Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

No hatred anywhere, just debunking the myths that float around. I've been using plastic reeds (the early ones were plastic and fiberglass and failed a lot, but the newer stuff, no) since the mid 70s and had them fail, but never cause a performance problem. First off they only time reed have anythin...

Is there supposed to be a gasket between the reed cage and motor and one between the mani and reed cage? cause if there is mine is missing the top one. oh and jeffe I replied to you in the "troubles with the spree" thread yup...there are 2 gaskets one between each...but if there is no lea...

and Bear I wasn't talking to you on the last post

The reeds in my Aero50 are still good and it has 7663 miles on it. how do you know? have you pulled your mani off? I just got my new gaskets for my stock mani....didn't want to pull it off before I had a repair kit!!!!!! I've worked on 2 strokes for a lot of year and raced then for a bunch of year ...

toad772 wrote:The reeds in my Aero50 are still good and it has 7663 miles on it.

how do you know? have you pulled your mani off? I just got my new gaskets for my stock mani....didn't want to pull it off before I had a repair kit!!!!!!

and Hondas are strong .....moved fron Hawaii to Utah

* yeah workdog.....Utah represent

toad772 wrote:

alemeno wrote:I didn't touch the throttle during the test, are you supposed to?

Yes you hold it wide open while doing compression test.

Wow Toad do like Modern warfare? off subject but.............

The reason I'm asking is my throttle response seems to lack when I let on and off during my mid range...I just wasn't sure of the life of stock reeds? Well, the reeds are not causing that. I would suspect dirty air filter of a carb issue. Then again have you done a compression test? Nope, didn't cr...

The reason I'm asking is my throttle response seems to lack when I let on and off during my mid range...I just wasn't sure of the life of stock reeds?

one of my bikes has 4k miles on it and I'm thinking it needs a reed change?

that what i thought 28mm are more common and the same price so thats what everyone goes with.... but i hear 24mm is actually the better for performance?

I am going to get a 72cc Polini corsa and am thinking the 24mm OKO will work better than a 28mm.....but wanted to get opinions

KingJeff801 wrote:How much did those cost ? pics of the install?

nevermind just googled it ....very easy and cheap

How much did those cost ? pics of the install?