Honda Spree and Elite 50 Forums

I had just done the exact same thing (dremeled the intake and then couldn't get the bike to run) when I read this. Turns out I did still have some water in it after rinsing the shavings out, I wasn't too careful about drying it. I was able to start it on starter fluid a couple of times and then ...

So...my girlfriend bought a spree a few months ago and totally loves it, and when I told her it was possible to strap a pimped-out elite motor on it, she was pretty enthused. She really likes the idea of having the tiny, 100-lb scooter that looks like a total joke but actually hauls *. I figure the ...

So, I'm trying to find a new carb needle valve for my girlfriend's 86 Spree, and I finally found something but it says "NQ-50 float needle (84-85)" and they don't offer one for an '86, so I'm wondering if it'll still work. Ideas? Good ol' fashioned experience? Thanks a lot!

It's not all that cold where I live, hasn't made it below freezing here yet, but I leaned it out one notch (the clip was in the middle of the three) and it's still spewing a lot of smoke, though not quite as much. I'll do some plug chops and make sure all is good, but right now it looks like it's ...

So, moving the adjustment clip up means moving it further up the needle (away from the point), thus exposing more of the needle? Or the other way around? Thanks a lot, by the way, you guys are extremely helpful, I've been using this site to work the kinks out of my gf's spree for a couple weeks now.

So, my girlfriend just bought an 86 Spree with about 4000mi on it, and it was running poorly, so I cooked the muffler and now it runs beautifully (makes it over 30 on flat ground), but it's putting out a lot of smoke. The smoke is blue, not white, so I don't think it's just running rich, which just ...

My girlfriend just bought an 86 Spree, and it ran like *, so I filled the muffler full of Gunk engine cleaner (Theoretically should dissolve nonpolar carbon...and I didn't feel like buying something else!) and shook it around a bit with my thumb over the end of the pipe, and then poured/shook out as ...