Design and quality
Manufacturer – Taiwan. Unlike electronics products, manufacturers from this country do not have a very good reputation in the field of motorcycles and cars. However, Sanyang Electrical Machinery closely cooperates with Honda and Hyundai companies, especially in the production of two-wheeled vehicles.
As a result, the company's brainchild, the SYM Orbit 50 scooter, has acquired a number of advantages.
- Very high quality and thoughtful execution of the plastic parts of the case.
- Aerodynamic design and its own stylish appearance with massive contours that echo road bikes.
- The luggage compartment has good capacity. In addition to the helmet, quite a few useful things can fit there.
- The seat also has something in common with a motorcycle seat - a two-level design for two people.
- Large wheels provide excellent maneuverability compared to other scooters.
In terms of the quality of engineering solutions and general style, SYM Orbit 50 comes close to products from Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha. However, in comparison with them, it is sold for almost nothing.
Motorcycles and scooters
City scooter SYM Orbit 50
For those who just want to buy their first scooter and are not ready to spend a lot on it, the reputable Taiwanese manufacturer Sanyang Industry Co. offers the Orbit 50 model. It is noteworthy that the engineers, when creating this scooter, tried to take into account the “peculiarities” of Russian road reality.
To begin with, let’s outline the differences between this fifty-cc scooter and its Chinese counterparts (scooters from many little-known companies). Yes, the price is not the trump card of the SYM Orbit 50 - it is noticeably higher than that of its “less eminent brothers” (the cost of this scooter is 40
Advantages and disadvantages
SYM Orbit 50 is economical, high-torque, and has smooth torque thanks to its four-stroke engine. It has electronic ignition and a reliable clutch. Excellent optics, large luggage compartment. Wheels of increased diameter increase maneuverability, and wide tires provide good grip on the road surface.
There are also disadvantages. They cannot be called critical; they are inherent in most four-stroke internal combustion engines. Firstly, fuel consumption increases with mileage. From 2-2.2 liters per 100 km after purchase to 3-3.2 liters after a year or two of operation.
Secondly, if you operate the scooter under heavy loads, the piston will wear out quite quickly. As with all quality solutions, the SYM Orbit 50 does not have options for installing spare parts from other manufacturers, so in some areas it may be a problem to find a new piston repair kit.
If we evaluate the scooter comprehensively, the device is quite successful. Perfect for those who are used to feeling confident. It easily carries two passengers and does not succumb to difficult road conditions. In addition, it looks stylish and even respectable.
Sym orbit 50 engine characteristics
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Two seasons of owning scooters of this model made it possible to summarize the accumulated material into a separate article. Two years in a row, at the beginning of the season, I became the proud owner of a new SYMOrbit 50 scooter, and it is safe to say that I have become a fan of this scooter.
The scooter is big. Of course, it is available in a version with a 125 cm3 engine, but not for Russia. When carrying a passenger (even though this is prohibited by traffic regulations), you don’t feel him on the long, wide sofa; there is a lot of space. And during a motorcycle trip, you can always find the position of the fifth point so that the lower back and legs do not become numb.
Carefully! Lots of buff and indecently many photos. It was the spring of 2015, all the motorcyclists were getting out of their garages, and my scooter was standing in the garage with the engine disassembled after a breakdown. The installed 72 cc pistons and main fuel jet were still not enough to travel on a scooter around the region from festival to festival with my girlfriend and a bunch of equipment and clothes. Something had to be done. An attempt to sell at a similar price in order to climb the cubic capacity was initially a failure due to some poverty. This is where the idea was born to cut a cubic engine into the orbit frame, fortunately this one hung on Avito for 8 thousand and was an eyesore for me and a bunch of red-eyed schoolchildren.
8 thousand rubles were sucked out of thin air, the seller’s phone number on Avito was besieged and a day was set for inspecting the remains of Irbis Grace. The seller immediately said that there were a lot of people interested and was broken by my persuasion to look first. For this reason, I arrived at the place two hours before the appointed time and waited nervously while smoking. Due to the endless traffic jams in our town, especially during rush hour near the road work site, the seller was an hour late. During this time, 6 more people arrived who wanted to buy the remains of the scooter for ridiculous money. By the way, the audience was specific... A crowd of schoolchildren from 13 to 17 years old. I wanted it to be good and told everyone that I had already made an agreement and was taking the scooter... but no) There were two of the most “impudent” schoolchildren who tried to drag me (180 cm tall and 95 kg weight) somewhere behind the garages and “talk”, for which the eldest of them was given on the ass with a huge ratchet =D with a slap all over the street... The rest turned around and left, and the grief fighters, promising to find me and “punish” me, hastily retreated.
Finally the salesman arrived and we went into the garage. They showed me the corner in which Grace's remains stood and I started to feel and paw at everything. At first glance, everything seemed much sadder than upon closer inspection. The steering wheel and crossbar were bent into an unimaginable shape, the stays in different directions, the axis of the front wheel was bent, almost all the plastic was missing, and even on the frame there was a torn off piece of the floor reinforcement. The air filter was broken, the variator cover filter was missing, the engine cooling casings were broken and the cooling impeller was partially broken, the engine pendulum and the engine mounting axis were bent, the front wheel disk was bent (jammed).
Unfortunately, I was so carried away by the inspection that I completely forgot to take a photo, and initially, not seeing anything grand in it, I didn’t plan to file a report.
