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  1. I loosen everything (bottom yoke, axle, fork brace) except the top yoke.

    Make sure the tubes are the same height in the yoke.

    See how they feel.

    Tighten bottom yoke.

    Check feel.

    Tighten axle & pinch bolts.

    Check feel.

    Make sure fork brace isn't binding. If it's free to rattle about, tighten it; if not, egg out the necessary holes to keep it from bidning and tighten.

    Check feel.

    Thanks, I'll try that over the weekend. It don't have a fork brace BTW, USD forks generally speaking, don't have them.

  2. Thought I'd better introduce myself.  Just got home with an Aprilia Climber in the boot of my Dodge and am planning a trip to Berkhamstead at some point to see what's going on.

    Ribenas are on me :lol:

    Oh, anyone know who sells Aprilia spares?

    Ta.

    Cool, car.

    318?

    What's a Ribena?

    Hope it's not some kind of insect. :lol:

    It's a 383, the little sister of the 440 (a common engine swap)

  3. The forks on my Climber are a bit "Donky", by that I mean then need a bit of weight over the front befre they go "donk" and a little more, then they go "Donk" again. When bouncing them furiously they seem ok but they're not too smooth on the low speed stuff. So far I have:

    1) Slackened off the yoke pinch bolts and bounced the forks hoping they'd line up.

    2) Used a ratchet strap to wind the forks right down, then slackened off the pinch bolts a bit, this helped a bit.

    3) Loosened off the axle clamps and shifted them round a bit to see if it would fall into position.

    4) All of the above in unison.

    Any ideas? They are USD forks that were smooth as silk apparently before I pulled the bike to bits to put in the boot of my car after buying it.

  4. Seeing as no one on the planet seems to sell Aprilia Climber spares, I decided to bodge my holed air filter. I just removed the soft sealing lip from the filter, chopped up a Vertemati filter so it was roughly the right size, stuffed it into the airbox so it took up approximately the same area as the old one inside, tucked what was left outside the box under the subframe spars, positioned the soft lip taken off the old filter on top and clamped it all down with the airbox lid.

    The hole in the original was made by those stupid spreader things in the airbox lid, the carb had fine grit round it, compression seems to be ok so I'm hoping the bore has escaped unharmed.

  5. Thought I'd better introduce myself. Just got home with an Aprilia Climber in the boot of my Dodge and am planning a trip to Berkhamstead at some point to see what's going on.

    Ribenas are on me :lol:

    Oh, anyone know who sells Aprilia spares?

    Ta.

 
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