Learner licence scooting

[Jamesnicholasnz]

It's $10 - $11 to fill the tank at the moment. The tank is approx. 5 litres. If your rollers and drive belt are in good nick, you should get about 160km. As they wear your range reduces slightly.

Oil is easy, there's a separate tank on the Jog (& on most scooters) next to the petrol filler that you fill up with 2T oil. Cost depends on the quality you use. The oil is added to the fuel automatically and you just keep filling it when it tells you, or just keep it topped off, up to you.

I won't rehash the legalities of lane splitting, there are so many threads on here about it, just have a search.

That is pretty good. Better then the price to full your car up. Would it be best to use quality oil

[DangerMice]

That is pretty good. Better then the price to full your car up. Would it be best to use quality oil

LOL, &

In reference to your other question about speed, I'm 6'1" & 100kg and I can easily get the speedo needle around far enough that I don't know what speed I'm going anymore because I ran out of numbers. You won't need full throttle to keep up with traffic.

[Spearfish]

A few of us did a run from West Auckland to Waihi for a look a the mine, back to Karangahake Gorge for the night then the long run back to West Auckland. (the distance probably won't mean much to you in chch unless you gogle maps it)
The little scoot carried me at 6ft 2 and 90kg, two man tent, fart sack, spare clothes, small amount of food and to many tools we never used and had it pinned the whole way there and back. That little 50cc engine just kept going and still is, at that time the odo was 13,000ks.

The Jog engine is a Minarelli engine copied the world over (Adly engines are a clone)
http://www.minarelli.com/indexeng.html

They are so de-tuned to comply with the moped class regs there is no fear of killing the thing unless you run it out of oil or drown it.

[Jamesnicholasnz]

LOL, &

In reference to your other question about speed, I'm 6'1" & 100kg and I can easily get the speedo needle around far enough that I don't know what speed I'm going anymore because I ran out of numbers. You won't need full throttle to keep up with traffic.

Ok this has pretty much sold me.
Is there anything else I should know about scooters. Lol

[Jamesnicholasnz]

A few of us did a run from West Auckland to Waihi for a look a the mine, back to Karangahake Gorge for the night then the long run back to West Auckland. (the distance probably won't mean much to you in chch unless you gogle maps it)
The little scoot carried me at 6ft 2 and 90kg, two man tent, fart sack, spare clothes, small amount of food and to many tools we never used and had it pinned the whole way there and back. That little 50cc engine just kept going and still is, at that time the odo was 13,000ks.
The Jog engine is a Minarelli engine copied the world over (Adly engines are a clone)
http://www.minarelli.com/indexeng.html
They are so de-tuned to comply with the moped class regs there is no fear of killing the thing unless you run it out of oil or drown it.

Yeah not sure on the distance, but from what you say it's a long way.
So the scooter is a pretty cool little machine. What other travels have you done on it.

[DangerMice]

Is there anything else I should know about scooters. Lol

Make sure the exhaust has been derestricted.

There are also a heap of performance parts you can get if you want to start tuning it.

places like
scootling.co.nz
sip-scootershop.com
will happily take your dollar as you chase that extra kph or 3

[Jamesnicholasnz]

Make sure the exhaust has been derestricted.

There are also a heap of performance parts you can get if you want to start tuning it.

places like
scootling.co.nz
sip-scootershop.com
will happily take your dollar as you chase that extra kph or 3

Would the Yamaha dealer be able to do that for me when I buy the scooter. Just asking... Anything to make a sale? Lol

[Spearfish]

Yeah not sure on the distance, but from what you say it's a long way.
So the scooter is a pretty cool little machine. What other travels have you done on it.

Unless you google maps it you wont know Awhitu lighthouse is. Done that one twice.
Very close to making it to Hamilton, that one went bad.
Volcano loop around auckland.
Mt Wellington and watched a bucket racing meeting.
Rode down to Ardmore Aerodrome to meet up with the crew of the coastguard plane.
West auck to Whangaparaoa for a pizza at army bay.

Nothing spectacular to someone riding a bike though. lol.

Others have gone way further , one went from Hamilton to Cape Reinga- that would have been tedious.
I think one has done the full length of the country.
Early this year a 50cc Zip scoot (completely unassisted) rode from Auckland to Wanganui completed the central plateau scooter challenge then rode home from Taupo, unfortunately I missed that one - 4 days of an awful lot of countryside passing very very slowly.

All under the radar.

[DangerMice]

Would the Yamaha dealer be able to do that for me when I buy the scooter. Just asking... Anything to make a sale? Lol

Derestrict the exhaust? Probably

[Jamesnicholasnz]

Derestrict the exhaust? Probably

How much does it cost any ideas

[DangerMice]

How much does it cost any ideas

Mine was free. The restriction is like a washer in the exhaust (restricts gas flow), they just didn't put it in, hence free.

[D3ALN]

me and my mates ran exhaustless on our scooters never had any problems with police

[Jamesnicholasnz]

Mine was free. The restriction is like a washer in the exhaust (restricts gas flow), they just didn't put it in, hence free.

Ok seems pretty simple...(not that I could do it lol).

[DMNTD:Me]

Ok seems pretty simple...(not that I could do it lol).

Simply ask the Dealer to remove it after it has been registered....shouldn't cost anything extra either.
Or....ride it up to Tauranga and I'll have a go!

BTW....I'm 6ft and 110kgs and my wee Jog is bang on for what I use it for

[Jamesnicholasnz]

Simply ask the Dealer to remove it after it has been registered....shouldn't cost anything extra either.
Or....ride it up to Tauranga and I'll have a go!

BTW....I'm 6ft and 110kgs and my wee Jog is bang on for what I use it for

Lol to riding it up Tauranga. When in go to get one I'll just ask the dealer.
Cheers james