Help Urgently required

I recently bought my wife a Piaggio Zip 50 Cat scooter :D

After getting it all ready for her to ride (service) etc after she has ridden it to Trowbridge from Westbury and viceversa there is a strong burning smell and a greyish brown smoke comes from the exhaust :o :o After its been switched off :-/ :-/

The burning smell is i think the paint that some muppet (not me)painted on, burning off the exterior of the exhaust but what could the burning smoke from inside be ??

It is a 2000 X reg and apart from this small issue it seems fine and she is happy with it :)

If it needs a new zorzt then so be it but I'd appreciate any ideas, as my thoughts were that the cat had gone pete tong !!!

Cheers
Simon

mate send me a pm with your address n il pop ova take a look for you after work tuesday night ok :)

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Originally Posted by silly_simon

I what could the burning smoke from inside be ??

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Dead mouse crawled inside to die?

Possible oil seal gone & exhaust filling with twostroke oil? Small mammals/children filling the exhaust with fluids/rodents?

Probably just needs a good long run, been stood etc.

Bring it on the next rideout... :D

Sounds like the paint burning off to me.

Other than that it could be excess oil in the silecner.

Thanks for the kind replies :)

*UPDATE*
I have taken it back out this evening for a thrashing *read 30ish mph* and come back and turned it off exactly like the mrs did and No smoke :) :)

So she has said we will leave it for now (Thanks Neil) and if she gets time tomorrow she will give it another run and see what happen's ;D

I just hope she doesn't get the bug to much ;) ;) otherwise I can see this getting expensive in our house :-?