So, you’ve bought a race pipe, you’ve bought a big bore kit, big carb, Malossi over range kit, K&N air filter, new crank, anything and everything to boost your scooters engine performance, yet someone rides around the outside of you on a simple derestricted moped?!
How can they do this?
Straight lines aren’t everything, if you even watch racing, they never say how they spent the entire race weekend doing further tuning to the engine performance, no, they always say how they’ve spent every session optimising the suspension settings, the brakes and the tyres! This is how the 125cc bikes in racing can lap only a few seconds off the highly tuned performance superbikes, they’re lighter and handle better, even though they make less than half the power!
The best part to this is, you can do two out of these three steps for very little money, it’s cheap as chips!
1. Tyres
So, you’ve spent thousands tuning your scooter, it has every modification possible done to the tiny little engine revving its nuts off, and you’re doing over 70mph on a tyre contact patch the size of two fingers? Doesn’t sound very safe does it? So why do most people skimp out when it ...