alan bechard

My Bad, thanks Dave, Will probably go ahead and get these done anyway, maybe the principles will still apply?

Hey! I can help with that I bet! May be the same bat time at the same bat station........ I guess I need to find the pictures from the last one though!!!

Original,, My point is, do not be suprised when there is not a "local shop" to go to, when everyone goes the grey market route. And do not be amazed when the guy at the local shop is not more than willing to support (and I believe it was asked at one point, "how do you get sponsers") when you do not make the large purchases with him. If you want the local shops to be around to support you and your riding, there is a tit for tat relationship there.

Chris Johnson here in the US did a whole series of mods to this era machine such as modifying the footpegs, changing the triple tree, pulling in the rake, etc. It was written to the 85 / 86 TY 350's that were over here in the US, but my belief is that these were basicly the same bike as the TYZ. I have a copy of these mods, and Chris has said I could send them on to folks if they were interested. Maybe it is worth the effort to get them scanned to PDF and just get Andy to put them on the Tech pages so they will be preserved for posterity? Can I send them to someone that has the ability to make them a PDF?

I guess I will make a shot in here. REV'r,,, Why not purchase your bike from your local dealer, who you will want to go to when you need a lever, a shifter, a new pair of bars or assistance repairing your bike? Unless I am misunderstanding you guys, there is probably more than one dealer within an hour of your house? Then, after taking your new bike, working closely with your dealer to get it properly set up and operating, and a shake out ride or two, Tour around with your dad and hit a trials or two, maybe some local and maybe venture over to one of those French rounds. Spend that time together sharing something that you enjoy, and heck, maybe he will ride your old bike? The short version though, is that you need to support those local guys around you if you expect them to support you when you need help. Best of luck with your decision, however you choose to go, a new bike is always neat!

Yep, it was, But I believe it had something to do with a biiiiiiiigggg hill, a near totally destroyed bike, and a little disbelief on the part of Mike Komer, until it happened to him. I believe at some point they would not disengage.

23 August 2004, WOW!!!! What a weekend we had! I cannot believe how fortunate we are sometimes. Ryan came up Saturday afternoon with the beautiful Ms. Adriana. Right on time, calling to let me know he was stuck behind a traffic accident and keeping me informed every step of the way. We got him checked into the Motel and took off for the river and a bit of boating. It was a great time, Christina was both Wake boarding and knee boarding, Hanna and I got out on the Wakeboard a bit, Dean, being true to form, when Ryan told him to get out and try the knee board jumped right out and did it! Then we got Ryan on the knee board and boy, that picture of the first pull would have been worth a thousand words! It was amazing to watch how fast he mastered it though and by the third pull he was catching a foot of air over the wake! It really was fun. We then went and hung out at Joey

I bet that bled it. The shock / vibration / jarring of it, coupled with an odd position, broke that bubble loose and let it get up to the resovoir. My 2 cents.

Not sure if it is available to you there, but I use a product called Tri-flow for our throttle assembelies. A drop or two goes a long way.

Kevin and Craig, thanks for the kind words. Away we go. 19 August 2004 Weekend before last I tried to put together a small ride out at the property, and we ended up kind of hitting it in two shifts. First shift probably went out about 8 or so and rode till 12, that was 5 riders, D, B, E, M and K. Probably just as they all left, those of us with Church obligations (and there is nothing quite so good as pot luck lunch at Church!) came rolling in. Dean, Christina and I linked up with Clay and Jessie and went out and had a good time. Earlier in the week I had gone out with the tractor and Bush hog and mowed the field. It was a good lesson for me. Some folks had made a fire ring of large rocks and I bet I thought about picking it up twenty times, and thought I had,,,,, Well! I had not! And it was very noticeable when I found it with the Bush hog! Note to self is to insure that I get that picked up next year while the grass is low! Well, in the course of jawing around with Jessie we got talking about schools, classes and such, and how we should have one here. One thing led to another and I found myself e-mailing back and forth with Ryan for a bit to see about the possibility of setting one up. We came to an agreeable date, and hammered out price and accommodations and I put out the feelers to make sure I had it covered with enough participants. Well the response was overwhelming. Within a day I had overbooked the class and everything was set. Sooooooo, This Sunday (22 August) Ryan is coming down to teach some happy students the fine points of Motorcycle Trials. We may get to head out in the boat a bit on Saturday afternoon and get in a little wake boarding as well so that is pretty neat. Currently it looks like we have a balance between adults and kids in the class that should be pretty neat. A couple of us will be hanging back and being the support folks, and possibly Blaine will come in as well to assist so that is pretty exciting as well. I think we will run to the Wal-Mart down the street and pick up some assorted styles of chicken, potato salad, cole slaw and beans to make a nice picnic lunch for the riders. Maybe some of us support guys will go around with garbage bags and clean the area while the school is going on as well. There will be two Sherco 50

Try here http://www.rypusa.com/sherco/manuals/Sherc...ding_Manual.pdf

Hmmmm, I would say bleeding. Take off the top, pull the lever in part ways and hold with rubber band, and turn bars to the left. Tap the line a bit and let stand overnight. Or bottom to top with a syringe. Diameters should not theoreticly make it feel spongy. Air will. Beta Boy,,,, I honestly try and be as helpful as possible, but you have to accurately describe the problem for us to take potshots at fixing it. To say "my 4 pot on the back of my beta is rubish" just does not get me anywhere. Does the pedal stroke all the way till it hits the frame? Has it always been this way? Has it ever worked well? When the rear wheel is in the air and you hit it with your hand does it lock the rear wheel? 98% of rear brake problems I see are bleeding. And the rear can be an unbeliveable pain to do. Sit down and try and make some accurate and duplicable assesments of what exactly your brakes are doing or not doing and we will try and help. Then go out and turn on the water hose, or hose pipe or whatever you guys call the thing that your mom uses to water the plants, then drive around dragging the rear brake till it is good and hot, then thouroghly douse it with water. Too hot and it blues which is not good but you should get a good sizzle out of it. The best explanation I have heard is that this is something along the lines of steam cleaning the brakes and is very effective at removing oils and other debris. Seeing how this is the Sherco Forum, I will pass on Alans Observation on Sherco rear brakes. If you change the bolts in the banjo fittings so the bolt off the master cylinder (14mm hex) is now on the caliper (allen head) and vice versa, it makes it much easier to loosen the line on the caliper for bleeding without removing the bolts holding the master to the frame.

