Amps still shit after 8 years.

[The Pastor]

A simple contract taking away liability from the shop would be an answer to that as mentioned earlier which is why I'd like to hear more from the OP.

Yeah they didnt even see the bike (both times) when they told me they wont work on it.

actually the 1st time, (8 years ago) I bought the dynojet kit off them, and they wouldn't install it. DIDN'T MENTION THIS PRIOR TO ME BUYING IT HOWEVER.

Dosent bother me, but anyone know a good carb guy?

[Zedder]

Yeah they didnt even see the bike (both times) when they told me they wont work on it.

actually the 1st time, (8 years ago) I bought the dynojet kit off them, and they wouldn't install it. DIDN'T MENTION THIS PRIOR TO ME BUYING IT HOWEVER.

Dosent bother me, but anyone know a good carb guy?

Fair enough. Try Triple Zee Cycles (Manurewa, Auckland) like Yellowdog suggested.

[Big Dave]

Are we talking about your Virago?

[Crasherfromwayback]

That's very ummmm confident of you. It isn't hard to imagine an old shitter being run up to max revs and exploding into shrapnel. ("Losing its structural integrity" as the engineers put it in their understated way...)

Maybe AMPS have been once bitten and are consequently twice shy?

They did two runs for me a few years ago and were good to deal with.

Not a problem. We warn our customers of the risk and have them sign it away. If it goes bang, better it do so there than on the race track or elsewhere. Don't think we've blown anything up yet. Although a turbo Busa fucked our dyno!

[The Pastor]

Are we talking about your Virago?

yeah, its such a manly bike

[Motu]

When Ray Pratt started Universal Motorcycles in the mid '70's, in a dark damp basement in Stoddard Rd Mt Roskill he had a policy of not working on bikes over 10 years old...and yes, people were pissed off. That Ray is still in business more than 35 years later, and still has the same workshop policy is a pretty good reason to keep it that way.

[Big Dave]

They did you a favour.

They saved you money and 'probably' saved it from exploding.
You can tune that sucker by reading the plugs and exhaust.

[Crasherfromwayback]

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You can tune that sucker by reading the plugs and exhaust.

Much harder to read for the average person now we're on unleaded fuel I reckon.

[jrandom]

Try TripleZee

Fair enough. Try Triple Zee Cycles (Manurewa, Auckland) like Yellowdog suggested.

What they said.

http://www.triplezeecycles.co.nz/Index.html

When Ray Pratt started Universal Motorcycles in the mid '70's, in a dark damp basement in Stoddard Rd Mt Roskill he had a policy of not working on bikes over 10 years old...and yes, people were pissed off. That Ray is still in business more than 35 years later, and still has the same workshop policy is a pretty good reason to keep it that way.

What he said.

Be interesting to see how AMPS fares when Ray finally hangs up his hat and rides off into the sunset.

[pale rider]

some day's you just have to travel to get good service..

[sidecar bob]

Yep, thats the spirit. Publicly bag some shop because they are not stupid enough to waste their time working on a pile of shit for a tool.

[R6_kid:Me]

Try Red Baron. They have/had a dyno downstairs.

Do people seriously still believe that dynos mysteriously explode engines? If it's fucked, it's fucked.

[jonbuoy]

Seems odd, they could always ask you what rpm limit you wanted.

[gammaguy]

I think Dpex owns it now, and he wont touch anything thats over 10 years old.

yep

anything over ten years old is likely to blow up in his face..

[brp]

more than two strokes is masturbation

But you are firing twice as fast

Was looking at a racing cage and the seller said it had 200 hours of dyno development , put me off - thought friggin thing could be worn out from the dyno , sounded like a tall story, then read in the specialist cage forum he had blown his diff in his first meeting

From what I have read its hard to compare apples with apples with reading from dyno to dyno varying so much.

Unless you have a Real need, just get on and ride it you will know if its fast, way easier on gear, bike will have real world forces on it like it was designed for, not sitting on the spot screaming the back wheel up starving for airflow.