New to the roads and here :-)

Good evening folks.

I have recently gotten myself on the roads and have stumbled across this forum.

I brought my Branson BS125 scooter but had no plans to fiddle with it up until now. So I'm here to get ideas as to what I can modify to make it look and perform better. Along with just chat with fellow riders. All convos greatly welcomed.

 

Personally to improve looks id either change the rear rack for more modern one not cheap tho or put a topbox on to suit the scoot.
And welcome to scooter shack some good people on here too

 

welcome, enjoy the forum and be prepared to be insulted for having a chinese bike! (says the guy with a korean bike!) i would make a loud exhaust myself, loud exhausts wake car drivers! also fit a truck horn/ferry horn.

 

I like the idea of a truck horn :-D it would certainly wake up car drivers

 

Well I'm now wishing I'd not brought the damn thing.

I think the valve to the back tyre was faulty considering it was a brand new machine. Fucking tyre ran flat and I lost the back end this evening. Got a grazed leg and a f**ked up ankle now.

Makes one appreciate the finer things in life. ;-)

 

This would be cool... oh and welcome

 

ah that sucks mate, hope you have a good recovery, everyone falls at some point.

 

that horn is awesome it would certainly wake up dopey drivers lmao. bad luck oliCad like scubabiker it says it happens to us all ive had my fair share over the years...

 

Yea u will be back on ya bike in no tym...

 

Welcome, i haven't been on here myself for a long while

 

Well thanks to Gizmo, I've been able to buy some new bits and bobs to repair my scooter. Also got some new tyre stems just because I believed the ones I've got are rotten.

Funnily enough, thanks to this video, it proves I wasn't imagining it. Seems the chinese fitted stems fail pretty easily.



Thanks Libby, that scooter looks awesome!!

 

no worries glad your back on the road again after watching that vid it puts my mind at ease to as to why my front tyre kept going down every couple of weeks :-/ and i had a new stem fitted.

 

Not quite back on the road but I've got parts en route.

 

Cool

 

unfortunately you will find anything from china relating to scooters or motorbikes or for that matter anything engineering wise will fail fairly quick, there is an abundance of cheap Chinese bikes, scooters, quads. We buy them cos they are cheap, but soon enough welds start to crack, rubber perishes really quick, frames rust, and the quality of alloy is really soft, all of the above is not good when it comes to anything motorised, welds crack due to poor welding skills, the rubber perishes because it has too much oil in it, not enough carbon and silica( thats why Chinese rubber stinks) frames rot easily because there is to much iron in the steel(not carbon hard) this also makes the steel very soft and prone to bending( if the weld doesn't give out first ) and the process for making good alloy is quite exspensive and time consuming, so this reflects in the Chinese alloy, soft and really prone to alkalisation, I'm not having a dig, just giving you the reasons why

 

Well up until 10-15 years ago, there were no Chinese motorbikes or scooters or for that matter cars, the only person who did was the emperor of china, due to a huge surge in cheap manufacturing, china has had a massive economic growth, spurred on by the Chinese government, they are now one of, if not,the largest bike and car manufacturers on the world, quality is the only issue, that and copyright.http://www.bmwblog.com/2008/12/19/bmw-loses-court-battle-to-chinese-x5-clone/