We've run our new Falcon for 4 days now. The whole familly has been having a blast with it. I'm pretty small, so is my wife (both about 150lbs) so the Falcon pulls us around pretty good. The engine runs/starts great. It rides a little rough (stiff suspension) and feels a bit top heavy. But all in all, a great little machine.

Here's a few things to adjust on your new one. Firstly, I found that the right tie rod (is that what you call it? the rod that lets you adjust the alignment) was a little loose where the nut connects it to the wheel, and would allow some play in the steering. Tightened this down and steering was a lot more stable. Then I checked the alignment by simply measuring the spaceing of the front tires at the front of them and at the back (of the front tires). Adjusted that, and the steering was further improved. As for the rough ride, theres only so much you can do short of replacing the shocks/springs (as far as I can tell). But the tire inflation was five pounds over on all tires. I reduce the pressure down to 10 psi (as low as my tire guage would read) and that really helped smooth the ride. Finally tweaking the mixture on the carb really improved its performance in third gear. Just pick a very (barely inclined) shallow hill and run her up it in third gear wide open (after engine break in of course). Tweak the mixture screw about an eighth turn and run back up the hill. Just keep doing this until you've got the best performance. (Warning: Keep track of the mixture screw's starting position in case you need to get it back to where you started!)

Oh yeah, one more thing, Front breaks are really easy to adjust if you take the wheels off first :-)

These are surely pretty obvious tips for the experienced, but I thought they might be helpfull to other noobs :-)