New to the PCX Scene

[powpilot]

Just a quick introduction ... picked up a 2013 PCX 150 from a departing Ft Bliss soldier a couple of weeks ago. Very low mileage and red, of course.

I had not ridden in some twenty years (now retired and in early 70s) and wanted to see if it was still something I wanted to do. (It is!) The PCX 150 seemed like a reasonable and affordable way to go and so I have been having a ball running up miles recently. It's becoming obvious I need some sort of windscreen as wind noise gets pretty bad at around 50MPH.

Last bike I owned was a Suzuki Savage and the last scooter was a Yamaha Chappy.

Gary

[Mel46]

Welcome to the forum. The best windshield I can suggest for you is the Givi tall windshield (the 323, not the 322). You might also consider getting a more comfortable seat or have an upholstery shop take the hump off. Taking the back support/butt support off still leaves a hard spot where the plastic screw holes are. Most riders a tall enough that when they stretch their legs they find themselves sitting on that support. In any case, the pcx 150 has many accessories since most of the extermal accessories for a pcx 125 fit the 150 perfectly. The Honda PCX is manufactured in Thailand. It is one of the most popular bikes over there, so accessory shops are everywhere over there. Not many in the USA though, so if you want accessories such as a custom seat, go to powerbypcx.com . Use the Chrome web browser to view the site and it will automTically ask if you want it to translate. Get a PayPal account. It is the very best way to deal with foreign buys. As for the Givi windshield, there are many websites here that sell them. One of them is Competition Accessories. Do a google search for Givi 323 windshield and I think you will find it somewhere. The mid level Givi windshield would change the windflow and send it to your chest or head, neither of which is optimal for the rider. I think you will find that the pcx is one of the best scooters around, but service can be expensive unless you learn to do some ofIit. For example, to adjust the valves requires almost all of the plastic to be taken off. For a shop, that is a 2 hour job. Using that as an average, to change the oil and adjust the valves would cost you around $250. Changing the oil would take you 10 minutes. Something to think about. This forum can walk you through just about any service. Good luck and dont be afraid to enjoy yourself. It is a scooter.:-)

[WhiteNoise]

You, are one cool dude! Back in the saddle and taking to it like yester year. Dang! Hat's off to ya!
Enjoy and be safe. Don't know how tall you are, but My votes in for adding a windscreen too. Height matters, yours and the screen. Fancy it the way ya like, make it "yours," pow pilot

[kramnala58]

Welcome to hondapcx.org I am a later-in-life first time rider and loving it. Sometimes it would be nice not to live in the center of a mega-city and have some country roads to go for a nice casual ride on.

[powpilot]

Thanks for the welcome, folks.

I'm 5' 10", so I think the GIVI 323 will be the way to go with the screen. Surprisingly, the bump on the seat doesn't bother me but I do like the looks of the one Maddiedog has on his scoot.

On my third day of ownership, I discovered that the parking brake did not work as I watched the bike roll forward off of the side stand. Minor damage, but doggone it, it had been perfect! She's going in for some new panels tomorrow and then I will start customizing her a bit.

Not a lot of scooters here in El Paso, but tons of bikers. Our Harley dealership is one the two or three largest in the word with several hundred bikes on the floor and there are lots of "metric" bikes. For scooters, so far I have seen two Burgmans, one Vespa and me.

Gary

[Mel46]

I had a Burgman 400, and it was nice. If I had owned it way back when I was young and stationed out that way, I would have ridden it to just about every park in Texas! Instead, I had a Harley, which I rode to a lot of places, but it didn't have the wind protection that scooters have. I would love to even have my PCX out there, because once it breaks in, it can handle the open road if you keep it at 55 to 60. We get on the road and push it to 67 sometimes, but it is much happier at 55. I spent a lot of time in Carlsbad, NM, and I also went to a state park in South West Texas that I can't recall the name of. At that time, many, many years ago, I was stationed in Big Spring, Texas. There actually was a military base there in the '60s.

[Mel46]

http://www.sporttour.com/products/3265- ... -13/?bc=no

just for you...

[Alibally]

Where you parked on a hill? The bikes don't have a park brake except in the US and I believe there rubbish anyway. It's all a big learning curve. Welcome to the forum by the way.

[powpilot]

Where you parked on a hill? The bikes don't have a park brake except in the US and I believe there rubbish anyway. It's all a big learning curve. Welcome to the forum by the way.

The street in front of the house has a slight incline ...just enough I guess!

Mel, thanks for the link. There is a real nice state park at Balmorhea which we may visit this summer.

55 MPH does seem to be the sweet spot for the PCX although I have had it up to 67. I may have made a mistake this morning; my wife and I drove up to Las Cruces to look at bikes and I plunked my fanny down on a Forza. Nice fit! They also had two Burgmans, a 200 and 400. But that Forza ... mmmmmmm!

Gary

[Alibally]

Had to read that twice. A fanny is something different in the UK. It brings a whole new meaning to fannypack.