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Post by prodigit on Oct 12, 2013 3:40:16 GMT -5
That's a pretty high idle. Mine is set at ~1400RPM. I'd recommend you to lower it a bit; at least by 200-300RPM, . It'll make the engine run cooler at idle, and waste less gas and wear less too. Many would say 1800RPM is good, but it depends on a lot of factors (like engine temperature, oil type, air temperature, etc..etc..).
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Post by prodigit on Oct 12, 2013 3:18:14 GMT -5
Gap the plug to 0.015. It'll work better on your tao.
I gapped mine at 0.012, but the weather is much hotter here.
Below 0.010 it bogs.
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Post by prodigit on Oct 11, 2013 23:37:47 GMT -5
I like the LED for the front, wanna buy one for mine as well, but have 5500km on mine, and haven't done anything to it (but oil changes, and replaced the rear/brake light with a LED), so I think mine might not last very long anymore.
At best I hope to get another 5,5k km out of it, and retire the thing.
I recommend before 4500km to do your valve adjustment. I started noticing some buzz at the valves, at around 5k KM.
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Post by prodigit on Oct 11, 2013 3:47:15 GMT -5
Make sure your device is in GPS mode, and not getting it's location from the cell phone towers.
My Android phone can triangulate it's location from cellphone towers, but can easily be one or two blocks off the correct location. Although it can locate the cellphone tower it's connected to quite accurately, it can not calculate it's spot exactly using the data it receives from the towers.
When GPS is enabled, it's much easier for my phone to find it's exact location, often within half a block correct.
Especially when I start moving, it correctly finds the road I'm going on.
Using your 2/3/4G network to triangulate your location may also affect speed readings.
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Post by prodigit on Oct 8, 2013 20:47:16 GMT -5
Okay, seriously, how do you fill up at all with that thing across there? You just stand there holding the nozzle? Really?? Oh my friends, just cut the bar. Really. Join the ranks of those who just stick in the nozzle, turn it on, then lean against the pump waiting for the click. I'm not kidding. That's really how I pump gas. And I've only spilled gas once when it dribbled out before I put the nozzle in. Wow that's an awful design! >'Kat How can you NOT fill up the tank without holding the nozzle? If you ain't got the bar, the nozzle will go all the way in the tank, usually stopping the flow of the gas, as the tank is only 1 gal (the nozzle perhaps goes so deep that it'll disable at 1/2 gal. Besides, it's only 1-2 gal, which is like what, 30 seconds at most? I usually get extra free gas from those that went before me using your system. The pump shuts down as gasoline enters the vacuum line, and they hang the nozzle back like that. When I take the nozzle, usually a little of gasoline still comes out before the pump is engaged. That's a few ct of free gas!  |
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Windows 8
by: prodigit - Oct 8, 2013 19:15:41 GMT -5
Post by prodigit on Oct 8, 2013 19:15:41 GMT -5
The more neurons you use to storing useless data like calculating, math, memorizing road maps, etc.. the less you have left for the really important things of life, like having sex, and riding scooters!
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Windows 8
by: prodigit - Oct 8, 2013 15:51:56 GMT -5
Post by prodigit on Oct 8, 2013 15:51:56 GMT -5
Well, although I agree with a lot you say, I think technology should be used to expand your existing borders, rather than make lazy.
For instance, a GPS,
One can use it to find roads in area's one is not familiar.
But one can also use it to go from home to the job every day, eventhough one knows the road very well.
A GPS could help when uncertain which roads to take, but a smart man will try to do without GPS, unless he is short on time, and lost his way further than he thought.
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Post by prodigit on Oct 8, 2013 15:48:01 GMT -5
The smell on the stock grips will reduce; and the residue it leaves on your hands as well.
Personally, I always wear gloves on my scoots. The first thing you usually do when falling, is reach down with the hands, and when in motion, even slow, the hands could get some serious cuts, or skin burns.
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Windows 8
by: prodigit - Oct 8, 2013 9:34:08 GMT -5
Post by prodigit on Oct 8, 2013 9:34:08 GMT -5
Hated the layout of metro.
