Thanks for the compliemtns and feedback everyone. She's now had the bike a little more than a month and has just had the first 1000km service and she's very happy with it. Meanwhile, I got to buzz about on it a bit and was well impressed. So much so that I sold her Airblade and my little Honda CZ-i 110 and managed to find a 2 year old PCX with 12,000km on it for a bargain price of 50,000 baht (about a thousand quid). The sale of the other two scooters covered that so I've convinced myself it was "free"
I've already swapped out the plastics as whilst the bodywork was the nice silver/titanium colour, the plastics and the seat were that shitty brown.
Then I swapped out the variator and weights for some mysterious parts from a performance shop that came in a Honda parts bag. Dunno what they came from originally but it's added 6kph to the top end and given the bike a bit more poke off the line. Now it doesn't hit the rev limiter, but simply runs out of steam at 110-111kph.
Then I replaced the stock
absolutely crap tyres with oversize IRC Wing - 120/70-14 rear and 110/70-14 front. Wow, hell of a difference, though part of that may have been that the bike had been standing for a year before I bought it and the original tyres could've hardened.
Lastly, and my favourite mod so far is a new bi-xenon headlamp unit with Angel Eyes. Not cheap and a nightmare to fit but IMO, transforms the look of the bike.
Turned off:
Turned on:
With Angel Eyes on:
The main reason I bought it (apart from me being a tart) is that it really adds visibility to other road users. I'll probably save up and get one for Mrs Pikey's bike too.
I plan to do more mods to the PCX on a monthly basis as time and cash allow. On the list so far is shocks (do the stockers have
any damping? a fruity pipe, possibly a K&N or one of those induction pipes, some bling footboards, and then replacement handlebars & controls.
Let me know what you think and I'd welcome ideas for customizing.
Cheers,
Pikey.