I wonder if your turd will be ready! TIS sounds good, but no mountain roads for me after that. I am usually done after a few TIS sessions. I will be practicing with my NSR if the weather is nice!
And Jaame! New farrings for the CPI are 5K! That is what I paid. I have a friend who has a sticker business that does carbon fiber stickering. Im going to have my CPI done soon. It is pretty expensive though. About 4K for all 12 farrings. Oh well it will be cool though!
So are we talking about this coming Sunday morning for a ride out? Pommes, is your badboy going to be ready by then? No mountain biking for me this weekend anyway, the rear shock on my pushbike shat itself on Sunday. It bottoms out at a mere push now, but hasnāt lost any air pressure. I think something must be fucked in the compression circuit. Monarch Plus: donāt get one.
Thanks for the info re: the plastics RK. 12 pieces is a lot isnāt it? Iām struggling to count 12. Front mudguard, headlight surround, 2 tank panels, 2 side plates, back mudguard. Thatās 7. What else do you get? Radiator shields? What else? Iām quite keen on the idea of repainting the frame KTM orange in the front triangle. Iād love to get real carbon mudguards. Hopefully your carbon stickers will look cool. Iāve seen two cars with it done. One looked unreal, one looked shite. Hopefully yours is unreal!
Iād love to see that team racing CPIs. I havenāt been to the track for over a year. I would definitely go if I knew there was going to be a CPI class race.
So yes this Sunday, Iāll book the time off my family. Provisionally 9am at the Longtan 7-eleven/Hi-Life? (How does a Hi-Life stay in business with a 7-eleven next door? One has to wonderā¦). YES!
[quote=ājaameā]So are we talking about this coming Sunday morning for a ride out? Pommes, is your badboy going to be ready by then? No mountain biking for me this weekend anyway, the rear shock on my pushbike shat itself on Sunday. It bottoms out at a mere push now, but hasnāt lost any air pressure. I think something must be fucked in the compression circuit. Monarch Plus: donāt get one.
Thanks for the info re: the plastics RK. 12 pieces is a lot isnāt it? Iām struggling to count 12. Front mudguard, headlight surround, 2 tank panels, 2 side plates, back mudguard. Thatās 7. What else do you get? Radiator shields? What else? Iām quite keen on the idea of repainting the frame KTM orange in the front triangle. Iād love to get real carbon mudguards. Hopefully your carbon stickers will look cool. Iāve seen two cars with it done. One looked unreal, one looked shite. Hopefully yours is unreal!
Iād love to see that team racing CPIs. I havenāt been to the track for over a year. I would definitely go if I knew there was going to be a CPI class race.
So yes this Sunday, Iāll book the time off my family. Provisionally 9am at the Longtan 7-eleven/Hi-Life? (How does a Hi-Life stay in business with a 7-eleven next door? One has to wonderā¦). YES![/quote]
I donāt know why I said 12 pieces, I think that was a mistype/brain fart. I think 7 is right! 
Actually I havenāt put those extra sets one, they are still in the bag from over a year ago. I asked 2 places about the carbon stickers. One place quoted me 7K and the other 4K. I think I am going to go with the 4Kā¦but that could be a bad idea!
I just called on Pommes Kingās CPI and it doesnāt look like it will be ready by Sunday. I didnāt realize this, but he got the same titanium exhaust system as I have and that company doesnāt carry those in stock. Once you order one, they make it. So it takes a few weeks to finish.
Beast and I will be out at the track though, but I wonāt be running my CPI. I will be dialing in my NSR. I have upgraded some things on it and I havenāt ridden the track in about 6 months. I have a race coming May 6th, so I need some adjusting/practicing time. You are more than welcome to come out there and say hi though. But, yes I am totally down for a CPI run really soon. Maybe the following weekend will be better.
So Iāll pencil it in for Sunday the 22nd, a rideout for the Jhongli CPI team (us).
I went to Johngli Motorbike today at lunchtime. Thy have a lot of pimp parts but I donāt think thereās much for the CPI. One thing that really caught my eye was an RPM brake disc. An unashamed copy of the Braking Wave disc, it looks great. $2800 or $3300 for the Cygnus, I might ask if they have one that fits the CPI. I think the diameter is 300-330mm. I am going to take a trip down to Hsinchu one of these days to look at the Wei Lun shop. Not sure if they are even still doing anything for the CPI any more (any idea Tafcoml?). Iāve been pouring over Ruten of late and there isnāt anything on there from Wei Lun. There was quite a bit before. Dogma told me a couple of years ago that Michael the laoban had kind of given up on producing hot-up parts for the CPI because they didnāt sell half as many as he thought they would. If only the new head which liberated 33bhp at the wheel, and the ally beam frame, saw the light of day.
