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Have you tried your friends silencer on your bike to see if that improved the problem?

Yes you can just `grab` the flywheel to check the mains. If nothing else it helps to eliminate problems. Best advice would be to try a `buddies` carb. We can talk for hours about what you have done to the carb, nothing like a good carb to swap. Which I know can be hard to come by. Did you remove the pilot jet and choke jet, clean and check both circuits were not blocked? The pilot actually flows out of two locations. Directly under the slide and a small hole in front of the slide. Keep trying they are a nice bike when running properly.

Recommend type: ATF DEXRON III Alternatives: NOTE: Gas Gas Spain recommends only Dexron III automatic transmission oil at this time. Oil type warning: DO NOT USE #12378508 GM auto-trac II (blue) oil Never use synthetic oil in the transmission~clutch. The synthetic oils are “stickier” and this adhesion tendency, when applied to the areas between the clutch plates contribute to excessive clutch drag. Some brands of synthetic oil will chemically react when mixed with water, (from creeks, rain, or waterpump seal leakage). This reaction alters the pH factor of the oil. This acidic condition accelerates corrosion of steel engine parts, and loosens the bond of the clutch fiber plate material. Please do not second-guess this information. We have twelve years of experience with the Herbringer/Adige brand clutch plate materials, and we are in direct contact with the technical department at Gas Gas Spain. This info put out by the same people that recomended Mobile One for years and the Blue GM Auto Trac for the Pro`s. Jon is right to use the clutch when shifting. By the way the Raga also uses an aluminum shift drum.

So did you buy the bike this way? Or what changed when this happend. It sounds like a carb issue. Did you check for main bearing play when you had the cover off. Air leaks other than mains and seals are uncommon and an oil leak should have nothing to do with it.

By the way Dougie was 6`2 and you never saw any disadvantage for him on the 315.

So good spark, you got fuel and you put a brand new plug in since you have been home? Have you had the bike long and did it always run well before. Besides plugs ty`s are dead reliable.

Best advice would be to bend your knees more. Not for comfort, but it would make for a better riding position. Ride almost any vintage bike from 75-85 and you will see how much room you already have! To answer your question just the bars would be the choice. Risers feel very strange.

Have you pulled the fuel line off the carb to make sure gas is flowing. Is the plug wet or dry? If it is dry it is not getting fuel.

People are jumping to extreme enduros for one reason. That sport is growing and that is where factories are spending the profits chasing the golden egg. Trials riders are jumping because they already have the skills and are chasing the money. There never has been much money in trials. If they had not been trials riders, they would suck at this sport. Imagine if endurocross was stopped every time a rider was stuck to make it a fair race. The sport would be a laughing joke! On another note we had a club meeting the other night. There was a complaint the younger riders don`t pay much attention while scoring. We do not have a section time limit. So yes it is very boring to watch a rider spend five minutes tying to get a 3, in a section that should take less than 20 seconds to ride! I have a hard time watching this endless struggle of non-riding myself.

We had one in our club. Saw it crash right in front of me in late `72. Put a tree branch through the gas tank. That was the last time I ever saw one.

The picture of the Ossa is great. You guys are gettin` old, all I see are tan lines in just the right places! Did someone mention a ty?

Now that`s poetry for the cause! You mind if we use it?

Glenn, the minders came along about the same time as the trucks and large motor homes. Now a days you have to have a parking lot as large as two or three football fields! Then you worry about finding sections! Kind of a catch 22. We are running out of land to use, but insist on making the events such a large promotion that limits the site locations. Years ago we could hold a national about anywhere. Now you have to accomodate 40 large rv`s plus the Teams for the pit. This years world rounds will be interesting to see if they can bring the magic back to the sections. I always laugh at the riders complain when there is no setup to an obstacle, They always call it old style if you don`t leave a place for the hoppers to get the bike just right befoer the next obstacle. More to trials than hop splatter and hop some more!

If KW would of kept his momentum , at the very least Big A could of caught him!

The early 125`s and 200`s had a lot of txt parts still installed. I would call the person you bought it from to get some history. Chances are they upgraded parts to the mineral oil. Bleeding it probably is not the answer. The finger clutch height needs to be around 17mm. Chances are you are >15. Usually you can replace one steel plate with an .03 plate and be spot on. If the plates were upgraded then a .04 plate would do the job. As previosly noted try to find the you tube vids. Good luck.

Sounds like Raga prefers just to ride indoors. One lap and go home? Hardly worth the effort to set a trials!

Chuck, hope you make it down for april. Bring Mike and the rest of the boys. Expert line looks to be interesting this year.

That picture of me, I had just turned 15 and rode Expert. There were no champ lines back then, and only two classes at the nationals! Know wonder I had such a good time riding with Mick a few years back, we ride alike! And no ty175 could ride the rocks I rode!

Hey Chuck, you are not supposed to use the clutch on a real twinshock! And most of the braking was done with the motor, or were you running with an idle. November 1974.

Well back in the mid seventies all the jap bikes were crap compared to spanish bikes. Reality was they just did not make the same stump pulling power that was needed for the style of riding and rules. Most on here now will say how great the ty`s are. Mainly jap made and plentiful parts. The MAR was a fine machine. Just hard to find parts anymore. And yes just a few years ago I rode a fine example in a couple of vintage events. The bike I rode had just under 100km on it and I enjoyed beating several ty riders. Never rode the 350. Was even more rare in the states. Hope you find one! The ty was very similiar to the MAR. The Ossa just made a lot more power all the way through the rpm`s. Granted both bikes were developed by my hero Mick. I was an Ossa rider, and just loved the bike. The ty did develope into a great bike later on.

You are new ,so this should not really be a problem. This rule has been changed and modified many times through the years. Original rules always kept forward motion, as this is a motorized sport. There have been many reasons for the changes. Mainly time was the first factor as the worlds best riders could spend 30 minutes or more trying to clean a section. Watch how the world round goes this year. It would be a year or two before the rules in the USA are changed or if ever.

The clutch `will` just stay in place. Once you remove it you will see. Yes it`s splined plus the gears on both sides. I know leaving things out sound strange, but a 5mm hollow bolt to hold a clutch together in the first place is very strange

You never said why you were taking off the clutch?

Just use a dab of grease, drill the head off. Remove the clutch, the bolt should come out easy. You can ride with out the bolt until you get the correct one. It is a hollow bolt ment as a oil passage. When the pros first came out the bolt was removed to give better oil flow.(we also left them out since we had to work on the clutch constantly in `02 and `03!)

Yeah I rode. I was hoping the build was for a new rider! The green Bul get sidelined? Did you notice the schedule is out?