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copemech i have grown tired of cracking my knees on the master cylinders where the hydraulic lines bolt on under the bars. i'm going to fit gas gas master cylinders and get some hoses made to suit. anyone else done this ?

Before you re assemble it check the clearence on the piston skirt with the piston level with the base of the liner. It should be between 1 and 2 thou. If its 3 or more send it back as it will be rattling in no time, 3 to 4 thou is the wear limit. If you run your new piston in a barrel thats too big you may damage the new piston.

New 4rt will apparently come with mirrors and indicators like other trail bikes.... and a tow bar in case your van breaks down on the way to the trial.... I'm off to hide now

A shame yes but if it is true you can hardly blame them. Just had a look at the scores on the FIM website the guy who finished 10th only actually got out of 7 sections all day, he had 23 5's out of 30 sections ! Shaun and Taddy are normally around 8th - 12th and in their shoes I wouldnt drive to france to have 23 5's , perhaps the wtc will have to look at section severity.

Never heard Jamies interview , were they recorded ? I had a look on the nevis radio website but couldnt see anything

Hi Folks Somebody left a rather expensive component which looks like it belongs on a 4RT leaning against our van in the car park on friday night. I asked Sandifords but nobody had mentioned loosing this item. PM me if its yours Ive put this on the SSDT site as well Cheers

Tried this once and it worked make sure the master cylinder entry point for the hose is the highest point in the hose route you may need to drop the caliper a little, turn your bars to the left as well. Pump the lever till you get some pressure in the system then zip tie the lever to the handlebar so it can t return. leave it over night in the morning it should work fine, if it does send a PM to Racey and say thanks as he told me and it worked when i did it. still dont know why though......

well thats something i never thought I'd see Kinell answering a geography question still I suppose he could be wrong yet ? good luck in the ssdt mate, see you there

HL do you really think these folk are injured ? or have they seen the forecast for Monday and Tuesday ? Ive took the sun cream back out of my bag and bought a snorkel and flippers.......

Dougs been stretchered off a number of times even with multiple minders but how do you retain difficulty but have safer sections ?

Yes I'm panicking in case it does

183 getting nervous already

I also ride in the NE centre and find it frustrating that we use the same colour flags for left and right for two out of the three courses. At the recent Consett trial on Good Friday one observer asked me to ride the section again as i had not used the same route as other riders and she was going to go with the majority. At a different section we all rode it incorrectly the first lap and were then advised of the correct route on the second lap. This isn't the first time this has happened. I dont think its necessary for the CoC to travel round before hand advising the observers, the CoC puts enough time in the day before the trial without having to do another job on the day of the event. Surely as a centre we can agree on six colours for flags and then stick to them ? I propose Yellow / White for Expert, Red / Blue for Clubman and Pink / Purple for the easy route. any comments ? Before anybody jumps in most of you in the NE will know I have marked out many trials in my time

perhaps not for much longer when the ssdt finishes and the results are out we 'll all have nowhere to hide !!

Kinell Beta have already made the centre of gravity higher you know are you lot moving the footpegs forward to compensate for the additional weight at the back ?

The ignition timing is too far advanced, see Sherco website for how to retard it.

i'm 85 ml of oil to five litre of petrol

Ive recently acquired a 290 and first couple of trials it was great but then i found once it was run in I started to spin it a lot. At the Jack wood I was doing doughnuts all day and getting more annoyed as the day went on. My last bike was a 300 GG with a kehin carb and initially I thought the sherco was less powerful but I'm not sure now that it is. My view is if your coming off a GG the power of the Sherco is much smoother in its delivery and you dont realise how much power your trying to put down, hence the wheelspin. I think the sherco gives a little less "feedback" than the GG so you need to adjust to that first. I've done a couple of things to mine now which have made it easier to ride and are a bit simpler than fitting base gaskets. First of all increase the pilot jet by one size from 33 to 34 (from memory) and lift the needle one notch so that the clip is in the bottom groove. then retard the ignition timing a touch, i only moved mine the width of the mark on the stator. if you dont like it you can reverse all of the above, a pilot jet is about

Exhaust / cylinder joint could be a problem take it off and see if its blowing. If a scorpa is right it will rev so somthings wrong with it. To advance the timing you need to move the stator plate in the opposite direction to which the engine turns. Push the kickstart with your hand to check which way it turns. You can fully advance the timing.

What tools have you got access to ? how much two stroke do you normally mix per five litres of fuel ?

kinell i did worry when i saw the topic title.....

Billy i'm keen to carry out my proposed experiment if only to stop the kids in our street calling me homer. What do you need to test me to determine what I should eat ? notformuchlongerbaboonsarseheed

I'm beginning to question the medical profession as no two so called experts can give us the same information. We get loads of diet advice but most of it is conflicting, it seems as scientific as religion and star signs to me. eg the hair falling out business due to diet / caffiene. so lets have a test shall we....... My grandfather, bald as an egg, my dad bald as a baboons a***, me i'm a bit like an unwashed potato, some dark substances around the edges (remaining hair for me, soil for the potato). I'd call this genetic myself but i'm happy to be proved wrong. so Billy can you send me the things I should eat / drink and the things I should avoid. I'm quite happy to photograph my head every month to chart progress and post the results on TC for everyones benefit. Once my hairs grown back I will have to change my name of course cheers

Sounds like a good idea, who's riding as opposed to watching ? I'm late away on friday so thursday would be good

Hi I had a 2006 model which revved to the moon. It was a racing version with lightened flywheel and Ign timing fully advanced mind but i would just advance the timing first. Couple of other points, dont tape up around the air intake, leave it standard in case your restricting air flow. As an experiment see how high it will rev with the mudguard off. The curious thing about my scorpa was if you tried to clean it out before entering a section it wouldnt rev out but under load it did rev, so perhaps they have some kind of rev limiter . Are you slipping the cluch heavily when the problem occurs ?