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I haven’t bought a scooter yet but I noticed  Habor Freigt currently have a clearance sale on these balancing stands. I was not sure whether the stands will be available in the local area in future again, so I bought one at a Harbor Freight store in Des Moines, IA today.

https://www.harborfreight.com/motorcycle-wheel-balancing-stand-98488.html

I was watching a couple of Youtube videos regarding wrapping on scooters and motorcycles and I just wondered whether anyone on this forum ever got involved in wrapping a scooter or a motorcycle ?
Surely it can’t be too difficult to wrap a scooter if one just sticks to one or two colors on a scooter?

Since I bought my Agility almost two years ago I was never impressed with the drum brakes at the rear. The drum pads and the drum have been cleaned and sanded twice, but the result was never a big improvement.
So I had a look at a couple of Youtube videos and decided to do a modification with a slight difference myself.

Firstly, the rear disc pads have been cleaned with a fine sandpaper, and the glaze on the drum has been removed with sandpaper again.
Then a couple of grooves have been cut at an angle on both brake pads - in a way that loose brake dust will be guided  towards the outer (outlet) part of the drum. I thought cutting the grooves this way should make it easier to get rid of loose dust generated by normal friction.
According to some videos on Youtube grooves on the pads actually cause a better grip on the drum. I was not sure about this, but decided to try it anyway.

I then decided to try something different - sanding the bottom part of both pads down - in a way that the bottom part on both pads are thinner (more worn) than the upper part of the brake pads. the reason being - I noticed that when the brake lever gets pulled, the movement by the upper parts of the pads towards the drum are far more than the movement of the bottom parts of the pads.
Right or wrong - I thought if I left the pads as is there would be no guarantee that braking results would be better than when the top surface of the pads presses harder than normal against the drum. So the bottom part of the pads have been skimmed down to cause a better leverage on both pads.

Long story - but I am more than happy with the results. For the first time in almost 17 000km km covered by myself on the Agility, it can be stopped from 80km/H to Zero in quite a short distance - just by using the rear drum brakes !
 
I guess the lifespan of brake pads at the rear will be much shorter in future - but on a positive note, I think the disk pads in front should now last much longer. Simply because I always use both brakes at the same time, and the brakes at the rear now helps to brake the scoot more effectively.

A photo of the modified pads at the rear can be seen below.

https://www.facebook.com/143913663124136/posts/707180380130792/

Some photos of a top box bracket I made for my Agility some time ago.
I just used a piece of aluminium sheeting, aluminium angle, 10mm threaded bar, and a couple of bolts and nuts.
The bottom bracket has been raised to mount the top box a bit higher - I just liked the top box to be in a slight higher position.

My Agility’s clutch had to be replaced - so I visited a local dealer who specialize in selling all sorts of aftermarket spare parts for motorcycles and scooters. I asked whether they would have a clutch kit for an Agility 125. The guy told me “ If your scooter has a GY6 engine, I do have a clutch kit in stock - it fits all 125 a d 150cc models, those models all use the same clutch kit”.

I was still worried that the clutch kit might not fit, but the guy told me “If it doesn’t  fit, just bring it back and you can have your money back”.

So I took the clutch- knowing that the price of the genuine clutch is about twice as much. The clutch kit with bell have been installed today, and is an exact match. Before installation all components have been compared, and all sizes are The same. The only differences I could find was the metal color of the bells, and the absence of a brand name on the new bell. The new bell has a dull grey color, while the original Kymco bell has a shiny, almost dull stainless steel color.

In short - clutch kits for 125 and 150cc Chinese scooters are an exact match for Agility 125 scooters.

Some time ago I noticed my first Michelin City Grip at the rear has more wear at the right and initially I was very disappointed . I initially thought I would rather not buy a City Grip again, but then I realized the tire pressure was probably just too low.
So at about 10 000Km on the City Grip the right side of the tire only had about 1.5mm thread left, and I decided to get hold of a new tire.

I like rubber tires, and having had very good results with Michelin tires on my previous bike, I decided to mount a new City Grip at the rear again. Apart from the wear at the right of the óld City Grip, the rest of the tire is still in very good condition.  I started thinking of trying something which I have never tried before - mounting the worn rear tire  the wrong way round in front, and let it run in "reverse" for the rest of it's lifespan. Maybe it doesn't make sense,but this was my reasoning:

 The old tire in front was badly worn as well, and I was actually suppose to mount two new tires anyway. The old front tire also had more wear at the right - therefore I thought running the better side of the old City Grip at the right for the rest of the tire's lifespan should squeeze some extra kms from the tire.  This means running the old rear City Grip in "reverse" in front,  the better side of tire will run at the right in future - the same side which had more wear on the previous front tire.

So far, so good.  Initially I was not sure how the reversed City Grip in front would behave in wet road conditions. This morning I was riding through some deep water on a road and I was quite surprised - the scooter did not behave in a strange way at all.
So hopefully I will not experience any problems in future. I will just run the tires at higher pressure than before - trying to eliminate more wear at the right of the tires.

Some photos of the City Grips on my Scooter: