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I consider my trials bike to be my personal mobility device because I can ride better then I can walk. If it's electric powered I want to be allowed to ride it anywhere 😆 now I just need to convince the rest of the world.

Evaporation 🤓 I dropped a whole motorcycle in the lake once and evaporation eventually worked. Clutch plates absorb water and swell; pull the clutch friction plates and dry them in the sun, then check them for flatness and thickness to determine if they need replacement. The rubberized cork friction plates are the only part in the transmission that can absorb water, everything else will just rust. ... plan on doing oil changes more frequently for a while.

Isn't that the same thing as a Montesa Cota 200 kickstart spring? If it is try 'in Motion Trials'

Hook up with the ATAQ they are great people to ride with and you will make all the dealer contacts you need.

We are all going to drive electric powered vehicles to save the planet? 🤔 Can't see it happening that way, too many wars in the works, the planet is doomed unless you can first eliminate human conflict.

Check the fork slide bushings too, worn slide bushings cause fork oil seals to fail. The seals just hold the oil in but the slide bushings are what make the stanchion tubes track in the centre of the lower fork leg. Also very high probability that your wheel bearings are done, wheel bearings don't last long and movement from wear in the wheel bearing will mess with your brakes and suspension badly.

I wasn't sure but searched and found them listed as replacement parts, he will know once he pulls the flywheel.

Lol now there's a title that you won't see every day, check out my newest motorcycle 😎 I think it's going to be wicked once I fix it all up, build an exhaust from scratch and stud the tires 😎

Great video of Gn'Arden Hard Enduro champion Lanthier blasting the hero line in Donnybrook to take the lead and yesterdays event 😎

Right behind that flywheel that spins with the crankshaft, you're almost there. The big nut in the middle needs to be removed and then the next thing you will need is a puller to remove the flywheel because it is on a taper shaft with a keyway, the flywheel carries the magnets that make the power when they pass by the stator coils. Breaker points ignition is also behind that flywheel and a small condenser/capacitor too.

Nice! 👍 but you are still not shopping for a Trials bike, the FE250 is an Enduro bike and TRF is a Trail Riders Fellowship. Husky FE is what we call a 'Big bike' because it's a hundred pounds heavier than a modern Trials bike.

If you road trip to Land O'Lakes region in Ontario you can ride with me 👍 & we might see a Moose, bring your GasGas not a gun.

Couple of our top riders are riding GasGas sponsored bikes here, they don't ride the old ones so yep time will tell, if it can be broken I'll get to see it, probably have to collect up the broken pieces too. Trials bikes are nothing compared to Enduro bikes for parts being broken, those things go through parts and tires like crazy, Trials bikes are amazing at surviving crashes and far less dangerous to be on or around.

We ride 11 months of the year here with the aid of studded tires, weekdays and weekends nobody pays to ride with me and I have ~400 acres of world class riding area, all guests sign a waiver. YMMV depends on where you live. Are there many other places like my place, no absolutely not, that's why I do it. Starts with having the land and suitable terrain, winter riding is weather dependent on the gods and requires a heated garage to launch from.

If you ride hard enduro, you won't have a problem riding any modern trials bike over the same or more difficult terrain, true hard enduro is a mix of junior to intermediate level trials terrain. I regularly host both observed trials events and hard enduro races. One thing I do see is that enduro riders that ride their trials bike like an enduro bike don't learn much about trials riding, you need to actually ride trials style to learn trials technique.

Thank you for the confirmation that front forks are one of the most over-looked maintenance items on the average motorcycle.

If your suggestion is that 6 fork oil changes in 43 years is good, you are offering very bad advice.

Kickstart is on the left side, that will greatly reduce your options for replacement.

Jitsie sells the cheapest complete replacement dog bone assembly, Honda wanted about 30% more $ last time I bought one.

Easy, drive them out with a hammer and a socket wrench. or press them out with a vise and two sockets. Two bearings in each end of the dog bone for a total of 4 bearings plus 4 seals.

Ignition Distributor 🤔 does not exist unless you have multiple cylinders, single cylinder engine has a single ignition pickup coil to replace the single breaker points (aka trigger coil)

Rebuild the old one with drawn cup needle bearings and seals sourced from a local bearing supply store, the linkage is garbage if the hole for the bearing gets smashed out of round. The stock bash plate does a poor job of protecting the linkage.

Fork oil changes; not nearly enough, twice a year isn't really sufficient, front forks are one of the most over-looked maintenance items on the average motorcycle. Forks have no filtration and any contamination in the fork oil becomes grinding compound that will eventually destroy your lower fork legs.

Transmission oil; when I think of it, when the clutch starts to make strange noises, after I've been doing a lot of riding through deep water, or if the bike has been subjected to a lot of severe temperature changes that would promote condensation. Transmissions only hold half a litre and don't even need a filter change so more frequent the better. The old oil is goods for chain oil on the bikes or chain saws. ... 10 hours would have me changing the oil ever week & that ain't happening, I ride closer to ~30 hours weekly. Cost is not crazy because I run all season excavator oil that I buy in 19 litre pails.

Motorcycle scrap yard that has small displacement euro bikes would be the best source for replacement. You can find an example wiring diagram for the internals of the CDI module if you google up "motoplat CDI wiring diagram" images.