:16:33 GMT -5
I have copies of both.
I admit I watch the first one more often. There are several versions of the first one.
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Post by milly on Sept 2, 2024 12:45:46 GMT -5
Today's new transport. Son gave me back the Hyosung cruise 2 as he is selling up in Llanbadarn Fawr and him and Freya are going to buy one at Barry Island on the south coast of Wales nearer to her parents in Cardiff who gifted them the house when they got married. Damn thing nearly fell out the trailer on the way home on the hills, bit scary and a lot of miffed drivers with me trundling down the main road at 20-30 mph.
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