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Interesting topic. Regarding rear end rising or falling under power, must affect grip.
There is a lot of talk elsewhere of fitting longer shocks to tighten up the steering, this must upset the relationship you have mentioned for the rear end.
The chain touches the top of the swinging arm on my B40, wore two groves, then bedded in. Its probably a little over engineered anyway.
The capacitor is there to stop the points arcing and wearing or pitting when they open by storing the small amount of stator energy that tries to jump across the points gap when they open. It has nothing to do with the spark at the plug. The stator windings produce electricity which goes (when the points are open) to the primary winding in the ignition coil which then transfers (it is a transformer) to the secondary winding to produce the spark at the plug. The time the points open determines when the spark occurs.(hence the term "timing".) The capacitor is discharged every time the points close. Kicking the bike over cannot increase the charge in the capacitor as it discharges on every rotation. A failed capacitor can stop the spark at the plug if it shorts out the stator to earth, usually because the dielectric material it is made of fails internally.
I will need to check the description, but the capacitor (big blue lucas) is much larger than a conventional unit. As you say, it discharges when the points close, but if the plug is out it has nowhere to go. Worked for me.
Pinch the wifes hair drier for the job, heat the decal both sides and the metal and it makes the job alot easier, as said above heat it when on and any bubbles can be pushed out, dont leave it running on the floor next to the wall and burn the motor out though she wont be happy
Land Issues are important but im setting here with all kind of land available and hardly any riders to ride it. The way i see it the problem is where they allow trials bikes they think they have to allow 4 wheelers.We have a natural forest of 12000 acres near us that 4 wheelers have rutted up causing major errosion. The idiots on 4 wheelers are just as much of a problem as the idiot tree huggers.
I doubt if the tarrif goes anywhere and as a farmer i feel the Eu does need to be punished but not with a trials bike tarrif with a mercedes volvo tarrif.
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On a positive note about trials after having 3 bikes for sale ever since the economic meltdown I went 2 or 3 months not one call and knew of 2 or 3 other bikes in the area for sale with no activity then all at once 2 of my bikes sold 2 other bikes sold and ive gotten 3 calls in last 2 days and tommorow night the wind chill is suppose to be 15 below hard to figure
Maybe the way to get the EU to lift its ban on American Beef would be to stop treating it with growth hormones, seems kind of obvious to me. If the customer doesn't want your product the way you sell / produce it, surely you change the production method ?
Is this not just a back door method of banning off road bikes ?
There have been clones of the old Honda XL 125 coming out of China for years, some say Honda had some money in the Chinese factories ?? The engines are not too bad apparently but the rest is rubbish, they rarely make it to the first MOT @ 3 yrs old. They were under
How about a new forum devoted to the above as these question appear frequently throughout various bike specific forums, and alot of the solutions are general.
used a rack on the back of a polo and a punto. no probs fitting the things on and off in no time. needs zero storage space. stuff all fits in boot whilst your on the bike.
down sides are bike can get mucky going to trials ( but then trials aint no concours) when removed before selling from the polo noticed that the tow bar mounting pints had dented the boot floor a fair bit, but it was 10 years old by then so no probs ( wouldnt want it on a NEW car)
defo worth doing especially if you can pick one up second hand.. dont forget to get a proper lightboard with reg no. and a pair of really decent ( minimum 30mm wide) rachet straps. dont spend 5 quid on straps to hold a 3 grand bike on!
Good point about the straps, I personally wouldn't use straps with the S type ends as they can pop off if the cars bounces.
If its an Acerbis plastic tank (I think they were) a tap from a more modern Acerbis tank will probably fit, take the old one to a dealer as an example.
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In the past when I clicked on a topic the answers came up as an abbreviated list, now everything comes up in full and I have to scroll all the way down to the bottom. Any one know how to change it back ?