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I guess you mean on the Missouri side of Kansas City. I do have property in both states but my house is on the KS side of the tracks. Joco not Wyco. And no Billy T, I'm not a Sassanach. Something has come up a bunch of times here when people talk about "No Stop". It seems to be interchangeable and was one of my questions from the beginning. No Stop meaning [stopping or reversing forward motion] being one interpretation, and [stopping with a foot down] being the other. Imo stopping with a foot down should be and likely always has been a 5 (really should be on push bikes too), but the new rule refers to [any time forward motion is stopped], right? Whether you put your foot down or not. I wonder if that includes hoping up and down or around and stopping for an instant to set your front or rear wheel sideways, all to get a straight run at the section or get around a tight turn that could not be rolled? That is where I think the problem comes up. All those skills people have been working on for years would be for not. Your body or your bike may be moving doing those moves but the wheels are no longer rotating or continuing forward motion. So which is it? Does the new rule say no stopping of the wheels or no putting your foot down and stopping?

That's pretty cool if you ask me. Is it mixed with actual Gaelic or just a phonetic interpretation of someone with a serious Scottish accent with some local vernacular thrown in?Makes me want to watch Snatch again. The movie Not that I can understand more than about half of it.

In the sense that he has obviously been here a while and somewhat earned the right to be a bit bossy. And if I had posted a bicycle trials thread in a motorcycle trials forum he would be completely in the right. However, in this case it's pushing it and he brought it up more than once including cuts to the legitimacy of bicycle trials each time. Both forms are legit.

I respect your 2300 posts OTF and I wouldn't say anything but you have made your point before and it seems a bit persnickety. I started this thread. The thread was obviously about motor trials. The bicycle reference was just a side note. Just like if someone mentioned in a Beta thread that Hondas have the same issue. Bicycles are mentioned in perhaps 6 at best of 70 posts in this thread. Not the end of the world.

Nope, not confused at all. Are you confused 'old trials fanatic'?

I got the bike from Lewisport and Adrian jetted it for my elevation before he shipped it. Someplace around here on one of the billion postits (argh) I have notes from talking to a distrubutor of VP race fuel which is what the KTM shops in town sell. No mention of 116. I think Dale said 1/2 108. I'm building a hot MX bike that is going to need race fuel so I guess I can't put off buying it any longer with 2 bikes that now need it. The only race fuel that has ethanol is some special blend for National events. I have a place where I buy no eth pump gas. HyVee.

Dale (US GG distributor) came over and looked at it today. The buzzing sound seems to have gone away after I tightened the finder bolts. He said that the engine vibration is normal and that there was a little pinging going on because I'm running no ethanol pump gas. I guess I need to mix in 1/2 race fuel. He also thought raising the needle 1 step might not be bad either. I'll try the race gas first.

Not close at all. 1 will probably be fine. The GG US distributor saw it today and thought it was a good idea and added that he had a sore calf from slipping off last time he road.

It's a 280. If 1 isn't enough I could add 1 more to the next slot. But like I said with wet soles there was no slip. Just have to see with mud. You could be right about wanting to limit the ability to kick but I think it's more likely done for aesthetics. You can kick it just as hard as long as it's dry.

I checked all the bolts I could get to today and except for the fender bolts into the plastic fenders nothing was loose. It's not so much the buzzing noise that bothers me but the fact that the engine vibrates that much. Feels like a CZ from the 70s. Well not really...but still. The buzz sound could be coming from the front disc guard since it isn't attached at the bottom. ?? Dale and I were going riding this week but he can't make it and he said he was going to be close to my house anywho tomorrow morning so he's stopping by. It will be easier to tell with 2 people there. It's probably nothing. I just wanted to make sure before I road it much. Thanks

I'll check bolts but they all have a yellow marker dot on them implying that someone checked everything at assembly. The bike is new with about 3 hrs on it so unless there was a manufacturing error nothing internally should be out of spec. But that is why I'm asking if they all vibrate like this.

If I rev up my engine (280) to clean out while stopped it really vibrates. Not the kind of high frequency buzzing vibration I get in my 2T KTMs but lower and it makes the front fender or something up front buzz. Is this normal? Aren't these engines short stroke large bore? You would think that would reduce rather than increase the tendency to vibrate at high rpm.

Will do. Thanks.