Ok so let me start off by saying I'm very excited and disappointed all in the same time.
Im an experienced enduro rider 25+ years living in Colorado and i have wanted a trials bike for a long time. Bikes in Colorado are extremely hard to come by. The other day i was looking on craigslist for a used bike as i always am. I have been looking for the last year. Other then the occasional 10 + year old gas gas nothing ever comes up until..............
Bang!
A 2011 Sherco cabestany replica shows up locally.
So i call the guy and go to look at it.
Here is the funny part. Although i have always wanted to get into trials i have never even ridden a trials bike and know nothing about them mechanically. I do however have some skills with enduro bikes. I know looking at this thing i was getting to excited just to see a bike locally and i was taking a huge gamble because as i said above i know very little about them. I let my excitement get the best of me and threw the thing in the back of my truck and bam! i now own a trials bike.....
I don't even exactly know what i bought. pretty sad hu?
He had the tittle for it and its a 2011 Cabestany replica and says stz300 on the radiator.
The bike looks as if its barley been ridden.
So i took a huge gamble on it. If i turn out to hate it, its parked next to my 2015 ktm 300 so its not my only bike.
So i fire it up and it starts first kick and purrrs like a kitten. Seems to run great
The guy that i bought it from tells me not to put it in gear until it warms up because the clutch will not fully disengage. I thought this was very odd. I tried it and of course he was right and the clutch drag is so bad for the first 15 minutes of riding you can hardly control it.
Again in my stupidity i bought it anyway knowing this. I figured should be no big deal. Ill work on it.
So i get it home and the first thing i do is pull the clutch apart.
I noticed he has some 85 wt extremely heavy sticky gear oil in it, and it is also over full by 2 times the amount of oil it should have in it. Pull the clutch out and everything looks greats. Very little wear on the friction plates, no wear on the steels.
Pack it all up, replace the oil with some nice lite motorX 40wt that i run in my ktm and put it back together, happy that the clutch looks fine. Must be a simple hydraulic issue.
So i start bleeding the clutch. I bled the clutch last night for an hour or more. Still can't get rid of the clutch drag. When the bike warms up it is better. It also seems that if you pump the clutch a bunch of times it works a little better.
If you have the bike not running, put it in gear, pull the clutch in, you can definitely not roll forward. You can sometimes roll back if you try hard enough. I have read other reports of things like this online. What can i do about this?
I feel a bit stupid for buying it sight on seen like that. I would NEVER normally do that but i let my excitement get to me and the fact that trials bikes of this age never come around here.
Can you guys help the stupid rookie?
Is this thing basically a 2.9 with a 300CC cylinder?
How and where do i get parts? Should i replace the clutch?
I noticed while looking for parts a 300 in my year is rarely listed anywhere. I found one place that says that 2.9 parts work on it unless you need cylinder or piston parts then you need the 300 stuff.
What exactly did i just get myself into
Try not to make to much fun of the new guy. Any help would be appreciated. Im anxious to put some real time on this and see if i can hang with you open face helmet folks
