Two-stroke 125cc questions

[Spearfish]

My gf wants a motorbike cos her scooter doesn't go fast enough (I told her it was gay when she got it) so we've been looking at small 125ish cc bikes. We looked at this one today. I don't really know that much about 2 strokes, what kind of things should I know about them before buying one?

Its 6 volt

Eat lots of carrots.

Get the rider to start to make sure there are no problems, it being hard or just to difficult could kill the interest.

[speedpro]

Wikipedia is full of shit. Those engines will spin to 14,000rpm and live forever at 11,000rpm. Genuine Honda parts are the "go". When you finally wear out the last oversize piston slap a Yamaha KT100 kart piston in it and then you have another 20 oversizes. I've been thrashing bikes with these engines including a commuter MB100 for years.
A good scooter will dust it good and proper though and for ease of use in traffic a scooter will win. I now have a Yamaha Cygnus 125cc, actually 165cc now, and I like the scooter better in traffic.

[frogamic]

I took it down the road and back, it has plenty of oomph for such a tiny bike, definitely better than my friend's old cg125. It has an exhaust leak where the muffler joins the header/other pipe bit, but surely there's some kinda gap filler for that, the gf loves it.

[Chancebmx25]

itll be one the greatest choices of a motorcycle u will have ever made in your life. they boom. two bangers are the way, affordable and fast.

[blackdog]

itll be one the greatest choices of a motorcycle u will have ever made in your life. they boom. two bangers are the way, affordable and fast.

Fast? Back to school buddy.

[dangerous]

Fast? Back to school buddy.

I think you will find hes generlising, however the MB/H100 can be made to go very fast, heres mine as mentioned earler in the thread...

It has an exhaust leak where the muffler joins the header/other pipe bit, but surely there's some kinda gap filler for that

Sort it mate... ecno Honda should be able to help with a gasget, cos a exhaust leak means it will suck air in and cause a very lean fuell mix, that means BOOM.

do you know how a stroker works... see here, note the fuel mix passing over the piston and into the spanny... any air leak will be sucked back into the engine with the fuell mix, leaning it out.