Gas and Electric Powered Scooter Documentation

This section includes information on how to setup your scooter and offers an improved version of the owners manual which comes with the scooter.


Chain adjustment

Quick Setup Guide

Wheel Bearing Replacement
The wheel bearings made in China are not the best quality and occasionally fail. You will likely get better life out of bearing you purchase in the US.

The fastest way to fix this is to buy the bearings and replace them. It is not too difficult. You have to pound the old ones out and carefully tap the new ones in being careful to only hit the outer race (the outer ring) of the bearing. The 36cc scooter uses what's called a 6200Z bearing. You should replace both of them. If this happens to the front wheel, it uses the same bearings. They cost about $4 each.

Brake adjustment
Brakes are all adjustable in the same basic manner. When the scooter is new and as brakes wear they will require adjustment.

There are three ways the brake cable is adjusted: At the brake hand grip, at the cable end near the brake, and the terminating clamp at the cable end near the brake.

If major adjustment is needed--for when the brakes don't touch at all--you need to adjust the clamp. To do this, first loosen the cable by turning the thumbscrews in at both ends of the cable, then loosen the clamp and take up the slack in the cable and retighten the clamp. Then adjust the cable tensioner near the brake and lock it in place with the locking nut. The final adjustment is done at the cable end near the hand grip--it is usually best to take up slack with this adjuster for when you are out riding and have no tools with you.

Drum brakes and band brakes should not drag on the wheel much at all when you are not squeezing the hand grips, however disc brakes usually drag slightly at all times.