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Post by genseeker on Jul 14, 2014 21:24:42 GMT -5
My scoot is Toi, cause she's fun to play with. I've always named my vehicles: this is just some of my former vehicles in the past 20 years 78 Toyota Celcia GT - Turtle - hatchback looks like a turtle 76 Mustang II - Sassy - so named cause she would not start for anyone but me, unless I told her to run 86 Ford Explorer - Trixie  F150 - Lexie 2000 Mazda B2500 - Sasha 73 Formula Firebird - Beauty My sons are in the habit too, my oldest has a  Mustang 4 cyl he named "Spaz" and I recently gave him a scoot he has yet to name. It needs a little work to get it running, a little Jonway 50 |
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Post by genseeker on Jul 14, 2014 20:45:31 GMT -5
anybody know a place in US that insures 50 cc scoots? Not mandatory but it'd be nice to have a policy of some kind that'd replace it if it got totaled. Been a lot of scoot/bike riders get hit by cages lately in my area. Had 2 wrecks involving bikes just over the weekend.
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Post by genseeker on Jul 2, 2014 0:49:00 GMT -5
www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H1145v5.pdfTo register the moped, the owner would have to provide a manufacturer's certificate of origin, which is like a title for a car. If the owner doesn't have one, he or she would have to go through a Division of Motor Vehicles inspection to obtain a registration and plates. The cost would be $18. The bill would require moped owners carry bodily injury, property damage and liability insurance. Drivers would have to pay either a $15 or $22 registration fee depending on whether the bike has a sidecar. Drivers would also pay a $40 title fee.
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Post by genseeker on Jun 25, 2014 17:53:17 GMT -5
Rear brakes no longer working on Tank 250. Throttle stuck a while back & my son rode it home anyways instead of calling me in the middle of the night to look at it. He rode the rear brakes the whole way home & they were locked by the time he got home, luckily it was less than a 1 mile ride. Next morning, rear brakes were no longer frozen but now he has no rear brakes. Can't see any damage to the cables, caliper looks good on visual, plenty fluid in cylinder reservoir.
Fast forward to last night, he rode it with still only front brakes to a nearby store. Left it parked for several hours while he caught a ride to a friend's house in a different town. Got ready to come home & it wouldn't start. Got someone to bring him home & brought the battery, took less than 2 hrs for full charge.
*Already chewed him out over riding with only front brakes.
So my questions:
1. How likely is it he has ruined the brake setup on the rear? I found a new assembly (lever to caliper) on Ebay if needed.
2. How hard is it to replace the rear brake assembly?
3. Is it possible the starting problem is related to the rear brake hardware problems? The left lever is broken so is very short, wondering if maybe it's just in the lever assembly preventing it from starting.
4. Any videos available on replacing the rear brake assembly complete?
Although I'm female I'm fairly handy with a wrench and prefer to do as much of my own work as possible. Would need to know sizes for fasteners since all I really have is SAE tools, getting a metric socket set as soon as it is back in stock @ Lowes. It has both deep and shallow 10mm & 12mm-18mm sockets. Already planning on getting an 8mm as well.
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F150 - Lexie
Mustang 4 cyl he named "Spaz" and I recently gave him a scoot he has yet to name. It needs a little work to get it running, a little Jonway 50