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ART-ADS

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    Honda CLR 125, Piaggio liberty 2T 50
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    Motorbikes, Airsoft, Metal & Hard Rock,

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  1. it looks like it was made by fisher price
  2. good points everyone mistakes it for a bigger bike. huge plus when you dont ride with L plates fairly reliable although i bought a shitter and had to do some repairs after a while sounds decent when you swap out the stock pipe easy to modify bad points slow obviously because it's a 125 parts are expensive for something so cheap being 17 i bought the bike because, lets be honest i wanted a harley but couldnt have one due to regulations. as such i modified it slightly, none of the 'bobber' crap you see on ebay, just swapping out a few quality parts to suit me better. once thats done and it looks the dogs nuts. i love mine to be honest, i only wish it had some more grunt, but that being said i routinely overtake traffic going 40mph and accelerating past, so it does have more grunt than the average 125 you have to push off a ramp to overtake. if you keep with the stock look its kinda dorky, the lay back chrome bars, huge seat, massive chrome exhaust and air filter cover. swapping the bars for risers and drag bars, cutting down the mudgards and fitting a smaller licence plate and tail light, then some parts blacked out removes some of the tack. having done long trips, as well as my daily town ride i can tell you it gets annoying trying to keep to the back roads when crossing the country, because sitting at 70mph isnt an option for this thing as far as i can tell. 65 tops it seems mostly but that was with my bad engine, i might do a top speed run in the future in town it works great, quite a lot of rake so you gotta muscle the thing around sometimes, especially when you narrow the bars to accommodate for driving in and out of traffic.
  3. yeh never buy an 883. especially when its not your first 'big bike', they're sluggish as a ****. you can get used dynas and 1200 sporties for 5-9k used on ebay.
  4. 10 degrees? wimp. put some joggers under your jeans and layer up
  5. has the same motor as the virago, my guess is in terms of acceleration and top speed they are similar, maybe have a look for reviews on that
  6. is anyone else planning to go. I'm from high Wycombe south bucks if anyone close would be fine car sharing. I'm 17 and have a bike not a car so cant pick up stuff while I'm there. message me if you do. thanks
  7. you still need to provide more info. really. test the spark plug, doubt its a compression thing if it ran a week ago and left untouched, if you don't know how long it was left for previously do an oil change. if spark is good & so is compression it's a fuel/air thing. again if left for a while might just need the jets cleared out.
  8. the cable on the vt is a push pull mechanism, I didn't realise that the return cable 'push' side was rusted until I changed the bars because it seemed to be working fine. the regular pull cable that you find on single cable throttles in In tact and I assume the spring in the carb is good because it snaps back shut afterwards. my question is would it be ok to solder the pull cable back together as it split pretty clean because the part right now is out of stock so I don't know how long that might take for it to be available. thoughts? is it necessary as the throttle is workin fine it seems but I wouldn't want the broken cable to snag and hold the throttle open down the road idk thoughts??
  9. 50CC 2 stroke Yamaha. cost an arm and a leg for a 50 (somewhere around the 1800 mark) good points quick I guess for a 50 fun through the gears very light classic styling really is fun bad points unreliable as f! literally the worst bike for reliability it never works as it should gears are super super short so its f**kin annoying if there are cars on the road and a task getting it through town real jumpy shoddy suspension weird riding position not very confidence inspiring yeh if I could go back I wouldn't have let my dad buy it, its been off the road for so long now its not even funny. literally for anyone who's looking to get a 50cc don't get something like this unless you are really into them because otherwise it simply isn't worth it
  10. 2000 Gilera DNA 50 bought it last autumn for £850 off ebay derestricted Good points very very tough bike, dropped it 3 times only plastic scuffs, when I dropped the scoot all the plastics broke pretty quick for a 50 lots of storage under the fake tank water cooled cool looking 50 sounds good with the viper exhaust strong brakes Bad points very heavy for a 50 had starter issues, tuning issues with the carb fouls spark plugs often either all the power or none at all has a hard time getting up hills mainly due to its weight seems to hang in a high gear often and the automatic gearbox cant adapt used to cut out in the rain dangerously dim lights poor fuel mileage would I get another maybe, it'd have to be perfectly tuned in perfect condition for me to buy another one, its a pain in the arse most of the time, some days it stats right up others I'm stuck kicking the **** over 100 times and pulling the carb lol. dim headlights make riding at night very very dangerous, its fairly heavy as well so that doesn't help. but to an untrained eye it looks like a bike not a scoot and that's worth a lot when your mates are in cars.
  11. I'm 16 as well and PLEASE listen to this advice I bought a Yamaha rz50 didn't start with problems but had one and its taken months to fix then I bought a Chinese 50cc (2015 wk wasp 50cc 2 stroke) for £650 in the meanwhile and out of the 3 50ccs it was the best, smooth and topped out at 45mph, very good for a 50cc bike. it always started and acceleration was good. I crashed it in the wet.... plastics were hard to find so I bought an Italian 'sport' 50cc, a gilera dna 50. and even though it works, is rideable and has a higher top speed, it is much harder to use and frequent issues as well as it being generally hard to use for town riding with transmission troubles and small powerband, I miss the old Chinese 50cc that was way more comfortable, cheaper to run and use and easier to ride. still waitin on the rz50 to be fixed. listen to the old guys, I didn't. buy a 2 stroke newish bike that's already been derestricted (like I did) and its likely to serve you well as it served me well. DONT try and soup up a 50cc to 125 capabilities, sell the 50cc when you turn 17 and buy a cheap 125, I haven't got to that stage yet so I cant offer advice but id assume its a similar story to my experience with the 50ccs, which is, souped up 2 strokes aren't reliable and aren't easy to ride, buy a cg or whatever for cheap and have fun with it also, don't worry about the laws, just stick to 50 at 16 and 125 at 17, and know you will spend a lot of money making an unreliable bike. because iv been at the point where I don't have wheels and had to take the bus, or it wasn't working properly so it was an emabrrasing stop at the side of the road, and in all those instances iv wished that I hadn't hit the brakes so hard in the wet after a frustrating after school detention and took more care of my 'crappy Chinese scooter'.
  12. um I wouldn't invest any time in a 50 tbh, personally I don't understand the appeal of mopeds as a project but eh whatever. id buy him a cheapish jap 50cc as a run about and let him mod it himself as a light project to get him used to working on bikes, then either build a 125 or one with 47bhp depending on the timeframe. having made the mistake of buyin a 50cc that needed work myself , I wouldn't recommend it
  13. having issues with my gilera dna 50 2 stroke, it revs up fine on the stand but when I'm riding it to get it into the powerband (7.000 rpm+) I need to almost pump the fuel in my blipping the throttle back and forth pretty quick, sometimes raggin the thing but when it hits the 7,000 its fine and pulls as it should. the little 50 hits a genuine 50mph on the flat so It really needs to be tuned well to get that sort of speed out of the wee motor, which is why I suspect there are a couple issues, but also I don't recall it used to be like that so I don't know proper stuck I pulled the carb off and cleaned it out (it was already very clean) and it didn't seem to do anything besides stop it from working lol, it would rev up on the stand but when on the road it'd lose power and basically keep going into lulls, after f**kin with it some more I got it back to how it was but still I have the pumping problem any advice plz
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