Lexmoto adrenaline Mods

Calumh96 · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 30 Oct 2018 Karma :

I've owned a few Adrenalines in my time and love to tinker with the visuals. The standard Polysport headlight, tailtidy fiddle with the exhaust and colour code the cables with your spoke wraps but i've got a new blank canvas to play with.

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Evil Hans · World Chat Champion Joined: 08 Nov 2015 Karma :

Add more petrol.

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Calumh96 · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 30 Oct 2018 Karma :

"Polisport".

But I'd just leave it as it is and use it. They look OK as they are, and you can save up your money or blow it on beer instead.

If you *must* do something to the styling, I'd be inclined to do some artwork on the plastics (but it will be expensive unless you can DIY it).[/quote]

They do look OK but for me i spend just as long standing next to my bike as i do riding it. I dont like it to look standard Twisted Evil

rpsmith79 · World Chat Champion Joined: 31 Jan 2017 Karma :

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Ste · Not Work Safe Joined: 01 Sep 2002 Karma :

Colour code the cables with your spoke wraps? Sick

Bestest upgrade involves getting rid of the L plates.

Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

I buy, or more often build, a bike to go places on, or do stuff on... If I wanted to look 'cool'... I'd take my T-Shirt off... especially this weather! I'd look more than 'cool' I'd look effin freezin!

Lexmoto is a budget brand commuter... it is what it is, and looks about as good as it gonna get as it left the chinese sweat-shop it was assembled in...

Modifying one for looks, is like sticking fluffy dice and a spoiler on a Lada... its still an effin Lada... but now some 'naff' has been applied to show the owners aspirations and pretensions.....

Best improvement to its aesthetic you might make is to remove the 'L' plates, preferably legally, with a full licence, so you dont have to display your 'L'ame-ness at being stuck on a 125 cos you CBA to get a full licence or are too inept to pass the tests.

Beyond that.... the patina of use is something worth acquiring, and to my sense of aesthetics is about the only thing that can make a utility bike look better... makes it look like its used as intended going places.. a lot... not pimped and preened like a hair-dressers window dummy.

End of the day, I ride bike; when I get on the thing, I expect that few folk will pay all that much attention, especially if they happen to want to cross the road, or drive out of a side turn, so I don't expect them to be looking at me and critiquing my fashion sense, and going "ooh! Ah! He's got JUST the right shade of Jacket to set off the hue of his over-trousers".. IF they bother to think much at all, I suspect most of it is "What the Fcuk! Why's that IDIOT riding a motorbike! Could be warm and dry, listening to the radio and txting his mates in a car! Daft begger! People MIGHT see him then! And whats with the half drowned frozen sewer rat look, eh? Yeah, that looks 'cool'! Positively freezing! Get a life! Get a car y'mad fecker!"

REALLY... almost NO-ONE is bothered one bit by what the bike looks like, or how well decorated it may be! Even other bikers... especially when THEY know that a pimped up Lexmoto is like the Lada with fluffty dice and a spoiler.. a low-cost commuter with pretentiouse know little owner, and if they were REALLY bothered about bikes and what they looked like.... they'd either leave it the feck alone and enjoy what it is, a budget commuter, and NOT waste money trying to make it look like something it aint, or wasting money they could put to buying the real deal bike that has the looks they aspire to....or the licence to let them legally ride it.....

You want 'oy-deaz' and 'in-spur-ay-shun'......

- Spend your time on basic routine maintenenace.. like changing the oil and adjusting the tappets.
- Spend your money on the stuff that will keep it looking like it should, like decent tyres and brake pads and grease for the swing arm and a pressure washer to keep on top of the crud in the brake caliper.
- Acquire the 'patina of use' in the doing....

If you want something folk at meets are going to ooh-and-ahr over... get a classic, like a pre power-valve RD350, or a Laverda Jota, or a Lambretta GP200, or, or or or... Restore it as per the book to catalogue condition, and THEN folk might, if they like that kind of bike, be a little bit more appreciative of the thing.... but a Lexmoto? No.... they never will be. Really, they wont. It'll still be a Lexmoto!! A generic bit of antiquated obsolete Japanese engineering made out of recycled washing machines for folk too tight to buy better to start with, in the hope of getting to and from work cheaper than the bus-fare... it is NOT an aspirational motorcycle, and never will be, whatever you do to it!

But... your bike, your money, your arse... do what you like to it, JUST don't expect any-one but you, to have any appreciation for your endevours.
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