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Am I the only one who's speedo cluster on the Jonway is suffering from a discoloration due to sun light. The spedo and ref counter plastic covers is no longer clear but a light caramel tint.
I managed to find a complete cluster for SA 100 rands ($12.50) second hand but brand new (slight cracking of the plastic mould) one of the covers is also cracked but the other is like new. I tried some "suggested" remedies like boiling it in salt water but even a mild abrasive steel polish (brasso) did nothing to restore it. any suggestions on how to get it clear again

Finally got around to service the Jonway. Been winter in South Africa I picked a lovely day all of 20 degrees C (about 12f)which is a rather warm day for winter. I replaced the rollers as I couldn't find sliders. The old ones were 21 grams and so was the new ones so I didn't expect a gear ratio change. The old rollers were slightly flat spotted and the kitchen scale indicated 21g for all. But after the service and the first pull off I noticed a sluggish scooter, until I hit the open road. Where normally I would do almost 6000rpm at 70mph here I was doing 5400 rpm at 75mph. So even though the scale indicated 21g each, the scale is what it is made for slimmers diets and not so accurate, the old ones obviously were slightly lighter through use. I can live with pulling off in "2nd" because after that the scoot pulls nice and strong.

haha same here. I have a radio under the seat and earphones that I plug into an audio jack. Many times wondering why the radio is not working, stop open seat damn thing is on now why can't I here a thing....just to realize the earphones are hanging on my chest.

Why are sliders better? I also wonder if I should change the weight. Currently if I move along at say 70mph the motor is doing around 5600 rpm and ideally I would like that to come down. Should I go for slightly heavier sliders and what weight do you suggest. I only weigh about 158 pound (72 kg's)

Hi all I tried to open the URL bill.laudeman.com/helix/manual/index.html and it tells me the site is no longer available, in fact some other motor cycle concern took the web site over.

My question is what happened to the wealth of info and the excellent service manual that was honda 250 helix service manual, is it lost or is there another way of re-opening it?

Hi all, as I will be immigrating to the US in about 2 and half years I took it upon myself to learn about your countries history. So I duly ordered a book called America by George Tindall and David Shi. It is a university text book, rather thick and I am enjoying reading it. Names like Pittsburgh (William Pitt) and Pennsylvania (from William Penn) now makes more sense. Your country truly has an amazing history.

looking at those frame piping I wish I could rebuild these scooters using aluminium piping and save on weight.