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Would I be mad to buy another whole Like as parts for the one I have?

A Like 125 has come up, in the same colour as my Like 200.

Unfortunately it's carburetted, but I can see there's real spares potential.

The bike is £300 delivered.

Quick costings;

~ I get a set of wheels - worth £60 to me I reckon
~ If there's one good tyre that's £30 I don't have to spend on the next one. Michelin on the front.
~ Forks are worth £60 to me to have as spares!
~ Pair of brake levers are worth £30 to me
~ I strongly suspect I'll be needing a pair of new brake callipers for my 200 - worth another £50 probably.

~ The exhaust is no good to me - it's worth £80 on eBay though to someone else! So I can deduct that
~ Carburettor is useless to me - but again, £30 on eBay

So £230's worth of parts off it are good for me to keep, and I reckon I can get £110 back on eBay at the least.

So £340 of the bike is accounted for before I start even delving into the engine, brackets, body panels, lights, mirrors etc.

Before I go and try to rationalise this decision to my other half, can anyone confirm for me that this isn't crazy logic?

I don't have anything useful to add to this; I'm currently using a matt black helmet but I've alternated colours quite a bit over the years.

I wouldn't, by choice, own a black bike - but I do.

White would be nice but I never seem to be able to get the right helmet at the right size in the right colour.

There isn't much of a cruiser/Harley scene here in the UK. American motorcycles never really took off.

I'm sure it's a stupid question but have you timed it up on the correct stroke? I'm having a memory blank but it should be timed on the compression stroke rather than the expelling stoke.

I have once seen it done where it was timed incorrectly somehow - with the cam 180 degrees out.

The garage would definitely have charged you more than $150

Evil, you darn near opened a can of worms with that post of some self-impor.....Stig gonna have to hold me down!! I just dream of what a suppository that guy's phone would be! Gotta stop! Not to mention the guy using the Birmingham 5 second rule on that traffic light. But you are right, our mission is to keep our head on a swivel and be a good example. Don't really need to install distractions.

What's the Birmingham 5 second rule? In the UK that's about eating food off the floor

Is the US Birmingham as pretty as the UK one?

Do you go for coffee most mornings on the scooter?

That sounds like bliss to me. Another 30 years and perhaps I'll have the time

OK, and has anyone ever seen a dirty air filter? Those are to be changed at 3,000 miles and then every 4,000. get to use.

And cyclepedia says to change the fuel  pump filter at 7,000Km. I'd like to hear from anyone who went in there to perform that. The filter is only avail. as part of the $185 fuel pump bundle.

At 14,000+ miles I've checked the valves 9 times per my maint. record, with an embarassing number of gear and engine oil changes. I started out with AMSOIL per the dealer's advice. But the forum moved me to start using  Shell Rotella. Still using Honda pro for the gear oil.

The Michelins went on at 440 miles. I guess it is time to think of replacing that 5 yr old from City Grip. Changed the rear tire last year with new bearing.

My spare brake pads are aging in a drawer, with a new Iridium NGK, head and tail light bulbs, airfilters, dipstick, oil screens, O rings & caps. (in case KYMCO went the way of PanAm airlines - I bought a new coil, injector, clutch assembly & bell off of our one-time resident scooter mechanic in the far N.W. a few years ago - still in the tissue paper)
Stig

I've never seen an air filter that was worth changing, bar the one in my other half's car that had done 45,000 miles without a change... I did the one in my last scooter at 20,000 miles and it was still not bad. I think they assume that we're in dusty countries!

How often are the valves supposed to be adjusted? I've been using Motul gear oil for years.

I wouldn't worry about the tyre unless it's showing signs of perishing!

I am also on the lookout for a spare LAMBDA sensor, throttle body and injector unit for when the parts become hard to find. Although, I think I have more access to them from the Italian breaker's markets.

My bike appears to still be on the original pads... which worries me a little. When I was using genuine Suzuki pads in the last scooter, I was destroying a pair every 5000 miles or so. I need to get both callipers off the bike to change the fluid and carefully remove the pins, which are currently seized solid. If not, it will be replacement calliper time!

New Maxxis tyre on the front wheel. Feels nice and sticky! The original Kenda is behind, destined to meet the bin soon.



Bit of a find on the pavement - scabby old mudflap that's fallen off a car, but it's the perfect material to cut down to size for the rear mudguard!