I did find one ad which had a few pics of different things, like anodised water pump covers and a cool looking hy-mech clutch assembly. Thatās something else I want to try out. Really I could do with hitting the track (not the track itself, but the car park) on race day to see what other people have done with their CPIs. I have yet to see one with twin under belly silencers, thatās what I really want.
tw.page.bid.yahoo.com/tw/auction/d61232011
Scroll to the bottom, click on the side-on photo. How good does that look? Under belly exhaust, ally subframe. Sick as!
Hey guys, I just bought a new to me 08 SM250. On the ride home it pops out of 1st and 2nd gears. Pops out then back in causing it to lurch would be a better description. Iāve searched this thread and it seems to be a lot of catastrophic gearbox failures but none with my issue of popping in and out of gear.
So my questions areā¦
Who in the Taichung area can I take it to get fixed?
How much should it cost?
Anyone ride in the Taichung or Dajia area?
Thanks
[quote=ājaameā]http://tw.page.bid.yahoo.com/tw/auction/d61232011
Scroll to the bottom, click on the side-on photo. How good does that look? Under belly exhaust, ally subframe. Sick as![/quote]
An example of more money in mods than in the bikeās purchase price. Exhibit 1 in āmod acquisition syndromeā, aka āsilk purse design fabricated with sowās earā.
I think it would take about $70,000 in mods to make my bike look like I want it to. I doubt Iāll ever do it, but it would increase the total spend to about $180,000. Sounds far too much but to get even a five year old Husky or similar with unknown and questionable history is about $320,000. Iād never spend that on a used bike here.
Still the one in that photo certainly looks like you describe, a bit of a mutant. Looks like they could have done a lot of it themselves though, itās no that clean looking, the engineering I mean.
RE: The gearbox. When my bike had less than 1000km on it, it used to jump out of 5th and 6th a bit. Now the only thing it does is allows me to access neutral from 1st or 2nd. Never jumps out of gear though now. Itās a MK2, May 2009. 3 years old on Monday actually. Maybe Iāll treat her to an oil changeā¦ or maybe not.
I donāt know who could fix it though. My cam chain is extremely noisy and rattly at about 3000rpm, the worst one Iāve ever heard. I took it to the official dealer in Taoyuan city and they simply changed the external adjuster hook thingy. It made it a little bit quieter for about half of the ride home. They lack the desire, and in my opinion the skills, to actually strip it down, find the fault and fix it.
The CPI dealer in Hsinchu is actually willing and able to do engine work I believe. Alternatively you could try a race shop, like CSRT in Yingge. Or take it back to the factory yourself, thatās in Dali.
Jaame, by the āshop in Hsinchuā do you mean the one down the street from the TRA station?
CPI changed the graphics for 2012ā¦ but are there any substantive changes from the 2008 model, other that better wheel bearing seals?
I used to hold out hope that CPI would move their EFI 300cc thumper (in their scooter) into the 250 SM/SX frame ā¦ I donāt think it will happen since theyāve met Euro 3 standards with that strange scrub-catcher on the bottom of the frame downtube.
CPI has a major advantage over the farmerās bikes for tall ridersā¦ enduro seating, no knee and back pain. Butt pain, but an AirHawk cushion will fix that.
Afraid I havenāt been down to Michael in a while. Perhaps drop him an email (wlmotor@kimo.com) or give him a call (03-5259377 / 091-124-2825)? Let us know what heās been up to
Does anyone know a name of a dealer of CPI in Taichung? Iām having no luck with Google.
I did see on Ruten Ji-wheeler industry But there is no number or address listed in their ads.
I infer your spoken Mandarin is lacking, so resort to reverse Chinglish. Call CPI HQ in Dali at (04)2491-0710 and keep saying āYÄ«ngyĒā until someone comes on in Chinglish. Then say, āTaichung, CPI dealer, whereā.
I found a dealer in Taichung who has some left over 2011 for 109,000nt and 2012 going for 123,000NT.
I returned the 2008 due to the gearbox issues. I learned that there was a change sometime in 2009 in the gearboxās.
So, how are these newer gearboxās holding up. Anyone with a 2009 or newer having major issues with their gearbox?
