buggyboy

Picked My 2012 standard bike up on friday and have just had a days practice.... Awsome! Ok it does still have AJP's which I was a bit ticked about but to be honest they are proven and it means that you can still put ya hope caps on the master cylinders and if you have flexi levers they also will still fit! Only the 2012 Raga will et the Reiga Shock, guess it will be on the standard bike in 2013 lol... All said and done though the suspension on mine seems silky compared to my 06 I have just parted with and that was a really nice bike to ride as well... Something that will turn a few people on is the increased steering angle, if you are pants at hopping like me then you will notice this straight away, still not as much as a Beta evo but removing the plastic steering stop guard would make it the same i'd say...

Andy, Dare I say this is a basic problem that you must some how be overlooking. The fact that your fuel is coming out of the carb means that the float chamber is over filling, the only way it can do this is through the needle valve that the floats close off or through the seal of the float bowl. Someone has already mentioned to check your floats orientation, are you confident they are the correct way up, the little bits that stick out of the floats need to be at the bottom of the chamber to allow the floats to move up the guide rods. Buggy

lol, does this mean we have to start a club? pick mine up this evening so big smiles all around although a tad dissapointed that it hasn't got Formula... wouldn't have been such a big issue but I had a chance of a 250 from the first batch and opted for the second batch specifically because of the Formula brakes and wanting to try something different..

Confirmed, mine has AJP, factory still havent got supply of formula!

Fingers crossed! The only bum is that I really don't think my hope mastercylinder caps will fit lol

Just checked out the planetrial video, Great Vid(Mmmm) but sadly no good as it really doesn't show the master or slave cylinders very well Here's the link, I'm open for others to suggest otherwise but certainly the rear master cylinder looks remarkably like the 2011 bike http://www.planetetrial.com/articles.php?lng=en&pg=23924 Another mountain biking buddy of mine shares your thoughts on the Formula brakes Beatabeta, mines on order so i'm hoping not to be disapointed...

Hi Guys does anyone know yet what exactly we are getting on the second batch of 2012 GG. I know the forums are talking Formula but what exactly? any images of the bikes with them on would be great? I pulled these from Formula's website can anyone confirm if they are what we are getting? www.formula-brake.it/en/motos/mcr-rear-fp[/img] www.formula-brake.it/en/motos/mcr-front[/img] Also if anyone can shed some light on the subject of exhausts melting it would be appreciated. Cheers, Buggy

Don't know if your still looking for this info but I am in the middle of doing uo a pair of 250 grippers, both sets of shocks on mine are 360mm in length centre to centre. I will be going for two different sets of shocks, rockshocks on one and gas filled betor on the other, I have a couple of friends running rock shocks and reckon these will be better for competition on a bike I intend to keep the betor shocks are really good for something that won't get ridden as much or will maybe be sold.

Thanks for the feedback on this issue, I appreciate that the ring gap will include the peg spacing also but looking at them I still think the gap is a little excessive even still. After looking at the piston picture supplied by Andreas at Vitale Manquinas I have come to the conclusion that it to is a 72mm piston and not an original 70mm one. I am now thinking that I will have no option than to bore it to take the MAR piston.. Andy

Hi Woody, many thanks for your reply. I have come acrosss the Mats Nyberg site on several occasions, I find that searching anything with Ossa in the title brings up only a handfull of sites, this being one of them. I had a reply back from Vitale Manquinas, he has a whole selection of pistons in stock, believe it or not they are Wiseco, unfortunately though by the time the dreaded postage is applied they aren't cheap. To be honest I had found that the Tarabusi piston is available from Tarabusi website but this is again the 72mm diameter one for the MAR, I think that maybe I have gotten too carried away with trying to find another 70mm piston. If I take the bore out to fit the MAR piston, what sort of skirt clearence will I require and can you advise if there is enough meat as it were in the liner to take the bigger diameter? The next question would also be as to how much further I could go?? Just thinking of the future? Do you know also if the MAR piston uses a .8mm ring? Thanks again, Andy

Well to bring the gripper situation up to speed!! I purchased some gas tank sealer from casewell net, but I also decided to strip the tank back first on the external to do a proper Job... When stipping it back I found a multitude of sins beneath multiple layers of paint and pogo dog turds plugging holes ( After a few weeks work I cut out all the damage and rebuilt the fibre glass tank, then got together with a friend to try and seal a couple of tanks with the compound from Casewell. It has to be said that reading and adhearing to the instructions is very important as you are far better to over do it and tip out any surplus! the ambient air temp is also quite important as too cold and the stuff just won't run very easily... Needless to say after sealing the tank a nice coat of paint has brought it back to looking like new and a set of stickers from Anglia Vynal art are set to top it off a real treat... The better half isn't amused but it has been sitting on the dining table for a couple of weeks now so thumbs up I am very pleased ) After the nice coat of paint on the tank I got a bit carried away and decided to go right through the rest of the bike, I now have the engine down, have ordered up all the bearings and now in search for what seems to be hens teeth!!!! Pistons and Rings for a 250 Gripper!!!! I am starting to wonder if they did ever actually make them???? or if mine have shrunk by about 2mm ) Can anyone out there help with Gripper piston supplies? Do they cross over with another Jap bike for example with modifications?? I know the RL uses a 70 mm piston as does the RM and the DT 250, I can get away with just a ring set but this is proving to be just as hard a search as the piston, it would seem that the smallest two stroke rings available a 1mm section but the gripper ones are of a .80mm section. I have mailed Tarabusi Directly as they were the makers of the original piston that has come out, I hope to get a reply soon but if anyone can shed some light in the meanwhile I would greatly appreciate it..

Hi Roberto, thanks for your reply. I would feel fairly confident in saying that the settings on the 250 would be different from the 350 though not really that significant, I have borrowed a carb from a friends gripper which has the No.1 slide in it and is indeed the 408 spec, on the side of my carb it just hs 2626 and then underneath that it has the figure 1 overstamping a figure 2, don't know much more than that?, other than it runs almost exactly the same with my friends carb with the air screw in exactly the same position. My friend has just bought one of those OKO carbs from ebay for

Hi, I'm in a really bad place at the moment with my gripper, it's an early yellow 250 though and uses the 2626 carb, at the moment I have it set up as below. Amal 2626-1 150 Main jet 20 Low speed jet 40 Choke jet in float bowl 106 Needle jet 2B1 needle in the 2rd position from bottom No.3.5 slide Not 100 % sure what the air jet is ? The issue I have is that I am only able to get it to run on tic over with the air screw out 3/4 to 1 turn otherwise it runs way too weak and you can stall it by blipping the throttle. As it is; it is useable but it is so flat at the bottom... Top end is great, pulls really well. I have tried numerous things, even swapping the 40 Choke jet into the slow run/ pilot jet, this just means that I can open up the air screw about another quater turn, I have replaced the needle jet, pilot/slow run jet, needle gaskets etc. The slide is very worn and I have a new one on it's way but I am at a bit of a stumblilng block, I am now starting to wonder about the mechanics or the engine and how worn rings/ crank seals and skirt clearances will affect the running/ mixture? Can either of you or any one else shine any light on the situation. Many thanks, Andy