Long Rides 100-300 miles on a China Scoot..  By  jerseyboy (Read 799 times)

I did over 100 miles many times on my baja sc50, never had a problem on a long trip ;D

I did 83 miles round trip, WOT most of the way, 53mph max one way, hit 66mph (tail wind and a huge hill) on the return leg. I only slowed for the city roads, and stopped at the turn-around point long enough to have a good drink of water. The air temp was in the 80's, strong wind, like 25mph so I had head wind all the way down and tail wind all the way back.
I am pretty sure that was after a fresh upjet, so I wasn't running lean. About 62mpg average for the round trip.
Xingyue ITA 150.

I wouldn't mind doing a longer ride on my Tomos but It only goes 58 max, and I don't really like going WOT for that long.

I've done a couple 100-130 mile days with a 50cc. The first on a mostly stock "secret 63cc" Chinese scoot and then more recently going harder and longer on my Derbi liquid cooled 2 stroke. With the air cooled Chinese scoot, since I was going WOT pretty much 97% of the way, I did take an extra break or two than I normally would have just to be on the safe side. You'd be surprised how tough these things are. Sounds like you've done some planning and have all the supplies necessary ready to go. I wouldn't sweat it one bit on a 150cc, and I'd say as long as you aren't going quite WOT all the time feel free to bump that cruising speed up a little bit (I averaged 35mph on the day on my 50's, meaning cruising in the low 40's with stints close to 50 mph).

I did Cleveland to Columbus (Ohio) and back a couple of years ago on my 150. Took the back roads. Most of the time was at 55 mph, so WOT. Temp outside was in the mid 90s. Scoot acted very well. My rear end hurt, but other than that, I'm glad I did it.

The only things I took were a small tool kit, 11 ounces of gasoline in a coleman jug, and the phone number of a friend who would have come with a truck if I had a problem.

Mark