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  1. Harsh exhaust stinging eyes and nose is usually an indication of lean, not rich. Excess fuel is smelly and black but not agressive to the senses.
  2. Side stand on a KTM 990, there's no way am Iam going to be breaking my Dunlop bead with a heel, I need almost all the 200 kg's of the KTMJ most times.
  3. I have used then for a few years on my big KTM's where I spend most of my time on the pegs off road and love the pivot pegs. Got a set for my Sherco when I started trials last April, assuming they would be just as good. Apart from the fact they look crappy and are adapted from something else with a bit of grinding.... I have put them on twice and pulled them straight off twice. Once as a relative noob on my 290 and once as a Clubman on my 320 4T. They may even explain my last off on a smallish practice rock I have been over a heap of times ... but I did not leave them on to test the theory.
  4. I don't know any of these people.... and maybe not quite all Trials bikes....
  5. As I was researching for my wee project I tripped over quite a few Trials bikes on trailers behind motorcycles, but they seemed well scattered. I figured starting a thread for pics or links if you know of any elsewhere would be a good thing. So here's mine....
  6. Nothing to do with the clutch issue, which I would like to see a solution to as mine is "abrupt" too... The oil is the same through out, but from what I can figure... Gearbox and clutch are lubed by oil thrown off the main gear on the clutch, this is picked up off the bottom of the engine same as the 2T gearbox oil and drained via the same screw. Piston and crank are lubed via splash from oil captured in a small reservoir around the base of the crank, separate drain for this. Top end roller bearings for cams, roller lifters etc are fed via oil picked up by the cam chain from a reservoir around the crank sprocket, with its own drain. There is a one way reed type valve that is used to transfer oil from somewhere to somewhere else, but I can't figure that out from parts book or anything. The oil filter is a small metal affair with about a 2mm hole in both ends and I don't see that it really does much. I am running semi synthetic 20W-50 but it did not help. I am thinking of tyring something like Automotive Mobil Rally one next.
  7. You have very slightly applied the brake so the internal vent is blocked off by the piston. This means that when the brake fluid heats up under normal use the expansion cannot bleed back to the reservoir and hence starts to apply the brake, gets hotter and gets worse. You need to slightly slacken the adjustment on the push rod at the cylinder. You should be able to feel a little clearance on the pedal before it starts to work the cylinder.
  8. I hope so, or I am wasting lots of money have him do my suspension work.
  9. The screw is the Nitrogen charge port according to my Shock Guru.... I was told to stay away from that. The spool is rebound, but has some effect on compression too.
  10. Being new to Trials and although I was a car mechnic in a previous life, knew noting about trials bikes or their suspension so I am not sure what I can tell you... I bounced on another guys Sherco 2.7 with TRP and he is about same weight.... I immediately felt the difference, it felt like suspension rather than a bike gasping and collapsing under my weight. Original shock had the spring would right up and apparently the caby is a little better sprung than stock 2.9(?) I bought it through the local importer and suspension Guru who I have dealt with before, that way, any issues and he got it back. There was some confusion about which way up to mount it, as it is mounted upside down on Sherco compared to all the other applications, I needed to grind the top mount slightly to clear the body as had the guy who I tried his sghock, but the selling dealer thiought I shouldn't... . I did 2.5 laps of my first gate trial on Sunday before I ran out of Puff and beleive I have taken a quantaum leap in my riding from crap to below average...
  11. At 100 kg the stock 2007 Caby 2.9 shock was too soft and lacking feel, it would bottom if I sneezed. TRP has changed the way the bike rides for this Novice, I can do all sorts of basic things I was struggling with before as I can load an unload the suspension instead of just overwhelming it.
  12. Did you like them, I have a pair arriving hopefully tomorrow. A lot of money here in Australia.
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