Hello from East Sussex
Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 10:37 pm
Hi,
Just passed the MOT on a new to me 2007 Piaggio XEvo 125, which I bought as a non runner a couple of weeks back. 1 previous mature owner, who had given up interest and bike had stood for 6 months, but not garaged unfortunately.
Found this forum whilst trying to track down some spare parts
I had been pulling my hair out, with an annoying electrical fault with the indicators / hazards. I checked the obvious like bulbs and fuses. Read various horror stories about needing to replace the digidash and even went down the route of taking the dash apart and spraying with pcb cleaner. The fault in the end, turned out to be a broken pin in the control unit. Could'nt find a way to wire past the control unit, so a new one was needed - no easy feat as it turns out, but luckily managed to find one in the end. I got thrown a little, by reading that the XEvo doesn't have a flasher relay, so I checked the easy to get to relays, just in case, then moved too quickly to thinking the problem lay with the dash, when luckily it didn't.
I like the bike a lot, but am now concerned as to the longevity and reliability of the electrics and wiring and find myself wishing it wasn't so overly / unnecessarily complicated. Hopefully these concerns will allay themselves provided all settles down well and no new electrical faults pop up.
A little about me - I have a full bike license obtained before the licensing regs all changed and I intend moving to a larger scooter in due course, but the bike I have now came up for sensible money, so a few parts and some tlc and I have a hopefully ok bike that I hope to use for the next year or so. I last rode a motorbike 125cc 2 years ago and the largest bike I've owned was a Yamaha 600 tourer and the fastest, a Kawasaki GPZ 400R.
I asked the mechanic who mot'd my bike, what scooter he'd recommend for reliability / longevity and the answer was a Suzuki Burgman. Any thoughts on that? I figure I'll try to save some of the money I would have spent on petrol in the car, towards a newer / bigger scooter for the future.
Anyhow, perfect weather for scootering today and I am sure I will appreciate the weather protection a scooter affords, when the weather changes, as it is guaranteed to do, especially with a bank holiday coming up
Thanks for reading my intro and thanks for this forum
All the best,
Jason
Just passed the MOT on a new to me 2007 Piaggio XEvo 125, which I bought as a non runner a couple of weeks back. 1 previous mature owner, who had given up interest and bike had stood for 6 months, but not garaged unfortunately.
Found this forum whilst trying to track down some spare parts
I had been pulling my hair out, with an annoying electrical fault with the indicators / hazards. I checked the obvious like bulbs and fuses. Read various horror stories about needing to replace the digidash and even went down the route of taking the dash apart and spraying with pcb cleaner. The fault in the end, turned out to be a broken pin in the control unit. Could'nt find a way to wire past the control unit, so a new one was needed - no easy feat as it turns out, but luckily managed to find one in the end. I got thrown a little, by reading that the XEvo doesn't have a flasher relay, so I checked the easy to get to relays, just in case, then moved too quickly to thinking the problem lay with the dash, when luckily it didn't.
I like the bike a lot, but am now concerned as to the longevity and reliability of the electrics and wiring and find myself wishing it wasn't so overly / unnecessarily complicated. Hopefully these concerns will allay themselves provided all settles down well and no new electrical faults pop up.
A little about me - I have a full bike license obtained before the licensing regs all changed and I intend moving to a larger scooter in due course, but the bike I have now came up for sensible money, so a few parts and some tlc and I have a hopefully ok bike that I hope to use for the next year or so. I last rode a motorbike 125cc 2 years ago and the largest bike I've owned was a Yamaha 600 tourer and the fastest, a Kawasaki GPZ 400R.
I asked the mechanic who mot'd my bike, what scooter he'd recommend for reliability / longevity and the answer was a Suzuki Burgman. Any thoughts on that? I figure I'll try to save some of the money I would have spent on petrol in the car, towards a newer / bigger scooter for the future.
Anyhow, perfect weather for scootering today and I am sure I will appreciate the weather protection a scooter affords, when the weather changes, as it is guaranteed to do, especially with a bank holiday coming up
Thanks for reading my intro and thanks for this forum
All the best,
Jason
