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Our friends at Rhode Island Trials Club have stepped up to put in the huge effort required to host the World Rounds / Wagner Cup for the FIM and AMA this coming July We ask for your support be it by pre-ordering tickets, volunteering, or helping to raise sponsorship funds. The projected cost is about 18x the amount of money the club has in its bank account. That being said, it will be a triumphant return of the sport's best and bravest athletes, it will be in a location with breathtaking terrain, and it will have incredible camping and paddock action. Two of the sections will be ADA accessible. Parking is free. There is also a trials ride available to "tour the loop" on your trials bike on Friday. More here: trialgpusa.com Tickets here: https://ritc.ticketspice.com/sandbox?t=Spectator For information on sponsoring or volunteering please contact support@trialgpusa.com

Our friends at Rhode Island Trials Club / NATC have stepped up to put in the huge effort required to host the World Rounds / Wagner Cup for the FIM and AMA this coming July We ask for your support be it by pre-ordering tickets, volunteering, or helping to raise sponsorship funds. The projected cost is about 18x the amount of money the club has in its bank account. That being said, it will be a triumphant return of the sport's best and bravest athletes, it will be in a location with breathtaking terrain, and it will have incredible camping and paddock action. Two of the sections will be ADA accessible. Parking is free. There is also a trials ride available to "tour the loop" on your trials bike on Friday. More here: trialgpusa.com Tickets here: https://ritc.ticketspice.com/sandbox?t=Spectator For information on sponsoring or volunteering please contact support@trialgpusa.com

Ride the pegs more and the bars less. You know you are making progress when you can go over the bars and not let go of them until you are laying on the ground 😆

Haha I did similar on an early ride in the back garden and took out the bottom corner of a neighbours fence panel…

Hi, So today I had my 1st ride of any bike with gears it was a bit of an eye opener I got on ok I suppose I just wanted to do the basics start and stop, however I had a bit of an issue letting go of the throttle when my weight shifted back and ending up with the bike in a ditch and me thrown over the bars 😂

Job done. There is a technique well sort of. Ta

Thanks for the reply but it is no help. I think it is Ossa specific. Thanks

Solved The instructions are a bit misleading. They show the new harness plugging into a connector that is capped off. They must show the model with lights. The only capped off connector is in the boot in my picture. The new harness actually plugs into the map switch connector in the front boot. When this is done, putting the harness in place is OK and it also aligns with the OEM wiring diagram.

I'm not familiar with the Ossa set up but if the problem is that you're struggling to line up the spring while stretching it, could try pulling the end of it with a loop of wire and pair of pliers while someone else uses some long nosed pliers to twist the end of the spring to line up with the hole it fits into?

Original is steel w/teflon coating. This has the same except middle ‘main’pin that is now needle bearing. When I have final fitting done I will let you know. I have to make another bit of a change to clear Ohlins damper- the Ollé is smaller diameter. But that is what initial testing is all about.

Thank you, I will try to build the cable. I have many mappings that were given to me by the Italian importer. As soon as I build the cable , I will update you. Right now it's almost unrideable because at low revs it doesn't go it's very smooth, but as soon as it goes up the revs it goes off abruptly. Thank you.

Ok thanks. This suspension set up using these brass push fit bushings do they have any lateral movement because when my bike is on its stand i can slightly lift the wheel or the rear of the swing arm and i can feel a tiny amount of lateral movement. I have replaced the bushings and greased everything an bought a new pin from Birketts and there is definite movement from the pin area. Ta

Hello here again. This spring is there a specific way of getting these things to fit. I have been trying now for an hour and all i have managed to do is end up with two fingers with plasters on as this spring has managed to cut both. Every time i try to force the spring round to get the straight part of this spring into the slot of the swing arm it just will not go in because the spring is too big to move into the round machined recess. I thought that when i force the flat part of this spring round that the spring would become smaller allowing it to fit in but it actually gets bigger??? Now this spring is new and presume that there is only one type made but i recall that they improved the design for 2014 and my bike is a 2013. Would this be the reason it will not fit. Thanks.

Hi Everybody, I have, despite mu trepadations about the likelihood of it happening, just received my copy of the BookaZine, 'Dougie Lampkin, the making of a world champion' As with all the Copyright kid's publications it is a cracking read, good pictures -seemingly correctly attributed-, adequately written content and a general, all round "Good Thing!" The integrity of the binding is a bit suspect. with pages falling out after I probably opened it out a bit too flat, I expect that this is due to the beating it must have received in the post, ( the envelope was badly split and damaged) , all the way to Sydney, but for 12.99 of your English pounds , an absolute bargain. Well done Jonnie, just a bit unfortunate that you could not get the man himself to endorse it. Joe.

Yes, Explorer and TR are the same. The grease fittings are there- I used flush ones that use a ‘needle’ type end. Three of them could have ‘regular’ zerk fittings, but the one for the main pin does not really have enough room. Before I sell any, I want to make sure everything is just right. I have made some little mods. I wanted to keep as thick as possible for strength, but also need to have clearance for the Ohlins or the Olle dampers since the springs are a bit different in size.

Nice thank you for the pics. I presume the trials bike and Explorer are the same suspension wise. Where would the grease nipples be attached. Could be tempted but a little close to Christmas don't want them stuck some were over that period. Any idea of shipping cost to the UK. Thanks.

I can't tell about machine, but everything else I'd restore whispering.

Accepted. I intend to use Montesa on some trails occasionally, but from your answers can assume that trial bike is most efficient with trial tyres. No more doubts, tks guys.

I'm installing the S3 E start on a 4RT. Near the end of the under fender install, a rubber boot with a number of connectors inside is supposed to get pushed down between the throttle body and frame. This is pretty much the same as the OEM setup but one connector accepts an addition to the harness so there is maybe a little more wire. The problem is that this boot with connectors looks to be twice the size of the space it is supposed to go into and I'm not getting it in place. (The estart kit adds the battery under this area so not as roomy as OEM but I didn't get a good picture of the OEM set up of this area before disassembly.) I have pulled the airbox off again but still no joy. Is here a trick or could I have some cabling routed in the wrong way? As it is, the cable that is supposed to connect to the estart button also looks too short.

Side by side with factory, and mounted in swingarm. Dogbones are 10mm thick and original is 7mm. Plus made from Ti grade 5 vrs some sort of aluminium for stock.

I meant the ones you received from the company who made them. The ones you have just received. Cheers.

Only advantage I can think of is Full knobby works better for deep snow, because you can fit them with larger tire studs and that would be great for about 1 or 2 months of the year.

I agree with faussy. It's been done the other way around, fitting a trials rear to an enduro bike for hard surfaces.

If you want to do trials, buy trials tyres. If you want to do enduro, buy an enduro bike... Anything else is a compromise, and if you ride rocks, worse than a compromise

New ergal parts 70grs less than OEM steel parts.