What's with all the dust?

[TroutBum]

Ever notice the amount of black dust that accumulates on the rear section of our Like?mFrom the dip stick to the rear tire the accumulation of dust over the past 3 years is enough to recreate a tire. 😜 Is this something inherent with the Like or do all Kymcos do this?

[vespbretta]

Can you show us a picture? My Like is very clean, no black dust somewhere except the exhaust outlet. Just normal road/street dust.

[zombie]

Leave a white dinner plate on the sidewalk next to any busy road. The tire rubber is enough to make a new tire. I get the concept.

How is your tire wearing? Evenly?

It may really just be your size, and riding style combining to create a vortex behind you, and all thet dust from the road, and your bike collects.

Maybe?

[TroutBum]

Tire rides fine. Nearly 10,000 miles on original tires. The majority of the dust collects on the rear wheel. It's a fine black dust similar to the texture and feel of talc powder.

[TroutBum]

Here's a quick video of what I am talking about. The accumulation you see here is just after one week of riding.

[BettinANDlosing]

Either VERY dirty where you ride, or you have a slight oil leak somewhere. When you have a small oil leak, road grime sticks to that even better and its an endless cycle.

[TroutBum]

No oil leak. This dust is dry dry dry. It accumulates mainly on the rear wheel and the oil filler neck and dip stick unit. This has being going on since the day I rode off the dealers lot (July 28, 2012).

[BettinANDlosing]

No oil leak. This dust is dry dry dry. It accumulates mainly on the rear wheel and the oil filler neck and dip stick unit. This has being going on since the day I rode off the dealers lot (July 28, 2012).

Most likely road grime then, San Jose does not get too much rain so it builds up pretty bad.

[zombie]

Brake dust.

Pull the wheel, and check it out. Might as well order new shoes first to do it all in one shot. See if you can find Malossi shoes. They are 1000 times better.

[0BARK4322]

The only time I see stuff like that is when it is brake dust

[Stig / Major Tom]

Both of my scooters get this accumulation.in the same place. Road grime and brake dust ?
Stig

[TroutBum]

I'll give the Molassi brake pads a look. I'm getting ready to do a brake line bleed so I may as well change out the pads and check the seals.

Thanks for the recommendation Zombie.

[Stig / Major Tom]

I'll give the Molassi brake pads a look. I'm getting ready to do a brake line bleed so I may as well change out the pads and check the seals.

Thanks for the recommendation Zombie.

Not sure if you can order parts of the caliper assemblies....but you can replace the whole caliper assembly, front & rear, for $150 --- which I think is an amazingly low price for such major parts. (purchasing just the pads is @$75 ---- or $150 for the whole assembly)
So many parts for my LIKE200i are priced very reasonably. (I could buy a nice used car for the price of my Honda calipers)
Stig

[zombie]

The caliper pistons (in the small bikes) are either bakeolite or some form of epoxy. I use a bicycle pump to push them out (thru the bleeder), and Ace Hardware for the "O" ring.

If you have a square profile to the ring then you can remove it, fill the groove with grease, invert the ring (inside out), and reinstall it. I've never had an issue with either method, and I've rescued a few scoots that were completely frozen. 1000 grit in the bore as long as you do NOT remove metal, and soap, and water wash it afterwards.

[vespbretta]

At the bottom of the beltcover and at the end of the beltcover are 2 decent openings. Both holes are there to get rid of the rubber dust from the wearing belt and for ventilation purposes. Maybe part of the black dust might come from there also. If you ride hard and wear your belt from 20mm to 17mm width within 10.000km you are leaving quiet a bit of ruberdust on the roads and maybe also on the wheels/rims.  Plus road dust and brake dust.