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howdy and peace bro, but even though i agree with all you said, i must still insist that it is the buyer that needs to have the study info and make the decision. maybe the tires will be on a farm vehicle that never exceeds 30 mph. if two year old tires are safer than 5 year old tires then we really should replace our tires every 3 month. tha's obviously safer. if 55 mph is safer than 70 then maybe 30 mph is safer. getting out of bed brings risk. i have spent my life driving trucks and if i see a motorcycle in a position relative to my truck, i take the action to get him out of that danger. if you as a scooter driver know that a blow-out on that truck you are following will kill you , then don't follow it that close. i still don't need a beurocrat dogooder to tell me what i have to do like mrs obama telling the school lunch system that they can only serve what the kids won't eat and limiting sports participaters like marathon or long distance or football players to 1000 calories cause that's what is good for them. one size doesn't fit all

with all respect

lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken

howdy--i don't need anyone making more rules for me in favor of the people that manufacture and sell the required items. bozz off

lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken

howdy, again i'll jump in where angels fear to tread. the problem with suspension for these machines is that part of the weight of the motor and the weight of the entire transmission and drive system, brake, wheel, tire is all what is termed "unsprung weight" . if you look on a motorcycle , only the weight of the tire , wheel, sprocket, brakes are unsprung. so on the scoot, when you hit a bump and start all that weight moving it produces a lot of force compared to the motorcycle, and you feel it more. someone with better tech explanation can jump in and confirm this. the older motocycle adds when bragging about suspension all mentioned low unsprung weight as an advantage. the scoot doesn't have that advantage.

also just as a frame of reference, when i bought my scoot , it was set on the softest pre-load and the unpleasantness of the ride was the suspension bottoming out. when i upped the pre-load the ride actually softened up. a guy who regularly rides a kawasaki vulcan , rode mine on sunday and commented on how well it handled the bumps, and how smooth everything was.

lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken

howdy, what ever it is, it is bad news. i would suggest it may have had a vacuum leak and burned a hole in the piston. you should pull the plug and see whether the oil is in the combustion chamber.

lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken

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howdy, i hope we all see this as a discussion and not like"if ya don't see it my way, i gotta cut off your head"

i i actually think only extremes of full throttle all the time or babying it for a thousand miles , may cause harm. the engines are designed to be somewhat forgiving.

lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken

howdy rockynv

again, my understanding is that without the brief high throttle eppisodes, there won't be enough ring to cylinder contact to avoid glazing the cylinder wall in that area and might cause there to never be good contact between the wall and the rings. that would result in never seating in and would also cause oil consumption and in extremes would allow blow by which increases the internal oil gallerie pressures resulting in excessive oil out the vent.

so again i would still reccomend high throttle briefly, then reduced throttle to allow cooling and lubrication. none of your statements were wrong, it is simply a matter of how much throttle and at what rpm. i reccomend these full throttle BRIEF eppisodes are carried out in different rpm ranges because there are slight changes in how the piston sets in the cylinder as the rpm changes.

lotsa miles and smiles to y'all
ken

howdy, here's the picture, i hope. another may follow
it is taken as far as i can tell looking east from near the top of mary peak

lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken