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Many years ago, I kept a Bultaco Matador in my living room for several winters. During the Christmas season, I decorated it with lights.

Prior to the Kymco, I had a Piaggio product that had a press-on cap on the outside of the clutch bell. Whenever shudder developed, all you had to do was pop off the cap and blast the dust out of the bell with an air compressor; it cleared up the problem immediately. When I bought the Kymco, I noticed shudder as soon as I drove away from the dealer, but hoped it was just some temporary condition resulting from newness. Since the Kymco has no convenient access to the clutch internals, I was worried about how involved it might be to solve the problem if it didn't clear itself up. Well, 8 years have gone by and the shudder it still there, but to a much less-noticeable extent; nowadays it doesn't seem to happen on take-off, but only occurs when accelerating lightly in a low-speed traffic crawl. Since the clutch has never been touched, I attribute the lack of significant shudder development to the fact that I always accelerate briskly on take-offs, thereby minimizing clutch slip.

I ride all winter as long as the roads are clear, but it's been pretty cold this year. And now the we're finally getting into days that are fit for human consumption, the damned COVID comes along, leaving no place open to run errands to. In all honesty, although I've never had a consequential accident, I worry every time I ride that, if something happened, I'd be terrified of receiving medical attention, given what's going on right now.

Hi, to any performance nut.

Has anyone mounted an Airspeed indicator on their scooter for true performance data. Would that even work in turbulent traffic air flow?

Feel free to critique/criticize.

I owned a sailboat for 35 years, and therefore have experience with wind speed indicators; in fact, I still have a hand-held model (that's the only kind I can imagine being able to install on a scooter). I would expect that the majority of hand-held units would be made for sailing, and therefore calibrated in "knots"; so, you'd have to do measurement conversions (to MPH or KPH, depending on location). By the way, one knot equals 1.151 MPH, or 1.852 KPH. Also, the range of wind speeds that are anticipated when sailing, are much lower than experienced on a scooter; for example, 50 MPH (over 80 KPH) is in excess of 43 knots. I doubt that a hand-held unit would be designed to measure accurately at speeds approaching that magnitude, since, in my opinion, most sailors wouldn't care about the details of such a blow, because they'd be too busy scrambling to find their life jackets. So, I would conclude that a practically-sized wind speed indicator would not prove useful on a scooter, but I'm quite willing to stand corrected.

Pardon sounding like a wise guy but that is what he wants to know! How to reset the oil service light.

That's precisely what I told him. What I didn't explain, was how to reset the odometers. I assume he knows that much about his bike.

Here you go... Definitely not my cup of tea.

Different pic, but essentially the same.

I like the idea, but I don't know how much of a bike could start from a "kit", and become road "legal" from a licensing perspective. Rather than purchasing it as a kit, one could run around buying up parts that could somehow be made to work satisfactorily together, but I bet you'd have major trouble getting it licensed. I fear that any bike would have to arrive largely intact from a recognized manufacturer to become legal.