billyt

Is this MIke of the old Take Five club? If so it has been a long time since we spoke LOL I saw Francois about two years ago, ye she still had a neck scarf on LOL Cheers Billy Traynor

Steve My main man! How is Matt doing? Are you going to Kelowna?

Okay. We have narrowed location down from a gizzilion square hectares to a million hecters, progress! Northern Alberta such as Edmonton, Grand Prairie, Cold Lake etc etc

In my humble opinion When it comes to a trials bike, one changes front or rear gearing for torque either more or less, not speed. If that is so, then we change the rear sprocket i.e. make it bigger to gain more torque but loose speed. Changing the front sprocket usually results in limited choices due to chain wrap and we can not go to small. The rear sprocket affords us more choices in the way of changing things up! When changing gearing we in trials really need to ask our selfs "do I want more or less torque" not speed. Torque and speed are inversely opposed. Gear up in the rear get more torque, loose speed. My half a crowns worth!

Then again an extra 5 hours of practice a week would probably do more for your riding then all the titanium you can afford. Spot on Dan. If I cuodl tipe i proburly i would ahuve said it as well! LOL Here is another thing to consider. A factory bike or factory parts are pretty much availble to all factory riders. Therefore it some what evens out the playing feild. That is when Dan's comment comes into play. Practise plus, Factory support plus, plus talent, and one other equation, important thing: personal attention!!!! For a rider to have factory attention, a factory or sponsered mechanic who can mentor or educate, interpret a riders needs into reality invalauble. I spent several days back in the early ninties with Jordi and his brother and mechanic in the USA. Jordi would ride, his mechanic would watch him, Jordi would mention things about the bike in how it felt and his mechanic would react. Was Jordi actauly feeling something the mechanic could not see or feel or was the mechanic just placating Jordi? I remember one instance were Jordi said the forks were sticking and his mechanic tore them apart to find nothing wrong. The mechanic re-assembled the forks, again Jordi would ride again only to once again mention there is something wrong with the forks. This went on several time unti the mechanic eventuily found something wrong with the forks. Jordi was brillant at getting the best out of factory bikes, factory parts, and factory mechanics fine tuning all of them to his personal taste etc. This begs the question do factory or sponsered riders only have to have riding talent or a good dose of mechanical abilty in order to translate what they feel/want out of their bikes?

Here is a really neat way of taking care of a chain. When you drain your engine oil into a flattish pan/container and the when you have about two engine changes worth in the container follow this procedure. Leave the container out side to bake in the sun with the chain fully submerged in the oil. This is known as "boiling the chain". The links on the chain will expand with the heat of the sun allowing the used engine oil to flow into every little cavity, between every pin etc. After about a day of the chain soaking in the hot oil take out the chain and hang it above the pan letting all the excess oil drain back into the pan. Take a cloth and wipe of the excess oil and re-install on bike and then spray the chain with a chain wax. Why do this? A chain needs each link to move freely and independently in order to adopt the radius of the mating sprocket AND provide a surface buffer of the chain on the sprocket. Spray alone will not accomplish this very good. "boiling the chain" will lube the pins and crevices and the spray will proved the surface buffer. Your chain will be loose and will move freely and have good surface contact. Try it, it works!

Okay, a pet peeve People posting videos on here or on You Tube with a sound track that does not let you hear how the bike is running in the section! Why do they pick some piece of music that totally drowns out the sound of the bike running. If I wanted to hear music or that particular music I will go play a CD or down load it from I Tunes. By doing this they force you to listen to a style of music that is in many cases obnoxious. Keep the damn music of the video and let us hear and see the bike run! Okay rant over with! BillyT

Mmm so guys here are missing the intent of the post!

