I'm at a crossroads. I need more speed, but don't want to A) spend much money and B) have to do much maintenance. (me and the rest of the world, I know...) Just to bring you up to speed on my current ride, I've gone through a ton of problems of constantly running lean, even after re-jetting when I installed the R1 exhaust, and the aftermarket chrome airfilter, so I put the airbox and stock pipe back on. Sold/gave away the R1 and filter. I currently get around 37 or 38 mph out of my stock+variator setup. It's pretty unsafe on the 45mph speed zones here, with cars doing around 50-55.
So I'm torn. My options:
1. get the 9:1 gears and 7gram rollers like everyone says, but realize that's another $100 for a top speed of probably 43, which still won't really fix the problem. 47ish is the minimum
2. big bore: around $200 + gears + rollers = total of around $300+ $250 motorcycle license* = $550. This also brings a good amount of time tuning and stuff which I really don't have time for.
3. sell Elite for around $500 and get a 150cc scoot that'll get 65ish without much work
options 2:
would my scooter be fine without replacing the carb, manifold, clutch springs, exhaust, and everything else I read about, or would all of that need to be changed if I went big bore? If so, that's another $400ish, if I estimate right? If that's the case, I'd have to be spending $550+$400=950. If I sold my Elite instead, that would give me a budget of around $1500 if that makes sense to you. *my dad's requiring me to get the necessary license if my scoot is over 50cc, even if the DMV never would know
option 3: what would you suggest for a fast, good, reliable 100cc or 150cc scoot? I tried a friends genuine buddy blackjack this past weekend, and it was AMAZING, but about $4,000, so that's out of the question.... found this
thoughts?
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I know this is a ton of text, thanks for reading and for your help.
-Jesse