MOPED ARMY

So stoked to be on the road again, on this gorgeous, hot, San Francisco (pride) day. Maybe I'll slip into the dykes on bikes parade with my little 50cc moped. hahaha.

Thanks for the tips, I've done all the searching, read many folks opinions, but they all concern 70cc kits that rip at 40mph. I'm doin' low 30s tops.

torque is pretty good on this cylinder too. way better than my old stock one.

good tip on the break-in, especially since it's very warm in SF today.

I've heard you don't want to use Motul until after you break it in. Synthetic stuff's too good and I understand it won't allow the slight friction you need for your cylinder and piston to match up well...

I've read other people saying that a double ester synthetic is fine. I dunno. So many opinions, seems like there's no general rule. It rode fine yesterday, fuck it.

How do you not ride hard on 50cc?

hey dude i just broke in a new 50cc moby cylinder as well (technix brand from QK).

i mixed regular oil (dont use synthetic ever anyways), and took it "easy" for the first 50 miles. vary your throttle a bit, dont hold WOT for more than 2 or 3 seconds if that. at about 50/60 miles i went to a rally and said fuck it, blast time. been runnin great.

There are tales of blasters using synthetic from day one and some months down the road slipping in some crude and seizing. The hypothesis behind this is that most synthetics have about 5 times the film strength of crude and therefor it takes the rings longer to wear into the cylinder. Slipping some rougher stuff in there and blasting, maybe, before everything is seated leads to seizure. However, most of these kind of stories come from the Polini folks, so it doesn't take much to lead to failure with those and changing from synth to crude may be enough in the early stages. Synthetic IS better, BUT I would break her in with crude.