Morning Steve,
after reading some of your posts and others on fine tuning,
feel some what like a " Luddite " thought you might be able to do
a little tidying around the motor but not much , wrong !! for me i think i will leave mine as it is ,its fast enough , almost been in the bushes a few times .
Hello mate. There's a lot that can be done to make these engines perform better and go faster, but it can be expensive. My bike's cost me about $1800 so far and it's still not finished.
If your's is OK as it is, you'll save a heap.
Most of the mods on mine were to make it more of a moped - more reliable and comfortable.
As i havent been able to ride to work each day now for about three weeks i still take it out Saturday morning or Sunday, have a great bike path down at Williamstown that follows the beach line then out into some low lying tidal flats
to Altona about 8km . It is concrete about 2.4 mt wide , along the beach it is some what flat with a few sweeping curves but when it reaches the tidal flats it becomes very exciting ,lots of tight corners and a couple of long straights with a rise at each end , one of which i can get the bike air bourne if there is no one around .
Sounds like a good ride. I have a similar one here, on the cycleway beside the Prince's highway, from Nowra to Bomaderry and back. (I've got a few sneaky jumps too. The shift-kit is great for that sort of thing - jumps and monos.)
One thing about the RTA road laws and the local is that you can ride the bike on the road and bike paths so long as you obey the rules. Still trying to load the photos , no luck yet . ps have just read your post on noise and vibration , might have a go at that ,always though that my vision should not be blurred at speed ( feet on rear pegs and chin over handle bars ) really is a great site sooooooo much info might go into brain over load.
Mine still vibrates like h e l l - a bit like riding a paint-can shaker. These are a pretty poorly balanced engine, especially the 66cc ones. (Both 48cc and 66cc use the same bottom-end, balanced for a 48cc top-end. The 48s rev higher and vibrate less, so they say.)
The weather will be warming up soon and I can get in a few rides again. I'm sick of looking at the bike just sitting there.
My lungs aren't too good, (emphysema), so I avoid rides in cold weather. It knocks me around a bit.
I haven't even had a ride since I fitted the new headlight, to test it. It should be bright enough to be seen easily in daytime, to help with visibility. Next up is a decent charging system. I've got a small generator here, just need to make a regulator to suit.
