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Hello everyone, I am a 52 year old (but still 18 in my mind), I own and run a hotel on a nature reserve in Southern Spain, I have an adventure license so also operate a quad tour company and multi activities in the area (kayaking, walking, paracending etc etc) I have just purchased a 280 Gasgas (I have not owned a trials bike for 20 odd years), I have bought it because there are some great tracks that I use for the quad tours and some days I can use the gas gas for guiding instead. I purchased the Gasgas as a non runner, have now got it running but have a few small problems which I have mentioned elsewhere on the site. Any interesting info on the 280 would be appreciated.. Stay safe Mark.

I live in Spain and have just purchased what I believe to be a late 90s 280cc Gasgas trials, I paid virtually zilch for it as a non runner, a great mechanically minded friend of mine got it running ok and says it has great compression......a few problems, firstly it jumps out of neutral, the float chamber which is a sort of clear plastic has a hairline crack in it and weeps fuel. The clutch (which is brand new) slips but we think that this is perhaps a problem where the previous owner fitted it incorrectly. Do you think that we have got the year right and is this a standard carb? are the previous posts about jumping out of neutral a common problem and easily sorted? Any help would be greatly appreciated.