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 Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:08 am Post subject: J. Costa variator Installed!! |
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Hello, first post, first question - has anybody seen/tried the J Costa variator?
Strange looking beast. Scooter Trap in the U.S. is selling them.
Thanks,
Rub
PS this is me on my one month old GTS.
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never seen it before strange looking beast do you know anyone who has one fitted yet???? and any other reports from usa on them ??? 
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yea i went to spanish site and translated it with goggle very very intresting trying to find out if there is a UK supplier????
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Got this reply from spain 
Hi Stephen
In that moment we don't have any dealer in UK, so if you want purchase our product we can send it to you.
The price for that variator is 200 euro + 30 of shipping cost. You can pay it by Paypal(xpallares@jcostacompetition.com)
Thanks for contacting us
emmmmmmmmmm tempting 
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I was reading on a Silverwing forum that some folks are not happy with fuel mileage after installing the J. Costa unit. I guess one of these days someone is going to have to be brave and try the thing on a GTS.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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yea but what they looking at in fuel economy is not a lot and look how much better the bikes have been going !!!  mayb try it in another 3000 miles (4 months)
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who gives a s**t about how much extra fuel it uses
if it goes better then its worth it
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who will try it first ????????????????????russ?????? phil ????????
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ferrarigr
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Personaly i wouldnt put it...
I'll go with the Italian brand..Malossi or Polini...
I was very very happy with the Malossi on my previous scooter
and all here in Greece uses both brands ALOT...with no issues..
Plus you can find them everywhere...
If i ever go with something I'll go Malossi...i trust them..but thats just me.
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| ferrarigr wrote: | Personaly i wouldnt put it...
I'll go with the Italian brand..Malossi or Polini...
I was very very happy with the Malossi on my previous scooter
and all here in Greece uses both brands ALOT...with no issues..
Plus you can find them everywhere...
If i ever go with something I'll go Malossi...i trust them..but thats just me. |
I would have agreed and still agree with what your saying about Malossi but....
There is one exception to this IMO and it's the 250 GTS variator, it's not up to the job but luckily for us the Polini one is much better.
J costa...........WTF?
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Get them to send me a free one for assesment and if I think they are good I will stock them in the UK, if I think they are shite I'll send it back.
Russ.
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email them russ quick response getting good reviws in usa
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| russpeed wrote: | | ferrarigr wrote: | Personaly i wouldnt put it...
I'll go with the Italian brand..Malossi or Polini...
I was very very happy with the Malossi on my previous scooter
and all here in Greece uses both brands ALOT...with no issues..
Plus you can find them everywhere...
If i ever go with something I'll go Malossi...i trust them..but thats just me. |
I would have agreed and still agree with what your saying about Malossi but....
There is one exception to this IMO and it's the 250 GTS variator, it's not up to the job but luckily for us the Polini one is much better.
J costa...........WTF? |
Yes you are right....Polini is what Piaggio Servce puts here as well
if you ask...So no problems..
JCosta  I dunno
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