Honda says change the belt every 25,600 km, today I am at 48456 km, so I have another 2700 km to go.aguim wrote:Problem is, there's only one (trans-mission) speed to play with on a CVT scooter. You let it
rev more freely at low vehicule speeds, and voilà it overrevs at high speeds (since it was
normally built to reach top revs at reacheable top speed).
I wouldn't fool around with these, just make sure they're properly cleaned/lubed every year or so.
(belt itself should be good for 30K -- Dave Jones is quite hard on his and has only changed it
once in 48K, so maybe 40K is possible for slower pokes like me?)
I got tired of working today and talked to a few bikers at McDonalds. I dropped tools and went up the Coquihalla for a Samosa & Coffee. 120 kmph up hill and the samosa was good. Some twit dumped oil on a big bridge. Highways dumped sand and dirt all over it. What a mess but it was not slippery at least.
I changed a sprocket on my DR650 but I am not expert enough to have really noticed any difference. I have played around with tuning and I came to the conclusion that the results were not worth the efforts. Some of the factory engineers do get things right. You are always working with compromises. You increase speed but mpg decreases. You increase acceleration but reliability is compromised. Which tradeoffs do you want?
I am having more fun just riding the snot out of the Forza as it is. If I break it, I will buy something new.