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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 25, 2017 20:54:04 GMT -5
I use these under my jeans, I have them on all the time, is not uncomfortable, my wife uses them over her pants or under her skirt and take them off when she gets off the bike, www.amazon.com/dp/B01LMU22PW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_f6lYzbJPDQH4Qwe also wear knee and shin protectors and boots, I have had 2 hard spills on a scooter, and several stupid ones on motorcycle (like having to brake hard at low speed to avoid running over a kamikaze pedestrian and falling off the bike because of inertia and the bike being heavy). A scooter is more than capable of getting you in troubles and causing you serious injuries, I talk from experience, you can't do much to avoid a broken bone, but with full gear you can avoid road rash all together, I would rather nurse a broken bone than losing my hip or butt skin on the pavement, road rash is not fun, even a small stupid spill can give you road rash. Fabric disintegrate in contact with pavement, the only things that work to protect from road rash are metal, thick plastic, kevlar and thick leather. guys have worn heavy duty denim lined jackets for decades and many have had them protect them from road rash, both of them provide good protection you just don't see the heavy denim around much anymore, I'm not talking made in china fashion crap, even many modern jeans are worthless. You can still get the old style really heavy ones, but just not in a box store, I can tell you the Levis I grew up with are not the ones they sell today, I survived many mini bike crashes with the old ones, never tore them up, the new ones, tripped over a rock, fell and the knee tore out, complete china junk |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 25, 2017 20:43:56 GMT -5
engines with pushrods are good engines, but they can't handle rpms much higher than about 8000. i would imagine that most shop repairs are caused by the rider over taxing the engine. (other than warranty service) this probably explains why most chinese engines just don't simply blow up. they are better equipped to deal with high rmps AND most have rev limiters. a 250cc is the minimum stock scooter i would take on the interstate. i only rode mine short distances on state roads approximately 20 miles or so, some longer some shorter. the majority of my miles was on county roads. i would be hesitant to take a small wheeled scooter on the interstate. i've hit bumps in my car that would probably wreck a bike. the Harleys just get homesick when away from the shop too long, so they find reasons to go back  |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 25, 2017 2:39:51 GMT -5
i have no idea why you think that's so funny. it's a fact that OHC engines can sustain a higher RPM than ones operated by pushrods. ball bearings present less friction than a bushing. i apologize that i haven't tore down every scooter engine on the planet. Its the Scooter world. I find allot of humor starting with my own GY based rolling pile of Plastic. Why so funny? cuz is a simple no brainer, really nothing else out there. we prolly go back to ww1 or ww2 to find some Push Rod Scooters. I'm sure someone will find something out there. And were could I dig up some ol Scoot engine with Babbbit bearings. HD still sticks to its legendary Push rod motor in there full size bikes. And yes there are OHC/OHV but there are Rocker Arm actuated, The Rocker arm Scoot is more like Low rpm general service tater digger engine. In the big pictures of two wheel machines these Scoots are all done when a real bike is just starting to come alive. You don't have to apologize for anything just laugh and roll with it. Harley sticks to the old pushrod engines,their mechanics have to have something to do, every person I know who has a harley has it in the shop more then on the road. |
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Riding Pants
by: lostforawhile - Sept 25, 2017 2:30:37 GMT -5
Post by lostforawhile on Sept 25, 2017 2:30:37 GMT -5
I wish I had money for literal fancy pants 😋 check out the cost of non skin grafts vs. skin grafts, the pants are cheap, going to get some myself here , people laugh at me for wearing full gear on a scooter, I've seen pictures of a guy who came off of a Harley at 25, half helmet,ripped his jaw off. Gear up, it doesn't matter what you ride, we are surrounded by brain dead drivers |
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Riding Pants
by: lostforawhile - Sept 25, 2017 2:28:37 GMT -5
Post by lostforawhile on Sept 25, 2017 2:28:37 GMT -5
I'm looking at maybe a set of heavy Dickies overalls, but even used they are like 100 bucks, I have one of their jackets that I wear all the time, even in hot weather, really well made tough jacket, that I wear a reflective vest over. It's going to be getting cooler soon so I need something lined, that I can also wear at work.
