Every now and again I like to post about large shipments we receive. Normally when we order from Malossi, the parts show up in 6 or 7 large boxes with all of the smaller part boxes inside. This time, because it was our largest order yet, the shipment showed up on a pallet. All Malossi items are now in stock. We also ordered many new parts so look for those on the site in the coming days.

The Provoscooter store and forum have been rather disjointed their entire life. We were recently able to upgrade the website to allow single sign on between the forum and store accounts. If you would like to link your two accounts, simply log into your store account, click on "my account", then select "forum integration" from the side menu. You will be prompted for your forum user name and password. After you save your credentials, your accounts are linked. After your account is linked, your store account will look something like the image below.

It appears that logging into the store logs you into both the store and the forum, but logging into the forum doesn't log you into the store. Logging out of the forum or store, however, will log you out of both. In the coming weeks the site will undergo a visual makeover to further integrate the site.

Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to all you scooterist out there.

It has been another wonderful year for Provoscooter and we are sad to see 2009 come to an end. But we have many exciting things already in the works for 2010. The Provoscooter team is constantly working to improve, and bring you the parts that you want. 

In recent weeks we have established relationships with several new suppliers. These suppliers will allow us to offer you parts from popular brands like Stage 6, STR8, and MotoForce, as well as Yasuni exhaust systems. For the most part these brands are hard to come by in the United States. We are going to change all that. We will be stocking many of these popular products and carrying them in our inventory. 

Even though we are closed for the next two weeks for the holiday season, we will still be working. We take this time to plan for the new season. We will be making decisions on what new parts to add to our catalog and evaluating our operation to see how we can improve for next year to provide you with even more parts and better customer service. 

We love to hear from our customers, so if you have any suggestions on ways we can improve or parts that you would like to see listed, please let us know. Thanks

The Provoscooter Team

Happy Holidays! Provoscooter will not be shipping orders from 11/20/09 to 11/27/09.

As a way to help you enjoy your holiday season, any orders placed during this time will receive a 10% discount by using the following coupon code: thanksgiving09

Note: You must be signed into your store account in order to apply the discount.

Provoscooter Team

You would not believe the amount of trouble we have with customers who have hired a motorcycle mechanic to install their parts. Of the number of customers who need to reorder a cylinder because of seizure, I believe a realistic estimate of the percentage that had a motorcycle mechanic do the installation is somewhere around 80%. I believe there are a few reasons for this:

1. Most motorcycle mechanics have very little experience with small engines. Two-stroke, small engine scooters require a good deal of specialized knowledge in order to get them tuned properly. None the of things one must know are especially difficult, just different than motorcycles.

2. Customers who don't know what they are doing typically know they don't know what they are doing and so read our how-tos and forum, and ask a lot of questions before they attempt an installation. Paranoia is a lot more useful than confidence when it comes to not blowing up a cylinder. 

With that being said, not all motorcycle mechanics should be avoided. But, if you are going to have a motorcycle mechanic do an installation, I would check on his small engine experience before enlisting his help. It will save you a lot of time, money, and frustration. Don't say you haven't been warned ;)

So I was cruising the web earlier today, trying to find some info about the Vino 50 4t. Through my web surfing, jumping from page to page, I ended up on the Yamaha corporate website. Everything was in japanese, so i didn't know what I was doing or what I was clicking on. Finally I found a link to get me to the english version. Once there, I didn't find what I was looking for but I did find something else - Paper Craft.

Yamaha has this section dedicated to all these little paper projects that you can download. Its like legit origomi. I looked at their selection of projects and they had just about every motorsport vehicle they make represented. However, not much of a showing in the scooter world other than the Tmax. It looks pretty fun, I will probably give it a try if i ever get a free minute. 

So for all those that are interested out there, I thought I would share the link so you could go download the files and build your own Yamaha Tmax.

For those that give is a whirl post up some pics in the forum. 

Yamaha Tmax Paper Craft

In a continual effort to keep in touch with our customers and fellow scooter enthusiasts, Provoscooter is now on Twitter. It's been a few months since we set up the account, but we now have someone to manage it for us. Twitter is a great way to get the latest info about what we are up to. When we get an inventory shipment in...we will tweet about it. When we add new parts to the shop...we will update you on twitter. When we make changes to the site/forum...we will send out a tweet to let the world know. And probably the most important, when we have a sale (or even a special twitter followers sale)...we will let you know via twitter.

Twitter is a great way for us to keep everyone up to date about what we are doing. This past year has seen a lot of changes at provoscooter. Posting updates on twitter will help you keep track of everything that is going on. So make sure you stay in the loop and follow us on twitter.

Product Announcement

Two Brothers Racing Performance Exhaust System – Aluminum

Compatable Scooters

Yamaha Zuma 125

So the wait is finally over!! We have been waiting all season for our supplier to get these in and they finally have. We now have a sweet exhaust to offer for the Zuma 125. We got the Two Brothers Racing exhaust system. Not only does it look sick it is a great performer. Two Bros does a great job documenting their products. Check out the Dyno chart for gains over stock.



Also in the item description you will find more detailed specs on the exhaust. We have had great results and feedback from our new Zuma 125 customers and are working hard to continue to provide you the latest performance parts.

(Just as a side note, in our effort to expand our product line, we will be getting in some sweet JDM Genuine Yamaha accessories for the Zuma 125 very soon.)

You can check out all the details about the Two Brothers Racing Exhaust Here.

You can check out all our other Yamaha Zuma 125 parts here as well.

