Bucket update

[Ivan]

haha it was a joke if youve seen my shed and bikes like RG has youl understand why

[-ben]

hey guys just afew questions.. been riding for abit now but wana start hitting the track befor i learn the hard way on the road.

Thaught i'd start with buckets and just looking around for a suitable bike atm.

Guessing normal road gears won't do? must be leathers?

will i need to join ammc and get race lisence?

[CM2005]

21 April...
I had my first ride on the Mt Welly kart track on my racebike (GP125), and got heaps of advice from the fast dudes! Managed to pass a couple of people and use heaps of energy. In the 2nd practice I put some of the advice into practice and got my lap times and pegs down alot... then of course i fell off! Pegs lifted the front wheel off the ground.

22 April. Morning practice got my lap times down even more (35.99 ) and i got smoother and faster, and hung off more, but still got the pegs down (note to self: hang off MORE), and my knee down ONCE with the back sliding a little..
Had a go at Superpole, great fun, wheelied outta pitlane OH Yeah! and got my lap time down to a 35:42 i think..?
RACE!!
I qualified 5th for the B Grade race, lined up on the grid, and stalled it when the flag dropped! Thanks john for the pushstart! So i started well last! Turned the heat up and did a 34:82 lap, and made all my places back up to 4th, and lapped the people i had already passed. then i settled into good 35 second laps until the 43rd lap, when, yes... I FELL OFF! oh yay Tarmac surfing!
couldn't bump my bike so i retired.
BUT it was REALLY FUN!

Josh

[Ivan]

Hey good on you Josh,


Yeah I rolled up to the new Welly track well all I have to say is great track,


And me and RG and a couple of others set the track up to how we liked it.


Its an awsome area in Wellington,


And Thanks to Mudboy and AJTurbo for the loan of the bikes, Except Aj's bike managed to break down before I got to ride it,


It is so much fun I had heaps of fun when I got to ride a bike,

Even started trying my Stand up Wheelies at the end,

[CM2005]

yo ivan i meant Mount Wellington. Its in AKL! Do you take your bucket to taupo?

[Ivan]

Yeah yeah I know you did I was sayign that I went to the new Welly track the same day.

Nope didnt take it to Taupo if I went there it would be on a 125 GP bike

[CM2005]

Hi guys, I'm having a problem with my GP125 Bucket. Since i last raced it, its been behaving strangely... it bogs down, and then the revs climb by themselves on a shut throttle. Yesterday, it revved past redline, and turning ignition off and hitting the killswitch didnt kill the motor, so i had to put it in gear with the brakes on and stall it.. any ideas on what this could be? I'm taking the motor out today for a rebuild anyway.

[Fooman]

Rev's don't climb on a shut throttle - it doesn't run off a vacuum! Check your throttle cable for binding, the butterfly for proper action, idle adjustment etc in the first instance.

Cheers,
FM

[CM2005]

it does run like a diesel.... ign off, and it was going up up up... hmmm.. i'm pulling the motor out today for a rebuild, seals, bearings rebore, that might help...

[F5 Dave]

Butterfly? What Butterfly? If it has a butterfly then that's probably the problem Maybe one of the little legs has gotten trapped in the pilot jet, that's the smallest jet in the carb & is worth cleaning as can affect off throttle. If it bogs dead the main could have fallen out.

Sometimes at max revs the kill switch doesn't play ball esp if not a super earth connection.

[CM2005]

cheers dave, i think that could be the case, it was almost behaving like it was leaning out? i think he means slide aye?

[F5 Dave]

I think he was thinking of the CV carb on his Diesel.

[Expert]

Sometimes if you have a lot of carbon in the combustion chamber this can glow red hot and acts as a ignitor for the mixture so turning off the ignition or even removing the plug cap will not stop the motor.
Carburetted cars have a fuel solenoid in the carb to shut off the fuel to stop this happening but bikes don't so they keep going on the glowing carbon.

Revs climbing is an air leek if the slide isn't sticking. Seels? Base gasket? Usually more of a blowing air problem than a sucking problem but if you've checked the rubber manifold and can't find any leeks look there.

Squirt some light oil on suspect areas while the motor is running and any leeks will be shown up by a drop in revs and smoke (more smoke?) coming out the exhaust because the oil is being drawn in.

How do you spell leek?

Check out my stolen bike post
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ghlight=bucket

[F5 Dave]

I was about to say your post has an 'a' deficit & not just on leaks.

[Expert]

bump bump bump