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I'll echo Doug and also remind all that one of the many things mentioned on the old forum was just this kind of demeanor and sometimes it getting out of hand before it could be taken care of.

While everyone has a right to their opinion it can be stated in a way that doesn't demean people and get a flame war started. It's simple enough to say you had a bad experience with someone, in this case a police officer and then go on. To say all police officers are bad just because of one rotten apple is like saying all barbers are no good because one may have messed up your haircut, same idea, same principal.

There is always that other side of the coin too and we need to remember that. Like Doug said he works and at times can't be here to watch for these things, myself I call myself retired but just this week I have a total of 4 ball games to go to with my granddaughter and grandson that I am now raising, finally getting some good weather and my grass in the yard is a foot deep in places, I kid you not and I have 5 acres to mow and weed eat. Trying to get out a garden, putting out mulch on a total of 28 fruit trees, cleaning up the strawberry patch, mulching my vineyard of 30 grapes, etc. etc.

So you can see even though I take breaks during the day and come check on the forum I have things going too.

Lastly this is just not necessary and if it gets out of hand on subjects that offend then the tolerance for it is not very high. Also as a reminder one can use the report to mod function if they fell someone is out of place or offensive and Doug or I will see what is going on and take action if any is necessary.

JR

At this point other than people being hurt, it being a sad cowardly act and it was a bomb of some kind we know very little. Who, why is only speculation at this point.

Why is the part that I have a hard time with. It doesn't matter to me who because when it is truly found out then IMO there will be no penalty severe enough. I will nor do I care of who's cause, these people today did nothing to no one and are innocent victims.

We can talk all we want, and indeed this doesn't need to turn into a political discussion but to me one thing is clear, whoever did this was making a statement for something and IMO the statement has no humanity to it nor should it go unpunished. It's time to quit listening to the cries of justice for the guilty and start taking up for justice for law abiding people and innocent victims.

Some people may call me harsh and they have that right to that opinion and all by our system are due the process of law but when that process takes place justly and correct then it's time to administer the sentence to the crime and whoever did this IMO needs to make peace and bear the punishment.

But at this point again we know very little so lets think about all the people who need help and hope that no more suffering to blasts or bombs occurs.

JR

I almost fell out of my chair laughing at this one! Thanks Jim for posting this and also putting it at other places too!

JR

Year, make, and size of scooter please?

JR

I will echo Doug and lefty. I'm the same as lefty, use two cards very wisely, one I've had since 1972 which is almost unheard of. But it's not a cash back earner, it's just my I am away from home and forgot to bring any cash emergency card. I've never treated it any other way.

But I have a Walmart Discover card for one thing and one thing only, cheaper gasoline. I get a always 5 cents per gallon off and at times especially during the holidays it goes up to sometimes as high as 15 cents per gallon off. But it's paid monthly and my cash back is adding up too. My wife and I move around a lot so 5 cents a gallon adds up in the long run.

I just this past week re-financed my house to a 2.675% interest rate, took a 10 year loan and we just set it up to make a automatic payment that will pay it off in 48 months. We will do this, not bother the payment system and be done with this. My wife went back to college after being out of school for over 25 years and is now a RN making very good money, with out house plans and her job she will retire in 10 years and maybe just work a little part time or maybe even on the traveling nurse thing.

I have two vehicles paid for and two that we just bought one for her to go to work and the other for me to get these grandkids I'm raising around to all their activities. Both of these vehicles are on the 0% interest thing that if you had to buy a vehicle you'd be a fool to turn down and I could care less if the wife's is paid off because she puts over 50K on a vehicle a year so it'll probably get traded in again in about 2 to 2-1/2 years, the other one will be paid off in 36 months.

Other than that I owe nothing and have a few bucks stuck back to have some fun later on when we get these kids raised. Credit card debt can be a very bad thing and like Doug called lefty I'm not the norm, I manage mine religiously.

I a lot of times buy my Christmas from October to December and buy a lot with free shipping and to 180 days same as cash which allows me to buy more and yet stay in my budget interest free but that's not the norm either. I just paid off my grandkids go-kart I bought them for Christmas this past week, Christmas is officially paid for, now it's time for our June vacation money planning and going to Disneyland and even hollering at old Doug when we are so close.

JR

We have a complete list of Roketa manuals in the Chinese Manual section of the Tech area but they are not much help. You'll find a better manual especially for troubleshooting in this section:

itistheride.boards.net/index.cgi?board=50ac&action=display&thread=54

But Terrilee is right either handle will start the engine unless of course it's bad too. Also I would not bypass this system, it is an important safety feature and do remember if the scooter won't start with one or either of the brakes pressed then you have no brake lights either which for sure is dangerous.

JR

Sorry I'm late to the party long day. I also have this manual and two things stand out clearly and the first one is on page 183 of the manual:



This is the trouble shooting for the ignition system and top right corner gives it away on the no spark. Alternator is out of work, add that and the fact earlier the poster said it would run without a battery = Ac type CDI.

The one member mentioned the Harley running on a dead battery or no battery, entirely different system. First of all on a scooters wiring and this one is no different without a battery the black wire going to this CDI clearly gets it's voltage from the battery and with no battery or a dead one it has no power and remember he said it would run with the battery disconnected.



Now if you go back to the charging system you'll find the simple 4-pin R/R with the headlights running off of the yellow wire, and the red running to the battery for one purpose, charging the battery. Remove the battery and the 12Vdc loop is broken and the black wire will have no voltage.



If you read in the ignition system section you will see that this scooter has and advanced ignition CDI. I'm trying to find it but if I remember correctly some advanced CDI's have a 12volt dc power source for advancing the timing thus the black 12Vdc feed wire?

Another thing to note I have failed to find a Dc type CDI on a single phase stator system and this is just that. All DC type CDI's I've seen are on a 3 phase stator system.

If I was a betting man I'd bet you can disconnect the black wire and it'll run but if you really bear down on it'll stumble with the time advance powerless.

JR