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TRS One with USD forks 🤔 Never seen such a thing. I think it's a bad idea but if you flip the forks around your leading axle will become a trailing axle and that will change your wheelbase, fork rake and fork trail specs.

You might have started with saying it's a Beta Explorer. If Beta wanted to make the explorer into a trials bike they would have started by not fitting it with USD forks and enduro style geometry. Your wheelbase is likely about 3 inches longer than a typical trials bike, front fork travel about 3 inches more front wheel travel than a typical trials bike and it can't fit real trials tires, making it about as much of a trials bike as a surron is. No amount of riding technique or lean angle or grinding down steering stops is going to change the nature of the bikes original design.

Dead loss battery system using modern battery and LED lamp tech is going to out perform anything you could run off the engines stock electrics.

What he said 👍 Not having seen you ride, we think you need to shift up a gear and pull in the clutch more to coast on deceleration.

Had to look at your other posts to know the problem is TLR200 related, stock forks and geometry are marginal for a competition trials bike, too much rake and trail. You are leaning the bike into the turn to make the forks stand up more vertical (steeper fork angle) and thereby reduce the turning radius very slightly, but by applying that lean technique eventually the tire contact patch is too far ahead of the axle and forward travel becomes unstable. The stock TLR200 forks have a leading axle (axle is forward on the lower fork leg) and that wheelbase lengthening feature is to make the bike more stable at road speed but also increases the bikes turning radius. If you are worried about your shoulders, that sounds like you are riding the bars and not the pegs, bend the knees to crouch more and that will have you riding the pegs more and weighting the bars less. Nice bowleg stance and weighting your pegs on the outside helps give better control, but stock TLR200 footpegs are not good, upgrading pegs to a more modern, wider, more aggressive footpeg is a good upgrade that can improve your riding style. Need to see the bike and you riding it to know better 👍 but you likely need a motorcycle upgrade to take your riding skills to the next level.

Manual says the red goes to a 15 ohm resistor and I think you need a rectifier to power the lights from the mighty 6 volt system when you rev it up real good.

Sight unseen it sounds like your engine is running lean, check the position of the cir-clip on the main jet needle, that setting is easy to alter and makes a significant difference to how rich or lean the carburetor operates, one screw adjusts the low speed fuel circuit and the two adjustments together might need attention, idle adjustment screw is in addition to the 2 fuel/air ratio adjustments and all it does is push the throttle slide open slightly. Carburetor cleaning particularly in the emulsion tube which is located in close proximity to the main jet needle is critical, or that can also make the machine will run lean. Reed valve is another service item that can cause your machine to sound different than one that is operating correctly, make sure the reed valves are closing sufficiently to be light tight when you inspect them. ... remove and hold the reed cage assembly up to sunlight and if you see light shine past the reeds you found a problem.

Seeing as you already have MX boots, I'd be looking at it the other way, Trials boot is equally multi-purpose, I even like them for hiking and operating a chainsaw. Trials boots as daily wear do wear out fast, that's a down-side.

I find short levers moved far in on the bars and finger right at the end near the ball gives better leverage and greater friction range, might work for you too 👍 shorty levers go on all my bikes right from new.

I like the Galfer red ones, what pads are you running now? If my brakes act up I often find it is the wheel bearings that are the source of problems, make sure it's not just that 👍 How you have your levers setup can make a huge difference. ... and how many fingers are you using now, should be 1 or you will always grab way too much front brake. ... and is that the brake pad model with no mounting hole in it?

Don't use solvents on the big connector attached to the throttle body it can dissolve the blue silicon sealant looking stuff, but if the bike ever acts up and it's not a bad spark plug check that connector for water.

Ticking sound is not a symptom, the clearances tighten with wear. There is a tiny decompressor on the exhaust valve to aid in starting but you would never hear it, it's way too small. I own trials bikes in pairs so trouble-shooting is always easy. One of the nicest 4-stroke engines ever. You should do a compression check on the engine when it is still new and record that as a baseline for future reference.

Had to do it with every 4RT I owned, usually needs adjustment within 3 to 5 years of use, first symptom will be hard to start. It gets easy after the first time but you have to be very precise with your adjustment and verify the feeler gauge with a micrometer. The head of a red Robertson screw is the same size as the adjuster so you can improvise a tool out of a screw stuck in the end of a wood stick. You need to remove the engine or at the very least lower the front part of the engine from the frame to access the adjusters easy.

All the fools gave the same recommendation, replace the clutch pack with new stock parts and be done with it 👍

Dump the old oil into a clear glass container and you might even see all the problems before venturing inside, watch for water, bits of slide bushings and the amount of grey aluminum discolouration in the oil which came from wear in your lower fork leg.

Ask the TRS dealers in B.C. I already had a TRS battery pack exchange serviced by the dealer out your way.

Surflex plates will look like normal organic clutch plates, I really wonder if he has a mismatch of parts now, I can't imagine the original plates have cross hatch spaces like that. Are we even looking at carbon fibre discs and is that why they are so black? Cork or paper discs should clean up to be cork colour like in the pictures of new ones and nothing in a 2-stroke transmission should make the oil and pads stain black unless it is from burning.

My rule of thumb is: Light oil yields lively suspension, heavy oil retards suspension, do I want my suspension to act lively or retarded. It's the springs that carry the weight, if you need to carry more weight you adjust the spring rate.

Found this: The steel ring in the photo with printing on it appears to be a spacer to make the clutch pack thicker and the fibre plates are not black they are the colour of organic friction plates. These look a lot like your clutch, if your clutch pack is undersized it could be you are missing that spacer. Oil should never be as black as those plates or the oil has been burning in there for a while. Personally for the cost involved I would replace the clutch pack with stock parts and be done with it. add: There are only 3 friction plates in this set because it is for a newer model GasGas, so no I am not suggesting this is the right part for your bike, I am suggesting a previous owner exchanged the originals with something that apparently does not work.

Not sure what the original clutch plates on your bike look like, but the plates in the photos look like S3 aftermarket plates. Thickness of the clutch pack should be taken from the service manual. The transmission oil I use in all my bikes is the same oil they use in a farm tractor or excavator so it is relatively inexpensive and very easy available from any heavy equipment store. The oil will be called UDT (Universal Drive Train) or all season hydraulic excavator oil and is well suited to wet clutch and wet brake applications. The brand I am currently using is sold by Kubota but I have used similar spec oils from other manufacturers with equal success. Oil level should be no higher then the plug where a sight level window would be if so equipped, just like the Jim Snell video they linked you in your other thread.

If the spaces between the friction pads become clogged with friction pad material or if the oil level is way too high oil pressure can happen that pushes against the springs. It is one of the scenarios that can make a motorcycle clutch slip. Yes to the groves needing to be clear so that oil can pass through, some times it is very obvious on inspection where the groves have become plugged with fibre material.

Imagine if you could build something that held all the little round cells in stacks so you could replace just one bad one at a time, sort of like in a 100 year old flashlight. I bet they make them like that some day.

I was not questioning the friction pads being intact, the other guy was, it's the spaces between the pads I had question with and I asked if the clutch pack looked swamped. If oil can not evacuate from inside the clutch pack then hydraulic action can keep the clutch from engaging.

Can't tell from here but if the clutch basket is swamped the oil level is too high. Another thing to inspect and clean is the spaces between the clutch pad friction pads, if oil can not evacuate from inside the clutch pack then hydraulic action can keep the clutch from engaging.

Have to ask because you didn't specify; any chance you over-filled the transmission oil capacity?