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Judging by the tank and seat unit it looks like a Bob Gollner modified TLR200 twinshock. It looks like a Gollner tank & seat unit - if it has all the Gollner mods done to it the bike will have 'trick fork internals' , different internal gear ratios giving a closer 1, 2 and 3 gear set and smoother poer delivery than std. Gordon

A little further on!

Fridays Weather was pretty bad - very heavy rain. Have a look at the state of the burn in the following images - the rider is supposedly Dave Freemantle on a 250 cotton but the bike clearly is a Triumph twin. it was one of the few times the rain was reduced enough to take the camera out of its bag. the section is Alluminium Works 1.

Being part of 'Monty-Pythons' news/weather team today I would like to take the chance to update the weather from Fort William / Kinlochleven. I wish I had waited until Saturday for my visit! - that is unless the rain is worse. It varied from drizzle to torrential rain but mostly it was heavy rain, driving rain & just rain. There was drizzle for a short time - possibly 5 - 15minutes but it was hard to differentiate from RAIN. In essence it was very wet and the guys on the P65 bikes had a hard time of it in many sections, one of the route officials described 'Alluminium Works' as carnage and to be honest it was an apt description with 2 - 3ft deep torrents of wayter making picking a route through the section near on impossible. The water level will certainly be up for the start of the SSDT proper! Good trial though - anyone any idea of the leaders at end of day 1? Andy - perhaps you could get a set of results to publish on Saturday night since otherwise they wont be seen by most people at the end of the trial.

It would be nice to see a broad idea of the route (and possible even the results when the trial is over!) on the Internet, at least it allows you to plan your day before the mad panic of Friday or saturday morning trying to park 2 get a program. It is now the 21st century even although its a P65 trial!

Its nice looking kit but and its a big but the prices do appear rather on the high side eg 340 Euros for a TLR tank. Then again the quality is certainly there.

Those black rims do look a little trick Mark. Persevere & you will get it sorted for the weekend. Best of luck for the Scottish, hopefully I will be down at least one day to watch you perform. Gordon

Have you set the float hight properly? By the sounds of things you have not. Get the correct float hight setting and then set the float height as accurately as you can, then start playing around with the mixture and idle settings since if the float height is wrong the bike wont run right. Just a suggestion!

Too powerful for you is it John!!

99% sure it will from memory - need to check alignment when you push it in, otherwise it wont go in! How much did Ellastone charge for that lot then?

Misstype here should have read 35mm. Should find lighting kit wiring easy to strip off to leave a simple loom for the ignition system in separate wiring plugs.

James, Just looked at my TLR250 and 200 microfiches - the 200 has a different method of sprocket fitment so disregard my comment about a 2nd circlip, this is a 250 sprocket fitment. The TLR200E should have the sprocket located buy a flat locating plate which is actually bolted onto the sprocket . This is shown in the photo below. If a circlip is locating your sprocket then there may be nothing to stop it moving towards the crankcase & hence chain rubbing on case

One question looking at the picture you have posted - was there a circlip on the shaft which stopped the sprocket moving too far on the shaft in towards the crankcase - Isuspect not. If not there should be (there should be one circlip on either side of the sprocket - one to stop it moving inwards and one to stop it moving outwards.. Does the sprocket you took off have a shoulder on it or is it a flat piece of metal? All the sprockets I have have a slight (approx 2mm) shoulder on them which spaces them out from the inner circlip. perhaps the previous owner has fitted a plain sprocket to the bike - just a thought? When I 'enduro' my TLR I have a 13 tooth front sprocket which is flat and I need to space this out accordingly. In practice I make sure all the sprockets i use have little or no sideways movement on the shaft with tdifferent thickness washers between the sprocket and circlips. Possibly you could do away with inner circlip and space sprocket out from crankcase but I would be a little concerned over the crankcase/ggearbox oilseal. Gordon

The alternative is visit the local pushbike (bicycle) shop and get a plastic mountain bike brake lever, make up your own cable. I found the bike tricky to start using the automatic valve lifter but find it easy with a manual or no valve lifter since you can position the piston correctly before kicking it.

That is a standard Honda decompressor - but whether the proud owner has set it up to work from a lever on the bars like I have I could not say. Normally the cable goes to a fitment to the rear of the kickstart.

Thats good news to us spectators but if anyone has any definate information of the proposed route (or know where it can be found online) please let us all know. We all know that the organisers tend to be a secretive as the Cardinals electing the new pope but a lot of people would like an idea before the morning of the trial where they can go and watch - especially if Pipeline is out.

Anyone out there in cyberspace have any idea of the route this year for the P65. I know most of it will remain the same but I have heard that Pipeline is out this year - hence my question. Can anyone confirm whether Pipeline is out? Gordon,

Looking at the picture I cant identify whether there is a decompressor lever still on the rocker cover. If there is what I would be tempted to try is re-routing the oil pipe so that it comes from the back of the bike rather than the front to the bike. It also looks as if the oil pipe masks the normal bolt hole for the cable bracket. One drawback of this is that the metal oil pipe will likely run close to the plug lead - sheath it in rubber at this point to reduce risk of spark shorting out. You could make up a cable bracket from one of the cylinder head studs or from one of the rocker cover bolts - it is going to be tight but would work. the cable routing isnt going to be perfect but you dont need a strong pull to make the valve lifter work and an extra spring (along with the normal Honda return spring) between the outer cable and valve lifter lever will ensure that the valve lifter closes properly. Gordon

Rough is the word but I rather have Rough looking fork protectors which work than rough and damaged forks which dont work! I didnt think they looked that bad1

Trouble is its very difficult to put a guestimate on a TLR honda now because there are so many things to take in to consideration Have the rims been changed - could add

I clean out my brakes regularly but even then the brakes are best described as adequate at best when dry (dire at times when wet) - they get described as non existant by the guys who try the bike and ride modern bikes. As for managing a stoppie on a TLR I would like to know what they use as brake shoes!

Saturday on Ben Nevis is good watching, there are several sections you can easily watch at but there are two disadvantages in my opinion. 1) Even if the weather is bad it will be mobbed because the watching is so good. 2) Since it is near to the end of the trial and hence the end of a long hard week you get the impression that many of the competitors are exhausted and only the top 50 or so riders are giving the sections their all.

I was interested - I was wondering what it was - but alas its a TLM220, a smelly 2 stroke!!!

Might be weak spark Have a look at http://www.trialscentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3789 This goes into detail a similar problem I had with my TLR

Try a pressure cable oiler with an aerosol tin of graphited penetrating oil 'Silkopen' is one brand name, you will be very surprised how much smoother cables run after being oiled this way. The oilers probably cost between