I have ridden PE175's before. However I did not ride this one, I started it, bought it, brought it home, and proceeded to tear it apart
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Shanes though that is funny, that's a little extreme for a joke lol.
I bought a stock sized cylinder on eBay. Even if it needs bored first over to clean it up I like the idea of not being near the limit like the current cylinder is.
The overall plan is to rebuild the crank (I'll have to send it out), new top end, replace every bearing and seal in the engine, replace all the chassis bearings (the ones I can still get anyway), replace the brakes, the fork seals, fork boots, plastic, seat cover, tires, etc. That will put the total at around $1200-1300 including what I paid for it, but it will basically be like new again. Hopefully I will have it complete by April/May at the latest. I think the frame will be powder coated in a couple of weeks when I get time to clean it up and drop it off.