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Downtown 300 / Storage space?
« on: April 26, 2011, 04:59:33 PM »
I haven't been able to see a Downtown yet in person b/c Kymco doesn't bother to show up to the IMS in SC, and half their dealer network went out of business in Atlanta, so how is the storage, really?  Can you actually fit two real-live full-face helmets under the seat?  The tiny glovebox door looks chincy and easily damaged in the pictures.  Opinions?  I'm toying with the idea of replacing my Yamaha Morphous with the DT300 in the next couple of years.  Storage is the Morph's Achilles heel.

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Yager GT 200i / Noisy belt!
« on: September 12, 2010, 08:34:47 PM »
I've been riding scooters since 2006, and prior to my Yager I've owner a Yamaha Vino 125 and a Kawasaki Ninja 500R... I also have a Yamaha Morphous that I got in 2007.  Neither of the Yammies had noisy belts like the Yager.  My Yager's belt (or should I say, the belt/transmission housing area) makes a noticable (but not *extremely* loud) WOOOOOOOooooooooh when I back off the throttle from say, 45mph (~6k rpm) and begin to brake to a stop.  At first I thought it might be the rear brake dragging or tire noise, but I had someone help me and I put the bike on the center stand and revved it up to 5 grand then closed the throttle, and sure enough, a WOOOOOOooooooh type whirring sound came from inside where the belt goes.  Is this normal for a Kymco, or do I need to have the thing looked at?  I have about 450 miles on it so far and I have done all the break-in services per the manual, including changing the transmission oil.

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Yager GT 200i / Woo hoo! We have our own spot now.
« on: September 04, 2010, 11:07:14 PM »
Er, that's all I really wanted to say.  ;D

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General Discussion / Another silly oil question...
« on: August 07, 2010, 12:11:53 AM »
I have quite a bit of experience with motorcycles/scooters and cars (I run an auto repair shop)... why is it that a lot of folks on the forum recommend only using dino (non-synthetic) in a Kymco until it's broken in?  Modern synthetics will expand seals and seat rings just as well as anything else out there, and I have run synthetics or synthetic blends in every bike I've had from the first oil change.  Is there something unusual about a Kymco?

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General Discussion / Transmission oil?
« on: August 06, 2010, 08:22:18 PM »
What kind of oil are you guys using in your Kymco's transmission?  My Yager specifies straight 90 weight oil, but that's practically impossible to find.  My scooter dealer has sold me some Motul 75w90 gear oil, which is actually what I would probably pick, but what's the consensus?

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General Discussion / Question for other Yager owner(s)...
« on: August 03, 2010, 02:38:49 AM »
My new Yager 200 "shudders" a bit when you start off from a stop.  When I twist the throttle, the bike revs to around 3k rpm as it begins to move... and at this point it shakes or "shudders" a bit as it takes off.   :-\ It doesn't do it around 3k rpm if you are already moving.  I assume it's normal, and it isn't that bad, it's just kinda strange.  I seem to remember my Vino 125 behaving similarly, but I'm a bit spoiled by how smooth my other bike, a Yamaha Morphous, is.

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General Discussion / Hello! ...and Yager GT200i service manual?
« on: August 03, 2010, 02:34:15 AM »
Hi!  I've been riding scooters since 2006 but this is my first Kymco.  I just got a brand new 2010 Yager GT200i in blue-black!  I've so far put about 70 miles on it, gently riding it home and then gently (slowly) riding it near my neighborhood and around in circles in a deserted school parking lot.  Same way I broke in my two previous scoots (Yamaha Vino 125 and Yamaha Morphous).  Can't wait until 200 miles because then I will change the oil and let it rip (I'll still keep from using WOT for the first thousand). 

The only thing I'm actually a bit disappointed with so far is how maintenance intensive the bike is.  My Morphous (which I still have) only requires oil changes every 3000 miles or so, transmission oil changes every 6k or so, and valve adjustments every 25000 miles or so (basically never).  But I can't complain too much because my old Vino 125 (made by Yamaha Motor Taiwan) had basically the same service demands as "Chuck" (my wife named the bike after Chuck Yeager).

I was curious about where I might get a service manual online?  I saw some other posts here about it, but they were inconclusive...

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