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Post by Dandy Dan on Mar 22, 2008 18:24:32 GMT -5
I would have it up in my shop (aka spare bedroom) except I've been riding it daily all winter to university. The motorcycle parking on campus is way cheaper and way closer to class than the car parking so it's totally worth freezing for 5 minutes if I take the bike. This winter has been kinda hard on my CBR125...the chain is in rough shape and a few bits have gotten rusty. In another few weeks I'm going to give it a nice spring cleaning. I actually gave it an oil change today! It was still cold here (-4 C or about 25 F) but the sun was really hot so it wasn't too bad.
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Post by bowery4 on Mar 23, 2008 13:22:59 GMT -5
-4 makes my bones chill its 30 here or 90F
I am surprised you ride it so much in the winter. Got to take care of that beast, but I understand ( no cars? ), oh yeah the price of gas.........I gave up on 4 wheels when I moved to NYC 14 years ago, and haven't looked back, maybe if I have kids someday. but just for a short while. I like big assed cities though so maybe not.
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Post by chanito on Mar 23, 2008 17:00:31 GMT -5
 You guys are hard core, here i cry if the temp goes into the 50's actually i used the last cold front to tune my scooter for the next "Fall ride"  now i should be able to use the extra power to gain some advantage
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Post by Kami no Chiizu on Mar 23, 2008 23:11:15 GMT -5
I hear the riding to campus. Bike parking was free at ASU, and even though public transport was free too, much more fun to ride my Ruckus.
Granted, I could have been like my roommate. We had a parking deck that was free from 11pm-6am, so he'd drive to class in the morning, then ride the bus back to our apartment, then go back to campus later that night and get his car.
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Post by Dandy Dan on Apr 9, 2008 11:05:09 GMT -5
So I hauled my Beluga down from my spare bedroom Sunday night and I started rejetting it yesterday afternoon!
In stock form, this scooter cruising at 40mph max in nice conditions. Now with a performance pipe and a properly sized carb it kit 85km/hr (53mph?) on my first test run! The acceleration is still pretty weak up to 35mph and then the pipe kicks in and it accelerates strongly up to 50+mph. I'm stoked! I'm going to do some more rejetting today to hopefully improve the acceleration and overall power a bit.
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Post by Dandy Dan on Apr 11, 2008 11:27:28 GMT -5
Nobody cares that I'm setting world records here? Last night with a taillight I was up over 90km/hr (55mph) in no time. It was downright scary with this floaty suspension, tiny wheels and pothole strewn road.
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Donny
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Post by Donny on Apr 12, 2008 17:43:03 GMT -5
can you beef up tires and suspenion? did you change the weights?
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Post by Dandy Dan on Apr 12, 2008 18:50:50 GMT -5
I've got the weights on hand read to go in but I'm waiting until I get the jetting settled and until I get a tach first so that I can tell what difference the weights make. I'd like to record a graph of the stock RPM over time first, so I can have some baseline data. I bought a tach to take the baseline data but it seems to be busted so perhaps I'll throw the lighter weights in anyways at tune up day if I can get it rejetted properly before then. I'm waiting on some jets right now. About the tires and suspension, I could get some better tires but I'm hesitant to drop even more dough into this scooter. I just bought new tires about 500kms ago (for $18/each  ). About the suspension, the stock suspension isn't that bad...it's adequately beefy, it just doesn't have a lot of rebound damping so it really bounces along. It's kinda fun though....I enjoy it so I don't have plans to change it. Here are some fresh pics for everyone: New cupholder:   New taillight and pipe:  Gotta get that smashed inner front panel fixed:   |
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Post by chanito on Apr 13, 2008 19:12:04 GMT -5
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Post by Dandy Dan on Apr 13, 2008 23:01:22 GMT -5
Thanks! I've got a few plans still up my sleeve to make it look a bit nicer. I'm replacing that smashed inner front panel with (hopefully) the inner panel from a guy in Europe. Over in Europe these scooters came with a glove box.
Oh and I've got some really nice JDM blinkers in the mail right now too that are going to really clean up the front end.
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Post by Kami no Chiizu on Apr 13, 2008 23:27:08 GMT -5
Oh and I've got some really nice JDM blinkers in the mail right now too that are going to really clean up the front end. Thank the maker! Those blinkers just look way out of place on her. |
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Post by Dandy Dan on Apr 13, 2008 23:53:52 GMT -5
The new blinkers are going to look like this (compare to my avatar):  And this is the glove box I'm hoping to score:  |
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Post by Donny on Apr 14, 2008 8:04:14 GMT -5
when i first seen the beluga i thought it has been beaten with a ugly stick,and as slow as a turtle! you have come a long way in one winter! its a keeper! i bet you cannot wait to blow your brother off the pavment!
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Post by Dandy Dan on Apr 14, 2008 16:07:30 GMT -5
I picked a cigarette lighter for it today. Should be handy to light up the odd cigar. It's a 12V lighter so hopefully it works okay with this 6V system. I imagine it'll be significantly underpowered so it may take longer to use and not glow as red but I'm hoping it'll still be enough for a light.
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Post by Ron Rucks on Apr 14, 2008 22:31:19 GMT -5
shes looking nice, do I get to take her for spin.......yariba......yariba...
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Donny
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Post by Donny on Apr 15, 2008 8:03:28 GMT -5
2 weeks you may have your chance!
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Post by Dandy Dan on Apr 15, 2008 10:17:36 GMT -5
shes looking nice, do I get to take her for spin.......yariba......yariba... Sure ;D |
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Post by Dandy Dan on Apr 15, 2008 17:13:27 GMT -5
JDM blinkers arrived today New:  OId: |
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Post by Donny on Apr 15, 2008 19:09:17 GMT -5
makes it look like a newer model now, slim and cleaner without the lights sticking out front and back..are the signals in the rear tail light?
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Post by Kami no Chiizu on Apr 15, 2008 19:41:20 GMT -5
Much, much nicer.
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I nevedr thought i would say this, but that beluga is looking nice 