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Anonymous: Old guy | ||||||||
I purchased a new Honda PCX in mid March from Nat Motor in Chiang Mai (or to be truthful, my Thai lady purchased it in her name). I've owned a couple of dozen bikes over the years starting at 16 years old with a Honda 65cc cub and working my way up to a Harley Davidson Electra-Glide back home. In every way the Honda PCX is right up there on my Top 5 favourites because it is superb at fulfilling its designed mission. |
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Anonymous: Old Guy | ||||||||
Here we are a few weeks later and I have 800 kms on my little Honda PCX. No trouble, happy so far. |
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Anonymous: Anonymous | ||||||||
How fast does it go? I notice the odometer goes up to 160 k but I highly doubt that it goes near that fast. THANKS for your reply! |
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Anonymous: Andrew Hargreaves | ||||||||
I bought a PCX in early Feb and have so far clocked up 8oookms. My biggest complaint was the soft suspension but that has been sorted with adjustables. the next was a top box for shopping. I have now rectified the seat by removing hump placing extra padding on the drivers seat and replacing the hump (without the plastic base) and shaved some off the underside. Then the guy recovered with black PVC in one piece and charged Bht500 ($13). If you want photo email me at |
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Anonymous: Giles | ||||||||
My PCX has an electronic speed govenor which kicks in at just under 110kph. |
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Anonymous: Andrew Hargreaves | ||||||||
I didn't know you could isolate the speed, I thought it would be mapped on the ignition chip, any thought about this would be welcome as I think the top end is a little restrictive. |
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Anonymous: hakan | ||||||||
None of the Honda scooters ,icon, click, airblade or PCX, have washers in variator whether fuel injected or not. |
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Anonymous: SameSame | ||||||||
The Honda PCX 125 has no CDI unit, that is more carb technology, the PCX has a ECU as control unit. Same Same but different. |
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Flying Squirrel | ||||||||
Honda have been clever by engineering in stops on the rear of the variator to stop the rollers from reaching their maximum and so limiting the maximum speed. machining the stops allows the rollers to move further upwards and allowing the variator move in further making the bike go faster. The PCX will now go 125 to 130KPH depending on the weight of the rider etc.
So now you've increased the top speed the next thing is to increase acceleration. Simply replace the rollers with ones that are exactly the same in size (very important) but are very slightly heavier, about half a gram each. The heavier the roller the faster they will react to centrifugal force and push the variator in quicker.
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Active Member Group Comfort Level:: +5 Registered: 04/23/10 |
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Anonymous: Hue | ||||||||
Has anyone tried shave/sanding .5-1mm off the drive face? This will push the belt higher, giving you more top speed. |
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Flying Squirrel | ||||||||
Active Member Group Comfort Level:: +5 Registered: 04/23/10 |
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Quote by: hakan
None of the Honda scooters ,icon, click, airblade or PCX, have washers in variator whether fuel injected or not.
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Newbie Group Comfort Level:: 0 Registered: 12/22/09 |
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scuddy | ||||||||
Quote by: Flying Squirrel
Honda have been clever by engineering in stops on the rear of the variator to stop the rollers from reaching their maximum and so limiting the maximum speed. machining the stops allows the rollers to move further upwards and allowing the variator move in further making the bike go faster. The PCX will now go 125 to 130KPH depending on the weight of the rider etc.
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Newbie Group Comfort Level:: 0 Registered: 12/22/09 |
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Newbie Group Comfort Level:: 0 Registered: 12/22/09 |
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Anonymous: Kondiao | ||||||||
I bought my new PCX in April and I almost love the scooter. As you said the bump in the seat is idiotic - for a company that has successfully been building bikes for generations to come up with such a stupid idea is hard to accept. I went with my Thai friend to an upholsterer in CHinatown, Chiang Mai and he said - through my translator and with drawings - that he would take off the bump and cover that part of the seat with foam and a new leather-like cover. I had read in the forums that it is necessary to add some more foam to the seat when you remove that bump. An acquaintance advised me not to get a replacement seat, as he had, because the new seat lacked the big storage compartment underneath. When I took the bike to the guy today at the appointed time he just said to come back in 4 hours. When I came back I saw he had just simply replaced the original seat cover material with a new cover. I tried to make him see that he had not done anything about the hollow formed when the bump was removed. I could have accomplished the same thing by unbolting the bump and putting duct tape over the two holes. SInce I have a nice seat cover from "Hai Yent" that water-proof and heat-resistant, no one would sea the tape. The guy wouldn't listen to me in Thai or English and just replied - in Thai or Chinese - that there was no replacing of foam - from underneath or on top. The shop has m.c. seats and boxes of foam on shelves and I thought that he knew what he was doing - since he had told my Thai friend what he was going to do. Maybe it was just another case of screwing the farang whenever you can. I thought I was getting a deal at 700 b, but really I got nothing. |
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