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Truenotch

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  1. Carpe diem: seize the day. I blarped around town all morning yesterday - the bike is fun! Tried to ride it out of town with @Beaver and got about 1km at 85kph, then it locked up. It’s had quite a bit of lean-hang and I probably should have looked into it more.... I suspect the left hand crank seal is the cause. Pulled the flywheel and stator plate off and you can see evidence of oil that’s made its way out. I’m going to throw some crank seals at it this week, clean up the piston / barrel and hope for the best. 2 stroke 4 lyfe.
  2. We used to do Rose & Crown back in the day. It worked well.
  3. I’m f we do Raglan again, we should do it differently. Was chatting to Tank and he suggested parking at the domain and buying fish n chips from that little stall in the park. If we do Caffeine, we could invite the Auckland crew to join in?
  4. Took the FS1 for hoon with the Speedcocks after work. Good practice for Te Urewera, but it would have been nice to be on the MX! When I got home I was inspired to work on the MX. First up, I took a video of the rattle that I suspected to be caused by piston slap: The camera did a good job of picking up the sound. It didn’t sound this bad IRL. I had a re-bored and oversized barrel/piston on rev other MX, so pulled that off and swapped them over. Here’s what it sounds like now: Much better! It has a bit of lean-hang going on, so I’ll pull the carb apart, clean it and check the jet sizes before a shakedown on @mark105‘s paddock this weekend. Here’s a pic of it looking more complete for good measure:
  5. I've moved this thread to the 2 wheels section for you (more appropriate fit). Damn this is cool! I love the discreet electric conversion.
  6. New front tyre fitted: Speedo in place: Dodgy epoxy job to keep the sensor where it should be. I slapped a couple of neodymium magnets onto it for a stronger signal: And this sweet accessory courtesy of @Geophy. Perfect for a few beers and other paraphernalia.
  7. The countdown to Te Urewera is on! So far I've managed to complete a few things: Replaced broken front brake lever Made headlight and tail light work Fixed lighting switches Shocked myself trying to operate the kill switch Installed a horn button from another bike as a kill switch Fixed chain tension (it was floppier than I've ever seen) Tightened head tube bearings Checked oil pump - it works! The previous owner was pre-mixing the gas because he doesn't trust self-mix setups... But it still has 1/4 of a tank of oil and my from my tests it seems like the pump works fine, so it would have been RICH on oil the whole time he owned it. Still to do: Fit new front tyre Luggage rack / panini paneer panniers Mount number plate Carb clean and rebuild Fit an ignition barrel / key / anti theft device It also has a bit of a rattle that I think could be piston slap or a noisey kickstart idle gear. More diagnosis required. I've poked my finger up the exhaust port and it certainly seems to have some slap at BDC. It might need a good warm run before I can diagnose it properly. If it comes to it, I've got a freshly bored cylinder on the other MX that can go in its place.
  8. @Archetype has some strawberry flavoured stuff, so you should try to latch onto his tailpipe wherever possible. By the way, @Beaver and I have a couple of Waikaremoana bed spaces available in our cabins if anyone's in need.
  9. One month left until the Urewera ride and I’ve barely touched the MX100. It needs a lot of work before doing a 500+km mission, so I was looking at taking the FS1 again. Then one day an old acquaintance sent me a message on Facebook: The price was right and it has a couple of upgrades (GN125 rear shocks!). Thanks to @crustywhip for the OSGC freight service to get it up to Hamilton. There’s a list of things to do, but it will all be achievable within 4 weeks. Hopefully it’ll be ready for a medium distance shakedown by mid November! So far I’ve taken it for a brief squirt up the road. Wound it out to 70kph at low rpm in 5th, so it should have a reasonable cruising speed for the open road stages.
  10. Shiii, this is only about a month away. **buys another bike**
  11. Smellan might have a 20R piston in his hoard. @Mourning Cupcake, can you ask him maybe?
  12. I'm glad nothing's changed since this thread started in 2013. 3" is king.
  13. The usual advice for Suzuki auto oil engines is to keep the standard setup in place for the reasons you’ve already mentioned. Some people have drilled the cases to get oil flow and I’ve heard of others manually lubricating the bearings with an oil can periodically... both those options seem more annoying than fitting an oil tank.
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    @a.craw4d and @xsinclairx - we can supply some pretty fruity wrap vinyl if you want to go that way. There’s various different pearls and sparkly options. The 3M 1080 wrap vinyl is really nice to work with too.
  15. Churr Greg. I've updated the first post with the date and time .
  16. Yip, we should be able to do this. Hopefully we can find a good image of the text to work with.
  17. Is this car Kent powered? @Rookie’s technique was to just change head gaskets between runs at the track .
  18. IIRC @kpr was using a combination of both materials when making his mufflers. In the industry, the good mufflers seem to have multiple layers of different material. This is from the AdrenalinR website: Every single muffler we fabricate utilizes our 3 stage sound absorbtion methodology which consists of tightly wrapping the baffle in exhaust grade stainless steel wool, ceramic matting and a layer of tightly woven needlemat fibreglass blanket. The stainless wool breaks up soundwaves and creates a barrier preventing the packing from breaking up and exiting the rear of the vehicle prolonging the life of each and every muffler. The ceramic matting absorbs noise and heat preventing the fibreglass turning back to glass. The needlemat fibreglass blanket acts as the final noise insulator which results in quieter, deeper notes singing from the rear of your vehicle.
  19. Is performance important? I think a single 3" is far too small for an LS1, but it'll be OK if it's just a cruiser. AdrenalinR make the best mufflers, but if you can wait for USA shipping, Vibrant is a good option.
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