I left the most interesting thing for later, unscrewed the dipstick - the oil was at a normal level, turned the crankshaft by the cooling impeller - there was compression, took off the variator cover - there was still a factory belt, tried it on - it was worn off by only 0.5 mm. At that moment everything tripled me and nothing worked. foreshadowed trouble)) It turns out that on the day when I made an appointment, the seller reduced the price to 5 thousand rubles, which I was pleasantly surprised by. Having given the money, I drove off and dragged this 4-stroke scooter to my car, along the way realizing full well that it would not fit into the cabin.
He took out a suitcase with tools and began to disassemble everything and throw out pieces of plastic and unnecessary parts of the frame. As a result, the scooter was turned into a jar of bolts and screws, an engine, a wiring harness, two wheels and a frame from which I then planned to rip off the upper engine mounts. Everything fit into my “top ten” except the frame and the owner of a wonderful 4*4 bucket was called to help teleport this joy to my garage.
The frame was placed in the Shnivo and we arrived with adventures to my garage.
The next morning, the first thing I did was run to the garage and called a friend who was originally going to help with the future alteration (since I myself only know how to weld aluminum)
We began removing the engine mounts from Grace's frame.
After dismantling, it turned out that they were, to put it mildly, asymmetrical and generally poor from the factory...
The engine pendulum was also in a deplorable state and it was decided to replace it with a new one (that was not the case), and make the mounts ourselves based on the experience of a person from the Dimez Bikepost who suddenly uprooted an engine with a top mount into Orbit. Installing a new motor….
Having traveled all over Samara, Chapaevsk, Novokuybyshevsk and Tolyatti, purely by chance I found a used engine pendulum in good condition in Fan Factor and immediately grabbed it (1000 rubles), simultaneously purchasing a new casing (200 rubles), an impeller (200 rubles), polyurethane silent blocks of the rocker ( 1100 rubles) and engine (800 rubles).
I will also note that the Orbit frame is wider than the Grace frame and the presence of a wider pendulum was a great success.
It took another week to find a non-bent engine axle, luckily I found it at an owl who repairs scooters in the suburbs.
By this time, the comrade who had contracted to help ingloriously disappeared and began to dynamite me (well, the devil be with him)
By calling familiar owls, I found friends who were interested in motorcycle technology, and also had a laboratory with all the necessary tools, who did not send me to the psychiatric hospital when I voiced what I wanted to do and what needed to be done.
Friends with a gazelle were brought in and I transported this whole pile of shit to the laboratory
... and away we go. After a long period of brainstorming, it was decided to weld the slipway to maintain the alignment of the wheels and center the engine. Well, and its step-by-step implementation: In the process, difficulties arose caused by unaccounted for moments and features of scooter engines, and adjustments were made to the design of the slipway - in particular, the rear part of the slipway was not attached to the axle of the gearbox (rear wheel), but clamped the rubber and disk of the rear wheel by tightening the pin from above with two nuts, this also allowed the new wheelbase of the scooter to be slightly varied for more precise positioning. The ears were cut out from suitable plates; for convenience, I first drilled the plates held together with a clamp and fastened them with a bolt and a nut, a 30mm head (from the hub nut of my pelvis), I marked the radii on the ears, and after pre-cutting them with a grinder, I gave them the final look with a sharpening machine. After which everything was mounted on the pendulum, tightened with a clamp, grabbed and then welded. I made the base for the fastenings from a piece of profile pipe 40*20*1.5 (yes, perhaps a thin pipe, for reinforcement, bars turned to size and shape will be driven inside, and plastic plugs will be installed on the adhesive-sealant. They (the bars) will play a damping role and prevent pipe deformation.
After all this, the Scooter was placed on the slipway, a jack was placed under the engine and an hour-long adjustment to the location began.
After I got tired of dancing next to the bar, all the dimensions came together, the fastenings were secured by welding, the engine was dismantled and welding began.
It went something like this:
After this, the protruding ears of the fastening were bent with a hammer to the frame and welded around:
The engine was re-mounted in the frame, the rear part of the slipway was sawed off so as not to get in the way:
Now came the turn for the shock absorber fasteners. The old fasteners were cut off from the snow leopard frame, all unnecessary was cut off from them, and after much fitting and calculations they were welded to the same profile pipe (we had to cut the slipway because the profile pipe had run out, and buy another 6 m (less they don’t let you go) for the sake of a 40cm piece would be idiotic).
The fasteners were ready and after another round of measurements with a giant caliper (50cm) they were welded to the frame
The excess was sawed off and ground with a grinder and a sanding disc:
Now all that remains is to fit the rear part of the plastic under the two shock absorbers, assemble everything, clean the frame from the old paint and repaint everything, finish the wiring, dashboard bracket, and so on... but more on that later, when I return from my business trip)
I express my enormous gratitude to everyone who participated from the beginning to the present day in this madness) namely: Ilya (MaxPower) For his help in delivering my bucket from the seller to the garage. Antosha and Pasha (Commando) for riding a gazelle with me (I don’t know what I would have done without them) Maxim Zverev (Beast) For excellent welding and a large number of significant ideas and solutions that simplified the assembly. Ravil Akhmetzyanov (Bagsey) Also for a large number of important engineering solutions implemented during assembly and for the final delivery of this wunderwaffle to me back to the garage. Keragaz for the awesome kebab right next to the lab. And also to my beloved girl who tolerated my absence on her days off and who still has to endure until I finish everything. To be continued: I’ll make separate posts about remaking the plastic, redoing the wiring, installing a new dashboard and painting the plastic and engine. And also about modifying the front wheel from the Irbis to install it forward, if anyone is interested.
