No Way  By  w650 (Read 3,222 times)

I have to disagree with you on carburetors and altitudes, even on my coach with it's generator it have a lever to comers ate for going into mountain's after leaving sea grade. I was hoping going bigger and a lot newer they would have put in fuel injection and be done with it. Heck even your lawnmowers are starting to mover in that direction.

The Chinese restricter does not do much else but fail giving you reduced control over your braking. Just a gimmic for the most part to lull folks into thinking they got more than they paid for.

sMy Aprilia does not have ABS or the Chinese restrictor and the brakes are vastly superior to the fake ABS Equipped brakes that were on my Chinese bike.

These artificial intelligence systems that are designed to fix stupid are mostly a crutch that people use to allow themselves to be lazy and unattentive drivers/riders. Just pay attention and learn how to drive/ride without ABS, etc when you go to driving school and you will be a better driver/rider and have the training required to handle the situation when these automated system throw a warning light on the dash and cease to function or in the case of the Chinese system just fail completely with absolutely no warning at all leaving you with no front brakes.

Instead of going after the phone users, pokymon go players, texters, etc and forcing these folks to follow best practice we are now putting automated systems in cars to override the driver and slam on the brakes or even make lane corrections for them instead of just taking their licenses away getting them off the road. This is all the result of a society and mentallity that caters/panders to the stupid and lazy. It is unfortunately just as Forest Gump said.

I've heard the stories of Chinese restrictors failing for years but not on any scooter forums in the nine years I've been on. Mine has never even done anything in the nine years I've owned it. Maybe I've never done anything wrong but I've never had any complaints with my brakes. Obviously they're no match for an Aprilia but then again I won't be doing 80 mph either. 

But back to the original topic. I commuted for years and the last thing I needed to worry about was if some technical feature would fail. I literally had both brake light switches wear out in the 125,000 miles I owned my Z-1000. I can't imagine what would have happened if I had all the wiz-bang features on some of today's bikes. I would have worn any scooter to death in that mileage but my Z kept on going.

i don't think chinese ABS is a gimmick.
they are installed for a perfectly valid reason.

i can only speak of my experiences, and let there be no doubt, i rode my bike fast and hard.
of course, i was well aware of places and circumstances that could be hazardous, painted surfaces, road snakes, etc.
my ABS never "failed" in that it just quit working, and i've never had a need or desire to remove it, and i'm positive it has saved my skin more than once.

i would very much rather have a chinese ABS than no ABS, by about a million to one.

this does not, however, alleviate the need to teach proper braking technique and why it is vital to learn it.

ABS systems can fail, no matter who made them, and without the proper braking technique you can definitely find yourself in a fatal situation.

my chinese ABS never gave me a bit of trouble.

Gasoline powered 5.5 Kw Onan Marquis Gold by Cummins on which I have installed the hard wired Energy Command system. That is the low rpm model in the full enclosure. Hate the high rpm series that spin at about twice as fast which they put in more expensive coaches than my Winnebago Adventurer 35U. The 35U for me is about the best floor plan ever put in a Class A Gas Coach.

I agree that the bells and whistles are what go first and too many times the cost to repair them exceeds the value of the vehicle.

On the genset carb compared to the scooter carb though its apples and oranges as most scooters and bikes have a Constant Velocity Slide carburetor that does an admirable job at compensation with changes in elevation while most generator sets do not have a CV Slide carb so they have the elevation compensator that you can adjust if there is a problaem.

On the Seafoam we've pretty well established that since its mostly alcohol it can make Ethanol related issues worse and that your better off with a carb/fuel system cleaner that is lower in alcohol content such as Berrymans.

Seafoam's alcohol is petroleum based, the junk in gasoline is corn based. They behave completely differently. More than a few people here have used Seafoam successfully. My own experience is that it works and has kept the ethanol blues away.