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Step 1: Make sure you have the engine kill switch selected (check image below for more information)
Step 2:Next step is to remove the light and cell phone charger jack. Remove the screws securing the battery cover and carburettor cover. Remove the 4 bolts securing the “met-in” box and lift it out to the scooter.
Step 3: [...]
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Guide to getting the cheapest Scooter insurance
As some of my regular readers know I have a larger number of different motorcycles and scooters. So every year I have the problem of finding cheap and quality insurance.
To help my loyal readers and maybe some new ones, I have decided to put together a 4 step process [...]
I have a Givi E52.
For my money it’s the best as it is the biggest available with the soft backrest attached by wife finds it much more comfortable to ride with me than without a backrest.
I bought the black one that comes with the lights installed because you get the lights with it already [...]
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My Kymco 250 made a whining noice when it started and I had to replace the belt at 12,000 km. It had started squealing every now and then when I applied throttle to accelerate from a stop. It didn’t make the noise when starting the engine though.
The issue was due to the belt stretching. The [...]
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First try the fuses that are hidden behind the cover to the left of the Lockable Glove Box. There are several fuses in there and one of them is for the horn. It may be either blown or missing.
Otherwise just getting at the wiring is somewhat of a nightmare. Among other things the largest single piece [...]
Last year a friend of mine did this on his Kymco S125 and explained to me how he did it.
After you remove the nose plastic, it is pretty simple to splice into the wires for power. You always want to make sure that your leads on the LEDs never touch and short out your system. [...]
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Last week my wife had a massive go at me regarding the state of our garage. As you know I like to do little bit of scooter restoration at the weekend which can lead to a little bit of mess. So this weekend I have decided to do something about it. I searched the net [...]
Check out what one of my friends made : A motorised cycle!
“Hi, It started out as a Huffy Beach Cruiser that I bought at a Thrift Store for $15 and it kind of got out of control from there. The fuel tanks are old pump style fire extinguishers from the early 1900’s and has [...]
THE RESTORATION OF MY N.S.U.
After having a Vespa scooter for two years and over that time experienced several spills and slides, one of which resulted in a few days in hospital my father decided that I should have a change of machine. It was also partly because I had experienced problems with the cable [...]
During the 1960’s in the United Kingdom, Scooter shops would compete to produce their own unique and individual scooters based on either a Piaggio Vespa or an Innocenti Lambretta.
These scooters were often tuned with their own unique paint work and their own identity and then put out on the track to race!
One of [...]
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