Is there a simple way of getting more than the standard 12bhp from a sh125, i have a full bike licence so not an issue as long as i let the insurance know.
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More power ???
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TommyXP
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Re: More power ???
"Is there a simple way....."
I imagine that generations of mechanical engineers at Honda have focused their working life's attention in pursuit of this wonder too and we have arrived at the present 'state-of-the-Art' due to a delicate balance of many intertwined factors that all influence each other. We are free to get in 'there' and muck-around in order to possibly increase a single factor that happens to be the focus of our present potential happiness BUT at the expense of losing that fine, long striven for 'harmonic balance'; unless we also make modifications of other components within the 'daisy-chain' too. Thus the appearance of the SH150-SH300 on the scene; in order to increase our 'free-time' and put a cap on just how much we want to 'learn' via our own experience.
I don't wish to discourage anyone from 'trying', as all learning experience is good even if the results are less than hoped for, or opens 'cans-of-worms' from within Pandora's Box that we wish were never visited upon us.
Personally, I side with Solon and his response when the richest man in the world showed him palaces of treasures and claimed it to be the source of all happiness:
"The wealth of gold abounding Croesus is no concern to me.
Ambition offers no temptation; from envy I am free.
The god's affairs I do not question; no monarch would I be.
I am content, wherever I'm sent, with mediocrity.........."
I imagine that generations of mechanical engineers at Honda have focused their working life's attention in pursuit of this wonder too and we have arrived at the present 'state-of-the-Art' due to a delicate balance of many intertwined factors that all influence each other. We are free to get in 'there' and muck-around in order to possibly increase a single factor that happens to be the focus of our present potential happiness BUT at the expense of losing that fine, long striven for 'harmonic balance'; unless we also make modifications of other components within the 'daisy-chain' too. Thus the appearance of the SH150-SH300 on the scene; in order to increase our 'free-time' and put a cap on just how much we want to 'learn' via our own experience.
I don't wish to discourage anyone from 'trying', as all learning experience is good even if the results are less than hoped for, or opens 'cans-of-worms' from within Pandora's Box that we wish were never visited upon us.
Personally, I side with Solon and his response when the richest man in the world showed him palaces of treasures and claimed it to be the source of all happiness:
"The wealth of gold abounding Croesus is no concern to me.
Ambition offers no temptation; from envy I am free.
The god's affairs I do not question; no monarch would I be.
I am content, wherever I'm sent, with mediocrity.........."
Freedom is not something you are given. Its something you take.
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TommyXP
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Re: More power ???
Please forgive my inability to censor or tame mine own comment. I am not my own master.
Take what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness; blow the rest away.
Hopefully another member will chime in with some useful knowledge or experience from the real world and continue to spark enthusiasm within your quest.
Take what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness; blow the rest away.
Hopefully another member will chime in with some useful knowledge or experience from the real world and continue to spark enthusiasm within your quest.
Freedom is not something you are given. Its something you take.
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SH125Paul
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Re: More power ???
Here in the UK we get the 125,
Other markets get the 150...
You can get a 153 cylinder and barrel kit from the Bay...
Dunno how much more power, 1 or 2 bhp?
Blurb for the kit states a bit more torque...
So a maybe a bit better hill climbing or head wind resiliance...
Anything else will be arsing aboutcwith injecter, ECU, gear up etc...
All prolly not worth the cost.
I recomend trying Dr Pulley Rollers in the Variator...
Do a google on how it works, a little like a tooth of the front at pulling away, and a tooth on when max revs crusing...
Go OE weight rather than lighter, as it otherwise makes it to revvy.
I have fitted them to lots of my scooters...
Other markets get the 150...
You can get a 153 cylinder and barrel kit from the Bay...
Dunno how much more power, 1 or 2 bhp?
Blurb for the kit states a bit more torque...
So a maybe a bit better hill climbing or head wind resiliance...
Anything else will be arsing aboutcwith injecter, ECU, gear up etc...
All prolly not worth the cost.
I recomend trying Dr Pulley Rollers in the Variator...
Do a google on how it works, a little like a tooth of the front at pulling away, and a tooth on when max revs crusing...
Go OE weight rather than lighter, as it otherwise makes it to revvy.
I have fitted them to lots of my scooters...