Would you trust a ārepairedā 2008 gearbox?
Is there any difference between the 2011 and 2012 SM 250?
Thanks for the number to the factory!
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I have a 2010 and thereās a gap between 5 and 6 that I pay attention to. Apart from that, the neutral light is on quite often, in gear or not.
Even if you buy a new one and the quality would be ok - itās still a underpowered bike that requires lots of (not too expensive) mods to give it decent power. If it was me, Iāld look for a second hand DRZ. Or, you buy my decently modded CPI and I look for a DRZ myself. 
I wish I could get a DRZ. I use to race one back in the states.
A couple of issues are for meā¦License, I donāt have the big bike license and whoa look at those prices! I could buy a stock DRZ and a full race supermoto for the prices they want.
I know if I look for a modded CPI the first thing to go are the forks. My goodness are they a sponge!
Most submarines donāt dive as well as these forks do under braking.
Ok back to the CPI is it safe to just avoid anything older than 2009?
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Ok back to the CPI is it safe to just avoid anything older than 2009?[/quote]
I have a first gen 2007 with about 20,000 kilometers on the engine. I havenāt any engine, tranny or gear problems yet (knock on wood.)
Mine is pretty modded out, but the engine is all stock, except for the bigger aftermarket carb. I donāt ride mine that often, but when I do, I thump it pretty hard. Mine has held up! Who knows for how long!!
unless you have a hangover and almost no sleep - yet enough to get a speeding ticket! 
DWGCOOKS! There is a post with photos about it some way back - have a trawl backwards through the thread if youāre interested. We kind of accepted that the original first gen bikes had the gearbox problems. They have a large CPI logo in a black circle on the clutch basket. The newer āmk2ā bikes have a small, feint grey CPI logo on the clutch basket. I have heard of a few of the 1st generation bikes having gearbox failures, and I have not heard of any of the second gen bikes having that problem. Not all bikes of the first run have had the problem though. As RK points out, his bike is first gen with a lot of KMs and it is still going strong. The other bikes I heard of jammed before 10,000km. I know RK hammers the shit out of it too.
If it were me, Iād simply get a new one. $120,000 isnāt a lot of money if youāre on a halfway decent salary and/or single, and you get the peace of mind that comes with knowing where itās been. That peace of mind is worth $50k if you ask me. Hell, I bought mine when I was supporting myself, my wife and a kid and earning about $80k a month. I havenāt regretted it once. The things I love about the CPI are that itās cheap, it handles like a pushbike so you can really mess around on it and act the fool, and also it is safer than a bike with 100+ hp. 19 horse at the wheel sounds shit, and it is, so youāre not going to kill yourself so easily on it (unless the gearbox eats itself).
You chaps who already have one, my bike had a problem today. I tried to turn the wheel to back it out of a space and I couldnāt turn the bars left. What had happened was the anti-tamper bolts that hold the lock barrel under the top yoke had loosened and one had fallen out. The lock barrel moved down, causing the steering lock to come on. Imagine if it had happened while I was ridingā¦ doesnāt bear thinking about. Iād advise you to check your bikes. I think the bolts must have simply shaken loose.
Any riding going on this weekend. Its fully pissing down as I type this. RK I know you said you favour Sundays, but Iām really keen to ride down to Hsinchu and have a look at Michaelās CPI shop before heading to the mountains. Any time this summer would be good, doesnāt have to be this month.
Pommes King, any news on your bike and/or that number plate?
Just remembered, I want to give a very strong positive report back of my Pirelli Sport Demon front tyre. I donāt have a lot of experience with tyres and Iāve never been on the track. Iāve also only tried the standard Maxxis tyres and this Pirelli. Anyway, for a novice like me, the new tyre is clearly better than the standard tyre. It feels a bit more stable on the throttle and also steers quickly. What I canāt explain is how much confidence it gives me to lay the bike over. Confidence I never had on the original tyre. I donāt know if it would be described as feedback or just grip, but really I feel much safer and more confident hitting corners faster and at a greater angle of lean and I havenāt changed anything else. I definitely recommend the tyre, at least for novice road riders like myself.
PIrelliās entry level tires are good, and they go up from there to among the best. They probably have one of the top three tires in every category, enduro, MX, street, sports, sport-touring, dual-sport, etc. Stateside, among many riders, youāll only see Maxxis (or a Cheng Shin) on dirt bikes (MX) where riders may chew up a tire in a single weekend. Selected for price, not performance.