Quote Originally Posted by felix View Post
Sorry to hear about your troubles slabo but glad that you're safe. Will you bother going back to try and revive the bike or are you done with it?
Bike is stored in Chengdu in an underground parking. Last day, I made someone dear to me drive me around Chengdu for more than an hour trying to find a bottle of fuel stabilizer .. you can find this in almost every gas station in Yunnan, but for some reason not in Chengdu. Gave up eventually and reverted to draining the carburetor instead. The battery is flat dead anyway so no use worrying about that. The tank is some sort of plastic (HDPE?) so no need to worry about rust. Deflated the tires a bit, I think that should reduce cracks... Did I miss anything? Hopefully new gasoline and a bit of carb-cleaner should revive the bike..

Overall the ride was more pain than pleasure. I mean many kinds of pain. Sometimes it was downright scary.. I'll writeup a report one I'm settled home..

What I need is a good dual sport bike. It has to be comfortable, have plenty of power through all gears, and a comfortable cruising speed of 90km/h. For ~4000rmb, I recon I can change
  1. engine
  2. tires
  3. front forks
  4. seat
  5. maybe a new exhaust


All of this and still having a legal bike in my name.. One think I'm not sure of is the bike's weight, it would still weigh ~150kg and because of that I'm not sure it would handle much better after all above mods. What do you think? Looking for a place to do this professionally. A complete rebuild, nothing less will convince me to ride that thing again. That was another reason why I wanted to make it to Beijing. Looks like a promising place to rebuild a bike.


Advice please:: sell or keep as a learning project that hopefully won't turn into a money pit. I'm only thinking this way since I won't be able to buy simple carburetor ~250cc bikes (something I could legally register) and any EFI bikes will prove a big headache especially here in PRC