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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.   

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!

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 :-)

It means something's happening.  It means nothing, in fact!

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.

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?

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!

Well if anyone else is looking for a new carb solution, the "Racing CVK 30mm Carb" from eBay for $45 works.

It always useful to try various clone carbs.  Some are excellent, and some are terrible.  But they're cheap enough to take a chance.  An original Kymco 30mm carb is about $500, so it's worth experimenting with clones.  Here's some useful ideas from my own experiments: The best clones have die-cast bodies.  There are some that have sand-cast bodies, and they're terrible (they leak)!  Zoom in on the photos and you should be able to see the quality of the casting.  Some Kymcos have "Kymco" brand carburetors which are average-OK.  But the identical Keihin carbs are much better.  They idle nicely and are perfectly balanced at, say, wide-open throttle.  The nice thing about Chinese technology (other than the excellent quality) is that all different makes are perfectly interchangeable - no cutting/welding/machining required.  So you'll be able to find a working carb that's either really crappy - or really excellent.  Here's a link to the original Kymco carb: https://www.azmotors.fr/PIECES_KYMCO/GAMME_SCOOTERS/vue-eclate-PEOPLE250-S-II/CARBURATEUR.html