ESE's works engine tuner

[Drew]

Actually there was a drone camera chap at Kaitoki yesterday, had a quick look at it, pretty cool.

Was his name Mathew?

[F5 Dave]

Dunno. Sign written ute. Eyesky or something. Scraggy long grey hair.

[Drew]

Dunno. Sign written ute. Eyesky or something. Scraggy long grey hair.

Diferent dude then.

[lodgernz]

SkyEye. He said he'll post some video on www.flying.pictures for us. Don't know if there are strings attached.
Unintended double entendre there

[adegnes]

Lots of good info on engine/gearbox oil here:
http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/in...p?topic=1912.0

[lodgernz]

I never said 70% is the maximum width. Metal permitting you can make it much wider than 70%; it just won't do the blowdown angle.area much good.

Absolutely. Even with 77% of bore the NSR50 blowdown STA is still crap.

[FastFred]

Recent goings on at the Team ESE house of speed.

Chambers is water cooling a sleeved down 100. He is retaining the original Suzuki GP head and cylinder. Non of this store brought stuff for him. Its just like the rules say it should be .... its all made from a none competition engine.

Proper Bucket engineering using DIY hand skills is his approach ... the down side is, that it takes a lot of time and effort compared to the store brought stuff, but the up side is, its the real deal Bucket racing engine anyone could be proud of.

Great work ...

[lodgernz]

Is it a 2-piece head? I can't see how he's going to keep the water in.

[peewee]

have you guys seen the new 125 ktm engine ? http://www.ktm.com/us/mx/125-sx/

[chrisc]

have you guys seen the new 125 ktm engine ? http://www.ktm.com/us/mx/125-sx/

All I see is a power valve, 6 speed and 2 ring piston (which I was surprised by). Am I missing something else here?
I'd be interested to see the port layout. Beautiful bikes those KTMs!

[F5 Dave]

Well it's light. Wheelbase is a little long & the suspension seems wildly long with goofy bodywork and quite raked out steering geometry. And those tyres? Are they some sort of wets?

[husaberg]

All I see is a power valve, 6 speed and 2 ring piston (which I was surprised by). Am I missing something else here?
I'd be interested to see the port layout. Beautiful bikes those KTMs!

Its a stacked engine redesign.
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Looks like the KTM65, 50 09 redesign has filtered through.

[peewee]

it almost looks like the intake is angled slightly upward but its hard to tell. rear transfers look like they sweep far around to the back also. probly be a while before theres any cylinder photos unless one of you guys are buying one in the next month or so ?

[Yow Ling]

it almost looks like the intake is angled slightly upward but its hard to tell. rear transfers look like they sweep far around to the back also. probly be a while before theres any cylinder photos unless one of you guys are buying one in the next month or so ?

I guess you could use the sparkplug in buckets

[senso]

The plastics/fairings/bodywork seems a bit strange, almost as if KTM saw the chinese replicas and decided that they had good looks, but its all in the name of weight reduction.