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Ah right , I will investigate this a bit further then, also I have a timing strobe gun so am I correct in thinking that If I take out the small flat headed screwdriver nut on the flywheel side of the bike I can see if the timing marks are lining up at high and low revs .....? In theory yeah though I never needed to go that far. Once I had the valve cam sprocket sorted it automaticall lined everything up. Use whatever method you can that was how I got round it. Could be other things as well but that rang a bell with me

this is a good thread because I have a dog that's running like a Honda....... honda_tlr, what to have a look at is your Valve timing, after I rebuilt mine a couple of years ago before i swapped it and what not, as i built the revs up it got quite noisy, rattley and rough as sin. Tried everything in terms of carburation, cleaning it again changing jets etc etc etc i the end on a tip from someone else I looked at the valve timing. When I had attached the new timing chain to the cam sprocket it slipped about two teeth from the marking basically to do with rebolting the sprocket in place. In the end after I set it up allowing for the slippage it ran a treat, clean and smooth from the bottom and revved out nicely all the way up through the gears. Have a look, no need for a big strip down just check the timing marks on the head. Hope this helps

Mikeee Completely normal as has been said, you want to see the scars on my knees.... I tried a few timing settings but found that none made any difference, what did was your starting technique. So fatboy's guide to staring a Honda: First kick of the day pull in the decomp and kick it a few times then let go and get the beast going, After that I always went with a kick or two on the decomp then released and usually went okay after that. It doesn't eliminate kickback but it minimised it in my case. Cheers Donald

your just feart of the fallout of you don't.....

You're only 15 and did that? Blimey! Now that's impressive, lovely restoration for anyone but at 15 that is seriously impressive.

Aye Sparticus welcome. Clubs in Ayrshire, you have either Stevenston or Dalmellington, For Stevenston contact Norman Lamont, Dalmellington I think it's Helen Morton you'll get their details from the SACU website, if not send me a PM I'll give you what you need....should I know You?????

On a personal note, i've got the book as well and watched Lane, primarily in the press, while I was growing up because he was one of them strange things, a Trials rider from the US competing at world level and he rode Bultacos which is maybe more relevant. When the forum fisrt appeared I thought great a former World competitor contributing here, superb; it's amazing how your opinions change of someone when you see them on this level, so's to speak.

This brings us all back to the reason why Lane was banned. Lane made and despite numerous warnings continued to make unsubstantiated accusations about various individuals in the US trials fraternity. When challenged to back these stories and accusations up he refused to respond, even when a public time limit was put on him to respond or lose the Forum, he chose not to therefore Andy banned him and rightly so. It was fitting a few days or so after Lanes World was removed that he came back in all innocence about the situation. We can all come on here and make crass stupid statements however if they start breaching forum rules action is taken. Slapshot 3 Forum Moderator

FANTASTIC, Orgate looks exactly like it does now from the vids. You're right about the title though....wonder if Heath knew anything about this Two stroke cowboys...

Welcome Chris That doesn't sound good, did you ensure the air gaps at the top of the legs when you filled up with oil??? I didn't first time I did mine and they were pretty stiff(!), try that first. Next step is to make sure you have reassembled the bushes right and that there is plenty of glide before you fill em up and tighten down the top nuts. After that it's Private Fraser time...."we're all doomed"....from me anyway. Good Luck

oherrrr.........

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Nice shot Mark d

I think Jammy " word won't get past his word filter" just about covers it......

Just to irritate all you nay sayers.....but Clicky........guess you could say don't count your championships till the stewards sing...

Anyone heard anything yet??????

no clutch...I flipping kill myself...

FFS give the kid a break, shouldn't the teaqm know about this, they are the ones changing the tyres. As for sanction, there is no set sanction for this offence

AtomAnt's opinion is absurd in your eyes, but not in the eyes of many people. Debate and discuss but respect the right to an opinion, isn't that why Blair and Bush concocted the smoking gun lie in the first place, to give the people of Iraq an opinion, a right to choose their own futures. If it's not the reason then the war in Iraq was nothing more than State Sponsored Bullying. Unfortunately, I fear your attitude to Atom's valid opinion speaks volumes for global alliances today....... I see that you don't have respect for my right to an opinion about Mr. Ant's opinion. Volumes, indeed. Wrong Malibu, I have every respect for your opinions, you simply did not express an opinion till much later in the thread, you just launched a glib caustic statement about someone elses, that was my objection, nothing more, nothing less. I am not some Pinko Pacifist who wants to drag our troops home for no other reason than they are there, If I could point you to my original comment : THAT IS WHY WE ARE THERE As to comments about terrorism: One Friday night whilst living in Germany we were in town saying goodbye to a colleague, we couldn't get home because a suspect device had been found near the back gates of our base, our young Kids were at home with a young baby sitter, the road was closed and the bomb disposal guys were having a good look at things. This happened the same night as a Mortar blasted a hole in a church in a Garrison in Osnabruck(the IRA scored an own goal there mind you it was the Chapel they bombed). The controlled explosion proved that it was a hoax but it took three days to rebuild the stretch of our fence that the explosion had damaged....terrorism on your doorstep, been there done that. I KNOW why we put our troops in places we maybe shouldn't, I strongly suspect, like Gizza, there are friends we wished we still had but don't because they have given their lives in the defence of the rights and freedoms we take for granted... NEXT

AtomAnt's opinion is absurd in your eyes, but not in the eyes of many people. Debate and discuss but respect the right to an opinion, isn't that why Blair and Bush concocted the smoking gun lie in the first place, to give the people of Iraq an opinion, a right to choose their own futures. If it's not the reason then the war in Iraq was nothing more than State Sponsored Bullying. Unfortunately, I fear your attitude to Atom's valid opinion speaks volumes for global alliances today.......

What century are you posting from? Malibu, it's called expressing an opinion whatever century or archaelogical period you are in. If you have an opinion express it properly, don't just throw in a caustic remark just because you disagree

Don't think it'll ever end up like Vietnam, there they had a finite end point, one country unified under communism as it was at the time. Iraq is different we'll have civil war and continual factions battling for decades to come until one man is able to unite the factions, you know someone like Saddam Hussein, the Blair Jnr Jnr and Bush Jnr Jnr Jnr will go and invade to get rid of another dictator.... you can see some predictability of a pattern here. We make our allegiancies and honour the commitments to them, we've done that and we need to continue to do it to protect those who can't protect themselves. However, I do think it's time that they had the chance to stand on their own. going to take the splinters out my butt now

ty250...if you update your profile it'll automatically tell us where you are mate

From the Xipsa response I'm expecting a Ghostly machine, all their talk of apparitions and manifestations...... This is going to get fun isn't it

Let's be blunt, the kid is pretty special. If a kid like Lewis can elicit the comment "the greatest driver around now, probably ever", from Stirling Moss who has never rated anyone since Fangio, he has to have something. Hope he trounces them next weekend. As for the comments (a little arrogant if you want an honest opinion) about a spoilt brat and stuff like that look at what his old man did to get him where he is as well as what McLaren have done. Tell you what though if being a spoilt brat was going to earn me a