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 17, 2017 14:05:08 GMT -5
the only thing with this color, is this is the worst color for visibility, it blends in with the back ground to cars
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 17, 2017 13:15:50 GMT -5
needs a helmet box , maybe something painted olive green or one made out of a large plastic ammo box, the caargo net with items on the floor would drive me nuts, not a bad idea but not for everyone. I like my feet clear
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 16, 2017 17:33:57 GMT -5
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 16, 2017 17:28:48 GMT -5
usually the headlight and taillight run off of the AC side of the stator, really rectified DC and the brake light,turn, signals run from the battery
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 16, 2017 17:25:44 GMT -5
it's probably another rectifier for the lighting circuit, half of the ac waveform goes to ground anyway, and if they go bad, they create a direct path to ground, pictures and closeups of the wire colors would help it's hard to diagnose wiring issues by description
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 15, 2017 16:42:07 GMT -5
I .....don't believe I will ever want to get on a fifty 😱 Not when I weigh a little more than 250lb On a 150 the gear box is separate from the CVT cover and the axle has lots of bearings it still has a gearbox casing, which is separate, but one bearings, the one behind the clutch, is installed in the swing arm. Any bike with a directly driven wheel is basically the same design, the clutch,gearbox casing still carries the full weight of the rear of the bike. There is no issue with you being 250 on a 50, lots of people ride them that weigh that much, not all your weight is over the back. it's a safe well proven design, as long as everything is installed as intended. |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 15, 2017 15:48:28 GMT -5
Nope, the full weight of the back half of the bike including the motor pushes straight down the shocks or shock into the rear wheel. The case of a single shock is the only functional need for the CVT cover as it's not balanced by an opposing shock It supplies excellent torsional stiffness to resist the twisting Of The Imbalance Unless You are talking about a 50 Then I dont know it is a 50, but any singe shock is the same, the tire still has to hold the weight of everything above it, all the weight rests on that tire, and the only thing holding up the tire is the shaft in the gearbox, and two bearings. those bearings are in the gear box housing, and one is in the swing arm which is both the engine and transmission. The tire not only carries the sprung weight, but all the unsprung weight of the engine,transmission and swingarm casing, plus the rear brakes and the weight of the tire and wheel itself. every bit of weight on the back half of the bike is basically held up by the transmission drive shaft and two bearings. You need every bit of stiffness at that swing arm |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 15, 2017 11:44:29 GMT -5
the bottom line is, rotating machinery can be deadly. DO NOT fool yourself into thinking they aren't There was an account in John Muir's book "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive" about a girl working on her Beetle with the engine running. She had failed to put her beautiful blonde ponytail under a cap. After ripping the ponytail off her head with the spinning belt/pulley system, she hung it from her rear view mirror as a reminder. Great book, if you ever have a chance to read it. Oh, and as far as how you clean stuff out of a covered CVT ... Take. The. Cover. Off. you have to do this all the time on a scooter anyway, variator rollers wear out, belts wear, starter bendixes fail, these chinese bikes are not put on the cover and forget about it. i changed all my cheap bolts to button head socket screws with lock washers, then I can take off the cover with a hex key set. much more convenient. If you look at the cover from an engineering point of view, the cover boxes the case opposite the gear box, which supports all the weight on the back of the bike, and it also supports part of the engine case, and boxes in one side of the crank bearings. These engines are based on a Honda design, and honda wouldn't design the case the way they did without a reason |
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 14, 2017 20:08:32 GMT -5
lostforawhile I had one of those models, I gave it to someone who was sick
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Post by lostforawhile on Sept 14, 2017 18:56:27 GMT -5
it's correct about it being structural on a single shock bike, that's part of your swing arm, the bearings in the gear box on the clutch shaft support your wheel. that's why there are so many bolts holding on the cvt cover. Remove the aluminum cover, which reinforces your swing arm, and you lose a lot of structural strength.
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