Tamiyacowboy

awesome news to hear Nikki .

a wrongly re-set needle clip can cause overfueling , if all the above was to fail my last place would ahve been a re-look at the carb and its slide needle settings just to be fully sure . 

great to hear the sfera is back to being itself again, i just got new rubber on the piaggio skipper, went with avon viper strykers this time round .

Ride safe  <3 

Tami

hi nikki sorry i not been about much 

first off, check your carb connection to the motors manifold, a slight air leak caused by perrished rubber hose/poor fitted clamp - no gasket can provide just enough extra air to cause starting problems . can be either end the airbox hose to carb join or the carb to motor manifold , usually these two places get overlooked.

if that does not help, try tweeking the idle screw slightly to bring up the resting idle, what this is doing is moving the throttle slide up slightly , when your cold start its like an added little extra air and fuel and can sometimes stop poor starting right from the bat.  the other area is the coldstarter aka the auto choke, these can start to fail over time and leave the choke semi engaged so it acts up , or just does not open the choke when starting due to it failing.

If all else fails you could come and join The Scooter Shack forum, we have a whole forum of scooter tuners and motorcycle mechanics logging in that could offer other insights that could be the problem 

heres a link to the shack if you wanna pop by and lurk /read up  https://www.scootershack.co.uk/

 

hammer -nails-paint to repair damage from the hotwheels slamming into the skirting board at  a zillon miles per hour .

meatballs n kelloggs thats some wierd concoction , crunchy nut meatballs  ?

tings have been showing up here small but catching, mackerel are moving round so we aint getting them much , got my feathers made up and ready stowed away, grabbed four 21g spoon lures as the shop had ran out of dexter lures  and the Abu tobys cost like £8 a lure here  

Just converted my camera tripod into a sea fishing beach rod tripod holder, used a 1/4 to 3/8 camera thread adaptor, reamed out a chunk of hardwood ( half inch thick by about 2.5 inch wide ) , mounted the thread adapter into the reamed out hole and buttoned it down so it fits the quick release base on teh tripod head , now all i need to do is carve / sand out a nice semi circle to hold the rod blank in and use some small tack nails and some rubber inner tube to make a nice padded rubber base so not to scratch the rod blank. 

should he able to use some old left of webbing straps to make up some sort of clips i can then strap the tripod to my rucksack , being small when closed down its not so large and having extender legs means i can adjust it to suit the beach - rod length 

sweet AJ, i am in hope of going to do some mackerel fishing so i can get some free bait, maybe even pick up a few small whitting i can clean and fillet for baits . 

i just hope i can cope with the colder months when the big ol cods come in, but i am eyeing up a cheap bass caster with the thought of doing some lure fishing for bass to, thats if i can find a few cheap rapala R13's

these any good AJ :   http://www.pegasusmodels.co.uk/prodcat.asp?type=submenu&dept=2&maingp=LiPo+-+LiFe+Batteries&id=2+Cell+7.4v&filter=RS&offset=0#pt

declare all out war on isis , and set boots onto the ground, hunt them down with whatever means be it dogs - drones . 

no prisioners either. lined up and taken out , the only option is all out warfare and bring the whole of nato and our allys to  the front line

Heartless cowards 

i hope those that are missing are found safe and well 

aye its very rare they keep stock of plugs for small block motors, you would expect them to given they sometimes sell chainsaws and strimmers etc etc....... i would look through yellow pages and find a couple lawnmower/chainsaw repair shops local to you, then pop in and see them, i think you will find they will have a good knowledge of places that stock the small plugs and if not they will have some stock on shelf  

places like halfords will only stock the most used sparkies in bikes and cars.

bike shops you may get the small motor sparkies, but again they tend to stock plugs for the bikes they sell and most of the time the most popular sizes used in bikes . 

take the br8hsa its a popular scooter plug used in most scooters in the 50cc range and its a fairly stocked product but then you goto something your largescales use your gonna find bike stores not holding them as much, BUT if you pop to places that sell and repair chainsaws and lawn mowers your going to have a chance they stock your required plugs due to the fact they are the same type of motor and use undersized plugs 

Deepwater horizon : blooming good film

dr strange : classic marvel movie

Starwars Rouge one : its starwars, its got stromtroopers and droids  

 

compression test see what sorta psi your getting, saves you tearing down the cylinder for inspection can rule out rings that way. 

