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My trusty Kymco Downtown has given up a ghost so back to Honda now. Sadly it's snow and ice here in the UK. Hopefully back to usual rain from Monday.


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That gonna be a wild ride, inverted or horizontal. Hang on tight and enjoy!

What is wrong with it?

What happened to the Downtown?

That color really brings out the sharp lines of the Forza.

lolofigo, congrats!! Love that scoot!
Your photos are beautiful but somehow they're headed in every direction.

My suggestion to you....Go ahead and repost them so we can see your stallion right-side-up.
Then I will remove the old photos in your orig post
Deal?

Charging issues. I have replaced rectifier but with no luck so its probably the stator that needs replacing. I was looking at that forza for some time now so just excuse for getting new bike. Will have to fix downtown eventually to sell it but ill wait until it gets warmer. For now Kymco has got vote of no confidence from me.

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WhiteNoise wrote:lolofigo, congrats!! Love that scoot!
Your photos are beautiful but somehow they're headed in every direction.

My suggestion to you....Go ahead and repost them so we can see your stallion right-side-up.
Then I will remove the old photos in your orig post
Deal?

No problem will do. Couldn't edit the photos after i posted them.

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87112 wrote:That color really brings out the sharp lines of the Forza.

I really like the look of that bike. I've had test ride on both Forza 300 and Xmax 300 and Yamaha was bit faster closer on performance to my Kymco Downtown 300i but just didn't look the part. Front end looks like surprised donkey.

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lolofigo wrote:

WhiteNoise wrote:lolofigo, congrats!! Love that scoot!
Your photos are beautiful but somehow they're headed in every direction.

My suggestion to you....Go ahead and repost them so we can see your stallion right-side-up.
Then I will remove the old photos in your orig post
Deal?

No problem will do. Couldn't edit the photos after i posted them.

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Yeah, I know. Ok, Let's do this! Going, Going...Right side up

P.S. Friend of mine had a Downtown and sold it within a year or so. Some issue with lunging on the highway, if I remember correctly. Anywho, same person then bought a CanAm and loves it. I'd buy the New Forza over the Downtown myself...but can't. Enjoy it for All of us here in the United States

WhiteNoise wrote:

lolofigo wrote:

WhiteNoise wrote:lolofigo, congrats!! Love that scoot!
Your photos are beautiful but somehow they're headed in every direction.

My suggestion to you....Go ahead and repost them so we can see your stallion right-side-up.
Then I will remove the old photos in your orig post
Deal?

No problem will do. Couldn't edit the photos after i posted them.

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Yeah, I know. Ok, Let's do this! Going, Going...Right side up

P.S. Friend of mine had a Downtown and sold it within a year or so. Some issue with lunging on the highway, if I remember correctly. Anywho, same person then bought a CanAm and loves it. I'd buy the New Forza over the Downtown myself...but can't. Enjoy it for All of us here in the United States

Let's try again

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lolofigo wrote:

WhiteNoise wrote:

lolofigo wrote:No problem will do. Couldn't edit the photos after i posted them.

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Yeah, I know. Ok, Let's do this! Going, Going...Right side up

P.S. Friend of mine had a Downtown and sold it within a year or so. Some issue with lunging on the highway, if I remember correctly. Anywho, same person then bought a CanAm and loves it. I'd buy the New Forza over the Downtown myself...but can't. Enjoy it for All of us here in the United States

Let's try again

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I give up

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That auto-rotate feature on phones and cameras is a pretty lame "feature". I get around it by sucking a photo into Gimp and resaving it upside up with no rotation info, and then take it to the forum. It is, for me, an unwarranted PITA.

Only done 18 miles today on my new Forza 300 and here my first impressions:
- very light handling similar to pcx
- quiet and refined
- noise from road debris hitting front mudguard
- keyless seemed bit odd to start with but its really useful.
- led headlights are very good I was worried if they bright enough as couldn't test ride the bike at night and read some bad comments about leds on Xmax, but Honda had it right.
- electric screen shakes and vibrates on the move so maybe upgrade from Givi in the future.

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GeorgeSK wrote:That auto-rotate feature on phones and cameras is a pretty lame "feature". I get around it by sucking a photo into Gimp and resaving it upside up with no rotation info, and then take it to the forum. It is, for me, an unwarranted PITA.

You can switch off the auto rotate and then it will be less lame for you.

I downloaded an app called Photo Editor 4.0
I can do all sorts of editing with it, including rotation and resizing. You might consider getting this app for use on any photos you plan on attaching by way of your Galaxy S8.

Just arrived

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If you're considering the Givi screen, here's a comparison with the stock screen.

Oldie wrote:If you're considering the Givi screen, here's a comparison with the stock screen.

Looks much better than stock. Does it still go up and down? Standard screen rattles sometimes on idle and shakes a lot. Is there any improvement on that with Givi?

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Nice scooter....well, it's a Honda - but prefer the 1st gen. model in RED.
(new design is all sixes and sevens though - like all such scoots)
Camera still under warranty, I hope?

Stig