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Back in Thailand now and had a 25km ride out 2 up and back 1 up and surely I have an engine fault? My mate with a CBR250 is back soon and will have a go on his. Rode a new one 6 years ago and recall it was quite smooth, mine ain't, the power band is as I remember, nothing much below 5,000rpm and then a good push. The roughness is really noticeable after riding the Vespa for 6 months.

I assume the engine is the same on both bikes, his is an older carby bike and loves it.

Trouble is here the dealers here in KK are no help, this void between big and small bikes, anyone know of a decent dealer, I would travel? South of Khon Kaen pref.

The bike lay idle for 6 months and started on the button, even the tyres held their pressure.

8 hours ago, Namplik said:

I have a LRP myself and I have never considered driving around with a passenger. This is a one mans bike only. Two up + luggage would be extremely cramped driving around with. Not comfortable for the driver at all, why do you need to bring your wife with you all the time? 

Why not, we like each other's company, many people ride with their wives and GFs, it's really nice and we don't find it cramped? For a simple mod of getting a few more torques this is getting awfully complicated.

On 10/23/2018 at 5:35 PM, thaiguzzi said:

 

C'mon dude........................

I bow to your "sufficient skills"....

You have done hundreds, i have done thousands, but i doubt i have done more than two hands full of hand held thread repairs.

 Left a bit, right a bit with an "observer" is the absolute last chance saloon when no other option is available.

Precise it is not.

But i'm not here to have a willy waving contest.

 A Chinese pillar drill is the same money as a couple of power tools.

I know a guy in my home town who makes a living from ride/drive/deliver to your premises thread repairs. You call him, when you need a thread repair. Guy earns decent money too.

Not wanting to sound pompous, Mr Guzzi, but some of us do have "sufficient skills" to accurately drill and tap a perpendicular hole. For my part, I served a 5 year mechanical engineering apprenticeship where they teach you basic hand tool skills. Before that I took metalwork at secondary school age 11-16 where they had a full mechanical workshop and I also learnt the basics. Unfortunately these facilities are gone from most schools now.

On 10/23/2018 at 5:35 PM, thaiguzzi said:

 

C'mon dude........................

I bow to your "sufficient skills"....

You have done hundreds, i have done thousands, but i doubt i have done more than two hands full of hand held thread repairs.

 Left a bit, right a bit with an "observer" is the absolute last chance saloon when no other option is available.

Precise it is not.

But i'm not here to have a willy waving contest.

 A Chinese pillar drill is the same money as a couple of power tools.

I know a guy in my home town who makes a living from ride/drive/deliver to your premises thread repairs. You call him, when you need a thread repair. Guy earns decent money too.

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16 hours ago, taninthai said:

No it’s not what I plan to do,I changed my front sprocket back to 14 after 1 ride on the roadwith 13t,really can’t be arsed to go into detail why I did that or also why I recommend changing rear sprocket first...that’s why I added up to you in my post????????????????????????????????

That's fine... I do most of my riding two up and want to see what difference it makes.

1 hour ago, taninthai said:

My advice Is to change the rear sprocket first ,but up to you,got this nice shiny gold coloured one ready to go on my spare set of wheels.

It is a cheap and easy trial to change the front sprocket and any existing wear will corrupt a 200baht part. When I have proved that it works, then I can consider a rear sprocket change, which, I agree is the best solution.

But I can first wait until I have had some mileage out of the existing set up and then change all 3 componants at the same time, which I assume is what you are going to do? Driver, driven and chain.

Still in Europe but called my Honda dealer in Khon Kaen about getting a 13t sprocket. He says he has a 13t for a Honda Phantom and says it will fit, is that the case, anyone?

If not I can get one in the UK on Ebay. Cheers

Forgive that these are not all British, but great video I thought.

A few 350s I fancy...

20 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Not a B&D hand held drill. No.

You want a pillar drill or bench top drill or mill to drill & tap the hole square.

Very very important to have a drilled hole 90 degrees (and not that'll do 80 degrees- ish) to the gasket face.

These days, Helicoils (and their generic copies such as Re-coil et al - the patents ran out a long time ago) still have their place and are relatively cheap and sometimes the only solution, but if practicable there are better (and more expensive) solutions to thread repairs such as Time-serts, especially for spark plugs etc....

If you want some individual kits why not buy them in the UK? Or order off Ebay - an individual one size thread kit could even be sent cheaply by post - nothing to it in weight.

In Thailand they will be sold in any store (such as Tool Pro) that is a Cromwells UK distributor.

I still have all my kits, here in TH, to buy new now prolly in excess of 3-4k GBP.....

 

 

Yes, I should have qualified that. "If your skills are sufficient", I must have done hundreds.

A pillar drill is best, sure, but many times it cannot be employed.....and that's assuming you have one. I know you do, but you are in a minority on this forum.

What I would say to others, is to get an observer.

...and do the thread tapping by hand, again using an observer.

16 hours ago, canthai55 said:

My BSA was the same. Thankfully my Dad showed me how to do Helicoil so that cured most of them. The ones with no meat left for the insert he welded up and tapped them new. Studs installed where we could to protect the aluminum.

That an ignition from a Honda Dream 305 with a new wiring harness we made and it was good to go

Helicoils are brilliant and stronger than the originals, very easy, you just buy a kit and then just need a black and decker.

Never seen them in Thailand, in fact if anyone knows a place where they have that sort of thing I would be interested to go there.

