Hello fellow Kymco owners! It's been a very long time since I posted on this forum: March '09, 11 months. Way too long! The reason I haven't posted is that I just forgot my password and user name. I know, pretty lame. I resetted my password tonight and now is the big update from me about my GV 250. Well, it's still running! Actually, running well, very well. The only major repairs I had was replacing my tires (both) around 5700 miles, and also, both front and rear brake pads. I just had the drive belt and variator weights replaced in Dec '09 and my GV's acceleration is back. Today, I accumulated 6,964 miles - close to 7,000 miles! I just love this scoot. It's fantastic in the city, traffic jams are not a problem because I just lane split or find a short cut. Once, I thought I was in Taipei and just rode on the sidewalk to get around an accident. The police and paramedics were way too busy taking care of the accident victims than to pay attention to a fatman like me on a scoot. This past summer, I rode my GV to nearby Stockton, California using the county road that runs parallel with I-5. I cruised between 55 and 60 mph without a hitch. Nice smooth handling at that speed. I opened her up a little more and the speed climbed to 65. I decided to go wide open, and I noticed my speedometer slowly, I mean slowly creeping to 69. Actually these speeds are estimates. My speedometer actually showed 82, but since Kymco speedometers are notiriously optimistic (20%) I just calculated it to be 69. And that was pretty much it with the speed. I would like to go faster, but I don't really know how. I've read other scooter forums, they write about changing their variators, weights, drive belts, clutch etc. Can anyone who has tuned their GVs let me know the mods you installed and how it increased your speed. I'm going to try and post some pics and vids. Later
