justin
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I'm on my second bike. Sherpa Mtn bike with a "80cc" happy time. Long story short, I built one, loved it, and was stupid enough to let someone else ride it. He hit a rather high curb dead on at about 25mph and flipped the entire danged bike end over end through the air. When it landed, the frame was trashed, along with my panniers that I had made, but they (being made of steel) protected the engine from impacting with anything hard. Oh, the guy was fine. Split a helmet in half and busted up his elbow and hip pretty bad but otherwise he'll make it. I'm making him pay me for some of the damage, but ANYWAY... On to my problem.
Got a new bike (actually used, cause it was free). Spent all day today re-mounting the engine and such. Ran into a lot of problems, but nothing I couldn't fix. Didn't alter anything on the engine except for cutting off a little bit of the air cleaner housing on the carb. Finally got it ready and it runs great! Even better I think than before, but... It's totally gutless at high rpms and high load. It'll still go up hills, but not accelerating like it did. Thought maybe it was running a little rich because it didn't need any choke to start right up, so I went to move that little clip on the needle valve, and of course, the darned thing flew out of my hand as if possessed by a demon. I was outside, and it is GONE. Looked everywhere around and couldn't find it.
MBC EDIT: THIS THREAD HAS BEEN MOVED
So where do I find a new one? I'm dead in the water at this point, and do you think I was right to try to lean out my fuel mix, or is there something else that I might think about? Sorry for the long, meandering post... Anyway, if you know where I can buy one or order one, or if someone has a spare I could buy, I don't really care, I just need it!
Got a new bike (actually used, cause it was free). Spent all day today re-mounting the engine and such. Ran into a lot of problems, but nothing I couldn't fix. Didn't alter anything on the engine except for cutting off a little bit of the air cleaner housing on the carb. Finally got it ready and it runs great! Even better I think than before, but... It's totally gutless at high rpms and high load. It'll still go up hills, but not accelerating like it did. Thought maybe it was running a little rich because it didn't need any choke to start right up, so I went to move that little clip on the needle valve, and of course, the darned thing flew out of my hand as if possessed by a demon. I was outside, and it is GONE. Looked everywhere around and couldn't find it.
MBC EDIT: THIS THREAD HAS BEEN MOVED
So where do I find a new one? I'm dead in the water at this point, and do you think I was right to try to lean out my fuel mix, or is there something else that I might think about? Sorry for the long, meandering post... Anyway, if you know where I can buy one or order one, or if someone has a spare I could buy, I don't really care, I just need it!
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