totalshell

i ride every weekend on a beta. i have my beta box of bits. 13/10/8mm spanners, set of allen keys, plug spanner, spare plug, 2t oil, gearbox oil, airfilter oil, airfilter cleaner, chain cleaner, chain lube, foot pump, pressure guage, wd40, baby milk jug ( for measuring 2t oil) phillips screw driver and small flat blade screw driver ( for carb adjustment) and one final thing..... JLI phone number and a FAT WALLET...

you do and 'you dont' need to pay the acu. your supposed to have an acu licence ( its a tenner and you get a yellow card with your picture on) you can leave the application form with the guy/lady when you sign on at the trial and they may send it of for you. turn up at the trial and join the queue of people signing on , fill in the entry form and ask to ride the easisest route possible... i'll repeat that.. the easiest route possible, no matter what a god you are in the car park how your the bou of your street how you can do stoppies till the cows come home .. if its your first trial do the easiest route.. you'll probably be asked to join the club (ie give them a fiver/tenner)

welcome to messing about with old bikes.. getting the carb set up for slow running is easy once you know what to do monobloc carb.. http://www.amalcarb.co.uk/documents/Click%...0and%20Tips.pdf mk1 concentric.. http://www.amalcarb.co.uk/documents/Click%...0and%20Tips.pdf ...

that looks wet rather than carboned up. the carbon would be like charcoal that you can scrape off with a plastic ruler or a credit card.what does the insid eof the cylinder head look like is it dry or wet if you say its knocking i suppose you mean like someones tapping the top of the piston with a hammer as you roll off the gas and the revs go down to idle then it should just need leaning off . what does the plug look like. is it dry or wet

dont live with it sort it.. mine knocked for england. whipped the head off cleaned all the carbon off only run super unleaded then leaned it off a little on idle and hey presto no knockers..

thanks for that pete just the ticket, if the suns not too hot tomorrow the bushes are coming out. do you run standard sprokets..

Recently bought an 04 mk3 pampera 250 with the intention of riding sammy miller rounds and classic long distance trials. i've changed the bars for trials renthals, re positioned levers, put trials tyres front and rear and i've had the grinder out and had the pillion footrests off and all other lumps and bumps. i'm making up some front mudguard brakets so that the high and wide moto cross style front guard can be replaced with a modern trials fender. what other mods are profitable? will the footrests move down and back on the main frame? any more weight thats begging to be lost? what gearing are you using, what fuel /oil ratio and plugs?

give sandifords a ring...

if you'd bought a new VW car and after 1 week it spluttered and stopped, would you lift the bonnet change the plugs and put a new ignition switch on then go to an internet forum and ask what you can 'fix' next.........

WOOOOOW. remeber those 'stadium ' sections riding in and out of skips well raga shows how it should be done...

second that. the guys were really helpful when i went in. only thing i would say with buying online or postal with trials stuff is that the sizing aint to any sort of std. shoes i'm a 43 but gaerne boots i',m a 45 and diadora even bigger. being a fat boy i 'm 41 waist but hebo jeans i,m only a large. so ask and ask again when ordering..

and guess where they get it...

those 09 bikes cost over 4200 very few people are buying them fewer still will be letting them go after 6- 8 months and then those that do will be wanting 3300 - 3500 so be honest look for a clean bike two or 3 years old and get a decent deal. i had the chance of a fantastic 09 evo for 3300 cash but in the ned will it be better than my modified and excellent condition 03 probably will i drop less marks yes but not enough to justify dropping over 3k on the table

the ACU's website is PANTS. for the national organisation for ALl motorcycle sport it is frankly an embaressement the people responsible should look at other sites and understand how much more user friendly they are. we might only pay a tenner each but we deserve better than this..

i was the second bidder if its the bike that went for 727! ( norton 500T though is mine!!)

90kg.. lightweight!!! i'm 100k and my 250 beta has never run out of steam , my cub rarely flusters so 250 is more than adequate. As for which to choose go to the ssdt site and see how many riders rode each brand. the hardest/ best 300 riders in the world will know better than anyone which bike is best for 80 - 110 miles a day for a full week and competant in knee deep water and happy to scale the hardest sections possible.

2009's wake up call is the real cost of new bikes.. you get a lot of bike for your 4300 and a fantastic bike for 5300 some are asking 7k. these are the worlds ultimate trials motorcycles yours is very similer to the one that raga lampkin ride. what other sport can boast that. they are all imported so distribution costs are not low. add the poor value of the pund ( been on hoilday to france/ spain recently) add protected spanish italian french employment laws and you have a niche market where costs are not going to fall.. only rise ( despite negative inflation) you can now though buy other serious stuff for 7k and this is where trials manufacturers will start to lose out as thier product becomes price comparable with a new car, performance road bikes etc.. what price a motoircycle scrappge scheme.. i'd be first in the queue for a brand new bike with two k off...

FAN CAN TAKE A WHILE (10 MINS PLUS) TO RUN AND THEN WONT RUN CONTINUOSLY, IF IN DOUBT LINK THE TWO WIRES TO THE SENSOR AND THE FAN SHOULD RUN FULL TIME ( sorry for shouting..)

did just this with my 03 put blck rear guard with a black front and used the sxs stiker kit, clean tidy and stickers are TUFF

clean eahaust and repack muffler.. exhausts in 3 bits front pipe, mid pipe and tail pipe take the tail pipe off and remove the plastic end cap ( wearing rubber gloves) get all the stuffing out , the perforated piep will come out too, chuck the stuffing. clean the remains in petrol or diesel wipe clean, phone gary at lampkins and get a silencer cassete ( preformed nois stopping thing) slide it on to perforated pipe slide whole lot into silencer. refix to pipe. front pipe whip it off and fill it which petrol let it stand all day if poss. take it outside on a hard pavement patio a set light to it it will burn for 5 minutes easy. allow to cool scrape all the gubbins out with a coat hanger. if still packed with carbon repeat until proper shiney ( well cleanish) refit. dont attempt to clean the middel pipe with petro ofr anthing else its packing burns and is non replaceable. a new mid pipe is the only alternative but at 170 squid it would have to be badly blocked to warrant it.

keep it simple if your just going to ride club trials simple= cheap and plenty of smiles per

in a non stop trial the bike must not cease forward motion. hopping on the back wheel could get you a five

whose that guy putting everyone off with his flash gun....

theres one big problem with buying one bike in china... getting the thing here and paying for it.. do you seriuosly think that the money you'd save by buying factory door would be substantially less than that you spend transporting the thing to a docks, palletting/ containering it up paying for boat space waiting 3 months then getting to the docks to unpack it.. how much is that adventure going to cost.. only to discover oops no front wheel.. much better to go down the dealer make a choice and get the real deal.

they could ride them boys..