Tom999

I've joined the forum last year and learned a lot about bikes. I'm pretty much able to do most of maintenance work myself now and finally hit 10k on my odometer (2 months ago), a big suprise surprise for my little Chinese Lexmoto XTRs. Last weekend I've changed air filter, cleaned carb, check the carb needle, de rusted exhaust, oiled the cables, changed the chain and made sure everything works fine. I still have to adjust clutch but that's for tomorrow What happens/was happening last couple of months: When I took the spark plug out it was covered in grease (oil?) this time, this never happened before, there have never been any oil/grease on spark plug. What could be the reason for that? Is that potentially showing signs of big time wear off inside the engine? The bike dies a lot more often when it's cold, no amount of throttle is able to compensate the lose of revs and the bike just dies (typically at the junctions when I come to full stop) On high speed roads, I'm not able to achieve the rocket luncher speed of 80kph (going downhill of course) as I did for the first six months, it feels like I'm losing a lot of power on the fifth gear (top gear) could that mean an issue with badly adjusted clutch lever? Thanks for your opinions.

Thanks for replays lads. About 3 Months ago I had to replace my tachometer which has been faulty from the beginning apparently and always showed much higher REV than the actual rev value.

Hi guys, Generally speaking I've no experience in maintaining bikes/cars however lots of great tips are on the internet which allowed me to do some basic maintenance after my brand new bike hit 400 Miles, such as: - Oil Change (SL type) - Filter Changes - Adjustments - Wiring improvements etc. In the manufacturers datasheet I've came across that my recommended Idle speed is to be set at 1440 RPM, a friends of mine who are bikers added that even if I'm below this RPM on idle I should be able to run smoothly But when I started to play with the Idle screw on Carburettor and going just below 1800RPM idle the bike would stall without throttle and it would die every time I go from 2nd to 1st gear. So my current setting is around 1900/1950 RPM idle on 3/4 of a choke ON when cold. The brand new idle speed was set at 2500 rpm. It's a Chinese Lexmoto brand, 1 cylinder 4 stroke air cooled without any issues apart from the idle speed setting. I'm not planning to take it to the garage for couple weeks due to work load. What can be possible reason for such high idle RPM setting?