Pictures
and chears for that
makes me want to get my bike out again
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Pictures
and chears for that
makes me want to get my bike out again
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Long Haired Yobbo
I'm not so up with having all the bling stuff so have to borrow things like cameras, I've got a few photos but really have to take quite a few more!Originally Posted by Buckets4Me
Pictures
and chears for that
makes me want to get my bike out again
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lets see, sunday isn't far off. I'm usually pretty regular in the morning, but I could hold off for a few hours till I get to the track. Don't make me commit Keihin-Faecalcide
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Blowin up bikes since ages ago
lets see, sunday isn't far off. I'm usually pretty regular in the morning, but I could hold off for a few hours till I get to the track. Don't make me commit Keihin-Faecalcide
"Some people are like clouds, once they fuck off, it's a great day!"
Blowin up bikes since ages ago
I dare you Dave....
DOUBLE DARE YOU!
"Some people are like clouds, once they fuck off, it's a great day!"
Long Haired Yobbo
Is it this Sunday?!?lets see, sunday isn't far off. I'm usually pretty regular in the morning, but I could hold off for a few hours till I get to the track. Don't make me commit Keihin-Faecalcide
Shit time sneaks up!!
I might be in the shit.
Or the shit might be in my carb.
Or somthing like that...
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More update on the build...
Because I had changed the rear rim and changed the swingarm to one that didn't have the centre of the pivot cut out to fit into the KLR case I had to re-engineer the rear brake. I'm not a big user of rear brake on the track so approached it with an eye to making it "Emergency only".
I followed the fashion and mounted a pushbike disk brake caliper on the rear, using a plate I cut out of aluminium. This one was even less serious than the other couple I've seen (I think Sketchys was the first, using some bits from Richban) because it was a cable operated one.
I turned the disk down on the ol' trusty home lathe to suit the smaller brake and flatten the old groovy disk out a bit.
It did actually work OK but before the GP at Taupo I was keen to get some more stopping power, just in case - higher speed track and all.
I've still got the setup and will probably return to it at some point with a bit of work on the leverage ratio, it wasn't right for the cable operation, plus there was too much flex in the foot end of the mounting.
To up the stopping for the GP I bought cheapo a Chinese caliper off trademe for $71 shipped, including pads and fluid! I mounted this on another plate and re-jigged the lever in another late night working on the bike with the old man.
He's really good at pointing out obvious flaws in my plan, (in a good way!) and I was gutted but relieved I hadn't got too far when he pointed out the thread on the rod to the master cylinder was rolled. That means the thread could't just be cut further up the shank of the rod so I had to modify the plan to suit.
To Be Continued Some More...
Pic Shows the old first brake system.
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If you haven't taken any pics by Taumarunui remind me when we get there and we'll do a bit of a photo shoot early Saturday night.
Long Haired Yobbo
Ohh Goody!
What should I wear!?
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Clothes, your helmet, dark visor. Just make sure you do your hair.
Long Haired Yobbo
I don't think it can be done...
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If you are naked the photo shoot probably won't work. The camera will still function but I may not. Or we could just take photos of your bike.
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Thats probably the best for everyones sake!
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OK, Time for another update.
As this is being written so piecemeal and from memory I'm going to miss stuff and get a few things out of order. Oh, well.
To fix the rear brake rod I cut the threaded end off, removed a bit and the welded it on to make it shorter. Its amazing how close to sensitive bits you can get with a welder if you hit it will a soaking wet rag as soon as the spark goes out.
TRRS 2010
This event was bloody brilliant.
The amount of buckets on the track absolutely astounding, by far the biggest grid I've ever seen.
Anyway, I had a crack on my bike.
It went quite well considering it was so close to standard and seemed to keep pace with Dave D's bike when his was missing like crazy.
*Sarky Voice* So if his makes, say, 24 horse then if it was firing every 2 strokes it must have been making 12, ergo my bike was making 12 horsepower. *end sarky voice*
OK, I know that is me being silly but 12 horsepower may not have been far from the truth!
I did OK in qualifying and I think Shorty was the only bike ahead of me on slicks.
The oil rainbows all over the track helped me out, it knocked a lot of peoples confidence but this time my bad eyesight actually worked in my favour!
The bike crapped out in the GP, I thought it was due to water ingestion through fuel or air, but I found out later (After quite a few events!) that it was the kill-switch not being waterproof. Should have listened to Mr Bell on that one.
I spent a lot of the GP watching Andrew A sliding his way to victory in the wet.
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That jive above is Dave giving me shit because between Taupo and Taumaranui (As in time between the events rather than geographically.) F5 Dave was "encouraging" me to finish the work I was doing at the time in order to graft a larger carb onto the barrel.
His way of motivating me was to say "If I see that carb again, I will shit in it."
So I did actually get it grafted on for the next round.
I will try get pics at some point (haha, yeah right!) but for now I will roughly describe it.
After picking the brains of Dave, Bryce, Speedpro and others I went for a plan that incorporated input from all three plus a few ideas of my own.
I used the obligatory RD350 reed block, (Cheers RDJase!) I cleaned it up and added RG150 reeds.
The I hacked out the barrel to fit it but rather than do it the more traditional way using the RD manifold I opted to use an RGV250 one that my mate Gareth had gifted me.
It sounds like it wouldn't work but its a better fit than you would think.
The RGV has big stuffers on it and the reed block is quite deep so the transition from the round carb mount to the 6 petal block is over quite a distance.
By cutting the stuffers off the exit hole on the manifold is quite close to the inlet size of the 4 petal RD reed block.
I made an adapter piece that bolted to the barrel at one side and the RGV manifold at the other. The reed block fits nicely in a recess on the face of this adapter and is clamped in place by the RGV Manifold. I devconed around the join between the adapter and barrel to ensure it doesn't leak.
I had 2 carbs to try, one off an RG150 and another the 32 RGV carb (Cheers again Gareth!)
After a bit of testing on each I decided to start with the RG150 one, (28mm) as the bike hardly wanted to run on the 32.
Maybe I'll get the 32 working at some point but the 28 will be fine for now.
I didn't use the powerjet bit as it was broken and because of that I want up heaps in mainjet size.
Next... The results.
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