Hopefully he's just twisted the forks in the yokes rather than bent them, hold the front wheel between your legs and pull on the handlebars to straighten, I seem to do it most rides !
I second that, quite a tame crash for someone who's not been on a trials bike before !
The first chap I let loose on my bike, a 247 Montesa, careered into a military chacon and knocked himself out !
I was straight there..... checking my pride and joy over, no damage, just the stanchions twisted.
On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 7:38 AM, 2stroke4stroke said:
A trials rider needs to be able to fit tyres or one day will be stranded with a puncture. Best to get the experience at home rather than on a moor somewhere in pouring rain - the dealer won't be there (well, he might, but you know what I mean).
Front on Rev 3 should be tubed with rear tubeless, There are many posts on here about getting the rim strip to seal if difficulty is encountered.
I might be off the mark here but I remember a TMX article, from years ago, about Martin Lampkin who was going for an SSDT win and had a rear puncture. Of course then the rears had tubes.
The news story said that Lampkin had the wheel off and back on with a new tube in 10 minutes flat, ffs, **** it usually took me at least 3/4's of an hour in my garage !
It's not an answer to the op's question but even a tubeless tyre will take a tube ............ when on the moor !!!!
No spark from a TR34 I've just bought. Looking at the electrics:-
Blue and brown wires come from the bottom terminal of the coil. Blue goes into the harness, brown is split into two, but unconnected (has there been a kill swithch ??)
Black wire comes off the top terminal on the coil - goes into harness
Green wire comes out of harness, goes nowhere. Yellow wire comes out of harness and loops back in.
Fitted a new spark Plug cap (the original looked well used).
Before I start on anything expensive - any ideas ?
cheers
John
I know your bike's been around for many years now and I'm sure it would've reared it's ugly head a long time ago but I had one from new and the flywheel cover wouldn't fit flush with the casing because the brass inserts weren't set in properly. It was a pig due to water getting in.
I rode a trial in Cumberland many years ago, a chap attempted a section and came off his bike. His foot peg went through his waterproofs and trials jeans and opened up his knee cap, I could see a lot of bone.
He knew everyone there but not one of them stopped to help or were willing to go and fetch help and I wasn't even a local. I managed to strap it up enough so he could get off the hills, how he made it back to the car park I don't know, he had some grit.
That was the end of my day unfortunately I'm sure I was winning too........not !
This was before mobiles were common place, I dare say he was a candidate for an air ambulance nowadays.
Hi, chasing a righthand Paioli 38mm fork from a 99 Beta Techno. Original one has been over tightened by previous owner and has a hairline crack.Dont know if this can be repaired by welding, anyone had similar experiences. Thanks John K.
Bought a 315r with Paoli forks, it too had a welded fork at the bottom but was okay and hadn't failed after a fair bit of average abuse.
It might be worth a shot if you get a pro to do the welding and they'd give you a good opinion.
I'd like to give a balanced argument for an economical van that will fit your needs...
Back in my youth I bought one of these, a Honda Acty van, it could easily fit one bike, I dare say two at a push and it had 550cc of pure usable power.
It was very very economical as you can imagine especially on the flat but when it came to the Cornish hills it did struggle a bit. A point noting if you're somewhere hilly.
It was rather cosy in the front, certainly not your modern luxurious type of set up but more than adequate and probably kept the insurance down, nice !
You could work on the bike in the back too, although I suffer a bit now with a really bad back. It's worthwile bearing this in mind if you do go down the small van route. It had a sliding door too
Having an Euro Ncap score of -9 is a good ice breaker in the venue car park, you can get those stickers "one life live it" they'll back the accident stats up.
It's venue performance wasn't great to be honest, I would usually need a push out of a muddy field, a 4 speaker bespoke cassette system will help you to be oblivious to the pusher's woes.
I'm not sure if these are still available but if they are they've definitely got to be on your want to look at list !
I have read a number of articles on the history of the Montesa Cota None of them have made mention of the green models that were around in the late 1970's. Does anybody have any info on them?
There was a thread ages ago on whether folk buy a trials bike based on it's colour...
Well if that had been in the bike shop in '78 I would've jumped at it, it just looks the part
In the past I've fired mine up in first gear, as it's warming up I've kept pulling the clutch in and using the brakes at the same time, it always did the trick.
I presume you've got some good dimpled clutch plates in there with some atf oil or whatever's used these days ?
Assuming no fire extinguisher was played directly onto the wheel rims e.g. sudden cooling by water, then the rims may well still be serviceable. Make sure the hub bearing seals haven’t been scorched. Get some Astonish plastic window frame cream cleaner to gently remove heat marks if anodised rims, otherwise normal cleaning polish for alloy finish. If you have steel rims the heat will not have done much apart from discolouring the chrome which can usually be got back again with normal cleaning methods. Be very careful as some rubber when heated can produce a nasty substance that will eat your skin, bone and the only way to get it off is cutting the skin off. Burned out cars are a nightmare for the fire service and others such as recovery etc. It’s the door seals and the like so you might just want to wear gloves and dispose of the tyres with thought.??♂️
A very good point, it includes o rings too.
You'd think more folk would be aware of this, I always made sure I wore gloves and double checked the leather before putting them back in my pocket after a car fire
I remember going to a trials school hosted by Bernie Schreiber.
A chap in his late 30's attempted a step on his ageing 250 Swm and failed miserably, kicking it in the process.
Schreiber picked the bike up and proceeded to do everything he'd already done on his factory Yamaha, then casually handed the bike back to the awe struck bloke.
There's just no substitute for skill and Schreiber was certainly not 5'7".
- NEW CRANKCASE DESIGN TO IMPROVE THE SEALING OF THE CASES - INJECTED CLUTCH AND IGNITION COVER TO REDUCE THE WEIGHT - NEW ECU BY GET TO OPTIMISE START UP PROCEDURE - OPTIMISED GEOMETRY OF THE KICK START PEDAL TO HELP STARTING PROCESS ?? - NEW SIMPLIFIED MAIN ELECTRICAL HARNESS - PROGRESSIVE LINEAL ROCKER SYSTEM WITH OPTIMISED REIGER DAMPER ADJUSTMENT - NEW SEAT POST AND REAR MUDGUARD - NEW AIR FILTER BY TWIN AIR - NEW AIR FILTER COVER - NEW RADIATOR GRILL TO IMPROVE AIRFLOW - GREEN HANDLEBAR PROTECTOR - RENTHAL GRIPS - REINFORCED SIDE STAND - NEW DECORATION COMBINING THE VERTIGO CORPORATE GREEN
I'm sure I was winning too........not !
i gave my brother a go on my bultaco
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I second that, quite a tame crash for someone who's not been on a trials bike before !
The first chap I let loose on my bike, a 247 Montesa, careered into a military chacon and knocked himself out !
I was straight there..... checking my pride and joy over, no damage, just the stanchions twisted.
Happy days