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spares.......
Paul, the holy grail of spares for the C90 is called ebay.
if you cant get it on there, it not available.
also Google search for spares , plenty of places in london do spares, ask any taxi (back cab) driver as they use em for the knowledge and usually know of someone who has one for sale/spares/etc.
also look in the LOOT and MCN (motor cycle news)

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i think the immediate need is for silencer and seat and battery..rest il search for
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I was just giving you the details of single seat conversions when I realised yours is the older c90.
this does limit the availability of bits when compared to the later 85cc machine. you are stuck with 6 volts unless you do some major surgery, as most if not all were 6v with the points setup.
what weather are you traveling in? in winter the screen is a must have, but the c90 is incredibly robust, I use the cub varient and the abuse it has survived is incredible, even worked fine at -36c. the older motors have stronger drive train, and are totally field servieable.
try www.cub90.co. uk there are loads of helpful folk there.
get a granny stylee shopping basket over the front wheel, this will carry a gallon can, and give you a total range of 180 miles.
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I was just giving you the details of single seat conversions when I realised yours is the older c90.
this does limit the availability of bits when compared to the later 85cc machine. you are stuck with 6 volts unless you do some major surgery, as most if not all were 6v with the points setup.
what weather are you traveling in? in winter the screen is a must have, but the c90 is incredibly robust, I use the cub varient and the abuse it has survived is incredible, even worked fine at -36c. the older motors have stronger drive train, and are totally field servieable.
try www.cub90.co. uk there are loads of helpful folk there.
get a granny stylee shopping basket over the front wheel, this will carry a gallon can, and give you a total range of 180 miles.
Building on that, I would look around for a 12V later version - they are on ebay, for not too much money, quite regularly - and keep the 6V one for local trips.
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Building on that, I would look around for a 12V later version - they are on ebay, for not too much money, quite regularly - and keep the 6V one for local trips.
how do you keep one for trips locally lol
once it was on id keep it one.but thanks for your advice as i wasnt sure if they did a conversion to 12 volts.in the local shop they reckoned it should have been 12 volts already,but i remember buying a 6 volt battery and the light is ugh!.okay for town lights...but wouldn't want to be in any real dark place.....i've tried that one lol!
thanks for the granny basket idea.....i suppose you might need to have a plastic /metal fuel can though!
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Bugger...... did I mention they are in the USA?

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Do it Kevin.

We are in India now... A perfect country for our little CT110.

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We have an excel sheet of information for every cent we have spent over the last year if you need more "inspiration".

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