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I had a gear box oil leak once on the bottom of the engine at the center gasket. Used some brake cleaner to clean the area up really good and stuck a liberal amount of silicone sealant on it. Making sure to get the sealent into the crack as far as I could also. Held up for a long time..........

It's the Beer .................... as in not enough!!! Drink more and get really relaxed!!

Thank you everyone, Biff Ya Got Me!! Dude with the walker is probably what I will look like in a few years, I already have the physique. axelsuv, yea sure it was just last year I was of legal drinking age Well I think I will go celebrate at Chuck E. Cheese!!!!

let me put it in an analogy. Tank = performance and reliable but heavy as Fook! performs at it's designed task perfectly for many years. Formula 1 car = Performance and light weight but reliable for a little while. Performs great at it's designed task but requires much maintenance, up keep and engine rebuilds after only a few uses. Both types of Trials bikes are offered at this time Montesa and Scorpa = Tank GasGas, Sherco = Formula 1 I do not have an opinion yet on Ossa, JTG, Xispa or Greeves. I did not include Beta because I just don't like them. (must be a personality flaw I have) Spare parts in a niche market will always be over priced. (and from what I have heard MotoX spares ain't much cheaper and are replaced more often. I.E. engine rebuilds) Also if you are trying to ride above your skill level you will naturally break more parts, so either get used to the fact you will pay for more parts to be a better rider or set aside the ego and ride a class down and just have fun. Also quit worrying so much about how the plastics look and just zip tye the things back together and go wrap it around another tree. It is immaterial whether or not the average rider will be able to use the bike to it's full potential, what matters is trying to provide a product that the Majority wants to purchase and find a happy middle ground for both sides of the coin. Can't please everyone. Yes there are things I like about my GasGas and things I don't. When the things I don't like outweigh the things I do like then I will look for a new bike that fits what I find to be important at that time. we have differing opinions and that's OK we don't have to agree. And I suspect neither one of us will have any individual direct influence on the trials motorcycle manufacturers decisions on what to build or what materials to use. So I will enjoy my seatless, lightweight, easy clutch, excellent braking and powerful motored bike.

looks to me as though it should have been welded in place. the hole it sits in looks like it has a ridge of weld there. Maybe figure out how far it needs to stick out of the silencer and get it welded up. A decent Ally welder should be able to do it pretty quick and easy. Would help the welder out a bunch if you cleaned up as much oil, grease, etc.. off the surfaces as you can. Just a thought.

Did the lad survive bike siezing without injury? Did the lad survive telling dad about bike siezing? I had a couple 80cc quads that when my boys were small I was having them ride and begin learning throttle, respect for the machine etc.... My mistake was I told them for the first little while to only run in 1st gear. I didn't want them going too crazy at first...........well a new set of rings ended up being needed pretty soon after they got comfortable on the quads. My fault on that one. (also could have been worse)

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Maybe you should have bought the Honda then....... and had more reliable parts. Same thing goes in trials, some brands seem to have more reliable parts than others. can't have super light and super reliable. buy the bike that fits what you want super reliable or super performance.

can find pics of just about every GasGas made here. http://gasgasmuseum.com/ This would be the 1998 page http://gasgasmuseum.com/bikes/1998.html 1998 250cc?? I think. The pic is a little small so hard for me to tell. http://gasgasmuseum.com/bikes/images/1998/98t250l.jpg I don't know much about GasGas Pre Pro engine days but my friend had a 2000 TXT 280 and it held up to much abuse and performed well.

Hypotenuse of the triangle!!!!! A^2 + B^2 = C^2

All the Canadians that I see and hang out with at Michigan Ontario Trials Association (M.O.T.A.) events are great people, not just polite but infinitely helpful. Excellent Trials riders but......... they are a bit kooky I must say. (takes a kook to know one ) OH and some interesting things mentioned in that original post.

This is a very informative video about how to change oil. (warning a couple "naughty" words)

Dadof2. Well I guess I interpreted your post incorrectly. I don't agree with banning any of the space age expensive materials, you don't want magnesium cases or titanium exhaust, then don't buy the race or factory replica of brand XXXX bike. Buy the regular average Joe model that has alloy cases and steel exhaust. The people buy what they want. Yes NASCAR is highly regulated. It is a professional sport. Now if you are suggesting that the World Trials Competition be highly regulated in terms of equipment. That's fine, but I don't agree with that regulation coming down to club level riding. Cable clutches suck, heavy bikes suck. Those things would take the fun out of riding for us mere mortals and that is why we do it. Because it is fun. Yes I agree that trials manufacturers and the sport in general would benefit by selling cheaper entry level machines. But I highly doubt a repainted heavy twin shock from the 70's and 80's would attract anyone. Those coming from other motorcycle sports are already riding "top notch" bikes in their chosen sport. They will not be interested in a bike with 35 yr old technology. They would be enticed by something that at least seems like it is current and competitive technology at a lower price offered by an "established" manufacturer. just my opinions.

There was a 90 second time limit for the sections. So the riders would NOT be "sitting still in sections all day" If 90 seconds was too long then shorten it up to 75 seconds etc....

Yep Beta 4T is very quiet. even quiet when opening the throttle. Unlike the Montesa 4RT.

Both...................... but actually with the same amount of throttle but different amounts of "bounce" will give you different amounts of lift. Hope that makes sense. You could make it over the obstacle with little bounce but HUGE throttle and it will go over, or use half as much throttle and get the bounce technique correct and make it over the same obstacle with much less throttle. that help??

Yep sure did....................... but of course I would have waited until it was properly broken before repairing it (you know broken kickstart lever and shaft, cracked clutch cover, etc... That way I could spend more time and $$ on it to get it fixed. Wow I can be really stupid sometimes.

Oh and I personally think dadof2 started this topic with his "retro" ideas to get people riled up................................ worked didn't it.

Nope it's because they are old farts that can't ride stop and hop, still living in the "good old days" and have more disposable income than the parents with young kids that are trying to be able to afford clothes and food for the youngsters let alone a hobby. Dang, did I actually type that out loud......................

Kind of like pushing your feet into the pegs and this will push the rear wheel into/onto whatever the obstacle is.

That looks highly unpleasant.

I should have clarified that the 2.5 was available in 2000 and is still available through all models years to today. It was in 2000 that the 2.9 was introduced.

Different throttle tubes have different cam profiles where the throttle cable rides on the throttle tube, thus changing how much the carb slide is opened up in relation to the rotation of the throttle tube. black = slow = twist throttle more to open slide all the way white = fast = twist throttle less to open slide all the way alloy = HOLD ON!!! = OH crap my right hand twitched and now I am on my

AAAHHH Learning the differences in available traction on different surfaces. You are learning quickly.

I believe (I may and have been wrong before) that Sherco used the Bultaco name for just 1999 but had the thumbs up logo for a couple years after that. The 1999 model was a 2.5 (250cc) and had red plastics, the 2000 model brought out the 2.9 (272cc) with grey and blue plastic. 1999 and 2000 both had the "canister" type muffler, in either 2001 or 2002 sherco started using the "tucked up away curved" muffler. but this is all by memory so may be off a year or two on a couple of these