My initial thought was Yamaha until I read the post above. Both ride great and have great parts availability. Not sure which does better in each or both catagories. Think the Fantic is tops in ridability alone and I own two Montesas.
I have a 242 that has the same annoying sound. Much like the bottom end is about to fall out or the piston is about to seize. I've been told it is the nicasil cylinder coating is the reason for noise. Not sure but it is aggrevating.
Paul, modern pegs bolt right on, I went with modern rear shocks and forks springs. My bike came with a Mikuni Carb conversion. Its very peppy and light compared a lot of vintage bikes.
Have you called Bob Ginder at B&J Racing? He builds custom made to order Falcons for $340.I know Glenn(Axulsuv)is pretty happy with his set.
What bike are these shocks going on? Does it have forward mounted shocks? Kinda sounds like they sent you shocks designed for about a 1 to 1 leverage ratio and you've put them on a bike that has about 1.75 to 1 ratio. In that case maybe you can sell the Works performance shocks to someone who has a shorter travel setup.
Yeah, I had a set of Falcons that had the wrong springs. They came with 50lb springs and I needed 60 lb springs. I asked for 60 lb springs to replace the 50s but none where available and didn't know when they would be. Again, I was offer some used 60s with just a little rust on them.....
I guess I'm just unlucky when it comes to trials shocks????
I think you're right about the leverage ratio thing. When I sent the shocks back I had to fill out this form that measured distances from the swingarm to axel, swingarm to shock pivot top and bottom, etc. Once WP recieved the form the guy that did the calcs admitted he didn't realize the 1983 Cota 242 where mounted so far up on the swing arm and said he thought they were mounted like a 247 hence he got the wrong ratio....
I'm outside the 30 day window by a long shot but I've been calling for q1uite a while about this and feel they should replace the incorrectly rated springs with the correct spring rate since the miscalcs are on them. It be nice to have new not used springs too given the cost and amount of time that is on my shocks (very little).
We'll see what they do. I told them they should do the right thing and replace them since the reason they don't ride right is because of theyre measurments. We'll see......
If I had it to do over I'd buy some Magicals. No one in the US seems to have a clue what trials shocks are supposed to be like. WP guy "well the ones that came on it, they're pretty soft weren't they"? ....... I didn't pay top dollar for the same thing that came stock on the bike in 1983.... what idiots!
Sag came in at 4" out of the box. That doesn't leave a lot of extra travel to play with. They admit they made a miscalculation. Told me to turn the preload rings up a few turns...... obviously that didn't work. Got an RA # to send them back. Lost track of that and the dealer couldn't relocate it either. Time passes, bike just sitting there cause its unpleasant to ride. After several requests to dealer to locate RA # with no luck I send them directly back to WP. After being told they didn't know what they had done but must have miscalculated something they tell me too much time had passed and they will have to charge me $15 per shock to replace my severely undersprung springs with USED springs plus shipping. I'm really hating I spent $550 on these shocks that are basically useless as they are. .......
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