billyt

If you live in Texas you have never seen mud. Only UK riders know what REAL mud is. Red sticky clay is NOT mud.

A Montesa 4RT battery s not required due to the fact that upon kick starting the circuit sends all current generated by the kick start lever to the EFI starting circuit and only the starting circuit. It is only once it is started do they then send current to the rest of the EFI circuit. A battery on an Ossa is only there to aid in generating enough current at the initial starting pulse.

What where the little white blobs in my carb float bowL? It was very early Sunday morning (6am) heading off to a trial. Only problem was a massive hang over from the night before, and perhaps still a little bit tipsy and in my defense it was dark Needed to mix some oil and gas, grabbed what I thought (of course determined much later after the f*% Up) was a bottle of two stroke oil. I turned out it was a bottle of Armor All. I mixed it with my gas and off out I went. At the event the bike would not start, took the carb off to find little white globules floating in the carb bowl. Yes a drunk Mr Mikuni mixed Armor All with gas and poured it into his new Beta Zero Up side was the rubber intake boot from carb to cylinder head have never cracked

Here goes mine......... I (used to) pride myself on my carb knoweldge. Boy did I get humbled by this one that was self generated by ME. Beta would not run worth crap. Took the carb off only to find lots of little white blobs in the fuel bowl. Any guesses what they turned out to be? Answer to follow

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Copemech wrote: "you need to stroke the rod untill you get it all worked out” If anybody knows about stroking his rod until it is all worked out it is Mark

PIP You forgot to add you are a good trials rider. I know I have watched you ride.

Steve You keep hitting you head on the wall expecting a different outcome?

Mark The rotors on a car disc is much thicker than what we have on our bikes. On a trials bike If it does not crack the disc it will eventually warp it if done many times and done really hot. I guess it is all relative to how hot you get the disk. The heat draws out the oil and grease from the pad and disc. Best way I saw a guy clean his brakes was he got them hot and then sprayed the crap out of disc and pad using brake cleaner and then poured corn starch all over them and let them sit for a while. The corn starch drew out oil grease and crap.

I agree whole hardly with 0007 on this matter. I have spoken several times in the past about the in insane practice of pouring cold water on a hot brake rotor. It is a bad and dangerous practice. Here is what I wrote a while back: Some one posted: "I usually perform 2-3 good hard stops from a good high speed run in 5th gear to warm them, then let them cool and resume normal operation. Do this 2-3 times to thermocycle them, then on a final trip do the same to get them and the disk good and hot and douse them with a water bottle to steam off." I wrote: Warning to the wise on getting your disk hot and then dosing it in cold water! I have witnessed this resulting in the disk cracking and or warping due to the aneling effect that the radical drop in temperature causes. I was present when a friend of mine tried this and and then went over the bars after the brake disk shattered after it hit a rock and he broke his collar bone.

Steve??? Mon Dieu..... Oui? mon ami.

Oops. Do Belgium tanks have four reverse gears and one forward gear.

Dabsters boss is Dad of Two, Mother of One.............

Dad of two Well done. Now we all know a little bit about you.

Dad of two Does "Dad of Two” mean Dad of Two Pages for a reply? You said here goes....... I did not learn one thing about you or your skill set training, riding level, education etc All you did was rant about some fraud issues........ Surely you can tell us about you without using you name?

Seems the last few rounds of banter, heated debate, where over technical issues. We have guys on here that speak to their knowledge of torque wrenches, electric pumps, mechanical pumps, and all sorts of others technical prowess. Made me wonder what do we really know about each other? Mmmm Do we know what each other does for a living, what our trades or profession is, what our academic training is? Do we even care? Might be interesting to learn a bit more about each other. I can be found in Linkedin under William Traynor In that vein I will go first: Been riding trials for about 35 years. My riding skills are quickly going to hell in a hand basket (due to two recent big come offs and susbsequent operations to fix torn bicept, torn rotator cuff and broken ribs, and elbow tendonits). Recovery gets harder when you are almost 60. I am not as brave (or stupid) as I once was, I think twice now before going for something big. I would like to think my technical skills are getting better though. Education: Degreed Electro-Mechanical Engineer. Scotland Hold Two Patents: Hold: Six Sigma Black Belt, Toyota Black Belt in Toyota Production System (i.e. Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence). I teach T.P.S for a living. I worked for Toyota Europe for 14 years. And you? what do you do? Please post your info............ Linkedin and all...... Thanks

This guy did not get too may views either. Just as entertaining as Bou LOL

I ran across this same thing on a old 315 Montesa a long time ago. A few questions: Is the fuel petcock in the reserve position or normal position? Switch it over whilst the bike is running. What carb is on the bike? Is the float bowl touching the engine cases at any point? What happens if you run the bike on a stand with the gas cap off (with just a little bit of fuel in the tank). What do you observe the fuel doing? Whilst the gas cap is off and the engine is running put the palm of your hand over the gas spigot closing it off, does the bike stop after a minute or so, does the idle change? What happens if you put your thumb over the hose, and or stuff some cotton wool or something else into the end of the fuel hose or even fold back and close off the hose to the atmosphere in the end of the fuel hose, does it eventually stop the engine? Please let us know the answers to these questions. BillyT

I thought there was 25 letters in the alphabet............. I dont know Y.............

How do we explain this then........... 3,146,400 views. Professionally filmed, excellent content, exciting stuff even to non bike riders.

Does the noise change when you pull the clutch in?

For the record Robbie Maddison is Australian.

OSSA = Orgasmic, Sexy, Salacious, Accessory BETA= Best Ever Trials Accessory GAS GAS = Grounded And Stationary Got Another Solution

Tryals or Trials. The spell checker on my Apple says “Tryals” is spelt wrong........ Bull.................. I vote for Tryals. Maybe this would help us get noticed in Google searches and not get mixed in with “Clinical Trials”. Type in Tryals and see what comes up.

If you voted YES today we can get you in touch with two owners around the corner from you. If you voted NO then you are on your own LOL