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A sweet little TLF 175 mono would be too simple and easy! Only sell a million! Duh!

Sick puppy!

Glad someone is riding the green machine! Pops too much on road bikes!

Yes, email Chris at Splatshop as he knows about this Formula stuff. Not heard too many issues on the "13 bikes though.

As a general rule, if the scratch is enough to catch a fingernail, it will leak or cut the seal. If you looked at it under a scope /\/\ a valley with ridges in many cases. Gotta knock down the high points with a stone hone or something, then fill the valley!

Lots of good reports on the bike, doubt any worse than a Gasser for repairs or maintenance. Adrian at Lewisport could tell you.

2T would be your 200 Beta, sweet little bike will go anywhere!

Nice Pic Charlie! Leaves dropping there! We are not there yet!

You must understand that there the old standard forks with air caps, at 330ml per side, then the new style Paioli with adjusters which came about "06-"07. One leg has spring, other has damper, L-R accordingly. Rates on these are 385ml on L, and 370 on R(no spring), BUT one must totally remove and pump out the damper cartridge in right let to use measures because they retain oil. This is critical! Pump it for 5 min! Set by heights, they are L- 110mm and R -60mm, difficult to measure as well so pump out the damper to remove old oil is simplist for me. There you go, now it all changes again with the Tech forks on later models.

NOTE: The oil quantity and procedure are different on the later model paoli/ ceriani with separate spring/ rebound adjusters. 330 ml is incorrect!

Soo, what DID YOU GAIN WITH ALL THIS?

Manuals being conservative as they are, most of us run between 70:1 and 80:1 with modern synth oils. The bikes will putt about all day at 100:1 with only occasional revving. Do your own math, but more is not allways better!

Them old bog wheel bikes sounded pitiful when they were new! Still do! Being of that genre, my modern bike is a racehorse compared to a mule! At least I think so, yet the young kids have no appreciation!

Not bad for a fat lad in tighties!

Just because it is Castrol does not mean it is a castor based oil. What is it many use, the TTS I think?

Prolly a pinker ad dadof suggests. Ck your fuel and make it fresh! Give the bike a good hard run to blow out the accumulated crap and grunge! Get some heat into it! Even small changes in carby jetting can effect this, so be sure you are on recco spec for your area. Now you are totally mind boggled, did we mention crap fuel?

Good report then, yea, keeping it jacked slightly is good! Regardless of carb, I set mine to where the bike will chug up a slight grade in 2'nd on its own. Ignition timing comes into play as well, specially on some prior year models, as they may kickback stall at low revs if too advanced,usually at the wrong time!

Anything is better than nothing! Spending time on the bike, getting pointers is important, and in an actual trial time is limited regardless of just how helpful others would like to be. Meet some locals at the events to advise you as well, it is all good!

Jump up and down a lot! Seriously! Stand flat footed and jump up onto a large rock or log ! See just how high you can go, and work on it. Really helps !

Not sure what all that actually means? In tha last ? 12 years he has had all, I think? Point is, new ones ride better, suspension and motor.

No idea as the pic was a random example I found just for idea. Fact is, nothing here is practical or comfortable as a road bike, yet for short jaunts around I could come to grips on one better than a crotch rocket type!

Yea, the index mark looks correct, and if it runs well, I would guess the muff is bunged up. May try to flush it out with solvents.

The standard light would not really care about things as it is incandescent and will work on ac or dc. A LED type will be sensitive to dc only and polarity sensitive. If your fan is working, you obviously have dc rectification, as it is a DC motor and will not work otherwise. Actually, I seem to recall having difficulty getting good voltage readings on these things in the past using run of mill meters as they do not handle the crudely chopped rectified output well and with no battery or cap in the system to stabilize things it may drive them nuts..

New Mont is nice too. Just shell out and get one. Lazy mans bike me thinks!

This is a real bike!