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How can increase the fuel-efficiency of my vespa bike?
My factory Vespa bike can travel around 150 KM with its 200 CC engine and 8 lt. of gasoline. What are the suggested modifications to increase the fuel efficiency that one refill will cover? Without ...
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Rounded bolt head on possibly broken bolt
I'm trying to remove the transmission casing on my belt drive scooter. All of the bolts have tiny 8mm heads, and are very cheap and soft - cheap Chinese manufacture - and one was already slightly ...
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Scooter won't start
My friend has a Chinese 50cc scooter "VIP Future Champion" that won't start. He let the battery run down when it was still operable, over a year ago, and when he finally replaced the battery, it ...
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Pulley Difference After Drive Belt Change
I have one worry after yesterday's fairly difficult but successful drive belt change on my Big Boy scooter. The main nut on the fron pulley now goes on much less further than before it came off. I ...
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Is it practical to store a gasoline powered scooter in an apartment?
From my experience with gasoline powered tools they are quite "dirty" - fuel and oil spill rather frequently and also there's a rather annoying smell of gasoline around. I'd expect the same from a ...
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How to find and fix an oil leak on a Yamaha scooter
Some months after I had my scooter serviced I noticed oil splotches under my bike everytime I left if for a while in the one spot. The company that serviced the bike did numerous things wrong ...
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Lance Vintage 150cc Fuel Pump
I have a Lance Vintage 150cc that we haven't rode in about a year. I just got it out and put a new battery, oil, and gas in it. When I try to start it, it makes that initial starting noise but the ...
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Scooter Powerband Spiking
When I start accelerating, after around 3 seconds I get a spike in my engine rpm (at least it sounds like it). After another few seconds it calms back down and continues escelating as expected.
I ...
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50cc Two Stroke Scooter/Motorcycle - Idle and start issues
this is my first motor-vehicle ever, a Simson s50 from 1976.
Things seem to be running fine, but there are two problems I need to figure out:
1) The engine dies unless rev'ed constantly - eg at a ...
