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I have not used one them tether things as yet, however I do set my throttle tube with a hard bar end carefully positioned to keep most dirt out and prevent a twist of the throttle in a normal fall and jamming of the tube. Not sure anything here is foolproof, but every bit may help! Saved me a lot of torn grips anyway!

Or you put too much init! They will find their own level if you ran it hard .

Feckin things are Stealth! p****s me off, as I like turning money into noise! One thing the Mont could do well!

You stated you have voltage to the thermo switch, which is good but yet seems a bit high if the regulator was working. In this diagram, the output for the fan is regulated to DC after the thermo switch and the fan motor is a DC motor that will not run otherwise. Therefore there is a possibility that the regulator has failed, thus causing the rectifier to fail due to overload. U can replace the rectifier, but if the regulated output is still too high I think the fan will run up too fast and likely take out another rectifier due to overcurrent. M2C

Yea, but you flipped bikes every season. Keep one and ride it for 5 years or more and that could change. I almost got one, I love the power and feel of a real big bore 4T, but honestly I would need to de-tune it for my needs. The original "05 was easier to ride but the carb just did not work for the bike. Neo, If you are not into the Mont, the Beta 250 is the pussycat you want! No noise, no stress, it will go if you twist it. First time I rode one it reminded me of my old 80's XR 200 Honda power. Reliability seems good by reports. The CV carb is the next best thing to the FI on the mont, and without some the downfalls. And in a light enough package to the average rider is not gonna matter. Can be upgraded to 300 if big power wanted. Everything is a tradeoff.

No, I am just old and slow! All depends upon just whom I may want to p*** off on a given day!

No! I'm just like a good dog! Must stop and mark each section at least once!

Good clip! I seen most stops in there for H&S reasons! (their own) As they are not stupid!

Is it watercooled? Looks like a rad up front!

Weighy is another 2 kilos , neg. Bike is a ripper, pull your arms out if opened up, but a pussycat putting about. Nothing like it! Real mans bike it is! I figure a high cost maintenance pig though. Top ends and bottoms stressed. Beta is a sound bike it seems. The 250 is a silent softie, while the 300 has more guts. Open either up a bit with exhaust change and they liven up. I like the 250, still costly, but less than the heavy Mont. The mont. has its advantages. But new cost is way over my head. Which they all are.

OK, I'll just throw this out. There is no way I am gonna hand out a 5 on any level for a momentary hesitation. That does not constitute a failure! The length of that moment is up to me. And if you don't like, go complain to someone that cares!

10 Jokes Only Engineers Will Understand. Who Says Engineers Don’t Have A Sense Of Humor? 10th May 2014 1. Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. 2. To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. 3. A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such inept golf!" The priest said, "Here comes the green-keeper. Let's have a word with him." He said, "Hello George, what's wrong with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" The green-keeper replied, "Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firemen. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime." The group fell silent for a moment. The priest said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight." The doctor said, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist colleague and see if there's anything he can do for them." The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?" 4. What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers? Mechanical engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets. 5. The graduate with a science degree asks, "Why does it work?" The graduate with an engineering degree asks, "How does it work?" The graduate with an accounting degree asks, "How much will it cost?" The graduate with an arts degree asks, "Do you want fries with that?" 6. Three engineering students were gathered together discussing who must have designed the human body. One said, "It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the joints." Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections." The last one said, "No, actually it had to have been a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?" 7. Knock knock. Who's there? Interrupting coefficient of friction. Interrupting coefficient of fri.... mmmuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (μ) 8. Two engineering students were walking across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want." The first engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway." 9. An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for one week and do ANYTHING you want." Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess and that I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool." 10. A wife asks her husband, a software engineer... "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!" A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, "Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?" He replied, "They had eggs."

Let one them brownies bite the boabie and it will turn black and fall off!

Yea, don't forget me!

Next you know we will have to be 50M away from the motorbikes! Jesus help me!

What happens is fairly simple. You putt about possibly for endless hours on a trials bike, with the occasional blips and such. The oil migrates from the motor and lays up in the exhaust, sure you may have seen some ooze a dribble out at some point. Then you take the bike out for a real ride in an open area with a real loop, or a bit of roadwork! Constant load and throttle then gets a lot of heat into the muff to light off the excess oil if there is too buch that has not been blown out. It will fire off and create a lot of heat! I have some old pics somewhere if a stand a friend made to clean out muffs. It used an electric heat gun to get things going. Once it lit off it was blowing flames our the rear until the entire end of the ali muff melted off! And this was after turning the heat off, just blowing in air to feed the flame! Too mush oil in that one I suppose!

Yuch! And just how large is that thing? We get some good sized ones here, but them little brownies bite you and your flesh rots!

No, but mother would. She hated Cats! Seems one pooped in her shoe once!

You may ck and verify with Splatshop Chris, but looks as though you may need to go with the narrow base gasket, and prolly use two of them for simplicity for the 250 cyl install. http://www.splatshop.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=sherco+250+cylinder

Everything should swap out directly with no changes, however the head is a different part number as I recall.

Catching an intermittent transistor in the failed state, open or shorted, that you may actually measure here is the issue. Would be better if it would just die! No idea which replacements Steve uses, All made in Tiawan! New is not bad, seems yours may have been around for awhile, your report is a bit different than most, with good running for short period then nothing. But I have seen so much weird stuff like that I never rule anything out! Hook up with Biff if you can, great guy and a wealth in himself.

All I can tell you is my '12 250 is gentile enough as compared to my prior 2.9's! I like it!

Are you referring to the outer(rectangular) reed block sealing surfaces?

Dylan, ima bush pilot too, ya know. I do it every day!