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 Posted: 21:52 - 25 Nov 2016  Post subject: Lexmoto venom |
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Right after 20 years I decided to get the VENOM.
Banging my head now on the wall.
1. The petrol on/off lever, impossible to use unless I am on the floor praying to allah, but achievable, not talking to Allah but turning the tap.
2. The pipe from the petrol to the carb, short, fell off after a little tug.
3. The headlight bulb blown after 230 miles. second one 10 miles.
The chain markings are a nightmare to read when the chain needs tightening.
I though after 20 years technology would of moved forward. MY TZR 125 was far superior to this venom. The only blessing is a MP3 player. 
Anyone else here stupid enough to of got a venom? |
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| Posted: 22:10 - 25 Nov 2016 Post subject: Re: Lexmoto venom |
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| lifesucks wrote: | Anyone else here stupid enough to of got a venom? |
I made a thread about one a while ago while I had my Lexmoto Arrow, possibly IIRC with the interest of swapping out to one, but no I didn't buy one. MP3 player, all this time on, just screams as an un-needed gimmick and wouldn't be surprised if it causes some form of electrical problems along the way.. wiring isn't the best let alone adding more.
Do your test and upgrade would be my advice. Don't put up with it longer than you have to.
Never had any of those issues while I had my Arrow, backs up my advice of Arrow/Vixen and avoid the new-er ones until they've proved themselves.. I'm yet to hear of one that has.
Mechanic showed me markings on the swingarm but I wouldn't trust them you're better of measuring from axle to adjuster or is it swingarm pivot point (near engine) to axle, different methods I'm sure.
Plus points of the Lexmoto's are that they're cheap to service, run, maintain, clean, work on, legit-weight.. it's really as easy in as simple of a package as it comes but after a while I wanted to move on.
One thing I don't miss is doing 30mph (so the dash said) and having cars overtake me and up me arse all the time. Only been two commutes on the ZR but it seems, not to delude myself, it has more road presence and cars would rather sit back than try it on. I also don't miss the inability to overtake, I think you could probably count on both hands, maybe one, how many times I overtook someone on the Arrow compared to tonight of how easy it was to just roll on the throttle and you're away past the object you want to be. Lovely jubly.
Expect rust on the exhaust, to loose a lot of money when you come to P/X or sell, many problems and you wont be dissapointed during your ownership. I'm not talking badly because I've gotten rid of my Lexmoto but simply because by the end of it all, which was only last week, I'd gotten so fed up I gave up caring all together.
Best of luck during your ownership.
Any plans to upgrade or swap out?
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A stereo?
"An additional feature which is sure to turn heads is the implementation of an MP3 player and speakers which enable you to listen to your favourite songs via a USB or MicroSD card, controlled via a panel on top of the fuel tank. Get ready to experience the next cult bike!"
 
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I disagree, if I was young again I would love a bike with music to play on it. This was one of my reasons to buy the bike with an MP3 player on it. I love music and sitting at 50mph, nice to listen to something. |
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| Posted: 15:10 - 26 Nov 2016 Post subject: Re: Lexmoto venom |
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| lifesucks wrote: | I though after 20 years technology would of moved forward. MY TZR 125 was far superior to this venom. |
It has... but small thunk for you... your Lexmoto, brand new in the showroom yesterday, almost certainly has a sticker price on it less than your old TZR did when that was factory fresh, and ready for the road. ISTR that they were £1,700 ish for the half fared version when launched in what, '88? They were £2K by 1990..... how much has the price of a pint of beer, a pack of fags or a mars bar gone up since then?
TZR was the flag-ship learner-legal in it's day; equivalent now would be Yamaha's YZF-R125, which has a brand new sticker price of about £4.5K.. quids pro an aged mono-tune rock band, that's about the original show room price of a TZR125 x quarter of a century's worth of inflation.
TZR, though was relatively 'simple' to make two stroke; technological advances of the last quarter century then have mostly been in 'value engineering', which is when the marketing team walk into the engineering department and say "Yeah! But make it CHEAPER!".. which they have done, and significantly, in order to compensate for having to make it a four stroke and have five times the number of bits to make and put together to meet 'emissions controls'.
Your Lexmoto, would more reasonably compare, not even to a Honda CG125 from twenty odd years ago, and which probably wasn't many pennies cheaper than then than Lexmoto is now, but east german an MZ125ETZ, or even Soviet era CZ125.. I seem to recall that the CZ125 was advertsed in 1990 brand new for £299, the MZ, slightly more 'fairly' with OTR charges for £499... that would be around £1500 in modern money...
ON WHICH note (sic!) Who else has noted the similarity between the 'new' fiver and the 'old' green one pound note, in both size and colour!?!? And whats with the bludy see through bit?!?!? But I detract....
For, which you would have probably had to suffer even more sub-standard performance, idiosyncratic AC-Direct 6v lighting, and even more frequently blown bulbs, as well as 'curious' controls; particularly on the CZ with it's combined gear-lever/kick starter!
But point is you're not exactly making a a fair comparison; comparing a 'new' budget price utility commuter, with an old top of the range 'sports' 125. And technology HAS moved on.. unfortunately most of it hasn't been in the areas of performance or user convenience, but in meeting regulatory requirements and cost cutting.
