jackman

oooo! looks like the same year as my TY that bike has a lot of potential!!!

Great site!! hahahaha I wonder how these guys can keep getting up and doing it again and again? haha this one's pretty good: ohhh mannn!

That is SOOOO cool!! wow, I'm in awe! Those pics are great glad you had an awesome time

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing The silencer looks great all pollished up! Autosol is amazing stuff!! once again, the bike looks great! do you plan on building another anytime soon? haha When I finished my TY I felt like I had the buildbug and needed to get my hands dirty again! lol

I think it's going to turn a lot of heads!! It looks great! Any more pics you have would always be welcomed I love the bike!! p.s. - AMAZING.

nice find! That's so cool, haha but it's a trials bike, not a trail bike hehe Wish I could do that!!

wow! That would sure turn heads!

Novice class, or Vintage (pre 79 bikes with twin shocks etc)

I have michelin's on the ty and it has unbelieveable grip Very satisfied, they were expensive, but worth it in the end. You could ride up a wall with these babies (just my two cents)

wow! Very nice pics!

I'm no where near ya, but I just wanted to say Welcome!! If I wasn't in Canada, I'd meet up to ride! lol

Good to hear from you I hope the recovery goes well!! Wow that is inspirational!

hahahahahahahaha!

That's great news Jack!! Keep it up!

I am pretty sure that's what he means.. Mine was the same way at a cold start, but now it doesn't do it after clean oil (or at least, not yet hehe)

I had the exact same problem and changing the oil did the trick for me

I fitted a michelin x11 to the back of the TY and it took FOUR of us to wrestle that thing on! (At first we were like "No *beeeeep* way! It HAS to be the wrong tire! But sure enough after about 30 mins of fighting it it finally went on. Then came the most annoying part.. It wouldn't sit corretly on the bead in just one spot and the rest was fine (this after taking it to about 50 psi). I have very low patience (A.D.D. ) and after about an hour of inflating, deflating, spinning the tire, inflating, deflating etc.. I put a LOT of polaris clutch lube oil (like WD40 I'm sure) around the bead when it was deflated and put some air into that sucker. (at this point I had zero patience since it was already a couple hours of just fighting it) soooo I pushed it up to 80 psi and it popped right onto the bead and I was at rest! Or at least I thought I was... I brought it down to 15 psi and it came back off the bead in the one low spot that was giving me trouble originally. I pumped it back up to 70 this time and it came onto the bead. I left 40 psi in it over night to get it to stay that way. After all the lubricant evaporated (I'm guessing) it stayed on the bead. I just put the new michelin on the front today and it was WAY less hassel. I had to put in about 50-60 psi for it to pop out too (I used soapy water). All in all, I think I should have just brough the rim and tire to the local shop and asked my friend who works there to do it for me beacuse this drove me almost insane. What I learned after this experience (which was my first bike tire one) is that you have to leave in a fair ammount of air in the tire over night so it can set up (or at least in my situation that was the only thing that seemed to work). I wouldn't be too afraid of that tire popping at like 70psi, but above that I start to cringe and GET READY! I have tubes in my tires. (I've never changed a tubeless tire except for a car).. Sorry for the rant, it just drove me crazy for a really long time and it feels great to vent about it! haha, good luck with your tire!!

Hello there This site might help you (B & J Racing). Worth a look

I could recomend these ear plugs made by the high-fidelity company. I use them to play music in a band and we all use them and they work GREAT. I don't know if this would work for your situation because it might bug your ear in the helmet, but let me tell you.. these things rock. (borrowed image from that site) Dispite being cheap, these things are truely amazing.. even if you can't use them for riding, it's worth checking out for everyday life for ya (I picked mine up at the local music store, that's the only link I could find)

Sorry to hear about your condition.. I can't offer you any help, but if you can't seem to get it as quiet as you'd like it to be you could go for a four stroke and then sneek up on people they're so quiet lol hope you can find what you are looking for on the site (sorry for my uselessness haha)

haha! I'm glad I wasn't the only one with TC withdrawl. It's great to have the site back up I was amazed by how many times I found myself refreshing the forum page because I was jonesin' for some TC!!!!!!

I started riding trials because my dad and uncles were into it heavily.. Plus it was so much more fun than mx The idea of going slow with balance vs fast with luck seemed like a no brainer to me (I tried it a season and ended up here ) I continue to ride because I want to get better. I think it's a great feeling of accomplishment when you practice, and the next time you get on the bike you actually can feel you're better than the day before I think more people would ride trials if it were covered more in the news/by tv (at least here in Canada, and the US too). I guess it's not for everyone... but I'm sure there are many people who haven't even heard of trials who would be hooked at the first sight of it! We need more coverage! heh ohh yes, I ride because it's in my blood (pre mix, 50 to 1)

Yikes how many languages do you speak r2w!!!?!?!!! hahaha nice find!!!

geeez, if I had the money, I'd totally LOVE to buy another TY(s) hehe... It will be sad to miss on these bikes! hehe good luck with the selling! but I'm sure you won't need any, beacuse everyone loves ty's

I've used clear coat on it... but I'll NEVER do that again because gas spilled over the top one time and it made it look like crap (the clear turned a murky colour). So I had to repollish it all again and not put anything on top of it. (that was very frusterating lol) But then again, once it is pollished, it stays that way for pretty much all year and then takes little effort to bring it back to "new" condition the next time you pollish it