One rule I try to adhere by is to be invisible. Don't leave the garage door open when washing the car/mowing the lawn/whatever. My van doesn't have any stickers on it. Keep your trailer out of sight. Passersby don't know what I've got, and I like to keep it that way.
To stickers I would suggest instead of any motorcycle brand to put also non or some big ones with the sentence "Pipe Cleaning Service" on the sides, that should keep off easy
Guns ... that is not the best solution ... can get you in trouble.
Best solution is a road registered bike and an electric driven rolling gate or door because:
easy to close and open just by key or transponder, in holidays you can even shut down the electric supply,
very difficult to open if closed without electricity, if you try it it will get noisy.
I never heard of burglars trying to open electric rolling gates section gates and.doors of course also standard garage gates, but rolling gates ... my advice in this department beside good insurance.
Cool but how do we get any trials bike to that event, (may be by flight ??? but $$$) and when the bike is there is that old tatty bike really of interest there, there is so little bling attched to them …
Alternative could be a Dell'Orto PHBH 26 BS, the a bit more modern one with air screw and idle jet nozzle.
At leat works great to my 242, another carb but expensive would be a 25mm SmartCarb* but that is costly.
I would not use an AMAL again unless the slide issue is not solved, (the AMAL used the same material for carb bod
and slide which causes super much friction and leads very fast to rattling slides so worn slides and carb bodies!)
The silde should be made out of the softer material the Body should be made of the harder material, so the slide wears
and not the carb Body, thus the plated and hardened slides are not such a good idea because in the end you will have
a proper working slide but a worn out carb Body ...
*SmartCarb has no jets which is super nice in handling and if you ride in very different climate and hight situations.
Get them insured and then you know, trials bikes can get road legal then a standard Vehicle insurance and you are save, stolen registered vehicles especially motorcycles are of much more interest to the Police then leisure vehicles. If you insure several bikes you get a discount too, thus I have to pay around 20 - 40 € for one bike in insurance, the tax for each bike is higher...
A standard insurance for non road registered bikes like MX, trials is around 180€ a year for one, if you get a discount for several I don't know.
Oldtimers (over 30 years old) can also be insured without road registration which is also 180€ a year (The bike was made: 1980, has 22HP, worth is evaluated with 7.500 € of replacement value in a total loss).
It takes so long to get them dry? We have also very much rain (beside this year) and soaky ground, anyway I dry them in three to four days using this method:
- I take out the inner sole, there is one that is sometimes tricky to get out, but to take them out while drying that is very important, (it can be too replaced by a new one too. if the odor isn't good anymore),
- Then I let them stand and keep the upper part wide open so maximum air can reach inside, and I start to do so immidiatly and store them in the Trailer
that's all I do and so far it has worked very well.
As B40RT posted, try to get everything really sound, from engine, to exhaust, also airbox and air filter as these tend to be restrictive,
A rebuild of the middel and end silencer is a good idea improve engine Response a lot and quite expensive if you can't do it by yourself.
If the engines does rattle a bit and got a bit tired, a new conrod a rebore with a custom made next size piston is also an improvement for riding in general and an investment which emty the wallet easy.
Too smooth running cables with teflon inliner, good brake pads with soft paddings, good rear shocks that suits your weight.
Fork stanchions are they really straight or a bit off, if a bit off for better action you can let them straightened and rechromed and Special polished improves Action and you will have less stiction too, then you might too mount HFS air cartridges to the Forks to improve dampning and Rebound.
Under Newton's Third Law it makes no difference to the action of the spring but it is normal to put the tighter coils to the top to reduce unsprung weight (slightly).
Just fork springs, to shock springs I wan't the thighter coil part of the spring being mounted as much up as possible so that debris can't build up between rear shock spring and rear shock body.
Interesting that Italy allows small plates, but when Enduro GP round is there....it's the only round on the race schedule that requires standard full size motorcycle plate on competition bikes.
Depending the bike and year of first registration I guess, as the corpo forestale was pleased when I met them last time in the mountains in 2016,
The corpo forestale is a police belonging to the Carabinieri and responsible for forest, mountains and other nature area …
DID 520 ERT2 is what I use has tensile strength of 3680 kg which is good, very good but a bit heavier are DID 520 MX with 4060 kg.
Standard Regina Gold has around 2000kg the best Regina Gold RX3 has 3400 kg of tensile strength, as stronger they are as less wear you have.
On 07.09.2018 at 12:41 AM, section swept said:
Thanks b40rt I was aware about the Continentals using those makes, but it is the ‘works’ bike that I was particularly interested in?
They where all works bikes and custom made so non of them where similar in build, the early Franke owned where 200cc models, later they had 250cc. Not only Franke rode them also Felix Krahnstöver from Celle.
(Felix was 11 times German trials Champion, wrote a very good book about trials riding and was founder and editor of Trialsport now the oldes Trials related Magazine).
Anyway here some pics, the first is a 200cc I thin which is very much likewise the Franke bike photo taken from beginning July in Lüneburg:
Another one, from Brockhöfe in March 2015 or 2014:
Also very interesting a Hercules with Sachs engine, they are kept in much original shape here
A good article is in Trialsport #501 where a complete portrait of Gustav Franke and his Zündapp is reported in Trialsport Magazine as he turned 80 on 4.12.2017,
The Zündapps where very modern in their days, the engine had very improved porting, carb was with Bing with accelerator pump, (Bella scooter)
the fork had already hydraulic components with progressive dampning, then the super long swing arm and steep fork angle surplus the light weight.
a total loss system with a small NiMH battery somewhere on your bike, usually keep police and MOT-people happy.
Not, working the battery solution is already used for the flashes for the techical TÜV test every two years.
To any other riding with roadwork, the task is light's, stop light and horn in use, this can be easely looked up and tested by every police or forrestale as light's have to be switched on on the continent during the day!
Yes very nice, I have already asked about an enhanced version with additional coil for providing electricity for lights, a rear stop light and a horn at least,
(minimum requirement for riding street legal on the continent)
but how do we get any trials bike to that event, (may be by flight ??? but $$$) and when the bike is there is that old tatty bike really of interest there, there is so little bling attched to them … 
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Indeed and a very very early one too just no. 31!