Count your blessings... at least you have an electric boot on the Lexmoto! THAT'S progress for you!
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| lifesucks wrote: | Tzr125 was simple, and reliable, even on a cold morning it started with ease. This four stroke takes ages to warm up and cuts out to quickly, a nightmare when a roundabout is coming up. |
You're doing it again.... it's still probably 'better' than a CZ125, and at least it doesn't oil up the plug.
Buy a water-cooled & fuel injected YZF-R125, and likely it'll start and run with as few glitches as the TZR did....
| lifesucks wrote: | | Quote: | Count your blessings... at least you have an electric boot on the Lexmoto! THAT'S progress for you! |
I used to love kick start when I was younger, less to go wrong. |
I think you need to polish your rose tinted spex on that one, mate!
I unfortunately still recall the number of kick-starters that stripped their splines, or lost their rubbers or their pedals even! Snapped their return springs and had to be held up with string or coat hangers. The number of primary drive covers I had to remove to 'un-jam' starter mechanisms pie eating mates put all thier mass on with too much enthusiasm, etc etc etc! In the last, twenty years, only issue I have had with e-starters has been a duff battery or three, and a couple of cases or worn out brushes.... on bikes over 20 years old!!! I'd say that on the whole e-starters TEND to be pretty 'reliable' and less hassle!
And BOY do I appreciate NOT having to jump up and down on a lever at my age!
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| Teflon-Mike wrote: | | lifesucks wrote: | Tzr125 was simple, and reliable, even on a cold morning it started with ease. This four stroke takes ages to warm up and cuts out to quickly, a nightmare when a roundabout is coming up. |
You're doing it again.... it's still probably 'better' than a CZ125, and at least it doesn't oil up the plug.
Buy a water-cooled & fuel injected YZF-R125, and likely it'll start and run with as few glitches as the TZR did....
| lifesucks wrote: | | Quote: | Count your blessings... at least you have an electric boot on the Lexmoto! THAT'S progress for you! |
I used to love kick start when I was younger, less to go wrong. |
I think you need to polish your rose tinted spex on that one, mate!
I unfortunately still recall the number of kick-starters that stripped their splines, or lost their rubbers or their pedals even! Snapped their return springs and had to be held up with string or coat hangers. The number of primary drive covers I had to remove to 'un-jam' starter mechanisms pie eating mates put all thier mass on with too much enthusiasm, etc etc etc! In the last, twenty years, only issue I have had with e-starters has been a duff battery or three, and a couple of cases or worn out brushes.... on bikes over 20 years old!!! I'd say that on the whole e-starters TEND to be pretty 'reliable' and less hassle!
And BOY do I appreciate NOT having to jump up and down on a lever at my age! |
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| Quote: | | WD Forte wrote: | Hang on a minute
you buy a cheap bike, get a few piddling issues and complain?
Did it burst into flames or the wheels fall off? |
We don't complain enough, this is why things are so bad.
Would you goto a hotel and just sleep in a bed full of condoms?
*better not complain* "at least we get to sleep on a bed"
| Quote: | One of my lads got a Lexmoto Arrow about a year ago for £945 OTR and it's fine |
Good for you.
| Quote: | apart from coughing a bit in wet weather due to the iffy weather proofing on some of the electrical connectors which
we'll sort out ourselves soon. |
Good for you.
| Quote: | Its used daily in all weathers for his shift work and we cant honestly complain for that money |
Sounds like you never complain and are good slaves.
| Quote: | Its coping with living outdoors too, no rust or peeling paint.
The simple CG clone lump doesn't get the adrenaline pumping but who cares? its a 125 |
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| Quote: | MP3 player on a bike?
pfft!
("It were all fields round here when I were lad etc " rant deleted) |
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It's a gimmick to sell the bike. Music, people love music. |
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I wouldn't pay Lexmoto for dealer servicing just to maintain a notional warranty.
Bulbs are consumables. Although blowing that fast sounds like an electrical issue - check the connectors, main earth and the fuse is good (depending on how it's wired, it may actually run fine even with the main fuse loose).
Chap who parks up near me got one, it was looking in a sorry state after just one winter, so I'd get some ACF-50 on it ASAP.
Nice looking bikes, but I wouldn't pay a premium for one over Lexmoto's basic commuters. It'll be worth exactly the same now.
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| Rogerborg wrote: | I wouldn't pay Lexmoto for dealer servicing just to maintain a notional warranty.
Bulbs are consumables. Although blowing that fast sounds like an electrical issue - check the connectors, main earth and the fuse is good (depending on how it's wired, it may actually run fine even with the main fuse loose).
Chap who parks up near me got one, it was looking in a sorry state after just one winter, so I'd get some ACF-50 on it ASAP.
Nice looking bikes, but I wouldn't pay a premium for one over Lexmoto's basic commuters. It'll be worth exactly the same now. |
Yeah, to true. I'm not paying for lexmoto to do a service. I've been around a while and know that china do not make the best stuff in the world. After reading comments and comments, people are telling there stories of how bulbs are blowing just after, around, 250 hrs of useage.
Even diesel, putting additives into the tesco diesel causing car problems because you are to poor to buy at texaco or shell. All this is being done on purpose, to piss on us from a afar. |
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