Help me Pick a Scooter!  By  Chaapa'ai (Read 3,961 times)

Ether one would be sweet to have . The 4T looks like a tricked Rukus but ouch on the wallet at 1500 . The Rocketa I heard some had to drill a hole in the gas cap to allow venting .

Replacing a carb is not that hard nor expensive . Here is a carb for 40 www.scrappydogscooters.com/50CC_2-STROKE_PARTS.html

Go to Harbor Freight to get a engine compression kit for 20 . If the PSI is less than 120 you may need a new piston and rings . Rebuilding the engine is so much easier on a 2T . Once you remove the fan shrouds only 4 nuts on studs are removed the head slides off . The cylinder you just slide it up by hand . I used compression ring pliers to put on the rings and snap pliers for the wrist pins . Make sure they are in snug . Lube the everything with ether a good 2T oil or engine assembly lube . Squeeze the rings in order to get it started int o the cylinder . Once you are past the second ring a gentle tap with a soft mallet it slides down . Then just pop on the head and tighten up the nuts .

A BBK only costs a lil more than a 49cc rebuild kit and well worth . I put on a 47mm kit and yahoo it is much stronger and faster . you will need to play with the jetting until you get it dialed in .


Plenty of how to videos on YouTube with only basic hands tools . I would try to fix the Beemer as it would be much cheaper unless you can afford a new scooter now and fix up the Beemer later as a project .

I prefer a 2T since they are less to service like no oil changes or valves to adjust and the best reason is a 2T will outr un a 4T all day long with mild tweaking

See the thing with the beamer is, it has a 47mm bbk on it currently, compression is there, spark is there, IT WAS RUNNING, i ordered and installed 3 different Carb's off ebay, all mikuni 2T 1e40qmb knock off carbs, Only one of them got my bike to fire up (with and with out adjustment)

and the one that fired up, Made my scooter Shoot forward as soon as it fired up, due to the ''throttle arm?'' the curved metal inlet where the throttle cable goes into the carb and into the slider, Well, basically throttle cable and carb did not match up even though the ebay add Clearly stated it was a stock replacement, then went on to say install and go!

i installed and it sure did go, but i nearly did not hit the kill switch in time... damn near went through my house, the Second carb i ordered, the scoot would not even fire up with, no idea why, it just did not Get any fual (witch was the issue with my original carb, a real mikuni carb, it begain leaking fuel from the float bowl, i did a rebuild, it stopped leaking but would not no matter how i adjusted it, fire up)

i appear to be having an issue getting fuel to my engine... yes it starts with a shot or two of starting fluid, i am broke for the next 3 weeks as tax return comes in, but i plan to buy a whole new scooter

my eton beamer has a few issues - Carb issue as stated above, Both front, rear, left & Right turn signals need replacing,
Only my high beam head lamps work and i am not sure why, tires are fairly worn down, paint job is HORRIBLE!, rubber floor mat is missing,

so i would need to put in like 500$ on the beamer i assume, carb, floor mat, turn signals, head lamp, *i forgot to mention the starter motor is DEAD* so a starter, and labor for all of it (after installing 3 different carbs and doing a rebuild on my original only to have it still gathering spider webs)

I Really Hate the thought of ordering yet another carb, having it arrive, installing it, walking the scoot 1.3 miles for a (third tank of gas) to try and start it only to have it not start yet again, i Do know how to adjust 2T carb's but am having no luck it is extremely frustrating

Negative on both. Go to Heeters and get yourself a much better Tomos Nitro-50 for $1,300. SYM pretty much builds the best chicom scooters.

I don't know about that Tomos Nitro 50 seem's a bit iffy

But that site has a very appealing Kymco Super 8 50 2T that snagged my intimidate attention lol
2.2k though ouch

How about this 48 MPH 2T www.scootersus.com/cpiscooters.html

I have a friend that is in his 50's that bought a used Eton beamer 1 - 2T that was abused,wrecked, ran out of 2T oil a few times and was in need of a good old scrap yard for recycling.
But it ran and ran quite well if you set the manual choke just right.

Well built bike from what i have seen. % of the scooters you get off the internet (under $700+ shipping) would have never lasted that long.
He said he gave $50.00 for it, so i didn't give him a hard time about it given it was his first scooter.
Dam thing still run's too. 9,800 miles and some, is what it has last time we talked.



[EDIT] called him after this post to confirm the mileage, and added to this post.

I used to have Honda scooters and many pedal mopeds and motorcycles . Well years later I got the bug as I hated spending over 80 a week just in gas for my van and I bought a TaoTao ATMa 50 and hated it . It cracked the piston on the 2nd day and blew up 6 weeks later . Put on a BBK and it ran so much better but still rode and handled terrible . The headlight was so weak it felt like a candle . I love ,y Jonway Magnum with its Handsome boy body ( like the Peace VIPs and others use ) which is similar to a Zuma with dual headlights . I can see so much better . The wide 130mm/60/13 rode some much better than the TaoTaos 3.5x 10 tires . Peace and TaoTao are about the same . You may get lucky or get a lemon 50/50 chance .

Read this about the TaoTao ATMa 49ccscoot.proboards.com/thread/3849?55014=undefined