Bike Maintenance/Repair

Yup! I wasn’t sure if the gas tank leak was fixed ( Motorcycle Gas Tank Leak Repair Job. ), but I was hopeful, and it held long enough for me to put the motorcycle body panels back on. I put a newspaper under the motorcycle, like an un-house-broken puppy; my Boom Vader left a mess … Read more

In my previous post ( Boom Vader Gas Tank Gasket ISN’T Leaking? ), I was pressured by being a cheap Boom Vader owner and lacking replacement parts, and I figured I would do my motorcycle gas tank pinhole repair. It sounds more dramatic than it is, but I did my own Grom Clone motorcycle gas … Read more

Well, reading the headline, you might be wondering why the sad face figuring out the gasket isn’t the problem with my Boom Vader’s leaking gas tank. I found out the problem is worse, and the solutions are more complicated or nonexistent. Okay, I removed the Boom Vader’s gas tank after draining the gasoline into an … Read more

Now I just wanted to cover how to drain the motorcycle gas tank since this operation is potentially dangerous. My Boom Vader, a Grom Clone, has a gas tank leak ( Why Is My Motorcycle Leaking Gas? ). I ran through my head. How would I drain my motorcycle gas tank without creating a disaster? … Read more

As I pointed out in my last Boom Vader motorcycle review ( Boom Vader Motorcycle Review @ 400 Miles! ), I was smelling gas, and I was sure my Boom Vader Gen 2 motorcycle was becoming a typical victim of a slow stock carburetor bowl leak. However, with the stopcock closed and I found the … Read more

When people are doing performance upgrades to their Grom Clone motorcycles, they never figure to upgrade the stock motorcycle chain. I am upgrading my new Boom Vader’s stock chain ( Stock Boom Vader Chain Good or Bad? ), and these are my Grom Clone motorcycle chain replacement instructions I formulated while looking at my bike. … Read more

One of the typical complaints about Grom Clones is the clicking noise from the lower section of the engine; from the motorcycle chain area. The clicking and slapping noise is present when the chain is in motion and is made worse by how much slack you have in your chain. The motorcycle chain noise when … Read more

I plan on upgrading my little Boom Vader 125cc motorcycle by doing the typical Grom-Clone upgrades. For now, I have the stock 125cc engine and sad stock exhaust system. The stock exhaust blocks the oil drain plug, which makes Boom Vader Motorcycle Oil Changes different and difficult. So, I will cover how I do a … Read more

As I posted earlier( Boom Vader Assembly Problems & Concerns ), I found out that I had no rear brakes. I had a couple of suitable pumps till I had no rear brakes. My new Boom Vader motorcycle brake fluid reservoir fill line to the master brake cylinder had a break.   I got my replacement … Read more

Just thinking aloud, never doing a compression test on a motorcycle or any engine, I figured I would do a little more profound research on how to do this test before touching my TBR7. So I did a web search How to do a compression test on a motorcycle and found so many results. I … Read more

I have noticed excessive gasses coming out of my crankcase vent. If you read my past posts about my struggles with oil in my airbox(Fed Up With Oil In My Motorcycle AirBox. 🙁 ), you might understand I am acting weird about this topic. I am concerned that there are many engine cylinder piston blow-by, … Read more

This post is about what I found after running my TaoTao TBR7 motorcycle after installing the new PE30 Nibbi Carburetor. I did the initial Nibbi Carburetor Setup and installation, and now I am looking at tuning the carburetor. So follow along if you want to see how I adjust the Nibbi carburetor, tuning it for … Read more

I removed the factory stickers from my TaoTao TBR7 dual-sport motorcycle’s plastic fairings. The dirt bike stickers were the generic no-frills type of decals that mimic what more expensive bike makers use. Some dirt bike manufacturers put bright stickers on their bike’s fairings to make them stand out in a crowd. Well, these factory decals … Read more

Now that winter is really upon us, mostly the cold weather, I was thinking about what I should do to winterize my carbureted motorcycle. The TaoTao TBR7 being carbureted adds some complexity to winterizing, so I wanted to keep an easy list for short-term winter storage and a more detailed list for longer-term winter storage. … Read more

No secret if you follow along with my adventures as a new motorcycle rider and new owner of a TaoTao TBR7 motorcycle. I have been fixing problems with the motorcycle for a while, and the TBR7 motorcycle is much like its Chonda-Counsins with some design and material issues. If you are an RPS Hawk 250 … Read more

Now I have changed my habits to avoid getting so much oil in my airbox. I covered these in an earlier post. (My Post: Why Is There Oil In My Motorcycle Air Filter Box?). After I removed my TBR7’s carburetor air intake and did an air filter pod upgrade(my post: TBR7 Air Filter Pod Replacement, … Read more

Engine Valve Adjustment Notice: RPS Hawk 250, Bashan Brozz 250, CSC TT250, and TaoTao TBR7: These valve adjustment steps should apply to most Chinese “250” Dual-sport motorcycle engines (“Chonda’s”), based on the Honda CG-125 design(yes, over-bored to 229cc’s in the Chonda’s) These Chonda bikes are the RPS Hawk 250’s, CSC TT250’s, Bashan Brozz 250, and … Read more