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Downtown 300 / Re: service manual
« on: September 19, 2014, 12:46:32 AM »
Thanks for the heads up - good to know. Stripping threads is a nightmare - I have a torque wrench so I guess I'll be needing to use it a lot more ! Dodgy electrics are fine - annoying yes but I'm good at fault finding and handy with a soldering iron.
I was riding a made-in Japan XLR250R for 6 years as a commuter bike and after that time, I really appreciated how well made it was. It was 21 years old and I reckon it would go another 21 with decent maintenance. It's quite a different level to the made-in-Thailand ER6 I use at weekends. Where rust appeared on the Honda, it stayed smooth and dark brown and never got worse. The Kwak has light brown rust and it's going bubbly so I know it's eating into the metal. It's clearly a lower grade steel. You get what you pay for eh ?
One thing that matters to me is turning radius. The Honda XLR could do 2.1m turns, which in real life means it could turn rings around cars in traffic. The ER6 is 2.7m and that can't do rings. Both have a wheelbase around 1.42m so the difference is mostly in the available steering angle. The DT300 has a long wheelbase (1.55m right ?) so I guess it's turning radius isn't that impressive. Has anyone tried to measure it ?
cheers
EDIT - found a manual online and it says turning radius is 2.6m so I'm afraid that scratches this scoot off my list. The People 300 is better at 2.2m - actually it is tighter turning left than right !
Very brief DT300 repair manual :
http://www.enmoto.com/enmotoonline/downloads/Specifications/Kymco/Reparaturanleitung%20Kymco/Downtown_300_i/01.pdf
People 250 "full" manual
http://www.scootermasters.com/manuals/People-250-Full-Manual.pdf
People 300 service manual
http://www.kymcousa.com/owners/onroad/People-GT-300i-Service-Manual.pdf
I was riding a made-in Japan XLR250R for 6 years as a commuter bike and after that time, I really appreciated how well made it was. It was 21 years old and I reckon it would go another 21 with decent maintenance. It's quite a different level to the made-in-Thailand ER6 I use at weekends. Where rust appeared on the Honda, it stayed smooth and dark brown and never got worse. The Kwak has light brown rust and it's going bubbly so I know it's eating into the metal. It's clearly a lower grade steel. You get what you pay for eh ?
One thing that matters to me is turning radius. The Honda XLR could do 2.1m turns, which in real life means it could turn rings around cars in traffic. The ER6 is 2.7m and that can't do rings. Both have a wheelbase around 1.42m so the difference is mostly in the available steering angle. The DT300 has a long wheelbase (1.55m right ?) so I guess it's turning radius isn't that impressive. Has anyone tried to measure it ?
cheers
EDIT - found a manual online and it says turning radius is 2.6m so I'm afraid that scratches this scoot off my list. The People 300 is better at 2.2m - actually it is tighter turning left than right !
Very brief DT300 repair manual :
http://www.enmoto.com/enmotoonline/downloads/Specifications/Kymco/Reparaturanleitung%20Kymco/Downtown_300_i/01.pdf
People 250 "full" manual
http://www.scootermasters.com/manuals/People-250-Full-Manual.pdf
People 300 service manual
http://www.kymcousa.com/owners/onroad/People-GT-300i-Service-Manual.pdf
