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Hi all I recently purchased my first bike: 2000 Beta Rev 3 270cc As it is my first bike, I don't know much about them. Reading through some of the posts on here, a lot of you clean your bikes straight after a run. Is this really that important and if so, what is the purpose?

Sorry, I don't know what you mean by nipped? It's my first bike so don't know much about bike engines. Are you suggesting that a valve has hit the piston? Incidentally, it's just had an oil (gearbox) change

Hi, thanks for the advice. Yeh, it was 2-stroke that I added lol, it's just that I didn't add a specific quantity. I hope it's just the mixture that caused it. I'm thinking that the petrol in the bottom of the tank, fuel lines and carb, i.e. before I added my own concoction, would have been fine which allowed it to run for a short time. Then, when my own brew got through, it gave up the will to live. I don't know how quickly the old and new petrol would have mixed together in the tank so whether or not this is possible is debatable. Also, is it feasible that the flames could have been caused by the mixture being too lean? Looking at the manual, a lean mixture could be the cause of the other symptom; the engine loosing power. As for the woodruff and stator, to be honest I have no idea what they are, but reading through the posts on here it would seem that they are a common problem with Betas. Can I ask what the purposes of the Woodruff and the Stator are? They don

Hi All I'm new to this forum so first of all a big hello to everyone and thanks to everybody that has posted in this forum, I've found some really useful information. Secondly, I've just baught my first bike, a Beta Rev 3 270cc 2000 model. When I got it I didn't know much about it, and thought the gearbox oil was the engine oil, not knowing the oil needed to be mixed with the petrol I filled it up with pure petrol You can imagine my horror when I realized that 1/3 of the way down the manual from the beta website changes to English and says that the oil needs mixing with the petrol. So, Foolishly, without any precision, I poured a little oil into the tank. Anyway, I took the bike out today and after trying to hammer it up a really steep, slippy hill it started back firing, flames coming out of the exhaust and turning the throttle has little to no effect. Could it be the mixture that has caused this, perhaps the wrong oil, or does anybody think it might be something more serious and if so, what? it doesn't seem to be smoking anymore than what I would consider normal if it makes any difference. thanks Glyph