Hello

[998Pilot]

Hi, all. I'm new here. Looking at picking up a bike in the near future. I'm hoping this will be a good resource as I do all my own maintenance on my currnent bike.

Ray Stelker

[apriliababe]

Hi fellow ducatista and hopefully soon to be aprilia biker!
It seems I'm the welcome wagon here, just logged on after not being online for a while and see nobody is posting much.

Anyway, enjoy bike shopping! These 2strokes are a real blast!

[shelleyd]

Have you gotten any feedback on maintenance?
I have a ditech 50 and so far I've found this forum isn't much help when it comes to finding out about fixing and maintaining my scooter.
If course I may be using this wrong or just not understanding how it works, but I have not received replies to my posts so I would love to hear if you find a better source for practical tips on how to keep these machines working without paying $100 an hour to a mechanic. Thanks and I'll certainly tell you what I know but I'm struggling the manuals myself.
Best of luck, Shelley

[998Pilot]

No. I've been out in the field for 2 weeks and when I look at "New Posts" as I get back. There are only 21 posts.

What is a ditech 50. I'm not sure I've heard of ditech. As far as the Apes go, I've had lots of feedback on www.apriliaforums.com and even on www.ducati.ms (since it really is the love of my life).

[shelleyd]

Thank you for the other Aprilia url. I think I did find some helpful stuff there.

The Ditech 50 is the 49 cc bike that has no carb, air injection, air cooled. Lots of fun but too slow (barely 30) for most roads unless you pay a few hundred to a mechanic to remove the governor system.

Mine is a 2003 and it's been great, but suddenly the battery is dying fast. I think it's not recharging because I get a 12-volt DC reading when I do what I think is testing it on a multi-meter (not too well informed on electircal) but it doesn't have the punch to start the machine after I've ridden it for ten minutes.

The diagnostics for this that I've seen -- written and online -- are rather vague, so my next step is to try to get a useful illustration of the bike's parts and their locations.

Too often illustrations in the manuals that supposedly are for my bike show other models with generous assurances that they are the same; they are not the same, as it turns out.

So I'll look at the other forum, and my thanks again for the lead.

All the best, Shelleyd

[RSV FACTORY]

Hi if the bike you are looking for is An Aprilia mille Factory, then email me as I am regrettably selling my quality machine. GraffiTEE1@aol.com. Low mileage and the whole factory package for a measly £5800.
All the best