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Hi Ian from Southern California and may I congratulate you on your great taste in motorcycles! Just to add to Bill's solid advice, since your target C650 is a 2018 model, it will have the improved hydraulic cam chain tensioner (as opposed to mechanical, the switch occurred sometime in 2016) so...

Welcome! You will find there is a lot of collective knowledge and useful experience about these great motorcycles. You will also not see a lot of activity anymore, since these bikes are now getting older and there are fewer and fewer in circulation. It's now more about the smaller 400 and the...

Another update: I rode it some more yesterday and today - no stalling, perfectly smooth, quiet and healthy engine performance. Lately, after cold starts I could not immediately take off as the engine would hesitate, it took maybe 10 seconds to warm up a bit; that's now also gone and was likely...

So the test drive was moderately successful, in that in about 50 miles of varied riding the engine did stall once when coming to a stop at a traffic light early on in the trip. However, I noticed the engine started idling better and better as the miles went by and I kind of suspect that the fuel...

Given I had to remove almost all the tupperware on the bike given the stalling issue, I took the opportunity to do the following: fitted a new idle air vacuum hose installed a new O2 sensor installed a used replacement oil level sensor (the old one was driving me bonkers, it would trigger the...

@KeithQ Thanks for the heads-up but I'd like to buy something more or less (around 100 miles) close to me.

Welcome from Socal, scoot on!

Thanks Malish - good to hear your issue was solved, I can always run adaptations on Motoscan but I think I have the smoking gun. Agree the 02 sensor code probably always appears even when not the issue; I had a similar phenomenon recently with my son's Mercedes 250 GLK (diesel). It went into...

Let me add to this thread and confirm that, indeed, cracked idle air contol valve hoses do cause stalling at idle. Yesterday, for the first time in about maybe a month, I rode my C650 Sport to the gym, a 16 mile ride each way. To my surprise, at the first stop sign I encountered, after about 10...

Scan the bike for trouble codes. You can do so with the Motoscan app (search this forum for more information). Does it still run?

Yes my thoughts as well. In fact, last week I put on new Michelins on my K1600 and even though they replaced the same type of Michelins (Road 6 GT), the old ones were worn just a bit flat and the difference in handling is huge, just like you describe. I can't imagine how terrible the handling...

You might want to specify the model of scooter the tool is for. C650, C400 or?

Enjoy, the C650 was not a light animal but the HD must be positively heavy! P.s. 'the dark side' on the BMW K1600 forum refers to folks fitting car tires (!!) on their rims, to stretch out the mileage obtained from the tires. So that was my first thought when I saw the title of your post ...

Sorry to hear about this, we've all lost or locked-in keys at least once! Few years ago I bought a new seat for my Sport off Ebay, it was around $125 shipped and was in great shape. The cover on my original one had started to disintegrate from UV exposure. https://ebay.us/m/sK1Rk1 Maybe the...

I would check for fault codes first.

Here in Southern California in morning rush hour I regularly have to 'push' my bike over 85 MPH just to keep up with the flow in the carpool lane. This will be before it gets congested so say around 5 AM. I don't even feel entirely comfortable on my C650 let alone on a smaller scoot - that's why...

One of the benefits of this type of cover on my Honda 150 scooter was that the cover 'traps' the engine heat and channels it to the body where without the cover it dissipates into the air.

This on Ebay. "Or best offer" so perhaps if you offer say $350 you may get it...

Happened to me on my at the time new-to-me C650. Turned out to be caused by a bad battery post connection.

Hi there - I find myself in need of a second scooter here in LA/San Diego. Ideally another C650 but if someone has or knows of a different scoot of at least 150 cc for sale not too far away, I am interested.