I am in the process of buying a PCX 125, I will have to tell my decision to the owner tomorrow. It is this one (click me) (I hope it is fine to post an ebay link of an already ended auction).
I am quite happy with the bike but I am a bit worried for something that could be a problem on the trasmission.
Basically when the scooter is cold and you start, I believe the clutch has some difficulty to give traction to the wheel. What you feel is the handlebars that vibrates and a bit of sound coming from the trasmission (not really a mechanical sound, something like a vacuum and deep sound, very difficult to explain in words but definitely not a "broken gears" sound). This lasts for like a second, that the traction is given to the wheel and everything is fine. This happens more clearly when the scooter is cold, when is warm you can feel it less. If I keep the throttle blocked at the level of when this happen, you can feel this strange sound coming from the trasmission for a few seconds, than the traction comes and it goes away.
The scooter has been used mainly for commuting in central London, so probably a lot of stop and go and I know that this is not something usual because my sister have had 2 PCX (same model) and this wasn't happening.
Is it something to be worried about? To me could be a trasmission that needs some cleaning or in the worse case a faulty clutch.
The scooter has 6 months of warranty left so I should be covered by a faulty clutch I believe (it has just 3500 miles, it shouldn't be faulty!)
Sorry for my English but I don't really have a technical scooter vocabulary... yet
Thanks to anyone who can help!
