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General Discussion / Re: Your gas price today?
« on: October 06, 2026, 01:26:32 AM »
That's not too bad - no reason to complain. It's less than what I pay. Diesel is more efficient than gasoline, so your price is a good deal!
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People s150 / Re: Riding season finally open
« on: May 12, 2026, 12:48:30 AM »
has annual registration, inspection and insurance requirements to be legally driven.
"Inspection"!!? Now that sounds like a mafia racket if ever there was one! They used to have that in the 1950's in third-world countries like the UK & Germany, but I didn't think anyone is still doing it in the modern world!
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Agility 125 / Re: Hose Sizes?
« on: April 19, 2026, 09:19:22 AM »eBay sells many sizes of clamps. (and hardware, quality Japanese bearings, ect that can be used on a scooter)
Stig
Those are almost always too big for small machines. It's better to see them with your own eyes to be certain! The most difficult to locate are the small hose clamps.
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General Discussion / Re: Aliexpress
« on: April 19, 2026, 08:56:50 AM »Might get flamed for this, but i see aliexpress has a 50cc replacement top end for 30$ (kymco super 9) picked up a blown up s9, and theres a shortage of stock displacement options - looking to keep 50cc for dependability, no tuning etc.
Has anyone ran one of these kits? I assume Naraku and other similar competitors (maybe oem even) come from the same factory lol
If it's a 2-stroke, this is normal. You can often get the cylinder, piston,rings, wrist-pin, clips,gaskets in one go. It's normal maintenance on 2 strokes. When the compression gets down to 50psi, they won't start and you have to change out the entire top-end. Shouldn't take more than an hour.
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General Discussion / Re: new motorcycle??!?
« on: April 19, 2026, 08:48:22 AM »Presumably for a (US) gallon Stig? That'd be 3.78 litres. Or $0.84 per litre!That's a bargain - send a tanker load over this way!
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Technical | How To / Re: fixed locked front brake.....maybe?
« on: March 27, 2026, 08:46:17 AM »
Disc brakes that won't release is always stuck pistons. They look just like yours! I find it's a longer lasting fix to take the pistons out completely for cleaning. Usually you need an Amazon tool or maybe compressed air to extract the pistons. The downside is you have to bleed the line afterward, and it takes about 1/2 hr of patient squeezing to finish bleeding. If you have short arms and can't reach the lever, you'll need some clear plastic tubing to keep the brake fluid from squirting all over the house. Good exercise!
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General Discussion / Re: out & about in a car
« on: March 27, 2026, 08:32:01 AM »
I'd be long dead if I had to live in mid-west USA! I don't have anything like the clothes you need to get through the winter! Do you have snow-mobiles? Here in western Canada we didn't even have snow this year. I don't bother with snow tires, and ride my Kymco all through the year. I leave my Kymco outside all winter, except if it gets down to freezing, and then I bring it into the house so it starts easily in the morning :-)
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LIKE 200i / Re: Roller weights and belt replacement to fix "clutch grabbiness" issue
« on: March 10, 2026, 04:00:43 AM »
This sounds like routine maintenance. I normally replace the clutch drum and linings, and the variator weights, at the same time at about 15,000km. They're not expensive. This makes it like new again!
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Agility 125 / Re: Bubbles in the fuel filter?
« on: March 10, 2026, 03:34:52 AM »
It means something's happening. It means nothing, in fact!
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Agility 125 / Re: Bike stalls when coming to a stop
« on: March 10, 2026, 03:27:21 AM »
You didn't say if it's carburetor or fuel-injected. It makes a big difference when trying to assist from far away! A carb will have an electric choke which can cause trouble like this, for instance.
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Agility 125 / Re: Hose Sizes?
« on: March 10, 2026, 03:20:55 AM »
Take the old hose to a large auto-parts store like O'Reilly's or Lordco. They match it for you and sell you correct replacement (by the metre or yard). New cars don't used these small hose sizes, but they're still stocked. Buy several sizes and store them in the attic for when you need them. Also buy the tiny hose clamps which are as scarce as hen's teeth.
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General Discussion / Re: Forum down?
« on: February 16, 2026, 12:39:49 AM »If you don't know who is the Admin, and there's no email contact, it can and will happen eventually if the Forum isn't being maintained properly. Admins are like the rest of us: they live their lives, get old and feeble, forget to maintain the servers, go to the Old Folks Home, and eventually fade away. That could be happening today as we speak! We have no way of knowing what's going on "behind the curtain". The only thing you (we) can do is keep returning to this topic until somebody hears us!
I sure hope that doesn't happen to this forum.
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General Discussion / Re: Forum down?
« on: February 15, 2026, 03:06:09 AM »I have not been able to access the forum for about 2 weeks, anybody know what happened?It's obviously suffering from lack of maintenance. The SQL server on a user forum like this keeps growing until it strangles itself. The remedy is periodic maintenance to give the server a regular shave and a haircut. Perhaps the admin is off doing something else more important?
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Super 8 / Re: super 8 150 sitting for 9 months .Idles but dies when throttle pulled
« on: January 03, 2026, 03:51:00 AM »7 months too late with this answer...
Still useful, even 7 months later!
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Super 8 / Re: Super 8 50 2T LC2U91000 upgrade to higher cc
« on: January 03, 2026, 03:49:23 AM »
It's truly not worth the trouble to upgrade a 50cc to anything useful. You won't see much improvement at even 70cc or 80cc, and the bottom-end will give way shortly afterward. The result is usually a broken crankshaft. The next step up in useful performance is about 100cc - 125cc, and that's a much bigger, stronger bottom-end that will have a good service life. Kymco parts are not problem in Greece. Order from https://www.motorradwelt-auer.de (Germany) or https://www.azmotors.fr/ (France), for example. From Greece, you can just go parts shopping on a day-trip, you don't even need a passport!