More Lifan x-pect breakdowns. Wow. New thread.

[Boatguy]

I put in the new instrument cluster. Worked great, just like it did with no cluster. Went on a 20 mile ride to test. I wanted to do more but it fn broke down AGAIN.

Somewhere along this ride the bike started behaving VERY strangely.

It was missing. A lot. Seemed like every 4 firings actually went off. It wanted to stall.

Only careful throttle massaging kept me on the road back to town where I could get help if it died. I kept the RPMs up through all the stop lights.

At 1/3 to 3/4 throttle it lagged bad. Enough to throw me forward with the compression.

At less than 1/3 if I was stopped, I could keep it running.

At full throttle it would misfire badly, but I could make enough speed to ride in regular traffic back to town.

In town, at a stoplight, it stalled. Then AGAIN everything died!

No power to anything. No starter, no instruments, no nothing.


Mind you I was riding off road and having lots of fun. And this all happened on smooth tar.

Not enjoying my Chinese bike anymore. 2000 miles. That’s what you get for $2000. I think the experiment is over. This is a major and difficult problem.

I thought I needed a valve adjustment as I was riding back to civilization. Until all electrical everything went poof again.