dan williams

William Strunk couldn't have put it any better.

I had a Can-Am run backwards on me. Never ran right either. After trying to fix it for years I noticed with a timing light the timing retarding rather then advancing as the revs went up. Swapped the two wires out of the stator to the CDI and it ran mint. Promptly sold. If you have a Beta with the old rubber tube on steel kickstarter Get rid of it. The aluminum starter from a '99 Techno or later will fit and add years to your shins. Trust me. I had an '89, '91, '95, '00, '02, '05 and '08. The 89-95 used to beat the hell out of my leg constantly. Once I got the '00 with the aluminum starter it just stopped happening.

I've seen worse on "professional" news agency releases. As to whether command of the language is relevant or not, it is. You may not like it but how you speak and write will have a profound effect on where you go in life because you will be judged. Having a pissy response of, "Oh yeah well I are still smarter then you." just cements the mental image. It may be unfair, even cruel but it's the way of the world. "But most curious of all, this thing you call language. You rely on it for so much yet is any of you truly its master?" [Mr. Spock] Yes I use a spell checker. No I didn't go to college as an English major. (Didn

Well that sounds like two volunteers. Anybody who's tried to run any trials organization knows it's like trying to herd cats. Trials riders are by nature control freaks so no matter what gets done somebody else is gonna be sure they got it wrong. One other thing I've noted over the years is there is always someone crying for "change" and complaining about the stodgy old guys who won't change for the "good of the sport" Usually these are new riders who don't realize their bold new ideas have been tried repeatedly over the years and been failures.

Sorry to hear it. That seems to be the way of it either you have no problems with a bike or it's just a nightmare. I find among the new GasGas the 250 and 300 feel very good to me as a Beta rider but the 280 is just a bear.

Ah yes, didn't recognize you. I put in a few good loop outs on that little rock too but you're too kind in not mentioning it.

Ah now add a VForce carbon reed valve to the beastie and you're done.

Jareth and co. are out there in Berwick most weekends and are always looking to get new riders into the sport. Give him a call, 207-604-2323 jareth7@gmail.com

A '94 can get away with almost any good coolant because it has aluminum cases but engine ice is certainly a good choice. The problem with the later bikes is many have magnesium cases and non-deionized water accelerates corrosion. Engine ice and Silkolene Pro-Cool are a ready to use mixes of propylene glycol and deionized water so you don't have to worry about corrosion and the dog can lick it up without dying if you spill it. Not the case with "traditional" coolants based on ethylene glycol.

No spongy is not good. You should be able to one finger to a hard stop or two finger yourself over the bars. Possible causes of spongy brakes are leaky seals in the master cylinder, weak hoses, air in the lines, bent rotor... Are they spongy in feel at the lever or are they just weak and not stopping? If you pull the lever in does it slowly lose pressure and go to the bar? If you repeatably pump the brakes do they get better? Do they work fine after pumping at a stop but go squishy again after rolling around? The easy answer is just air in the line. All that takes to fix is fluid and some time, then a little more time, wait a little more....

Yes what he said. These forums are full of posts that start with, "I noticed they moved and torqued them down and the hub /screws broke." If the rotor bolts are snug they're fine. The floating disk self aligns to the caliper.

Great, Beta's are notoriously notchy shifters even new. New oil does help though. So does the clutch fix.

All the Betas are on the high compression side so race gas is kind of a necessity. Jetting rich can help to some extent but you end up with a boggy engine. I suppose you could go with a thicker base gasket to lower the compression if you want to run pump gas.

Mikuni VM26-208 drop the pilot to a 27.5. You may drop the main one or two sizes as well. I think my 05 has a 140 or 145 main but I don't remember. The 27.5 pilot is pretty much the first thing anybody did around here with the Mikuni. VForce carbon reeds also make a big difference in the way the bike runs low. Adds tremendous grunt.

Silkolene Pro Cool, Engine Ice, any of the propylene glycol based coolants that come premixed are fine. You have magnesium cases and any ionic contaminent from tap or spring water will corrode the cases due to electrolytic action. In an emergency, and I stress EMERGENCY, you can use tap water but you have to flush the system out afterwards with the proper coolant.

The manner in which it was done was rather un-civil. I think it's OK to express doubts but since we don't know the facts from both sides it risks falling into the realm of slander. As for free speech, my brother, the newspaper editor, had a poster on his wall that said, "The power of the press belongs to those that own one." Make no mistake, Andy owns this one and we are allowed to post on here at his discretion. Far too much work has gone into this site to have it mucked up by a few poorly thought out posts.

Normally a post like this would be like walking into a kennel with a pork chop tied around your neck but this is so over the top that there are a lot of Beta owners just sitting in front of their computers with their jaws in their laps. If this is a joke it's a good one. If you're serious and the oil hasn't been changed for 15 years you're my hero. You may finally have put to rest the "need" to change oil every 15 feet.

A little contact info might go a long way.

Hrumph Looks like it traces back to a Tractor/Towing company. Some farmer probably traded it for tractor parts. He's probably psyched how many views it's getting.

Does that mean I can stop filing my friends' clutch plates?

Hmmmm EBAY as a second language. $5 says the VIN was, er... scraped off, in the crash. I love how his rating is 100% positive, from one person, "We can ship on a pallet" Because that's the only way it'll move. The scary thing is some unknowing person might just buy this turd assuming the bike exists and is not a scam from some far away place. Sad yet hilarious all at the same time.

Now my only concern would be that they have a groove around a raised filler neck so spillage doesn't wash crud from the fender into the tank.

Blowing up the image it's round, black and appears to have a line through it like a fuel cap. Also right in line with the fender mounts/reinforcement which is the only place they'd be able to put it and maintain adequate strength. Looks quite nice.

Tough to cheat here. Checkers are very serious about following the rules. It's a New England thing and yet driving to the event you'd swear there were no rules at all on the roads. Like being in Milan but with bigger cars.

I calculate Cody only needs a fifth place (16 points) finish either day in California to clinch. Of course you know Cody's going to go big and want to win both days.