Bert the Hongdou

i gave it plenty of time to warm up before i moved it first. started off slow then once my leg was feeling abit of heat gave it abit more until i nearly burnt my leg lol.

erm im thinking of going with second option soon.

will give the idle a jiggery about

 

cheers bud, will get the little un in bed then give it a whirl

 

good, less women more bikes
a hongdou has come up locally for £150 non running so might go take a look

 

dont expect wonderous things but at that price if you cant get it running the bits could sell for more

 

never expect much from a bike me, gonna go look at it tmoz, says its got all docs and that its just been stood and cant get it to start so im hoping itll be a case of clean the carb, new plug, new oil, fresh fuel and itll go, if not its another one to add to the breaking list aha
if I get it running and I get this job im going for interview for Wednesday then ill just rag it around and use it for the commute if not ill be cycling and getting the train

 

fingers crossed on it working easy enough then, nothing worse than cycling to work oh and good luck landing the job

if you break it, get some pics up


oky spent about an hour messing around. got it to just about idle without the choke, but as soon as you rev it, it dies, also by this point the revs are high when its got choke on and is quite noisy (i start work at 5am most days)

presume its got air and fuel screws for idle?

pics
first one, think air idle screw, middle towards the top of the carb


second one, need your thoughts, presume fuel screw tucked away, gunna be a pig to get to

 

looks like it already has the cg125 carb on, im not too good with carbs as im more into fuel injection but consulting the manual cant hurt and giving the carb a clean while your at it is probably a good idea, could be that a jet is blocked? as I said not too good with carbs and always get someone to do mine, but clean up and consult the manual for wich screw does what and adjust as neccesarry

 

i cant find anything in the haynes concerning idle screws, but i did just have a quick scan through.

my thoughts are though that it works perfectly fine with the choke on. its jsut once its off things go awry?

 

drop hairyjim a message his knowledge of carbs and chokes are good, he might be able to help

 

cheers matey, ill drop him a messege in the morn

 

after having a butchers round the web, seems the carb may need cleaning, should be fun trying to get it off

 

on here on a phone, currently resting on a weekend cycle trip, so sorry if spellings etc are really bad
shouldn't really be too hard just make sure you remember what pipes go where or do what id do and take plenty of pictures of taking it off and when your dismantling it that way you know where it all goes first time you do it itll seem hard but after shouldn't be too much hassle if you need to do it again

 

just got the carb off to give it a clean out (wasnt that bad, neither was the airfilter) when the choke is off, the butterfly is fully closed. could this be whats preventing it running properly?

 

rofl, ignore me. got choke operation wrong way round. looks like it fires up with no problems without any choke, must be this hot weather.
pah ah well, only couple days wasted that i could have been working on the electrics

 

happens to all of us at somepoint, we think somethings up when theres nothing wrong, best to investigate though
I once left my 1992 vision sitting for 3 weeks purely because I thought it was leaking petrol, I had a blocked nose, turned out to be a leaking bottle of pepsi that I left under the seat

 

rofl, oh that makes me feel better

just wish i had an owners manual


edit* i have found one online, jsut not looked at the choke bit rofl

 

Bert is an absolute rudeboy mate

 

haha cheers buddy, hes a pain. but well soon have that beaten out of him