Scooter deal = I was taken to the Cleaners...  By  carasdad (Read 769 times)

[replyingto=carasdad]carasdad[/replyingto]Pic #2...

Yep you got ripped off for sure, I pray something like that happens to me someday LOL

That is exactly how it panned out. I rode the Jonway Hornet 2 years..guy had a 2012 Peace Sports B09 with 100 BKK and loads of other performance parts. Kept asking me to trade cause he liked 2T's and ride mine. He was blown away by the take off and speed...again bugging me to trade. So I did..an old scoot for a brand new one..hmm sure deal. Built many fast 139QMB powered scoots..so figured I would do the same with that one. Rode it Jerry's business and a 16 yo kid saw it and said."See something like that is what I want, a taller Scooter,these others are too tiny" Kid was 6' 4" at 16! I said take it for a ride...and he came back happy. Long story short..Jerry took me aside and not wanting to lose a customer from a family he gets lots of business for he traded me the Adly and sold the Peace Sports to the. So we all came out happy.

@larry..I have my fingers crossed bud...hoping the same stroke of 'bad luck' comes your way... ;D Hey hope Fawkes is coming along well. That build of yours was a HUGE inspiration to many newbies and old timers here..

Well.. a tear down to check things out. D@mn thing is like the Retro Scoots...where ya gotta take of ALL the body plastic to get to the engine. Even then it's cramped quarters with all the frame bracing welded on this thing. Only thing diff from other Minarelli engines I saw was..the cdi was a 4 wire 2 plug connector similar to a GY6 CDI. CDI itself is marked 'advancing angle' with a bunch of numbers below that. The carb is not 18mm like my Jonway Hornet Minarelli was...it is a 20mm Arreche. The oik pump is a Mikuni. There is a sticker under the seat bucket that says 20mm pilot jet..82 main jet. 82 seems too large to me as most 50cc 2T's have a #68-#74...but hey it works and works well. Measured the cylinder 3 times at 3 different angles and got 39.96-39.98. Then I measured the stroke a few times and got 39.18-39.12 that is only 6/100's of a mm difference. So it meets the specs of a stock 50 stroke which is 39.2 and the bore meets the specs for a stock 50 bore. So what we have here is a 55mph stock 50cc Scoot..bizarre. ryan on here rode along with me and can verify how fast it is. Down side of things is when he was here..we looked at the roller weights..and with only 501 miles on the Scoot they were warn with SEVERE flat spots. Must have come with cheapies to save them 75 cents? Anyway..my findings.. the 20mm Arreche carb and true advancing angle CDI(checked with a timing light) those 2 things CANNOT possibly be why it is so quick. But everything checks as stock....stock...stock..Minarelli. Regardless..currently looking for suggestions for a good quality high performing BBK. Please give me links and input as I Googled so many I got a headache..and few gave any real info or specs. Just "47mm bore,turn your 50 into a powerful 72"...and other useless info like that.