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Was it a full moon? The Scooter gods can be very peculiar sometimes.....

Beware, the battery does more than just supply the electric start with power. It also acts as a "sink" for surplus electricity when your engine is revving very high. It prevents the voltage from spiking when you rev up the engine suddenly, without it, you may blow bulbs/fuses. Some people ...

6.9 I'm tired. But, as they say, excuses are like certain parts of our anatomy, everyone's got one.

I would still wonder if the stator is under load (short somewhere or dead battery), as I know car alternators/generators will whine rather nicely when under a heavy load...also, he needs to pull the shroud off and see if any of the fins are cracked or broken, that might be making the noise.

Nurse, forceps......oh no, we've got a bleeder, clamps!

In Michigan, it is sooooo illegal to have more than one person riding a scooter or moped. My Spree even says it right on the leg-guards....no more than one person on it. But, maybe you burned up your piston or a ring broke.....

yup, there's a neat article about re-surfacing the float-valve seat in the tech documents somewhere...involves Colgate. That might help ya. Definitely sounds like your float valve isn't working correctly. May need to replace it.

I'm going to guess you don't know how to take the cylinder and head apart to get a look at the piston, do you?

This is devolving rapidly into, "My gun is bigger/better than your gun." Remember guys, a rock, a spear, an arrow, or a bullet will all do the job from a distance.

Depending on care, 7,000 to maybe 15,000, before a rebuild is in order.

I'm sure it's something simple, nothing is hopeless. My bike hadn't run for 18 years, and, after a couple of months of slow tinkering and learning (I had never worked on an engine to this extent, yet alone a 2-stroke), I finally got mine running perfectly. And remember, I work full-time, go to colle...

Just remember, don't replace a part until you know it's bad. Waste of money.

Yeah, hippies drive mopeds, real men drive scooters. At least, I do, and I own several firearms, so, doesn't that make me a man? :roll: At least I don't go out and buy the biggest d*** truck on the market (you know, quad-cab, longbox, dual-axle, tall-topper, 4x4 type of truck, the kind that actually...

I always thought it sounded a little bit like they were crying...maybe us Americans were a little too much for them. Now I'm being conceited, sorry.

Touche

(And don't we all appreciate asian girls every once in a while?)