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Rather than starting a new thread (unless that's a better idea), I've opted to throw my $0.02 in here.

I recently acquired a YY250T (M/Y 2011) from my mom and it runs ok... It starts fine and gets me to and from school without much trouble, but I had to replace the battery when I first got it because it had been sitting too long with no love and went into a deep-discharge state. Anyway, I replaced the battery and it has been starting and running, but my turn signals have never worked quite right. They used to just be on solid (no blink) until I turned them off, and now they won't even turn on at all. I've wondered if I should replace the flasher unit. The reason I haven't jumped on replacing the flasher, is that I have read a bunch of stuff saying that the R/R in this bike is prone to failure.

In addition to my blinker dilemma, my idle is rough (<1000 rpm usually) and the bike will often die within seconds of starting unless I open the throttle a bit. My head/tail lights flicker during idle, but become very bright during acceleration. My horn works very rarely, but I've just chalked it up to a loose switch (also common, if I'm reading correctly).

My biggest concern, aside from the turn signals, is that when starting from a standstill, my rear (driven) wheel will "skip." That is to say that it will grab and slip repeatedly until the bike starts going around 3 or 4 mph. It's almost as if the driveline is producing too much torque for the bike to handle, so I'm laying down rubber when I try to start moving. It doesn't happen every time, but it does most of the time. It doesn't take much on the throttle to make it happen, so it's not like I'm opening it up fully every time I start moving.

Any advice you wizards have on any of my issues would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks in advance!