Brand new Hawk 250 Starter Effed up

[Megadan]

Originally Posted by N7sithis

You are correct, it's a M12 1.25, I bought a "locking nut" and a regular and for some reason the locking will only thread on about halfway and gets stuck. I threw the regular nut on the left side with a lockwasher and blue threadlocker, I'm going to order a flanged one. I could not find one locally. Should I avoid riding it all together? I was going to just cruise around the farm I live on and stay around 25mph or lower until the new nut gets here.

Oh okay, I've watched easily 10-15+ videos on the bike both before and after buying and no one has ever mentioned either of those upgrades lol. So you're saying I don't really need a performance carb until/if I do those?
I was planning on following this video:
Simply because it seemed easy enough and upgrades both the Carb and air filter nicely, for like $115 bucks. Would this carb be overkill with just sprockets, chain and exhaust upgraded?

You should be ok with the regular nut and lock washer for now. Just make sure it is torqued properly.

The Nibbi 30mm is overkill for this motor, especially without port work or a cam. The pe28 is a much better match and can provide aome benefit even with the basic upgrades. Even with port work and a cam I found the 30mm to be just a tad too big and it still suffered from too big carb problems, such as being very sensitive to atmospheric changes. The PE28FL bolts up to a stock manifold as well, so it has less headaches to overcome.