Windows did so much effort into the Metro desktop, making it the face of Windows 8, but everyone hated it!
That's why they included a regular Windows desktop layout too. It seems to have calmed some users, but the majority of people I know aren't happy with any of the 'improvements' windows has done since Windows 98Se.
In all honesty, if Windows would have a Win98Se update Service pack, that would make programs and browsing compatible, I would go back to 98!
Windows 98 was rock solid in the last 6 months when it came out; being replaced by buggy XP, which became rocksolid the year Vista came out, which never was rock solid, and Windows 7, which still is seen as a bloated operating system.
XP is still good for netbooks; but should 98 have been ran on a netbook, guarantee you'd have 1-3hours of battery life extra, and bootup times within 30 seconds! New isn't always better. Chevrolet figured that out in the hard way in the 80's when their Corvettes and other muscle cars stopped selling with the hike in gas prices.
Intel figured that out in the 2000's when their processors where overheating, and people where actually asking for less power hungry machines.
MS only figured that out after Vista, the biggest hog in the century!
I'm hoping windows 9 will be small, and efficient again!
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Post by prodigit on Oct 8, 2013 9:24:22 GMT -5
it's probably an issue for all scootards, spilling gas.
Depending on where I go, some of the pumps have a way of pumping slower when pressing in the lever only a tiny bit.
My ATM and EVO does not have a bar in there, so I try to pour gas in the tank in an angle. It seems to help some bit.
And when I get to a gas station where the pump is not going slow, I just click on-off-on-off-on-off. I know it's bad for the gas station's pump, but then again, they should have provided for a solution there!
I often lose between 1 and 3% of gas per fill-up on spills. I also only fill up when the tank is almost completely empty. I try to avoid going to the station with half a tank left.
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Post by prodigit on Oct 7, 2013 8:24:27 GMT -5
I never smelled gear oil. I change it in the beginning, and after 3k miles and it just looks like new (yellowish), with some particles of metal flakes in.
Maybe it smells because your gearbox is leaking, and water enters in it.
When water enters in the gear oil, it gets captured by the additives, and starts rotting.
I would recommend you to change gear oil more often if you notice that happening
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Post by prodigit on Oct 6, 2013 16:54:07 GMT -5
I also tuned it by ear, incorrectly.
I thought my ATM was going at 1200 RPM, turns out I was 200RPM off, it runs at 1400RPM.
Just like in the high register, I thought my bike did 8k RPM, just by listening to the tone by ear, while it did 8,5k RPM on the meter.
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Post by prodigit on Oct 6, 2013 15:24:45 GMT -5
It would be easy to just divide the result in two.
I've read about people who had problems with those tachs, saying they don't update fast enough.
I'd say if that happens, give the tach wjavascript:openSpellCheck();ire a few more winds around the spark plug cable, and it'll work!
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Post by prodigit on Oct 5, 2013 16:23:48 GMT -5
I've got little over 1.800km on my EVO150, and finally the light switch broke.
I think the filaments got burned, after they upgraded the headlights on those scoots.
Not sure, but I think they are equipped with 2x25W Halogen bulbs, that's 50W, as opposed to 25-35W on most scoots.
The wires kinda got warm, so I presume the switch just burned out.
For the rest, no real problems with it, other than a front wheel wobble/oscillation that only appears at higher speeds (40-45MPH and up).
TO MODERATORS: the number 1 8 gives an emonicon. That's bad because I can't tell people I did 1.81 8 miles in 3 months without it looking like 1818
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Post by prodigit on Oct 4, 2013 2:08:29 GMT -5
It's supposed to reach a 5star safety for the driver, no numbers on the passenger, as there's only airbag in front (I think they expect this vehicle to only need frontal airbags, and that's ok for me, seeing I will probably be the only one of the family riding it).
The crash tests haven't been done yet, but company CAD simulations look good so far. They're going to crash 7 of them in a crash test a few months from now.
I told them, before they crashtest them, let those cars be worn out as , ride in the Arizona desert for weeks on end, and tens of thousands of miles, before crashing the cars...
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