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Are My reeds bad?
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[QUOTE="rmc_olderthandirt, post: 1194633, member: 68872"] Your stock reeds are not "crappy", and a completely stock motor on any of the major brand bikes is pretty darn good engine! Everyone would like to believe that there are simple bolt on devices that will provide dramatic increases in performance but the truth of the matter is that if there was a simple improvement that didn't have major disadvantages associated with it they would have built it that way to start with. If your reeds were broken then the bike would not run well at all. If they were broken badly the bike wouldn't run, period. If the reeds are just a little warped and not performing well it would be most noticable at very low RPMs and make for very hard starting. Many years ago reeds were made of "reed" would warp or dry out and crack fairly regularly. Modern "reeds" are of a synthetic material that hardy ever goes bad. If your air filter is clean then your engine should be breathing just fine. Changing the air filter arrangement won't help your situation at all and could hurt things. One thing that you might want to try is to clean out and repack your silencer. If it has gotten so gunked up with spooge it could be messing with the pipe characteristics. I haven't figured out if you have had any prior two stroke experience or if this is your first bike. Two strokes are high reving engines and many people are reluctant to let them rev up high enough to get them into their power band. I suspect that your bike is fine. Looking at your bio, what the heck are you doing on a CR-80 anyway? A full size adult trying to go fast on small bike is just asking for injury. Rod [/QUOTE]
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