We have had a few inquiries about larger jets for the arreche carbs in the past little while. Since we have started carrying the 21mm Carbs, which comes with a larger stock jet size, we have expanded the sizes we keep. We now stock the Arreche Main Jets from 60-160.

You can find the new selection of Arreche Main Jets Here.

Notice:

Provoscooter will not be shipping out orders from 6/22 to 6/26. The Provoscooter Team is heading out of town for a family wedding. We will still be answering emails and returning phone calls periodically throughout the week.

We are offering a 10% discount on all orders placed during this time so that you can celebrate with us and to make up for the inconvenience. We appreciate you understanding and thank you for your business.

Its finally starting to look like summer again here in Utah, get out and ride and take this chance to get a great deal on those parts you need and always wanted.

Just enter in the promo code found below during checkout to get the 10% discount:

wedding

Thanks,

The Provoscooter Team

**discount is only good through the dates mentioned and to stock on hand.

Happy Memorial Day Scooter Fans!!

I hope this Memorial Day you all get a chance to celebrate and enjoy the day with some nice weather and a great ride! To help make the day even better for you, Provoscooter is having its first ever Memorial Day Sale!! We are giving all you wonderful scooter enthusiasts 10% off your entire order when you order $100 or more in parts.

Now is the time to stock up on belts, oil and spark plugs for the season, or get that big bore kit, or performance exhaust you have been waiting for. There is no limit to the possibilities. The sale starts tomorrow, Friday, May 22nd and runs through Tuesday, May 26th. All you need to do to take advantage of this great event is enter the coupon code below in the shopping cart.

Coupon Code:  memorial-day-b

Limit one use per customer. Must have an account and be signed into Provoscooter.com to take advantage of this coupon code. Discount limited to stock on hand.

Rollers are one of the most important parts of tuning your scooter. With the right roller weights you can get the most out of your scooter. In the past the only option has been to purchase multple sets of expensive rollers to see which worked best. This kit contains six sets of six rollers and costs less than two sets of normal rollers. With this kit you can combine the different rollers to form a total of 11 unique weights. Do yourself a favor and make sure you have the propper tool to get your scooter dialed in.

After about a month and a half traveling over the open ocean, our Tecnigas order has finally arrived. We are pleased to announce that we now have a much wider selection of pipes to choose from. I believe we are the only ones that have non-chromed Next-R pipes. We also have pipes that will work with TGB, Daelim, 139QMB, Kymco Super 9 Liquid Cooled, and many other scooters.

We have once again expanded our product line for the Yamaha Vino 125. The parts that are now available include both performance and maintenance parts. In addition to the 150cc cylinder kit, for performance parts we now offer the MRP Stainless exhaust, variator, and carburetor. In the maintenance arena we have brakes (both front pads and read shoes), drive belts, and a K&N oil filter. Provoscooter now how everything you need to tune up your Vino 125.

Product Announcement

Malossi RS 3 Shock

Compatable Scooters

Yamaha Zuma (2002-->)

After much time searching and trying we have finally found a shock for the Yamaha Zuma!! We are very excited about this new product. We have had many requests over the years for a shock for the Yamaha Zuma and now we have finally found one. 

You can check out all the details about the new performance shock here.

Product Anouncement

Malossi Over Range Transmission

Compatable Scooters

Yamaha Vino 50 2T

Yamaha Jog 50

Malaguti F10 50 2T

The ultimate performance upgrade is now available for the Yamaha Vino, Jog, and Malaguti F10! Get all the performance benefits the Zuma owners have been enjoying for all these years. This is one of the best upgrades you can do. The Malossi Over Range comes with everything you need to transform your transmission. The kit includes a Malossi Multivar/Multivar 2000, an X Kevlar Belt, and a complete rear pulley system (fixed pulley, torque driver, 2 O-Rings, nut, pin, spring guide, 2 oil seals, and grease).

Be the first to get the Over Range Transmission from Malossi. For more details visit the Malossi Over Range listing in the Vino section of the shop.

Provoscooter now offers additional shipping options to help save on shipping costs. For small, light items such as jets and rollers, you can now select shipping via USPS First Class Mail which will cost between $0.83 and $3.21 instead of $5.00+ for priority. For large, heavy items such as tires and the staged kits, you now have the option of shipping parcel post which can provide a huge discount. You no longer need to hold off purchasing jets, rollers, and reeds until you have more to order!

We are happy to announce that we have added performance parts to the shop for the Vino 125. The scooters we have installed these parts on have experienced much more torque and speed. Before now, the largest cylinder you could put on a Vino 125 without modification was a 140cc. We offer a 150cc direct replacement. We have more parts on the way from Malossi and other manufacturers so check back frequently!

There have been a number of requests for the service manuals that were once a main part of the Provoscooter homepage. They have since been moved to the Wiki. We haven't had time to organize the Wiki and start putting in our own content but i've posted some service manuals there for download. Feel free to create an atricle or write a definition if you like, but we'll provide more guidance on the Wiki in the future.

Service Manuals

I thought i should spread the word about all of the forum updates that we have made in the last few weeks. We now have a fully functional garage, a brand-new theme, and a whole host of new features that you can only get all at one time by waiting 4 years to update. If you haven't been to the forum lately, you should check it out.

Provoscooter has undergone some major changes over the last couple of months. We hope that you will enjoy our new site and product selection. To navigate the product selection, click on 'Store' in the navigation bar and then use the layered navigation to find parts by scooter, price, type, etc. Feel free to visit our Forum to ask questions and get involved in the community. If you have recently learned something new about scooters or completed a part install, be sure to write up an article in the new Wiki to help others out.