Rate Your Satisfaction

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Rate your satisfaction

  • I'm satisfied with its good performance.

    Votes: 4 66.7%
  • It's lacking so I'm willing to spend over $100 on it.

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • It's lacking but I won't spend more than $100 on it.

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • It sucks and I won't spend another dime on it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It sucks and I'm looking to sell it to some sucker.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    6
[EDIT: Just looked that up. It can more than be done: http://buddfab.net/buddfabhomepage.html]

what is the point of putting a turbo on a two stroke besides trying to blow the crank seals? interesting to put the turbo at the end of the exhaust, contrary to standard practise. but so is a turbo and pipe anyway. wish i had lots of money. then i wouldna have so much sense :)


the polls too limited, and i know, its hard to cover all bases.

what if youre completely unsatisfied, but are happy, and are looking for some sucker to sell it to?

:giggle:

i know what the polls in aid of. do people want to pay for performance upgrades, or are they just content with what they got, or are they over the stinking things altogether...

people will always pay more for appearances than performance. i hate that, but its true. it has too look right, people can live with it being mediocre in all other regards. look at apple for instance :giggle:


so... in my case its hard. i wont pay cus i believe in self sufficiency. admittedly i need the motor.

out of the box... one mate is 100 kg. he was riding 40-50km round trips, stock standard. perfectly content with it. it did the job for the three months of having no license. then he rode one of mine and was forever disappointed in his. once again, for what it was doing, it wasnt worth it for me to make him a pipe or do anything. he was also not that way inclined to fiddle.

where as i knew i was in it for the long run. so i had a few motors, few different frames, and the desire to get more!

i started motopushies cus i was lazy and never got a car license (read bad location/family/lifechoice). got a bike license, and resort to the pushies whenever i lose it.

2 years last time. that was painful. i currently still have my license. now im just fiddling with builds in the back shed.

these things are far more reliable and far less temperamental when they are simply for recreation.

the gremlins multiply proportionately to the urgency of need....

i will note... my latest engine is one of the smoothest runners ive had. so far its still sitting there, stock, waiting for my new vid cam. i also noted the magnetos changed slightly. no white wire, and the internal earth connection is now on the lug previously used for white. the CDI is in a new style case with much deeper "ears" for the bracket. plug caps still POS :giggle:. just makes me wonder what, if any, mods may have been made internally?
 
Lately my biggest complaint is the rough ride. I have 2.6" tires on it and that helps but I'd like to widen the frame and put moped tires on it. I'd also like to modify it to have rear suspension.
Next complaint would be the noise. W/o a helmet the noise is really bothersome on a long ride. For that reason in town I just use the standard muffler with reduced outlet diameter and 5" header extension (for more torque). That is in place of my torque pipe.
The higher the revs the more noise, of course. To avoid that I will order another 55cc cylinder and not raise the exhaust port, just widen it. And do all the mods I know for increasing low rpm power. And maybe get a smaller sprocket to increase top speed.
 
jaguar, what's your tire pressure. I have Schwalbe Big Apples 2.35 x 26" tires. Ride is softer if I use lower tire pressure. If you don't have a front suspension fork, install one. Night and day difference in a softer ride.

Like you, I'm considering moped front end, tires, wheels and brakes. Many MBers are using Suzuki K10 forks. One of my projects will have motorcycle front end, which will clear 80/90-21 tires (3.15" wide/26.6" tall).
 
"people will always pay more for appearances than performance. i hate that, but its true. it has too look right, people can live with it being mediocre in all other regards. look at apple for instance."

HeadSmess, not me. Function before form. Performance is key for me, safety too.

LOL, my bike looks like crap, but cruises @ 30mph.
 
I have Schwalbe Big Apples 2.35 x 26" tires. Ride is softer if I use lower tire pressure.

I wished that i could get a 26 x 2.35 tyre in the rear end but my frame limits me to 2.25.
Lower pressure makes a huge difference in comfort (and comfort is everything on long trips), hence the reason why i run the rear tyre at 24 PSI and the front tyre at 20 PSI
 
My ideal bike would be a replica GT LTS that had the frame space to take a set of those huge balloon tyres, as seen on Pugsly style snow bikes; enabling you to run 10 PSI for pure comfort.


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I wished that i could get a 26 x 2.35 tyre in the rear end but my frame limits me to 2.25.
Lower pressure makes a huge difference in comfort (and comfort is everything on long trips), hence the reason why i run the rear tyre at 24 PSI and the front tyre at 20 PSI

Thanks for the tip, Fabian. I was @ 50psi, dropped down to 40psi. Maybe I'll try even less tire pressure.
 
I tried that, but sill got flats.

I literally fitted another bicycle tire within a tire and STILL got flats.

When I changed from friction drive to shift kit, I got MUCH less flats and my tires lasted literally more than 10 times longer. In fact, I've never had a bald tire after changing to a shift kit.
 
yeah I run as low a pressure as I can get away with. It helps but the disadvantage of a bicycle also is its lack of weight and so the frame is just as likely to move with a bump instead of the forks compressing. Yes I have front forks. I think they have 3" travel. But for the comfort I want they need to have at least 5" travel. and it needs rear suspension.
 
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