dan williams

Another 12+ inches today. Gonna be a while before the Beta comes out of hibernation this year.

Hmmm is your rotor bent? A bent rotor will slowly push the caliper open so when you first pull the brake it has to take up the slack. A small leak will show up as braking pressure that slowly decreases while the lever is held. A worn seal in the master cylinder will feel similar. Air in the line will make the brake spongy. If you hold the lever in once pressure is built does it stay or does it slowly get mushy?

Just milking the thread.

I had a 2005 that sat for too long without being started and the main bearings sounded like they were crushing rocks. It ran great but I had the bearings replaced immediately because running great was not likely to continue. You have to start them once in a while just to keep things oiled. I like to start my bike at least once a month in the winter leaving the choke on until it starts to gag on the rich mixture just to keep the bottom end lubed.

Yeah the glue between the pads just fixes the cold stick. The filing and polish of the tabs is what gives the clutch a progressive engagement. I know it's a pain to do but well worth it. Being able to have the engine in the heart of the powerband while feeding just enough to the rear wheel makes all the difference. Especially on the smaller bikes.

Amen to that!

Also make sure your idle is high enough.

Did you just clean out the glue between the friction pads or did you do the whole mod filing and polishing the ends of the tabs? If there's a bike that would benefit most from a smooth clutch it's probably a little 125.

No mosquitoes though.

Sounds like they should make them Torx to begin with.

Heh heh Dad'O I just knew your posts screamed engineer. I'm even worse, a self taught engineer! And yes I can hold my own in a company full of MIT grads.

Yeah it's a gift in the form of cold air from the guys in Ontario. Drops down while warm wet air comes up the coast and they meet over Boston. Once it's all properly mixed we give it back to Nova Scotia. Sorry about that.

Will do boss. Someday I hope to visit the land down under where it's usually sunny and every thing is venomous.

Come on guys. Let's not bicker over who killed who. Clearly it's not in GasGas favor to give out information during difficult financial negotiations. Dad'O makes valid points though his delivery is a bit abrupt. Might simply be a matter of who has a dog in this fight vs those who are simply seeing data and analyzing. We do get attached to our bikes and manufacturers especially in a market so small many of us feel part of the team. I think for the good of GasGas we all, myself included, should probably back off a bit.

Not sure why it's sideways but still appropriately creepy.

Tell me Clarisse, do you still hear the screaming of the lambs? Gotta dress right for digging out.

First things first, when you snap the throttle closed can you hear the slide bottom out? A rev out shouldn't break the bike unless it's going for some time. It is possible to overheat the cylinder and mini-seize the piston smearing the aluminum and causing the rings to stick in their grooves but that is probably not what's going on in your case. Certainly not at 50:1. You can check your compression if you think that might have happened. Not trying to be a jerk but do you have fuel flow? I say that from experience, kicking only to find I left the tap off. You could have sucked in a reed. That would make it tough to start as there is no intake port to speak of and the crankcase charge would be insufficient at low starting RPM. Is your kill switch sticking? Common on a Beta. Actually I think it's mandatory on a Beta. The fact you could kill it with the switch is a good sign as it means the cylinder didn't get hot enough to go into pre-ignition. Did you try using the choke? Could you have reassembled the carb wrong? I have on occasion. I've also had dealers do it as well. I think you may be in for another disassemble and careful reassembly of the carb just to be sure. I'm sure it's something simple. It usually is for a drastic failure mode.

The float setting procedure is similar. A couple of things to look for is the condition of the valve seat as the Keihin doesn't have the nice machined brass seat the Mikuni has. The other thing is the floats can bind on the bowl gasket. This sounds like your problem. The gasket can be trimmed with an exacto knife to keep it from sticking out into the float bowl. I greatly enjoy the fight to get the float bowl back on the Keihin. Took me about an hour the first time to figure out I needed to turn the damn thing upside down to even make it possible.

Wow, there shouldn't be stress on a case like that or if it is intended to be a structural member it should be beefier than that. I would suspect there are cases available at least from importer stock somewhere. All the talk about parts shortage isn't that relevant now. Interesting break pattern that stayed all in the same plane.

Man that's tough when you don't really know and are antsy about the reliability.

It's actually very pretty. All sparkly in the light but it's light and fluffy because of the cold so the wind is blowing it all around. Supposed to get really cold for the next week so it'll be here for a while. A gift from our Canadian friends. Thanks Steve.

I put a heavy piece of plastic tape on the clamp. The stuff you normally use as a frame protector.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if after 20 years you had sacked out fork springs or spring. I don't remember if the USD Paiolis had one or two. They may also have had a spacer in them. It's not uncommon and an old trick from my Bultaco days was to put a Chevy valve spring in the top of the Bul fork to stiffen it up. This is no help but I'll include it anyway. http://www.trialsport.com.au/beta/Parts/Techno%20250%201995.pdf These are the USD Paiolis used on the GasGas. http://www.trialspartsusa.com/diagrams/Paioli%20USD%201992-93.jpg

I hope they do sort it out but I fear it'll take a "white knight" sort of rescue and I'm not sure the trials world is big enough for a major investor to see this as an opportunity. I quite like the kick starter idea though I doubt their vendors would let it happen. Perhaps a chapter 11 or whatever the Spanish equivalent is and then a kick starter to keep them alive after the legal dust has settled.

Er, Billy... Right now, all night and 36" You don't have to shovel sex. Well maybe if you're Brad Pitt but for the rest of us...