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Just done a quick online quote and Hastings can't find the reg number and doesn't list EM as a manufacturer. Oh well - back to the drawing board 😁

Yeah, one of the electric insurers listed the e-pure but not the newer model. I will try again when I renew this year as they have had a year to get their sh!t together. The other thing for me was MSM didn't want to add my road bikes so I needed to start over with the no claims discount. Glad to hear you got sorted out mate - nightmare if you needed this for the Scottish six day or anything with a road section. I might try Hastings as well as Carole Nash - mine due next month.

Patiently awaiting my order from The Tryals Shop in New York.... once these two guards are on I'll consider the project more or less done. So grateful people out there are still stocking parts for these old machines!!

Front fender got melted on the exhaust at some point... smoothed it out with a grinder and got it installed back on the bike.

At some point someone put a different silencer on the bike... made a crude retrofit bracket out of flat steel stock to hold it away from the rear tire.

Can't risk damaging that OEM headlight!

Local guy had an OEM rear brake rotor guard in his garage.... lucky find.

Thought the brake pads were shot, gave them a quick 'resurfacing' on the concrete of my driveway!! Before and after pics.

Local welder saved the day by extracting the broken off bleeder screw on the front caliper... The caliper threads were pretty bad. Chased them with an M10-1.00 tap and ended up just using it as a plug. Jitsie banjo bolt with integrated bleeder to the rescue!!

The entire kickstand assembly was missing when I got the bike. So happy to find a kickstand from a local.... these are nearly unobtainable, the bracket at least. Believe anything 1994-2012 is all the same.

Carb clean... just a simple clogged pilot jet. She's a runner!!

Picked this up last weekend as a non-running project for $750. Been working on it for the last week and she's running good now. Below is what I've had to do to it so far, it's almost done and ready to ride. I'll be doing a full youtube video on the process when I'm done - channel name is 'MrTwoSmoke'.

Makes sense - great design.

Thanks to you both, v useful, I'll give it a look.

Did exactly the same on my mid 2000s shercos. I know guys who cut it completely in half down the seam, repacked it and then took it to a local engineering shop who welded it back together.

Hi Chris, thanks for your reply. As you say, MSM wanted £400 and I couldn't get anyone over the phone to insure the bike because despite having the V5 and the bike taxed, their computers didn't recognize the registration number. I had an inspiration and went to the Money Saving Expert comparison site that eventually allowed me to enter the reg number manually by listing the Sincro as a 2026 Evo. I then went back to Hastings, the current insurer of my TRS 250 EDIT: (quoting the MSE online referencet number) and added my new bike to my existing policy for £72 extra to the end of my policy in October 2026.. I'll worry about what happens next when the time comes... Bizarrely, they said that if I sell the TRS and remove it from the policy, the premium will likely increase! Cheers, Trevor

We had the same issue with the missus' '25 EM Factor-e (now on SORN). Eventually I spoke to a human being (insurance companies don't use them any more) and we were told that the insurers do not want to insure anything for theft without an ignition key. In the end we were offered TPF&F by MSM - they are your best bet - probably your only bet to be fair. The Factor-e was not listed by anyone even the self proclaimed "specialist" idiots that advertise they specialise in electric bikes. MSM offered us cover but it was not cheap. Both me and the missus have road bike insurance and neither broker (Bikesure missus, Carole Nash me) would touch the EM. (My policy is multi bike) My last Beta went on my old multi bike policy for just a quid extra. They would not renew it however - that was about three/four years ago IIRC. MSM was well over 400 just for the EM and my GSX650F and CRF250L are just over 200 quid the pair. I wish you good luck and hope you find someone that will cover the bike. Please post up if you do I think there are a lot of us out there. Must be a problem for the enduro bikes as well.

Pretty sure that after the first 2 year Bultaco models the muffler wasn't serviceable until after the rear tankers

I believe it is like the Beta enduro clutch.... There are three positions for #17 to adjust preload on the spring.

new piston and rings in the mont and it runs a lot nicer now no more rattle and it feels more powerfull.

I realize this is an old thread, but did anyone find a solution to this problem?

My Climbers rear shock stop bumper has disintegrated. Where can I find another one? The shock shaft is 14mm. Thanks

How long have you been running them for?

It looks like the belleville spring support "ring" (#15) sould be offered in different thicknesses, similar to what TRS does. They only list one so far.

For what it's worth I'm running them on a 1997 Beta Techno and they work well. Harder to put on than the X11 but otherwise they are very good for the money. If you are serious get an Xlite or X11 but if you want to save a few hundred the Ibex is worth a shot.