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View Poll Results: Do you do the work on your scoot, or someone else? | |||
Yes, I do ALL the work | 45 | 68.18% | |
I do MOST of the work | 17 | 25.76% | |
I ALWAYS bring it somewhere | 4 | 6.06% | |
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03-19-2013, 08:20 PM | #1 |
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Brookfield, WI
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Always do my own work, but I'll be having the exhaust modded by a shop after I work out the fit and figure where the oxygen sensor bung needs to be installed.
Oh yea I have a seat being done up by a motorcycle seat craftsman. I need ot give him a call, haven't spoke to him in a while.
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03-20-2013, 06:52 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Jacksonville Fl/Mantoloking NJ
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I still have busted up knuckles from owning my Harley all thoses years. Now other than fluids my bikes go to the shop. I'm just getting to old to enjoy it anymore .
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03-20-2013, 12:40 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Jacksonville, Texas
Posts: 53
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What is a scooter shop....I have none here. Have over 9000 miles on my scoot and have installed HID head lights, manual choke, recovered the seat myself, LED's on the rear and installed a rear trunk. It is a 2008 Roketa 250B (257) purchased new in July 2008. Enjoy the ride...
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03-20-2013, 12:54 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: pasadena, tx
Posts: 135
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I do over 90 percent of the work myself, my girl(ex now) did the other 10 percent and that was pretty cool. It was mostly minor mods and not repairs, mostly... If the engine ever pooped out, I would def need some help from a shop.
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03-20-2013, 01:11 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 482
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I see my mechanic every morning bright and early....In the bathroom mirror
When I started out (after taking off the tupperware) it looked like a hopeless mass of wires and tubes, now I can fix or modify it in my sleep. |
03-20-2013, 09:09 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Tierra Azul, NM
Posts: 739
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I just realized I answered wrong. My scooter doesn't break down...
I do my own maintenance.
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03-20-2013, 11:01 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 51
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Lol ^
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03-21-2013, 12:18 PM | #8 |
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Nanty Glo, Pa.
Posts: 163
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I do all my own work, only thing I go to shop for is mount and balance my tires, but I take them off too. someday soon I want to be able to do this also. All the work I've done on mine scoot, if I took to a shop it be a huffy cost to be. It is good to become one with your bike, with some experience only you will know what wrong, alot of shop when looking for a problem are just guessing.
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03-22-2013, 03:36 AM | #9 |
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Miami, FL
Posts: 389
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I do all the basic stuff.
If it gets too complex, or i don't know how to solve something,I'll either bring in the bike, or sell it. |
03-23-2013, 02:08 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Columbia Mo.
Posts: 132
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Mike.
DO this a poll sticky // no reply/ Nice to have as a post/info, but a poll overview should be ongoing.
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03-29-2013, 05:27 AM | #11 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Tecate, Mexico
Posts: 10
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Everything except paint.
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04-02-2013, 02:13 AM | #12 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Kihei, Maui
Posts: 19
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Same here on Maui, true there are some, but the cost is unbelievable! I have done all my own work with the help from you guys...
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03-19-2015, 06:36 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Third Coast, Texas
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I did all the maintenance and repair work on my in-laws scoots when I lived near them in Florida. I finally got tired of having to go through them every six months because I would get them running and working right, my in-laws would ride them two or three times and park them in the garage until lo and behold! the gas went stale and could I come over and get the scooters working again. After two years of this pattern I just took them home with me and my wife daily rode them and would just haul them up to the in-laws when they wanted to go for a ride. I love and hate carbs for this reason; simple to work on but so sensitive to ethanol laced fuels. Would that I still had the scoots, I would look into a direct injection cylinder head mod.
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03-19-2015, 10:15 AM | #14 | |
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Western New York
Posts: 454
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I wanted to share my carb experience with you, big shank. My scoot just turned 3 years old, and I have never taken its carb off to clean it. It just hasn't needed it, starts well, idles well, powers up well, and delivers great mileage. In my area it is in hibenation for 5 months a year. Here is the thing....I always use non ethanol gas, in fact I drive 13 miles to get it, even though there are probably a dozen gas stations closer...but none with non ethanol. I also add about a half an ounce of MMO at each fillup, (about a gallon). Seafoam would probably work as well. Before storing for winter, I add some Stabil as insurance. It works for me...3 years, and 5800 miles, and 15 total months of non use, and I haven't had to touch it.......at least not yet. |
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03-19-2015, 11:24 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Hyde Park, NY
Posts: 1,068
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I'll second the Seafoam. I put it all my stuff before I lay them up for our very long Winter and they all start in the Spring.
Yes, I do my own work on everything except mounting tires. I use to do it, have all the stuff to do it but after watching them do in five minutes what used to take me an hour I let the pros do it now. I pull the wheels off, take them in with the cheap tires I got online and put the wheels back on.
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