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[F5 Dave]

Yeah wheel is much easier if one person. wheel it back, pull in clutch, stand on switch, let go of clutch, blip throttle, choke whatever.

With hand held device, you need extra hands if it doesn't just fire up. My 50 can be started by spinning the rear wheel on the stand. Sometimes, but often it needs more.


I didn't buy a mate's 256 Rotax GP bike as it was a pig to start. Actually it was quite easy, but being a disc valve in a reasonable state of tune, it would start quite easily if you hadn't flooded it & had someone to help push.

By yourself it 'may' start up. If it didn't you'd flood it & it would never start until you got someone to help push for a bit & by that time you'd missed the line up or you were totally breathless.

I realised that if I was doing Bears events I'd often never have people travelling with me to help me starting. Never thought of (or saw) this sort of solution till many years later. the car on rollers option still needed more people & fraught with danger.

[Yow Ling]

yeah I've used them at the last BOB. Awesome. DCs is somewhat more pretty in shiny treadplate. Be just the biz for your TZ.

Ok now it has the treadplate - happy ?




Nothing worse than push starting a bike then trying to catch your breath on the warmup lap, Oh something worse, trying to pushstart the big Honda and failing

[Kickaha]

Ok now it has the treadplate - happy ?

Well I dunno, it's not as shiney as the one DC has

[Yow Ling]

Well I dunno, it's not as shiney as the one DC has

Mine is ECO friendly, I found the treadplate somewhere and recycled it, still got some left for your Ducati

[Gigglebutton]

All the old buggers at the classic meets have them, battery powered starter rollers.
Bloody handy things to get some life into the old nag, without bringing on a stroke

Shamelessly copied from Darryl Cottons design, started my bucket with it today so its passed the test



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Have you got a drawing or specs for the rolling road. I've been thinking of making one for a while but not seen one to copy

[Henk]

Darren, if you are going to build something let's talk. I have some ideas but want to build something that will start a trike as well as a bike.

[quallman1234]

Yeah wheel is much easier if one person. wheel it back, pull in clutch, stand on switch, let go of clutch, blip throttle, choke whatever.

With hand held device, you need extra hands if it doesn't just fire up. My 50 can be started by spinning the rear wheel on the stand. Sometimes, but often it needs more.


I didn't buy a mate's 256 Rotax GP bike as it was a pig to start. Actually it was quite easy, but being a disc valve in a reasonable state of tune, it would start quite easily if you hadn't flooded it & had someone to help push.

By yourself it 'may' start up. If it didn't you'd flood it & it would never start until you got someone to help push for a bit & by that time you'd missed the line up or you were totally breathless.

I realised that if I was doing Bears events I'd often never have people travelling with me to help me starting. Never thought of (or saw) this sort of solution till many years later. the car on rollers option still needed more people & fraught with danger.

Its not that uncommon to start the Honda RS125's on there stand. Takes some strength though!

[cotswold]

[QUOTE=Henk if you are going to build something let's talk. I have some ideas but want to build something that will start a trike as well as a bike.[/QUOTE]

Pooooofters

[Yow Ling]

Have you got a drawing or specs for the rolling road. I've been thinking of making one for a while but not seen one to copy

Ill take some photos today, its just built from scrap, the starter is from a toyota diesel, the rollers are some steampipe, DC used boat rollers but I was too miserable for that, use whatever sprockets you have

[F5 Dave]

Its not that uncommon to start the Honda RS125's on there stand. Takes some strength though!

Yeah the 50 has quite high compression, but of course tiny cylinder & mush lower gearing. . .actually that may work against it, maybe I should try start it in 3rd. Either way it is 1/2 piston port so is possible to load up & you really need to grab the throttle straight away to get it to catch. Much easier just to walk it forward & it starts.

The KV100 (the original Joe) was a bit of a sometimes starter if you weren't committed.

[F5 Dave]

Ok now it has the treadplate - happy ?




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Much. I'll know who to park next to if we make it down to the BOB

[Yow Ling]

Giggle, here is the plans !



Dont worry Dave there are a few of them, Tony Mac has a genuine DC one

[F5 Dave]

yeah I know, that's whose I was using last time

[Gigglebutton]

Thanks Mike. It looks to simple. I thought there was a lot more to them for sme dumb reason.
Trikes as well Henk. Dont you think your racing enough classes

[Yow Ling]

When I finally got to work today , there was a little flat package waiting. Didnt even need to open it I knew what it was , my Wobbly pipe.
Got it home and admired it, rolled a few test cones and welded them up, was using lots of restraint not to touch the wobbly ones, I dont weld for a job so it usually takes me a bit to sus out the serttings on the welder so I donrt blow big holes in things. Any way feeling better about the welding, maybe do another 10 or 15 before I go near the real thing.

After dinner I went out to the shed, bit miserable out there tonight, so i started rolling a few sections of the wobbly pipe, I have a set of small slip rolls which will do right up till the last cone, because the exit to the stinger is smaller than the rolls Ill need to think about that one a bit more.

In the picture is the first few sections of the Wobbly 1 and the exhaust nozzle