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The Crank case compression change is something I didn’t think of. I never got this running with as much stoke as I would have liked. I filled the port with Knead-it. It seemed to work haha. In hind sight, I think I would try the new port timing with the reed port open too if I was doing it again.

Ha! Richard Smith at Meta on Connett road then. He will have some ideas.

If you did want to talk to a truck person, some names I would suggest: Dave Plum is a heavy vehicle certifier, and he will talk your ear off if you can get hold of him. Phil @ Waimea Engineering does lots of heavy vehicle fab stuff. Either of those guys would have some ideas of practical ideas for how to modify the chassis.

I had the old fashioned speed wrench, but I bloody left it on the ground and drove away after our last camping trip didn't I

How will it know that you are down-shifting? Like will you set it up to only blip if you clutch in while also braking?

600 revolutions!!! Bahahahaha

FYI. Part d is a ball-ache if you get a flat battery. My wife's toyota got a flat battery in the drive way, boxing in all the other vehicles. Me: "No worries, I'll just push it out of the way cos we are in a hurry to go out in the Jeep" Toyota: "No you fucking won't"

It lives! There were challenges. I hadn't bent a ring, it was the carbon deposits in the ring grooves that were making the rings tight. That meant the new rings were also tight, so I ordered a whole new piston... Which arrived and was for a different model of TS100... In the end I bent one of the old rings in half and used it as a scraper to clean out the ring grooves. Also on the east cape ride, the muffler fell off at one stage, it had chewed itself to bits to where the spring was loose. So i've fixed that up now. I took it for a ride to town today. Fuck its awful. I need to sort out the petrol tank mounts as all the rubber has worn out and the vibration and noise is horrific. How I've done two east cape rides on this bike, I have no idea. I'll get it to be fun again soon with a bit more tinkering.

High roller!

I just wrap the red negative in black insulation tape

I like your gratuitous use of red wires. I would 100% be hooking something up to that backwards down the line when I'd forgotten what I'd done and everything was covered in dirt.

Can 2022 please not be the weekend of the 4th November Please and thank you! My wife has already booked that one to go to Snoop Dogg haha Anyone else absolutely chomping at the bit already?

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That's a neat looking truck!

Not a geography teacher are you?

Nice! Love some easy wins!

So you’re going to drive the length of the motorway a bunch of times…. In the name of saving gas?

Yeah WTF! 13's are meant to come from a big Holley and a stroker kit. What happened to the days of calling ahead to the small town gas stations to make sure someone could meet you there after hours cos the 24hr stations were too far apart?

China Palace and an order of Pink Pussies is the only Oldschool.co.ng approved dining in Gizzy

I guess with E-throttle you could tie that into a button?

Thats very good!

I’ve seen a front end loader one before. It was very cool.

So this nearly survived another Eastcapescapade in November. The gearbox locked up about 5km short of the finish, so it got loaded on the trailer and I rode bitch on the RGV150 to finish the ride on a bike. I finally got to pulling it down and found the same issue that I had riding into Gizzy the year before. The selector retaining screw had wobbled out. You can see all the scratch marks where it had jammed the mechanism. I put this back in with lots of loctite so hopefully it won't happen again! I had been getting worried about the engine during the ride, I had convinced myself there was a bearing on the way out, so I whipped the head and barrel off and gave it all a good wriggle, but everything seems to feel nice and tight. Plenty of oil deposits in there though! I'll be using a better quality oil going forward I think. I've cleaned all the carbon off everything and have just been waiting on a new set of rings to replace one I bent I'm quite looking forward to getting it nanging around again. Hopefully I'll have it back together tonight!

Bike has been going great. I didn't get in as much racing last year as I would have liked on account of having another baby and renovating our house. Last weekend was my first outing since september. We had one of our best turn-outs with 14 bikes, which made for some really great racing. I got 2nd in the first race from 2nd place start. 2nd in the second race from starting near the back. Reeled in the young fella that was leading to where I could have patted him on the bum as we crossed the finish line. Then the third race... Started on the 4th row. Leading by the end of the first lap. Then one of our real gun riders got past me under brakes, then made a mistake and I got him back. Thinking "I've got a second chance here, I need to brake a little later so he doesn't get me again"... I did this: And that was the end of my day. And the end of that helmet, and the tail fairing, and levers, and clip-ons... The end of that straight is 80km/h, and I didn't get any braking in at all before I hit the ground. Definitely earned a few bruises, but the physio already seems to have fixed my knee with some needles.