Doug put one on his 01. 99% certain it was a straight bolt up.

16 August 2004 Continuing along, some of the highlights of the day had to be when Matt K came blowing past Dean and I on the trail just flying, you have to remember that it was a sloppy mess out there, in the course of waving or saying something, Matt looses it and piles it up royally right in front of us. Mud flying everywhere, it was truly spectacular! Everything came out ok though and Matt got up with a big smile and headed on along the way. Somewhere in the day, Christina decided to plant her front wheel into the rocks and joined that elusive club that so many of us are members of, the

Alans Ramblings Aug 04 I sit down to write this after thinking about it 100 times. It is so easy to say how someone should write about trials, and share with others, through the written word, what a great sport we participate in. But often times, many of us find ourselves simply overwhelmed by the events that go on throughout the day, or lack the motivation to sit down and make the writing happen. I reflect often on what I have been told about writing good articles. I have been fortunate to receive some great advice along the way from talented folks that I respect greatly and try and put their advice into play, but unfortunately I often do not. One of the things I do wrong is that I tend to write as though I am writing a letter to you, or maybe in

There is a wide range of opinions on this matter. I run Maxxima K2 at 72 to 1. This is a full synthetic oil. My advice would be any high quality, name brand recognisable, full synthetic motorcycle 2 stroke oil that you can consistently get and have availability too. Ask what your dealer reccomends, stocks and runs in his machine.

Wow! Your keen sense of hearing is impressive, all the way across the Atlantic ocean you can tell my kids bike is about to explode??? I guess so long as I keep my Ickle kid off from it,,,,,,, I am GOLLDEN! Sorry Doug, could not resist! Anyway guy, I am not sure what a bike that is about to explode sounds like, but Dean's sounds pretty good too me. It does have a different pitch to it normally, like when we were out in a group of 5 of us today, you could tell Dean was coming, but that was because his was the one running WFO all the time I added the ARC lever front brake lever and it allowed for more / easy adjustments of lever position, I brought it in to where the lever pretty much is just clear of the bar when the front brake is fully locked. I wish I had put on the ARC clutch lever last weekend, we imbedded it in a creek (burn) and left the end glad I have that little welder sitting quitely in the shop!!!!

The Dixie cup went well. The bike held up and ran beautifully. I think the short swingarm helped some with traction, and it was definetely a trials where traction was at a premium. Dean struggled some on the Youth sections, and it caused him some frustration knowing that he could have been cleaning them on the 50, but that is all part of growing up. It really made a positive difference though when we got out on the main trail. The extra size, stability and power made it go a bunch better. While the 17" rear is not the equal to the 18" radial tire, it is certainly better on the wet, muddy trail than the 50's rear tire. The extra size was bad upon occasion though when he got underneath it on the trail. But I found that when my adrenelin is pumping heavy and my kid is screaming I can pretty much toss a Sherco 80 like a discus. Thanks to Jim Watson for helping us get going again. Next step is to polish out the swingarm and sticker it to make my cobby patch disappear. The next mod is to tighten the turning radius, probably through full size triple tree's with the smaller forks.

Bill Markhem is driving that train. The information is here http://www.itstrials.com/ It is towards the bottom of the page

Short swingarm installed, brakes bled, everything seems to be working well, and off to the Dixie Cup for a weekend event. (for you guys on the wrong side of the pond that is 4 to 5 hours drive for my "local" event) The bike seems to be working real well, and Dean is adjusting to the clutch. Still have some fine tuning to do, but we will get there.

Hmmmmm,,,,,, I think it will be larger than Dean could comfortably handle. I got the short swingarm installed last night, I put the pressure test too it of a 1' jump and slamming my weight into it on landing. Seems fine at this point. Time will tell. Dean said it wheelied easier, but I never know if that is him talking, or saying what Dad wants to hear. It did appear that the front was coming higher quicker from my vantage point. I also have the modified spring on it, so I have about 1" of Sag with his weight. I think I will try an even lighter one again. The Dixie cup is this weekend, so, assuming little or no rain, it will get put to the test this weekend.

I would think I could take those numbers, convert them to ratio's, then apply it to any size bike. Sounds like an algebra problem for the wife!

Charlie, (or anyone else) e-mail me and I have my Airframes Text here with me.

I thought you and I agreed to disagree on this one, but anyway, here goes. Whats you need to do.... is bring the material up to temperature, and allow a long enough soak time so that the material is consistently that temperature throughout. This allows all the little molecules to find their nice comfortable nesting location. Then, dependent upon the base stock, and the desired temper (which you are probably shooting in the dark on both) you will evenly quench the part and then depending upon desired temper again, you will age harden, or artificailly age harden at a lower temperature. The powder coat guys ovens will probably get about hot enough to do it. I will try and remember to grab the book with the #s in it tonight.

With blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth!