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Post by w650 on Mar 4, 2019 22:58:01 GMT -5
$999.00 for an 07 Flyscooter??? They were good scooters but nothing exceptional. Certainly not at a grand twelve years later.
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Post by w650 on Mar 1, 2019 18:58:06 GMT -5
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Post by w650 on Feb 13, 2019 15:24:47 GMT -5
It's the 250 Fashion it's very similar to the Honda Helix. Maybe a sympathetic Honda dealer can help.
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Post by w650 on Jan 31, 2019 15:57:29 GMT -5
Once you hit the road all doubts will disappear. Riding is its own medicine.
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Post by w650 on Jan 28, 2019 23:00:46 GMT -5
Did something really stupid, got another Sportster. Sportster, take 2. Rock on. |
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Post by w650 on Jan 8, 2019 19:24:38 GMT -5
I thought I answered this already. No engine will be attaining it's potential in four blocks. See us again at one thousand miles.
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Post by w650 on Jan 2, 2019 23:11:45 GMT -5
Put the old jet back in. You always go back to square one before you dig into everything else.
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Post by w650 on Dec 30, 2018 13:01:39 GMT -5
I think Harley will have to contend with Indian rather than a shrinking audience. Up until 2013 when Polaris introduced the new Chief, Harley reigned supreme. Since Indian came to town Harley has been caught by a crafty competitor. "America's Oldest Motorcycle Company" first made me laugh since the real Indian Motorcycle Company went belly up in 1953. It's not so funny now as many gullible buyers have embraced the Slogan with both arms. It isn't impossible to think that every one of Harley's lost sales is another Indian sold.
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Post by w650 on Dec 23, 2018 15:25:04 GMT -5
The answer to unbalanced V-6s is easy. Americans first hacked off the front two cylinders of a V-8 to make them. Primary balance of a V-8 is ninety degrees. Optimum balance for a V-6 is sixty degrees. Chrysler and the Japanese knew this and designed the piston bank offset accordingly.
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Post by w650 on Dec 21, 2018 20:05:20 GMT -5
I won't go into the crazy technical side but multiple pistons and crank throws share the load that a single piston carries. I can't gather any anecdotal evidence but I'm more inclined to believe that there are more high mileage twins than singles for whatever reason.
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Post by w650 on Dec 13, 2018 16:27:53 GMT -5
I might be oversimplifying it but my feeling is that two cylinders aren't working as hard as one. My four cylinder 750 hardly works at all. It just pulls and pulls.
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Post by w650 on Dec 12, 2018 15:26:43 GMT -5
The way I understand it the engine is a downsized clone of the ill fated Honda GB-500. Like the SR-400 Yamaha in Japan 400cc engines are in a different class. It's built by Shineray in China.
I'm not really a fan of single cylinder road bikes and at that price I would look into the Benelli 302.
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Post by w650 on Dec 9, 2018 15:13:22 GMT -5
The use of cheap pot metal was fairly prevalent in 1960's Japanese motorcycles. I haven't seen that in my Chinese stuff. I have dropped two out of three and they have original levers. The biggest weakness I have seen is in the plastic. Black rubber hasn't been their strongest suit. Not so much in hoses but in other areas dry rot has been annoying. Of course my stuff is ten years old so maybe things are better now.
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Post by w650 on Dec 9, 2018 14:21:21 GMT -5
If no one pipes in here you should go to www.modernvespa.com The people there are from around the world and might have an idea for you. |
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Post by w650 on Dec 5, 2018 16:17:46 GMT -5
A little history here. The CG 250 engine in this bike is a derivation of Honda's overhead cam 250 motors converted to pushrods for the third word. It was made for those parts of the world lacking in service facilities and is built to take the worst. I have my doubts about that sixteen horsepower rating. It's almost in the same league as a 250 Honda Rebel. Fourteen is more like it.
I think that it being lacking for interstate travel comes down to where you live. It's well known that Leo lives in the land of eighty mile an hour speed limits where ninety is the norm. I traveled on the interstates with my fourteen horsepower, four hundred pound CF Moto Fashion at sixty mph quite comfortably. Also how broken in is the CSC at five hundred miles? It might be capable of seventy at a thousand miles. Of course a pushrod 250 single might never go that fast but I'll be curious to see how it is when they report on it down the road.
I do know this. With pushrods, chain drive and a slide-needle carburetor it won't suffer from technical difficulties down the road. Also I'll bet even if the kickstarter won't get it running it would be real easy to push start with a dead battery.
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