Sorry, Stampie just beat you to it. Congratulations/my condolences Stampie!
Sorry, Stampie just beat you to it. Congratulations/my condolences Stampie!
Tom Suddard said:Sorry, Stampie just beat you to it. Congratulations/my condolences Stampie!
It was nice knowing you Stampie.
eastsideTim said:Tom Suddard said:Sorry, Stampie just beat you to it. Congratulations/my condolences Stampie!
It was nice knowing you Stampie.
RIP
In reply to Tom Suddard :
Stay tuned for ER X-ray pictures.
I wish I had seen this sooner.... it's perfect for drag and drives...
Whatever you do, put a pipe on it. 
Ranger50 said:I wish I had seen this sooner.... it's perfect for drag and drives...
Whatever you do, put a pipe on it.
Agreed. Every time this thing threw me off of it I thought "I wish I could be burned by a giant expansion chamber, too!"
In reply to Stampie :
Like this?
In reply to clownkiller :
Tuck and roll!
Reflecting on this purchase today I was amazed at how I went from "$200? Ok but doesn't seem safe." to "$100? Berk it I'm all in!"
Stampie said:Reflecting on this purchase today I was amazed at how I went from "$200? Ok but doesn't seem safe." to "$100? Berk it I'm all in!"
I'd have gone for it, too. I suspect there would have been a line of people at the challenge willing to pay $100 for it.
I took possession of this today. Tom was even more disconcerting after I handed over the money.
Stampie, if this kills you can I have your stuff?
.... some of your stuff? I don't have room for all of it.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
You'll have to fight Lil Stampie for it. But if he doesn't want it he knows where the titles are.
So did you get it running yet?
In reply to Tom Suddard :
No unfortunately we started Christmas travels yesterday. I'm also trying to decide between Lil Stampie's quicker reflexes making him a better test pilot or not wanting my kid to get hurt.
In reply to Stampie :
This might be a perfect reason to get him a set of motorcycle leathers.
Stampie said:In reply to Tom Suddard :
Stay tuned for ER X-ray pictures.
This aged well.....
I planned on an update here once we got it running so here you go. On Monday just like Tom I got tired of it being in the way so I decided to get it running and try it out. Lil Stampie and I quickly found spark and compression but the carb had a cracked primer bulb and the throttle pivot would lock full throttle if over traveled. I didn't like that idea so we decided to get a new carb. First thing Tuesday morning I hit about every small engine place around us trying to find a carb local. No luck so after ordering an OEM carb I still wanted it running sooner so I early am'ed a carb from Amazon.
This morning I put the carb on but had no spark. Had some stuff going on so I didn't get back to it until after lunch when Lil Stampie and I got back on it. I took the covers off and noticed that I had pinched the kill wire on the cover. Yesterday I noticed the routing for the kill switch wire was weird going near rotating parts when it didn't have to. That's two strikes saying to replace the wire. The final strike was when I noticed someone had rednecked the kill switch wire and used the throttle cable's metal sheathing to be the wire. Now that's not full on Mississippi rednecked but more like panhandle Florida rednecked with some valid engineering from those parts. We replaced that wire and it still wouldn't start.
We noticed that it was getting way too much fuel and I was about ready to just declare the carb cheap Chinese junk when I remembered that in my searches I had found the Walbro setup PDF for this carb. We looked at it and Lil Stampie adjusted it to factory specs I think he said he back one of them all the way out and then 10 turns in. That got it to start. A few more minutes adjusting and fine tuning it and it ran pretty well. Here's a video of that point.
He took it for a test ride and 30 feet later the gas line fell off the carb. I knew it wasn't the tightest barbed fit but hell we just wanted to see it go. That meant a search for fuel line and a scratching of our heads when we discovered that the gas lines are just a press fit into a hole on the tank. Alrightly then. The line we found was close but a little bigger than I wanted as it was metric and the hole appeared to be made for 1/4 inch OD line. He then took it for a long test ride. Here's the video of him coming back.
Strange video you say? Yeah some dumbass forgot to switch to video so you get the start picture and the end picture.
His ride went pretty uneventful but he did tell me that it will pop wheelies, bump steer is a real thing with the short bars, and that he California stopped all the signs. I hopped on and headed down the road. It was uneventful until I rolled the 2nd stop sign. I guess I slowed too much because it had no power. I thought about kicking along with it to help but the brain instead commanded a throttle twist. That worked a few feet until it hit it's power band. At that point the front wheel lifted up and went left while my much greater inertia went right. Couldn't explain to you how I hit other than from my scrapes and bruises I caught myself with my right hand. Both of my knees have scrapes but the main braking force was provided by my eyebrow.
And that is how spent 4 hours in the ER and ended up with 3 stitches.
I have one last video to share with you. After I gathered myself I jumped on that bitch and push started it to ride back. Here's the video. The Ohh at the end is when Lil Stampie noticed my blood.
Stampie said:In reply to Tom Suddard :
Stay tuned for ER X-ray pictures.
Ah foreshadowing.
It lives!!!
I had no idea the wiring was so bitched up--as you can probably tell, I never pulled the cover, but that explains why the thing was so temperamental. Sorry you encountered, uh, its steep learning curve. But I feel like I warned you.
Sorry you had to learn this way why it was called the death scooter. I rode it once when Tom had it and decided it was too sketchy to use to get around events.
In reply to Tom Suddard :
Oh you did warn me. Before Lil Stampie did his ride I pointed out that it couldn't be that bad as he was the one in control of the throttle. That's very true until you control it in a bad way. The redneck wiring was actually well disguised as I didn't notice until I went to remove it. At first I thought someone had just taped the wire to the cable to keep it neat.
So for future potential owners of a Go-Ped I'll give a review.
Number one rule is keep your weight forward. Like feel weird forward. Number two is careful with the throttle. If it isn't accelerating fast enough just wait for it to catch up. I would not recommend this to a say 15 year old or younger. Older than that I'd want them to be mature and capable of making good decisions. I don't think I have many years before I hit the high age limit of what I'd recommend. You don't bounce well at 52 and I wouldn't want to know at 60. Wear a helmet. An open faced helmet wouldn't have saved me. I'm now looking for light weight full face ones.
Would I tell someone that they need to buy one? No. Will I keep it and ride it more? Yes. I figure even when I decide that I'm too old I'll just hang it on the wall and look at it for the memories.
One last thing. This morning I put my ER bracelet on it so that it could have a victory marking. It deserves it.
One more thing from a motorcyclist: wear your gear (at least a damn helmet. ) Your head hits the ground at the same velocity, whether its 100mph or zero.
Seems like a fun Challenge PLB activity
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