Motor bicycling waaaay South

[el_yopo]

Hi all,
not only the new Pope is from Argentina. Me too!

Tired of driving to work and not wanting to have a second car for my wife, I put myself to the task of buying one of those cheap "StarFire"-like 2-strokes and mount it on one very old bike I had laying around.

Now poor ol' bike has parts from three generations and a brand new motor. I'm about to finish assembly and will give it a try during the weekend, I guess.

Given that cheap engine is the only thing I was able to put my hands on (imports in Argentina are getting harder and harder to get) I hope everything goes well. Not the best quality I've seen!!! Already found a couple of metal shaving inside the motor, after opening it up (voiding the 60-day guarantee in the process


All right, wish me luck and I'll see how it goes.

Cheers from the (now getting colder) South.

Alex

 

[2door]

Welcome Alex. We're glad you've joined our little community. I think you're the first from your area. But we have members from about everywhere around the globe.

Have fun and ride safe.

Tom

 

[biknut]

Welcome to the forum from Dallas, and good luck with you bike. Maybe the pope with come over and bless it for you.

 

[paul]

welcome elyopo. great to have you with us. you are even farther south then me. welcome to the word of motorized bicycle from the caribbean!

 

[CTripps]

Welcome to the place with all the answers. If you're stuck on anything, a quick search here should find it for you, if not ask. Questions are usually effectively answered pretty quickly here.
That's pretty much the usual; void the warranty by cleaning out the motor, or need it because you didn't.

 

[el_yopo]

Hi all, long time since my last post.

It tool me a while but finally I have a pic of the little Argentinian China girl.
I've been riding it about once a week to go back and forth from work, in this crazy town full of traffic.
I am fighting a air leak somewhere without much success, but it runs fine if I "tune it" with the choke half open.
Still in the final hours of burn-in, so I don't worry too much for now (I just try to patch here and there when I have the time).
Now I am about to replace teh spark plug with a NGK B7HS, the ignition cable and the plug boot (I, by chance, got a resistive one a.k.a. "supressive"). Would that be fine for our poor stock CDI?

Alex