Is this better AndY? http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss61/billytraynor/BetaKilt.jpg

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss61/billytraynor/BetaKilt.jpg Is this better AndY? http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss61/billytraynor/BetaKilt.jpg

The easy way is ta wear a kilt and then the wind will blow up yer kilt! LOL

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Cope Actually the rim does not get harmed even if one runs the wheel of the car or truck on to the rim of the rear wheel. The tyre of the car is very soft and will not damage the rim. Of course you want the weight of the tyre on the rear tyre. Try t, it works! If fact we just used this technique last Thursday on Don's Beta as he could not get the bead broke by conventional methods.

To break the bead off the rear rim is very simple. Take the wheel off the bike, lay it on the ground with the disc facing up. Have a friend hold it steady and guide you onto it with your car or truck front drivers side wheel/tyre. Basically put it on the ground and run the wheel of you car over ONLY THE TYRE portion of the rear rim. Once the tyre of the car is on the tyre portion of the rear wheel move the rim up and down and it will break loose. With all the weight of the car or truck on it, it has no choice but to be pressed off! You may have to run it over several spots but it will break loose this way! Being doing it this way for about twenty years and works like a charm. Now the secret to mounting the new tyre onto the rim quickly OOPS's my laptop battery is running out LOL Later

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Cope Slapshot is Ian. Not Donald! You are Mark, I am William. Now go empty your tea pot! There is bunch of us going to Bridgeport Saturday am, care to tag along! My local cell 480-414-9267 BillyT

Thanks Ian. Ian are you close to Forres?

I am surprised ShercoJay did not advise that the towing vechile needed higher ocatne fuel and there would have been no issue with the police? LOL

Jon I cant get the font to change size! Sorry! Yes as I stated earlier one would have to change out the throttle cam assembly. Yes I agree and can see it now. Another rider jumps on your bike and there is no throttle to turn! Many years ago one could buy a blank throttle tube with no cam on it. It is very easy to make if one wanted to try it!

Sorry guys. I can not get the font size to change in the edit function. So why not switch the clutch hydraulic over to the right hand side master cylinder and the front brake hydraulic hose over to the left hand side master cylinder and then take the throttle tube assembly from the right hand side bar position and install on the left hand side bar position. You would have to make a new throttle cam to go the opposite way with this set up. The advantage is that lefties can be more comfortable with the main control in their dominant hand. So, lefties if you had a throttle cam available for this experiment would you try it?

Hey Jimmy (Technowaldo) I was not speaking to his posting the question on this site, but rather how he pose his question in the posting. One can type a word incorrectly but still get their point and or question across! His question makes no sense! I assumed he was asking when we will hear about the 2011 Beta's. The way he wrote it was like he was pulling our legs as you only here about the 2011 release once and that is in or at the end of 2010. It is not a normal thing to hear about a 2011 Beta every year as he wrote. A joke question deserves a joke answer! Just as yer wee maw writing this in a letter: "Everything here is okay and the family are doing well". I was going to include a picture of your sister new baby but I have already licked and sealed this envelope shut. I will send the picture in the next letter". Maheidisfernippinweaweyonpatter!

I here you ShercoJay! What shall I do? PS: Have you ever noticed that no matter where you go in the world a mirror always looks the same when you look in? Mmmmmm BillyT

Mmm Well, they would not have told us about the 2011 back in 2009, nor the anything about the 2011 back in 2008! We do not normally here about a next year bike until approximately September/October etc. Are you asking when we will get information about the 2011 Evo, if you are we do not normally here about a 2011 as it is not a normal thing! Pose your question correctly and you will get serious answers from good trials folks!

Okay, a thought with some questions associated with it! How many righties to lefties are riding trials? Do the lefties have trouble with the right hand throttle? What would happen if we installed a quad/four wheeler type thumb throttle to a trials bike? Would this be nuts or start a trend? Things that make you go mmmmm....

No matter the orientation of the screw turning it out will always provide less dampning making the back end more lively. The direction will always be counter clockwise. Hope this helps. At least you have a good sense of humour! If this does not work try calling the PH, 800 hotline they are used to helping people with rear end problems. Cheers. BillyT