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Never 🤔 clutch and throttle control are never independent of one another. Skip all that stationary balance practice, you can do that with a round log and a flat board while you are standing in front of your television. Get yourself a concrete block 8" or 12" is adequate and set that on the ground where you can do full lock figure 8's over it. The object is to pop over the cement block with control, style and with not putting a foot down to balance. Once you master that to the point where you become board with it put the block on a slope and try it again. Once you get board with all that you are ready to go out in the wild and learn to really ride. If you want events near you there is only one way, you host the events, then everybody has to come to you when they want to ride.

There is a drain hole in the bottom and you will find it once you remove the air box and completely clean it, will require some significant digging to clear the hole.

The pump should be completely submerged, if yours does not want to play after you ran it dry you might have cooked the pump. If you wanted to just check for fuel pressure you could just loosen or remove the banjo connector bolt and see if you have fuel flow, that test is covered in the service manual. Fuel injection pumps depend on the fuel for cooling, you should never run it real low or dry on fuel as that may result in a cooked fuel pump which is going to cost you close to a grand to replace.

Such contrasting experience with the materials is likely the result of leather being a natural material, my issue is the exact opposite with fit but I never noticed much difference between the Boulder and the Balance fit at the calves. I buy either of those boots without hesitation and destroy them in about 2 - 3 years. They are all waterproof even in winter if you stick your foot into a plastic bread bag before you put the boot on 🤓

Get somebody to mentor you how to service forks the first time, from then on it will be easy, I know it does happen because I've taught a lot of people how to do it. Once you've done one fork model the rest are close enough for it to be easy. Changing the fork fluid is one of the more frequently over-looked service items, always drain the old oil into a clean clear glass container so you can inspect it for debris or water or pieces of fork slider coating etc. I keep slider bushings and fork seals in stock so they are on hand when I need them. I find the gap on replacement slide bushings needs to be carefully filed and shaped before installation to get the right stiction free fit, watch for that.

Love the electric start 300 myself, I ride it almost exclusively in third gear and it pulls incredible strong at low rpm Montesa is a better winter stud bike for sure. Key to advance your skills and motivate yourself to ride lots is to have others to ride with, preferably better riders than yourself plus a good venue. You will want a ride at least new enough to have 4 pot front brake or upgrade to that and keep everything well serviced as possible, the bike needs to run perfect for you to concentrate on developing riding skills. imho smaller displacement machines can actually be more difficult to ride because I have to put more effort into basically everything I do on it.

Biggest difference between Forma and Gaerne is not the fit but the hardness of the leather, Forma leather is soft enough to not require break-in and they wear out faster especially near the ankle.

They just told you; go to your closest bearing supply store and show them what you need. Bearings are their business and what you are looking for is nothing special.

Cascade Imports out of Mission B.C. stocks OEM Montesa parts and has for years, Don always had better parts stock then when Honda Canada wasted the business away. ... you didn't really say what part of the country you call local so B.C might be a lot closer then U.K. and your money goes further up here.

Take a drop of pink liquid and rub it between your fingers, is it oil or is it coolant? I would think coolant for it to have any pink colouration. If it is indeed coolant you need to check your water pump seals, cylinder gaskets or coolant hoses. ... do you run oil or ATF in the transmission, ATF is thin as pee, could even be pink and has low viscosity.

From MC-1 product data sheet: Equally suitable for air-cooled or liquid-cooled high performance motorcycle 2T engines Also suitable for all types of 2T engines including lawn mowers, weed eaters, trimmers, chainsaws, leaf blowers, snow blowers and more Manufacturers are pretty careful with making unsupported claims that could kill their business and experience tells me it will work just fine if the oil has 80:1 or even 100:1 printed right on the packaging.

It's part of the optional homologation kit. Rear wheel brake disc requires a magnet bolted to one of the 4 bolts holding the disc on, the sensor mounts on the brake bracket so as to pass in close proximity to the magnet. Kit includes a slightly longer screw to mount the magnet.

What gave it away, the spam to ship cars to L.A. or the spam to a company that dries out flooded basements? 😆

Make sure it's not just your headlight staying on after you ride it.

Only when I elected to make it that way. It cost money annually to sanction a club and ATA is one of the clubs I have supported. Only made sense for us to operate under the ATA banner during covid and not sanction the EOTA until he host our next national. This place

Arden Ontario EOTA (Eastern Ontario Trials Association)

@michael_t from Nova Scotia 🤔 possibly even a dealer of blue bikes? hey did you ride at my place decades ago, you need to come back for another ride, we opened up a lot more area from what you would remember.

Would be nice if y'all get on with a decision so I know if I need to build a trial this year or plan to travel a few thousand km. If nobody steps up to host a National this year I would host one, but the longer y'all leave it the less time we have to make it happen, that's not helpful.

Did you try adjusting the shock dampening adjuster?

And who exactly is doing this back and forth?

CMA National date and venue for 2024 sure would be nice to know when and where so people can plan holiday and travel time 😐 Is it Derek up to bat ?

lol and yet you are going to discover muscles that you did not know exist. Your MX experience is why I believe you will have no problem with the engine power, if you have good throttle and clutch control you should be able to ride anything. Front brake may take some getting accustom to because they are about twice as sensitive as typical MX and Enduro bike brakes, only use one finger on the trials bike if you are normally using two fingers to brake your MX bike. Brakes are something you use occasionally on a MX bike to slow you down, Trials riding will have you on the brakes almost as much as the throttle.

Virtual World 🤔 is that a video game? Gammers don't know about riding motorcycles. Anything you see one of those competition bikes go over, the other one will follow, none of them will make it any easier than the other it is all hard work. You aren't buying just a motorcycle you are buying a gasoline powered exercise machine.

It is likely a little known fact that Montesa bikes came crated with a whole slew of parts the dealers keep for profit as part of the dealer preparation, the bikes came with 2 different sized rear sprockets plus 2 drive chains in different lengths to fit the sprocket change, 2 header pipes one with cat and one without cat, 1 intake restrictor, 2 exhaust restrictors, plus 2 tail pipes one for street with a smaller opening and one for racing along with 2 pop rivets of the correct size to change the tail piece easy, full set of street lights, horn, steering lock and key, speedometer parts, 2 headlights one with speedometer and lights the other just a small headlight and no speedo, 2 heat shields one for the cat header and one for the straight header. Near as I could tell the dealers keep all the extra parts that come in the crate and charge you for dealer prep, which is very lucrative if they can sell all the extra parts. If you need headers go to a Montesa dealer that has been around for a while, they have the parts.

My 2017 260 4RT came with all of the parts needed to make it street legal in a civilized country plus all of the parts to make it race ready plus a supplementary instruction manual on how to convert the bike to race ready. It was dirt simple and involved little more than removing parts, replacing parts that were provided. Does it affect the road worthy status, yes of course it does, invariably when you remove pollution equipment you are breaking a federal law.