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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #45 on: November 29, 2012, 01:27:24 AM »
Got my scoot to fire up right away fris push with the weather down under 30 this morning. I put a 75 w light bulb Under the seat for the night and it help to keep the carb worm for fast start. took the light and all to work and pluged it in and it was worm enough to start to go home on. sweet I got this...................
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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #46 on: November 29, 2012, 01:45:00 AM »
Quote from: blue on November 29, 2012, 01:27:24 AM
Got my scoot to fire up right away fris push with the weather down under 30 this morning. I put a 75 w light bulb Under the seat for the night and it help to keep the carb worm for fast start. took the light and all to work and pluged it in and it was worm enough to start to go home on. sweet I got this...................

I might try that over night but only place a blanket over the seat/engine area and place the bulb under and let the heat rise. My fear is that sitting outside for 8 hrs. in the 20 F cold it might not start for me to get home.
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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #47 on: November 29, 2012, 01:57:00 AM »
..nina does not like sitting out in the cold...

..under 45 f


...starts hard, and loads up with fuel mix...


..anybody got any ideas how to make this better??

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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #48 on: November 29, 2012, 01:58:33 AM »
Wow that's a pretty hot bulb, 75Watts !  Careful nothing gets melted.

I wonder how much of that heat made it out of the seat bucket and down to the carb . . . doesn't seem like it would have been much.

But if the battery is under the seat then keeping that warmer probably gave you more cranking power.

Warming the engine block (oil) is a good idea, and will help it start in very very cold weather . . . It just doesn't seem that a bulb under the seat would heat the engine.

'They' make these little stick on electrical heating elements which might be good for this job.  One about 1 by 2 inches might work if you could find a place to stick it on the engine. But then I'd worry that the hot engine would melt the pad once you got running.

Those little metal loop heaters that you put in a cup of coffee might work.  Bend the metal to the shape you want and find a way to bolt it to the engine block.

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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #49 on: November 29, 2012, 02:08:44 AM »
Quote from: wordslinger on November 29, 2012, 01:57:00 AM
..nina does not like sitting out in the cold...

..under 45 f


...starts hard, and loads up with fuel mix...


..anybody got any ideas how to make this better??



elc. heat tape wrape it around the block and the carb. keeps everything at 50
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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #50 on: November 29, 2012, 02:13:32 AM »
..well, she stays inside at home, but the 8-10 hours outside at work is more what i'm meaning...


..maybe strap me a generator to the rack...run some heat tape and and a cpl of forced air blowers too...

..y' know, like them upright ceramic heaters...stand a cpl or three up around it....
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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #51 on: November 29, 2012, 02:14:18 AM »
Might be hard to find for scooters . . . But for cars there used to be heated oil dip sticks.

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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #52 on: November 29, 2012, 02:18:26 AM »
25 years ago when I was in college scooter were an unknown . . . . so I got away with a lot.

In the winter I parked it in a stair well on the back side of the college Science building.

They never gave me any trouble . . . . not sure if I could still get away with that today.

Any way, it's worth asking - is there a warm spot at work that you could park the scoot ?

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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #53 on: November 29, 2012, 02:19:14 AM »
..well, i gotta 2-stroke, so it has no dipstick...


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..here we go,



..unless i'm riding it!!!!
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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #54 on: November 29, 2012, 02:20:45 AM »
..no, zimmerman, we have a really nice, designated 2-wheeled parking area...it's just right out there in the open...


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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #55 on: November 29, 2012, 02:23:23 AM »
..and what really sucks is that the parking area loses sunlight about 2pm in the winter months...
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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #56 on: November 29, 2012, 04:56:06 AM »
last winter my battery died in the cold, so I bought a ballistic battery, the bigist that would fit , and at 11 below C it has all the power I need to start my scooter, a little pricy $  when the road clears up I ride half the winter,.
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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #57 on: November 29, 2012, 12:04:39 PM »
I always go up a size in battery. when it saids 5 lb I go like a 7lb battery.( if it fits try it.)
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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #58 on: November 30, 2012, 09:58:44 AM »
-4° here yesterday morning, -2 today, scoot started up as usual, no probs after sitting outside uncovered all night with no special heater or cover. Had to pour warm water over the seat to get the ice off mind you  ;D

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Re: Winter riding
« Reply #59 on: November 30, 2012, 01:28:32 PM »
My 2 boys at lunchtime today, still -2 here and theyre nuts are frozen  sitting in the garden :o



Been sat for about 36hrs without moving. put the key in and...........

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