150cc quad

gottagetacheaperhobby · Dec 20, 2016

My partners sister bought herself a quad bike for christmas, just an ebay special 150cc shineray engined cheapie, and it needs some improvements.
Im planning a oko carb as it has a tiny 19mm carb and inlet manifold,and i will be chucking an aftermarket exhaust i have lying around on it.
Its biggest problem isnt power tbh, its the suspension. Its running 320mm ebay cheapie shocks on the front, and a 250mm on the rear. It rides like crap to be honest, very rough.
Has anyone ever bothered to turn these into a decent bike?

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MarCon · Dec 20, 2016

Hi,
Can we get some pics of the quad and a bit more info on the standard setup. Does it have the 2 or 4 front A arm setup? Do the front shocks have the remote gas reservoirs? If it's just the cheapy shocks they wont have and shock dampener adjustment I take it. And anything else that you can think of that may help us help you.

Mark.

gottagetacheaperhobby · Dec 21, 2016

No remote res or adjustments on the quad shocks, will throw some pics up tomorrow night.

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gottagetacheaperhobby · Dec 31, 2016

Finally got some pics of this p.o.s lol

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Cordogs · Jan 1, 2017

I reckon you'll be hard pressed to get that thing handling right shags.
A cheap shock is a cheap shock. I know you know that, but I reckon it will be forever a bouncy ride without some crazy expensive shocks and thats if the frame builders got the geometry right?

gottagetacheaperhobby · Jan 1, 2017

Yeah i know, the sis in law is happy enough with it, but i most certaintly am not lol. Thinking i might try another set of cheap ebay shocks that are gas charged, only 120 delivered and they surely cant make it any worse...

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