A bike possessed?

**SS90** · 13th October 2010, 08:26

Originally Posted by White trash

Bawahahahaha, gold. No advice sorry but a similar tale to share. It's probably the PowerBand by the way.

Drew was fucking around with my A50 one day when he was about 13. He managed to get the thing jammed full noise and it wouldn't shut down. He thought "Pull the fuelline off!", so he did. So now it's screaming its nuts off, with fuel pissing everywhere. So he decides to stall it. It wheelies off accross the carpark, smashes into the back of mums mint Morris Minor and wedges itself under the back of the car, with drew, rear wheel off the ground, screaming its nuts off. Last ditch attempt thinks Drew, and wrenchs the plug lead off........

I was washing the van, laughing my fucken arse off as the thing explodes into flames along with Drews fuel drenched arm.

It was, without a doubt, the funniest fucken thing that has ever occured in the history of motorcycling. Bar none.

That story JUST ABOUT made up for your reference to POWER BAND.... FFS, Jimmy!

Brings back a memory of my first week as an apprentice.

Ken Gibbons (now I'm showing my age) prepared a freshly imported 1992 RS125 (this was 1995, so it was pretty new) for racing the next day, it had oddly low gearing, and he was showing off to the lad (me) and doing a few wheelies down the back of Pacific Motorcycles.

Sure enough, off he comes, right hand side down, jams the throttle open, the bike sits back up, riderless and goes full tit down the ally way, about 200m (yup), across the road, into the Pack n Save car park, straight into the drivers side door of a Yummy Mummies car (They where not called Milfs back then)...... he ended up in Hospital, not a patch on Jimmys story though.

**rabidnz** · 13th October 2010, 08:33

shoved a big drift up the pipe and smashed out the baffles , cleaned the carb put a slightly bigger main in and cleaned the airfilter, she goes pretty damn well now actually. The clutch is so slow to engage so will check out the cable today, on the plus side, she does 80ks no worries, and im sure with a bit of a tickle today and some more pipe smashing she will do 100 (in fourth)

Will i get any benefit from fitting an rg250 chamber anyone? skunk ?

**MSTRS:Me** · 13th October 2010, 08:49

Originally Posted by rabidnz

Will i get any benefit from fitting an rg250 chamber anyone?

Prolly not. Expansion chambers, shape-wise, are primarily designed to suit bore and stroke of a particular engine. The tailpipe part is then used to tune for the characteristics of where you want the power.
A chamber from an RG250 is designed for the bore/stroke of the 125cc cylinder, not your 100cc.
But I suppose you won't know for sure if one would work without trying it?

**rabidnz** · 13th October 2010, 09:20

yeah, i mean, in comparison to the choked up baffled long straight tube, not in comparison to a perfectly tuned pipe. Also she is running a normal br9es now, i think they had to put a hugely hot plug in because it was running basically without exhaust gases escaping out the pipe haha

**rabidnz** · 13th October 2010, 12:06

also now that it has a wee bit of poke it manages to jump out of gear or find false neutrals, in all 4 gears. What would be the likely cause of this?

also it has a hideous clunky heel-toe shift lever which I am very keen to get rid of, as well as the low lying underslung footpegs which look very death trappish.

**White trash** · 13th October 2010, 14:45

Originally Posted by RDjase

The theme music to Jackass is the only thing missing mate !

I had a similer thing happen with my Honda C200 90cc thing when i was 12 and it fucked off down the drive and the dome nuts that hold the top of the rear shocks on (that had tops broken off) and the nasty threads cut big gauges in my inner theighs as i bailed off it, it stopped really well into a tree and snapped the forks off

Not as good as Drews escapade, no flames

It sounds like drews A50 training got him preped for the manfeild extension track fence jump

No that's almost as good as Drews. I've got another awesome one about a local legend up your way Jase who fitted a CR500 motor to a Nifty Fifty, you may have heard it?

**White trash** · 13th October 2010, 14:47

Originally Posted by rabidnz

also now that it has a wee bit of poke it manages to jump out of gear or find false neutrals, in all 4 gears. What would be the likely cause of this?

also it has a hideous clunky heel-toe shift lever which I am very keen to get rid of, as well as the low lying underslung footpegs which look very death trappish.

Bent selectors or rooted dogs on the Richard Greers will cause that.

**White trash** · 13th October 2010, 14:48

Originally Posted by SS90

That story JUST ABOUT made up for your reference to POWER BAND.... FFS, Jimmy!

Brings back a memory of my first week as an apprentice.

Ken Gibbons (now I'm showing my age) prepared a freshly imported 1992 RS125 (this was 1995, so it was pretty new) for racing the next day, it had oddly low gearing, and he was showing off to the lad (me) and doing a few wheelies down the back of Pacific Motorcycles.

Sure enough, off he comes, right hand side down, jams the throttle open, the bike sits back up, riderless and goes full tit down the ally way, about 200m (yup), across the road, into the Pack n Save car park, straight into the drivers side door of a Yummy Mummies car (They where not called Milfs back then)...... he ended up in Hospital, not a patch on Jimmys story though.

That's friggen excellent! Riderless GP bikes with stuck throttles beat A50s and flames for my mind. Good skills.

**F5 Dave** · 13th October 2010, 15:29

Originally Posted by rabidnz

also now that it has a wee bit of poke it manages to jump out of gear or find false neutrals, in all 4 gears. What would be the likely cause of this?

also it has a hideous clunky heel-toe shift lever which I am very keen to get rid of, as well as the low lying underslung footpegs which look very death trappish.

It has to be said; they are a crap bucket platform. Doesn't sound worth persisting with. To be honest.

**speedpro** · 13th October 2010, 16:00

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

It has to be said; they are a crap bucket platform. Doesn't sound worth persisting with. To be honest.

Worried Dave? Too much competition maybe?

**SS90** · 13th October 2010, 21:46

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

It has to be said; they are a crap bucket platform. Doesn't sound worth persisting with. To be honest.

Dont listen to age and experience..... AX100's make a great platform for tuning.... Shit, I cant even type that without laughing!

**rabidnz** · 14th October 2010, 09:14

haha yeah i get ya there, think i will stick to f5 with the scootermotard. Still good for pootling, and will definitely get a couple of people on to two wheels who havent been before. Plus its still way better than a scooter, and only 300 bucks so far. Needs a new tyre and wof and reg then ill probably put her on trademe for some nana to buy as shes a 2004 with only 10000ks on it