Water-tight front lights/air-box pipe

[Ginger Phil]

Another thanks to Paul W for these top tips:

WATER-TIGHT FRONT LIGHTS:

If your scooter has the teardrop orange light on the front of the scooter, remove the lenses and put a small amount of bathroom silicone sealer around the lenses as they will fill up with water and cause electrical problems over time, you have been warned.

AIR-BOX PIPE:

There is a small design fault on these scooters, the convoluted pipework that fits to the air box has a tendency to kink at the air-box inlet, this restricts the flow of air to the air-box, which in turn restricts the air to the carburettor, i have inserted a small piece of plastic piping into the tube which has cured the restriction problem, this in turn has increased my speed somewhat, check for this as well before de-restricting your scooter.

[graham1]

re air box pipe


I had to use the bike without its foam air filter. Wow what a difference in pickup and speed

4 MPH faster and 0-30 in ...........well ok I'm getting carried away


fitted filter back on now

back to normal speed

[Ginger Phil]

I thought for a minute there you'd discovered a way of speeding up the bike without derestricting.

[Ginger Phil]

Paul W - you're a star!!
Coming home from work this afternoon my acceleration felt a bit flat, I had a look at the hose and sure enough there was a kink in it.
I got an empty bottle of Colgate mouthwash and sawed the top off:



Stuck it in the hole and pushed it right in:



And the job's a goodun!!



Took the bike out for a spin and it rode perfectly again. The mouthwash top is really tight in the hole (how can I describe this without sounding pervy???) so there's no way it's going to move.

[hypojam]

Luckily on my sport the intake pipe isnt anywhere near as bent as that, thats why there aint no kinks in mine

[scooterboy]

I've got a Commuter so I might give this a go.