Tri Moto 175 driving me nuts

[enlightend1]

First off, great site and forum, I've been lurking for a while and got loads of help already. Now onto the Tri Moto. I just got this as a b-day
present to myself,which made th wife happy :rolleyes: lol, it didn't run had a
bad mix of gas and oil and a fouled plug. Here's what I did, first it has no oil tank so i have to premix, so I drained tank and mixed in 40:1. The guy I bought it from put half a quart in 1.5 gallons of gas, old stuff was nasty.
next replaced spark plug and plug boot. The carb was just rebuilt by a guy I work with who races quads so its ok. On Sunday I had it out riding with my wife in our field,she was on my Honda, it ran like a dream. No bad smoking, no hard starts, just ran real good. Now on Monday I took it out and she died about 100 yards from the garage, acting like it was flooded, and would'nt start again for a couple of hours. It's getting spark,
however the plug wire looks as though its seen better days, cracks in the rubber coating and it feels really stiff. Is there a way to change it w/o changing the coil or am I gonna have to pony up some dough?
Thank you for your help.
Josh :-D

[hondatrikesrule22]

It might be an electrical problem,though I doubt it.A coil from yamaha costs about $55.Not to bad.. ;)

[enlightend1]

Well I don't think it's the coil or the wire now I just checked it again with a new plug. Nice blue spark. I'm starting to lean towards compression, plus it's knocking louder and louder as i pull the rope. So a new rod may be in order as well :( Oh well thats what I get for buying a dirt cheap bike lol. Maybe tonight I'll start on removing the engine and tearing her down.
Josh

[John mendolera]

Is that the sniper that's been on rt 277.Turn it in there's a reward.I think $25K