the stiffness of the reeds determines how high a rpm the will operate at without fluttering,
your best bet is to replace them with some carbon fiber reeds..
check with http://www.50cc.nl
they might some replacement reeds .. i know they stock a performance carb with manual choke and belive it comes with new reeds..
so they might have replacements ..
bending the tabs might stiffen the action of your stock reeds but they might Not close all the way and then your moped will run worse or not at all.
Posted on Sep 8, 2003, 8:22 PM from IP address 151.144.165.55