Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

Today was a proud day for the Spree! It's been consistently starting on the first kick (electric start motor works now, but I don't think it has enough torque to turn over the engine... It's not a stock motor) AND I passed a motorcycle on a straight 35mph stretch of road! I have to hand it to the ...

Ok, now I feel like an idiot... After building this thing from the ground up, I couldn't manage to backtrack and see that one of my plugs was obviously disconnected. Now it turns like a charm. GAH! College I tell you...

Try momentarily shorting the big wire side of the relay with a pair of needle nose pliers or similar. If you get a big spark but no movement, something is likely jammed, no spark at all, wires are open somewhere. You could probably just use an ohmmeter as well.

Thanks, that should help a ton! I ...

So now my problem lies here:

The electric start won't... Start. I have charged the battery after it died, and all of the turn signals, horn, etc. work. When I press the 'Start' button, all I hear is the starter relay clicking, no motor revving or anything. Took the crankcase off and made sure ...

So finally got around to starting up the Spree. It took a bit to finally turn it over, as I'm sure gas had to work its way through the newly cleaned carb. It booted up after some sweating and I was ABLE TO GET IT IDLING!!!! :bowrofl:

Took it up and down my apartment complex's street and man, does ...

Carb has been thoroughly cleaned and placed back on. Should have all day tomorrow to kick around with it (no pun intended!) and will report back my findings.

Haha, that it has but I'm off to the store tonight to get another can of carb cleaner. It's worth a(nother) try, right? haha!

You should be able to fix your idling situation by adjusting the carb screws, just make sure to get it warmed up first so the bystarter isn't open when you set everything.

Also might want to trim that mud flap in the back LOL!


Haha, yeah I hacked off a good amount from the rear fender... It's ...

Oh man, that was fun! Just took this bad boy up and down the street... Hit 35mph no problem! Now, I pose this slew of issues:

The bikes starts fine (via kick start), but the electric motor chooses when it wants to and not want to engage. Battery issue possibly?

The bike runs fine, but it won't ...

I got lucky there, the motor I used ('85 Aero) had the same connectors right off the bat.

Sounds like you're well on the way, but heres the build thread for my swap if you're interested:
http://www.hondaspree.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=26497

Awesome!!! I kept telling myself the whole time ...

This is the bike before anything changes Let the altering begin!

No problem at all! I have yet to get it all started up, but so far it's been all 'plug and play'. I changed out the stator and the electric start with the one that was original to the Spree's NQ50 engine. Saved me the time cutting and putting on new bullet connectors on the new SE50P engine. We ...