check seals on carb, if your using gaskets you should replace them each time you remove carb, but check they aint leaking, an air leak is a pain in the arse .......... pop the carb off clean the float bowl / primer bulb and check the jets ain got a bit o dirt in, the main jet will be clogged if your getting an idle but bog n stop on throttling up

Had one today. just come out of the city main centre onto the outer ring road. was first at the left turn only at traffic lights , being on a scooter i took my position centre of the road in a defensive manner. all was good. lights change and i rode the corner onto a dual section of road, indicated with fair warning done my lifesave checks and mirror checks and made my way into that lane. all i saw was a silver Merc hauling speed ( limit is 30 i was at 30, he was doing atleast 45+) , he under took me very close so yes i gave him the two finger salute , he then could not decide what lane to take, left only or left - straight on. 

i went into the left straight on due to the road being dual and i needed to be in the right hand lane. made my move and got round the roundabout and corner. stopped at the pedestrian lights on red and it happened, felt this slight push forwards, the merc drive had came right up behind me and tailtapped my rear tyre. i pulled forwards and he intentionaly did the same again. so i sat middle the road for the next mile doing 20mph lol . he drew up beside me at roundabout and i let loose, called him a ****ing muppet how dare he tailtap me how dare he try bully a leaner rider. same time the van driver behind started shouting at him, he had followed the same dude watching him.

Poxy merc drivers if i see that retard again im going to rub my nice dirty toe guard along is nice shiney piece of scrap of a car, teach him a lesson. got home to a bust L-plate 

stash a 6-12v battery onboard, hook up a scooter headlight and turn signals grip bar units  grab a mini set of indicators ( led) and a led main/high beam headlamp ( something like a c50-c90 headlamp) hang it off the front.

Mould up a alloy bracket and brake lamp to hold the numberplate, go get it MOT'd  have plenty of fun legal wise

few hundred is a hella lot better than a grand and a half to be honest would ask the mrs's stepdad first see what he thinks before you delve deep

know how you feel guns, had a esa medical assessment they found me fit to work, had to wait a month before i could claim universal credit, filled forms went to interview for them to cancel my universal credit claim stating i am unfit to work. yeah got one side of dwp saying im fit to work and the other side saying i am not..... worse part i now have to go to appeal courts and clog up the courts .... way to go Tory idiots how can you be fit for work but not fit for work .... its the best way to cut numbers from claiming benefits and kill them off so they dont ever reclaim 

see if you can find a scrapped ECU buddy , for the sake of £30-50 quid its worth a try , just take a battery with you throw battery on donor car plug in osbII module and read it off  see if there many faults showing. then its just wipe the faults clean and install into your motor.

heat and a good penatration fluid .

like we do on bikes add heat, use something like a hairdryer to put heat into it  but before that a good dose/ soak in wd40 or likes .

handy place to have bookmarked on phone/pc for you large scale runners , us bike tuners also have ratio calcs saved ........... http://www.abcmotorcycles.co.uk/fuelmix.html

yeah i was gutted when they told her to pull over i was screaming at the tv dont stop burn it baby burn it !!!! lol 
just wish that drift driver took a roll lol i wnated to see his omg i pooped myself face

wine before beer brings a tear .......... beer before wine makes all women look fine ......... lol  .......... beer and wine together makes you feel like leather 

oil method : run the large scale till its gotta hot pipe then take an oiled rag and wipe it over . problem here is OIL AND HEAT makes fire , its possible the oil will catch and burn leaving you with an even worse mess .

other method is buff polishing and using a steel / metal polish to keep the pipe coated and slow down oxidizing 

all these methods need to be done every so often not once in a blue moon so to keep ontop you have to hold a hardcore cleaning and buffing regime

the patina comes from the pipe constantly heating and cooling you get the blue'ing and purp staining
what ever happens a pipes gonna rust you cant keep factory works pipes sparkley shine on mx bikes and you wont on your large scales either BUT you can do some hard core care to keep them looking sweet.

first off you want propper red scotchbrite pads , give the pipe a good rubdown with scotch brite, thats gonna get rid of most of the fine dust rust, next a big can of wd40. with your scotchbrite  pipe done wash it off and blow dry it or towel dry it now get that wd40 and spray that sucker all over , leave the wd on dont wipe it off let it evap away.

every couple weeks/month grab the scotchbrite rub the pipe down and give it the wd40 spray.

cheap ride on mower and a few sheet of metal.

make a kiddies sized crawler powered by the ride on mower chassis and motor