It is annoying and frustrating, I WILL get to the bottom of this issue for you so you can enjoy your bike like you should, don't bring it when I'm in Scotland though!!!!
You had a bill of £200 which was cheap considering the hours I spent trying to diagnose the fault. The diagnostic tool wouldn't even read the bike because of the damage.
We swapped the ht coil, throttle body, condenser and b/a sensor from my brand new bike that had never turned a wheel let alone been started, testing and reassembling after each component change is very time consuming. Swapping all those from 1 brand new bike to another is no simple job, plus you were given another bike to ride for the day while you waited....
Everytime the fan kicked in or turned off the bike would cut out. After much head scratching, I noticed the thermostat was very bent and the radiator had creased from the hit to the ht coil. I swapped the thermostat from my bike and the bike worked as normal. Your parts were then reassembled on the bike and you test rode it, and the diagnostic tool would communicate with the bike.
Those bank angle sensors can be temperamental, sometimes they'll be working fine then they'll start playing up. Get rid of it, one less problem. I'd also check the valves as it is harder to start when hot and if they've never been done they'll be running tight, pain in the a*** of a job, but well worth checking
Bolts raised a lot of money for charity to get that ride, ran trials tyres and said it was horrible. Probably won't happen again. Would be an interesting comparison to have the top enduro riders lining up too....
Dan, stickers on the boost bottle will only quicken the dampening if you fit them with the yellow power band on the outside. The red power band holds the number board on
What year? Up to 2009ish they were a 1 piece silencer, which could only be re-packed by cutting it open, re-pack, then weld back up. After 09ish they were pop rivited together and can easily be split and re-packed.
Your answers will be massively different from rider to rider, e.g, when I used to ride virtually every day and pushing the limits of my skill to improve i would break many things on a regular basis, work basically funded the trials habit. Sump guards, brake pedals, gear and clutch levers, engine covers, chains, tensioners, discs, handlebars...... You get the picture. The harder you practice, the bigger the crashes.
As mentioned before, it's the new or beginner riders that tend to have nasty crashes, not knowing when to get off, or hang on. The expert riders will come off bigger obstacles, but they jump off when it starts to go wrong and land safely.
The nature of trials requires the bikes to be durable and easy to work on and fix. If your stuck in the middle of Ranoch moor during the ssdt, you've only got the contents of your rucksack to save the day.
Injuries, yes. Many. Broken tib and fib, knocked teeth out, elbow doesn't straighten, knee once had yama printed on it, plenty of gravel rash and the usual bumps, scrapes and bruises.
Do we need to make trials safer? I'm not for the wearing of body, very restricted movement could mean more crashes, how about bubble wrapping every rock or even take them away? If your not prepared to get hurt now and again then get a different hobby.
There will always be accidents in whatever we do, everyone has their own risk and pain threshold. Rider training would help beginners initially, but as their skill grows so do the sections.
Expect it to hurt and expect to be broken in body and mind. I don't think anything can prepare you for the brutality of pushing yourself and bike to the absolute limit for up to 8hours.
Heat them up and cool them down, it might not be the way to treat metal........ But it gives a good brake. Try it. Just riding around the street in 1st gear will generate enough heat, then stick the hose pipe on it.
I don't think the std hose helps with the spongy feeling, and it could do with being about 3 inches shorter. The new new braktec system on the new repsols are really sharp if your after a mountain bike feel!
I was on both the repsol and the rr at the wekend and I'm not a fan of the tech forks or the shock, (whatever it is) on the std 260 and the RR, the shock, especially feels a little dead, but I haven't used anything but showa stuff since 2003. Overall, the RR was nice, but without the showa, the repsol felt a better bike.
Another thing I noticed was the riding position, I don't know if the RR uses different bars or footrest hangers but the riding position felt somewhat flat compared to the repsol.
Any of them will be a pleasure to own and ride, the RR is not an intimidating bike at all, very docile and smooth at the bottom end and enough power at the top end to send you up anything. Maintenance is a doddle, oil and filter every 6 weeks ish, air filter and oil the chain. Probably less maintenance than a 2 stroke. Personally, my favourite is the 260 engine.
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It is annoying and frustrating, I WILL get to the bottom of this issue for you so you can enjoy your bike like you should, don't bring it when I'm in Scotland though!!!!