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Post by grocerygetter on May 10, 2012 8:47:07 GMT -6
Great feedback. Thanks.
I was slightly curious because I keep hearing people talking in the 60mpg range.
A guy at work with a Reflex clocked himself at 68mpg once. But he does ride it hard.
I knew about the temp vs power. We used to hang out at a closed shopping mall parking lot Friday and Saturday nights and comment on the good horsepower weather nights.
I clearly remember a 350 Chevy Vega with a 6/71 blower hooked up in the industrial park on a cold damp dewy night and almost flipped it over backwards scraping the back bumper, and he had been quite the contender before but it was clearly a different animal that night.
I've always felt that small variations in parameters seem to easily affect these smaller engines. So though my day was nasty to start, I got a whole day of riding in for around $10.
I can really feel the difference in performance based on temperature.
Makes me think the whole cooling system is so poorly designed, basically no thought in it, it's just there.
Everytime my fan comes on and it's below 60F I think about the people down south on a summers day and how taxed these cooling systems are.
That last ride made me think about modifying to keep the engine in that lower temp range.
I'll update this post with more long rides for comparison.
And after the 50 other things on the top of my list I'll get to that variator and jets.
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Post by grocerygetter on May 7, 2012 8:26:27 GMT -6
 took my first long ride of the season though didn't pick a good morning to start out. 45 degs cloudy damp and windy. Haven't had a chill that deep in me for many yrs. but stubborn as I am I kept going cuz the sun was supposed to come out by noon. It did come out and warm up thankfully. I toured thru the flood devastion from last spring. Most roads have been rebuilt. Pictures do not do it justice. Pretty amazing to see entire hillsides gone and now rebuilt with stone rubble from the granite quarries. Back to my story. I did 230 miles Saturday thru farm country. 50-55mph most of it. Rolling hills. At 140 miles I filled up since I can't trust my gauge below 1/4. I filled it to where I always do. The vent line in the filler neck. I filled it to that when I left Home. It took 1.67 gals. Do the math. 140/1.67 = 83.83mpg. Can that be right? Has anyone don that on a 250 Jonway yy t? I haven't filled up since the trip back home but I expect that to be worse since I struggled up thru the Notch in Stowe. I'll post that tank back later this week when I fill up. I do need to do the clutch rollers/weights and get the grease out. Seeping rviht now as it get hot. And I do need to change the jets. She struggles up hills. Won't "gear down". If you stop and start again up the hill she takes off fine but as soon S you get some speed and the clutch starts to adjust for the higher speed, she starts to slow down until you pull over again and start all over. It will be interesting to do the same trip after the updates. Wonder if the mpg will be slightly worse wih better performance. She absolutely does 70 mph right now no problem and like to hold speed around 65. But those nasty tires gotta go as well.
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Post by grocerygetter on Apr 25, 2012 16:10:21 GMT -6
My kill switch has been acting up and regardless of my taking it apart and cleaning the contacts it only lasts now for a few hrs before it turns black in there and shuts me down randomly again. Not safe when you have to keep pulling over.
I was wondering what success people were having by replacing with essentially the same junk from an online store - in other words is current stock better than my 2007 piece.
I was thinking to go with a Honda Reflex right side switch assembly (double the price) and hopefully be done with a better part. But would the plug be the same?
I have no running light switch on that assembly like some of the replacements do.
Thoughts?
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Post by grocerygetter on Apr 19, 2012 12:34:35 GMT -6
I had to share this in the name of fun. ;D We all must have had some amusing moments while reading thru owners manual documentation for Chinese scoots. My favorite is the kill switch, aka the "Fire Out" switch or the "Burn Out" switch as it says in my manual. I was rather concerned when I first flicked it in anticipation of a nitrous fueled smoke show. Wow I thought, these Asian guys are crazy putting nitrous on these things. Alas it was not to be and my 'burn out' switch was only a kill switch. Today I was surfing for a start/stop/kill switch as mine is giving me trouble again ( I'll post that experience separate) and low and behold I stumble across some more amusing translation. Amoungst different terminology for the switch - Right side switch; Start stop switch; Kill switch - I come across one I haven't heard before for the turn signal flashers: Singing Sparking Relay...... .ridemaxdealer.com/index.php/main_page/index/cPath/117_202" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> .ridemaxdealer.com/index.php/main_page/index/cPath/117_202Hmmm It sings? Very nice. I wonder what tune it plays. It sparks? Wow, might be dangerous like Chinese fire crackers coming out of your handle bars. What does it relay? Messages? Had to chuckle and share this new one. So if you're ever looking for a turn signal flasher/relay, search for Singing Sparking Relay. For some related good laughs visit engrish.com Good clean fun on the English translation on signs in Asia for visitors. |
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Post by grocerygetter on Sept 16, 2011 16:12:29 GMT -6
Doing 40-45mph thru a stupid confusing intersection in town on the way home, both hands on both brakes. I'm on the hwy, cross traffic has stop signs. White pickup waiting to make a right turn in front of me. Grey Infinity waiting on the left to come out on front of me. Steady traffic in both my direction and opposite direction. White pickup coming from the right lurches out then stops - I'm looking right at him. Grey Infinity on the left sees a small break in my oncoming traffic - squeals out across the intersection to turn left in front of me. Split second for my brakes - I squeal a bit and move over near the shoulder to be beside him. In a second he goes from burning out to burning in - sees me beside him and nails the brakes and steers into the oncoming traffic. Nice maneuver buddy. I never stopped, still moving, but let him get back into my lane and out of harms way. Then he nails it again to get back in front of me and out of oncoming traffic. Few hundred feet later he pulls off the road on the shoulder - I guess to clean his pants. I carry on home another mile, pour a whiskey and cranberry and go check the hot tub. I didn't feel threatened in the least even though I squealed down from 40+ to about 10mph. I wouldn't really call it a close call because I was in complete control, even though this guy made a boo-boo and pulled out essentially right beside me smoking his tires. But had this been a Monday after work, maybe I wouldn't have been on the ball quite as much - like I said before - stuff happens. I'm capable of being on the ball and controlling a situation, I'm also capable of having a hard day at work and thinking about the butt-head that still owes me $1500 for his scooter that I "helped" him buy and hasn't paid for - while I'm going thru a busy intersection. Read more: scooterdoc.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=5050#ixzz1Y9jeOif3 |
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