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bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:24 pm
by holty
got a friend whos top end and crank i helped him to replace, running fine, carb needs a little adjustment, he has done 300 gentle miles running it in, its a cast 175 gori kit, ricambi crank i think, anyway cut to the chase, he has been moaning about the vibrations, he is getting numb hands from riding it, turns out he fitted new scootopia engine mountings am i right in thinking these give a lot of vibrations, he is worried his crank might be twisted.
cheers
holty
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:32 pm
by Toddy
Yes there has been some threads about scootopia mounts being Hard
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:33 pm
by HxPaul
holty wrote:got a friend whos top end and crank i helped him to replace, running fine, carb needs a little adjustment, he has done 300 gentle miles running it in, its a cast 175 gori kit, ricambi crank i think, anyway cut to the chase, he has been moaning about the vibrations, he is getting numb hands from riding it, turns out he fitted new scootopia engine mountings am i right in thinking these give a lot of vibrations, he is worried his crank might be twisted.
cheers
holty
scootopia engine mounts seem to have a bad reputation as far as vibration is concerned
http://scooterotica.co/forum/viewtopic. ... ine+mounts
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:33 pm
by Toddy
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:51 pm
by holty
cheers for the replies, i thought as much but wanted some confirmation first.
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 4:02 pm
by Scooterdude
Yes Scootopia mounts have a bad rep. I fitted BGM ones as my scoot was unridable, completely cured the situation.
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:51 pm
by eden
scootopia mounts are ok after about 500 miles
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 8:42 pm
by a.lo.v2
eden wrote:scootopia mounts are ok after about 500 miles
if you can stand them that long! i know the problem as i fitted some myself and since removed. i was wondering if there was not a way of speeding up that softening process i.e soaking them in someting.
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:29 pm
by kejj
I cured my vibrations problems by fitting a SIL mount on flywheel side and keeping the scootopia one on the kick side. Became much better directly.
Re: bad vibrations
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:40 pm
by Burnside
a.lo.v2 wrote:eden wrote:scootopia mounts are ok after about 500 miles
if you can stand them that long! i know the problem as i fitted some myself and since removed. i was wondering if there was not a way of speeding up that softening process i.e soaking them in someting.
I've got Scootopia mounts in ome of mine and to be honest I don't find them that bad but now done 1300 miles on it. Still vibrates more than my one with SIL mounts but far less than my combo with the RLC sidecar mounts in...certainly wouldn't want to ride that too far (but found bubble grips help a lot)