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Happy easter weekend!
Yes, fascinating tutorial. Just perfect as always. 
With this everybody should be able to check and adjust the valve lash easily and correctly.
And we now know why the human race is born with two hands only. One for the coffee cup and another for the dust rag.... 

The most interesting encounter I found in this tutorial was, that obviously the valve lash HOT is the SAME as COLD. Hmmmm, interesting. Equal expansion of all parts. Or does it vary trouhout the temperature ranges from cold to hot?
Anyway, it leads me to the assumption, that I could set the valve lash next time a little bit narrower than 0.12mm or 0.005inches. Maybe thats the reason why the official valve lash range from kymco is 0.06mm plus/minus 0.02mm (according to the sticker on the handle bar). Not sure, but maybe I really should go back at least to 0.004inches or even less to avoid ticking.

What do you think? Valve lash is always kind of a compromise. But what would be the best in your opinions?

Hey Tom,
the yellow brick is a japanese Yamaha Giggle, 50cc, 4-stroke, EFI, watercooled, 2,9HP restricted, 5HP unrestricted, two unregulated catalytic converters.
The Gilera Stalker 50 2T was the only 2-stroke scooter and generally in bad shape with lots of troubles enroute. And he had to ride at the end of the group most of the time because of his bad 2-stroke smell and fumes and because he himself was a chain-smoker even when riding the bike. 

The total costs of 1.200€ are about right, they also did a lot of ("forbidden") wild camping.
But this is not always so exciting, especially when it´s raining and temperatures are low. I know that from my own experience.

These trips are great fun indeed, but also can be pretty tough and exhausting from time to time. Especially in cold and bad weather.

This guy has some more nice trips posted online on his website. All of them are worth beeing explored. More breathtaking gorges and canyons and alpine routes to be seen. 

Have fun!

Folks,
this little scooter is indeed an astounding peace of chinese engeneering, I must tell you.
Today, after a long and cold winter (especially February with minus 30 degrees Celsius in some places over here) and my scooter sitting outside in the cold wild with only a soft textile "scooter garage" covering it - since I have lost my real garage due to massiv construction works in the house since last summer - , I decided in some nice plus 13 degrees celsius to uncover the scooter and try to give it a first start up into the new season.
I didnt care about the scooter at all since December. Last time I took it for a short ride was somewhere around end of december and beginning of january.
I didn´t even care about the Shido LiFePo battery in all these winter month. So I was quiet a bit sceptic while approaching my little scooter.
So I took away that blanket, inspected the scooter all around from outside. A bit corrosion luckily only on the main center stand.
Then I put the key into the lock, turned it to run, and heared the fuel pump humming happily. :-) To give that injector hose a nice flush at first, I repeated this procedure two times. Then I pulled the brake lever and pressed the start button.
Guess what? 
The scooter started in the second, only with that little grunt of the starter motor, and idled then so normally and regularily as if I had used the scooter just yesterday. Amazingly fantastic!

Just wanted to let you know how reliable our Kymco Likes are. 

I wish you all a good and healthy start into the new season!   

Cheerio!

P.S: Unfortunately and obviously I am still loosing a little bit of air out of the rear tire somewhere. I still suspect the "new" and already changed valve stem from last year.
But so what! I will give that rear tire one day a nice deep bath in a bowl to find out where the bubbles are leaving the tire and/or rim.

And 4. make sure that your (green) ground wires to engine, frame and battery have always good contact, not being loose or corroded.
A little bit of salt water resistant marine grease in the cable connectors could also help some rainriders or coastriders permanently.

I would say that most of the motorcycle/scooter manufacturers have exact knowledge of how a motorcycle/scooter has to be constructed and built in the 21th century.
But for some speculative reasons some still decide to do otherwise.

For example unfortunately DEALIM fled the USA market some years ago, but they have some real clever engineers.
Luckily they are still in Europe. 

I give you an example with some details:

The Daelim Otello FI 125 ABS 2017  from South Korea is a good value (€2.500,-), easy for maintanance, pretty well constructed and built scooter. With some clever details. Maybe not the most beautiful on earth, but also not the most ugly.

4-Valve Euro4 FI 125cc engine with 12hp.
Oil cooler.
A 9,5L gastank for some good miles a tank.
A clever tank cap with Key access and flip mecanism.
Easy to access snap in covers for brake reservoirs. Both front and rear.
Bosch ABS braking system front and rear.
Oil level check glass on the left side of the engine block. No dipstick anymore. Oil refill through valve cover.
Service cover for valvecover and valve lash check.
Two oilfilters. A rock strainer and a real oil filter cartridge.
Good seatfoam and quality material for seat cover.
Easy access to battery and fuses underneath the seat.
Large trunk for an integral helmet.
Good access to lightbulbs.
Hazard light function.
Muffler flange to exhaust pipe, so for a tire change only the muffler has to be removed and not the exhaust manifold.
Easy to access strong passenger footpegs and easy to replace in case.
Also comes with some nice standard accessory as sissy bar or windshield with handprotectors.
Digital display with tripmeter and digital fuel gauge.
Top speed 105-110km/h.

Another nice scooter of Daelim would for sure be the new Steezer model. And nice price also.

If I had´nt  already the Like 200i, I now would definately consider these two as a sincere alternative to Kymcos so called "better than best" products...

Sorry for my comment this time being so off topic. 

And what does the glass fuse say in the battery  compartement? Within the little white or yellow fuse capsules. Good or blown?
Replacement with 10A and 15A.

@donniemac