Hey everyone! I've had my spree for a pretty long time, but just recently found this forum for it. It has been my first vehicle and I've had a lot of fun with it.
Background: I basically bought it from a friend of a friend who had no intention of working on it, for 25 bucks. Bare in mind it had flat tires, no turn signals, dead battery, and not to mention a messed up engine. 8O I took on the task of fixing all of this and after about $300 and a top-end rebuild (piston and rings) the Spree was up and running!
It lasted me about a year and then finally after riding it down a particularly nice hill, the piston over-heated, melted and scratched up the cylinder. 8O Then came time for another rebuild, and I had to get a new-used cylinder this time to supplement the scratched one. It was fun but after a short time from the second rebuild I got stopped and got a ticket for a few things I did not have that made the scooter illegal.
I have since only rode it up and down my street everynow and then. That is basically my story in a nutshell. In between theres a lot of interesting trips and funny races, but thats all for now. Hope this was a nice read for yall.
New to the club :)
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my friend had a machine to hone out the cylinder each time I rebuilt it. and yeh the pins are a pain. but now the scooter is just calmy sitting in my garage with a good idle adjustment and almost new piston, but no title...Tippmann98 wrote:Haha, Nice... I detest putting in the pistin pin clips. They are such a pain, if you want to hone the cylinder. Try using a brake cylinder hone, they work excellently.
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how would it be possible to find a salvage claim?BluPhire wrote:Yep, no title here either. But I don't care, I know mine is'nt stolen or anything, just too lazy to go fine a salvage claim. Oh well.
Matt Kruger
a.k.a. BluPhire
btw took the spree out today to do a few street runs up and down my street w/ my friends 125cc xtreme daytona. got beat, then got on my vento and won a few.
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