Quote Originally Posted by barnone View Post
ConwayBob,
Welcome to the site.
Not much to put the DF together from the crate. Install handlebars, forward controls, battery, drain and add motor oil, adjust chain,etc.

If you have any motorcycle maintenance experience you should be fine but it sounds like your local China bike dealer will work on the bike if needed.

You could have the DF drop shipped at your dealer and they could put it together for their $65 an hour rate.
As always, your suggestion is right on the mark and a "forehead slapper", I'll give him a call. Thanks.

BTW, visiting his shop yesterday, he showed me a sizeable stack of carburetors that had all the adjustment screws & access ports factory sealed. All junked after failed attempts to unseal them. They were all pumper types, and I'm guessing all off of scooters, like the factory is making a concerted effort to prohibit altering or adjustment. Is this perhaps a mandated EPA requirement? The bobber has a reed valve carb doesn't it?