Folks,
this little scooter is indeed an astounding peace of chinese engeneering, I must tell you.
Today, after a long and cold winter (especially February with minus 30 degrees Celsius in some places over here) and my scooter sitting outside in the cold wild with only a soft textile "scooter garage" covering it - since I have lost my real garage due to massiv construction works in the house since last summer - , I decided in some nice plus 13 degrees celsius to uncover the scooter and try to give it a first start up into the new season.
I didnt care about the scooter at all since December. Last time I took it for a short ride was somewhere around end of december and beginning of january.
I didn´t even care about the Shido LiFePo battery in all these winter month. So I was quiet a bit sceptic while approaching my little scooter.
So I took away that blanket, inspected the scooter all around from outside. A bit corrosion luckily only on the main center stand.
Then I put the key into the lock, turned it to run, and heared the fuel pump humming happily. :-) To give that injector hose a nice flush at first, I repeated this procedure two times. Then I pulled the brake lever and pressed the start button.
Guess what?
The scooter started in the second, only with that little grunt of the starter motor, and idled then so normally and regularily as if I had used the scooter just yesterday. Amazingly fantastic!
Just wanted to let you know how reliable our Kymco Likes are.
I wish you all a good and healthy start into the new season!
Cheerio!
P.S: Unfortunately and obviously I am still loosing a little bit of air out of the rear tire somewhere. I still suspect the "new" and already changed valve stem from last year.
But so what! I will give that rear tire one day a nice deep bath in a bowl to find out where the bubbles are leaving the tire and/or rim.
