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Old 05-19-2020, 10:55 PM   #22
legonas   legonas is offline
 
Join Date: May 2020
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Ok spent some more time with the bike today and decided to write a little review because there is so little info out there every little bit can help and my post yesterday was mostly just me rambling.

First lets start with powersportsmax, the company i ordered from. I placed my order on the 9th and received it in South Carolina on the 18th, the day they said i would so everything went great there. Unfortunately, the "free expedited MCO paperwork" didn't seem to get my paperwork to me before or the same time as the bike as promised and it still isn't here a day after the bike arrived. I emailed them this morning and was told i need to use the MSO title request link on there website to request it. It specifically says on their website expedited shipping should not require you to use that form. So other then probably not being able to get it on the road for memorial day weekend everything has gone great so far, as long as the paperwork shows up.

Next, unboxing the bike. Everything went smoothly for the most part. I snapped a bolt putting the clutch lever on and had to run to lowes to get a replacement. The orange in person looks much brighter then it does in most pictures which i am happy for. Wife took a picture while i was working on it, still in work clothes.

https://www.legonas.net/images/bike1.jpg

I haven't rode a motorcycle since i was a kid so my experience level is basically 0. Saying that now to explain the next part. Added some gas and she cranked right up but as i mentioned the idle seemed high and the throttle seemed very sensitive. With no experience to tell me better i tried it out anyway and promptly dropped the bike in the front lawn. Turns out its hard to control a bike when the throttle is stuck over 3k rpm. broke the light switch and horn assembly, moved the clutch lever and bent the shifter. So if you're bikes idle is over 3k make sure to adjust the throttle until you have some slack. took me 20 minutes on google to figure out what was wrong.

I got everything i broke fixed up today. Super glued the light assembly back together, had already bent the shifter back into place. throttle adjusted and has a little slack now, and was driving around in my back yard going in circles for a good half hour once i got the hang of the clutch and stopped stalling it.

Since my experience level is so low its hard for me to really say to much about the bike so far and plan to post more about it after this weekend, which i plan to spend out on some dirt trails with two friends who also just bought there own first bikes(a klx250 and a CRF250L rally), and hopefully do a bit more then driving around in circles in first gear.


 
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