Going back a little further and after a little research, I think this was my dad's first bike, the Norton WD16H. He rode this bike in north Africa for about 4 years during WW2, after a full 5 minutes of verbal instruction. 1/2 hour after that they gave him a full licence, up to HGV. .....After that he taught me to drive...er... I didn't pass that first test...... Dear old Pop..

Would love to get hold of one of these, it will come in handy when WW3 starts. 

58 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

Don't. In a word.

Unless you are savvy (which i don't think you are - no offense intended) with the spanners, specialist workshop tools like clutch hub pullers, timing pinion pullers, etc etc. A T20 needing restoration will be a money pit. How big is your bucket to throw all your loose change in.

 If you think a CRF two up is gutless wait till you ride a Cub 2 up..... Where you got the low down torque from i do not know - certainly not a Triumph publication.

Listen, i'm a Triumph freak, i've got the logo tattoo'd on me in more than several places. I had a Triumph shop for 15 years, i've worked on them for over 35 years. Stay away from Tiger Cubs with a barge pole. The early ones with a dizzie behind the barrels especially. The later ones with points in the timing cover are better. A bit. C15's are not much better. There is a reason why all Brit bikes below 350cc were shIt.

 IMO, your original idea of a 350 Bullet, Brit or Indian is 100% a better idea and 1000% cheaper. If you want cheap, slow, non expensive, reliable, Triumph name - look at 3TA -5TA's

 I am giving you fair warning if it's cheap and on Ebay it will be a disaster. The good ones (3-4k) will be sold in the specialist press, thru dealers or word of mouth.

 The bottom video is a well known video in the classic trials world. I have seen it a few times. The bike is very well sorted and a Trials Cub is a pleasure to use and i would buy one if i was wealthy. The Japanese rider is well known as a Brit mechanic in Japan. To give you an idea of what a well sorted pre 65 Cub goes for, and what's involved in getting there . let me just end my friendly advice by saying have you got 5-6-7-8 or even 9k GBP spare?

 

Thanks for that bruv, that is consistant with what I heard at the time, that they spent a lot of time off the road, followed by a short spell on. It also explains why they are so cheap on Ebay. I also looked on Youtube too and couldn't find anyone doing anything, other than a 2 minute trip.

I will be very much on my own in central Portugal, so special tools will be DIY and with no machine tools to speak of...

Will look again. 350 REs are cheap and plentiful too, but that is because (I guess) people want the 500. I can't see the point since a) vibration sets in at 80/90 kph and the 350 vibrates less. The Indians seem to ride them more sedately, understandable given the roads.

Thanks again.

Looking for a project for next year in Europe, like the Bonny but worried about kick starting the early bikes, the newer ones are a bit big at 900cc, so been looking at it's little brother. There are plenty around on Ebay at decent prices and they are lighter easier to kick than the bigger bike.

It has that low down torque I favour, but when I was a kid there was a lot of talk about the Cub being unrelaible, just wondered?

Also is it a really small bike, I am 1.83 and 83kg?

On 10/18/2018 at 4:12 AM, MekkOne said:

unfortunately you're guess isn't right, I was in touch with the company just yesterday and they simple renewing the whole range with updated models, so a new website is up to come ans Stallions still in business...

Given the progress going on in China, that should be good.

23 hours ago, findlay13 said:

Yes if they can't do a half decent copy of the original they shouldn't  bother.Royal Enfield for instance,as we've said, had a perfect chance to do a modern decent copy of the interceptor,but didn't.

I think the Indians are pretty stuck in their ways with bikes, dictated by their huge home market. The Chinese are different and we have seen some pretty decent bikes already, the next few years will see them rival the Japs, IMO. If that happens and they continue making real bikes, with a nice engine note, instead of these whining, characterless Jap bikes covered in plastic. they will do very well.

As for the Norton, yes please, but way to rich for me. A mate of mine had one when we were apprentices, gave me a lift and nearly fell off the back racing a Porsche away at the lights. I saved my life by choking the bugga, holding on to his jacket collar. Fast bike left the 911 for dead.

Before that he had a Triton, said he didn't like that?

33 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I guess it's an option. But I wouldn't use it i.e. to lube the chain of a bike. I think the risk is way too high that the bike would fall down...

Correct, I use a bottle jack to do my chain, made a frame adaptor, but it could easily fall off doing anything else. 

When I built my shed earlier this year, I put a really strong ridge beam in and am thinking about a hoist of some kind for my NV. Need to get it higher than one of these stands for me poor ald back.

Going for a small aircon unit too, maybe freestanding?

I saw the name Mahindra and thought..... they made that dreadful Jeep, whick Clarkson said was the worse vehicle he ever drove and it really was a dung-ball. Saw one at an off-road show and it made us cringe.

Let's hope they don't have an input, other than money.

26 minutes ago, how241 said:

I got tires of the oil leaking and switched to Honda's in the 1970's.

I bit like buying a blow up doll...you don't get any wet leaks!! Not quite the same as the real thing...so I am told.????

Only been to the Ace cafe once at the end of a TVR rally when they were trying to stop production from leaving the UK.

The place had quite an atmosphere, even though there were no bikes there, the roar from a couple of hundred TVRs helped though.

S2 another car I regret selling.

If I do get my Bonny next year will go to the Ace and get some piccies as all these old places fascinate me. Relive my non-existent past.

12 hours ago, Farangwithaplan said:

I suggest you re read this. You possibly have consumed too much of whatever it it is you like to take. Because it seems you have confused my post with others.

 

You unfortunately have lost  credibility and I won't bother with your posts any more.

 

You are the weakest link. Goodbye.

 

No, to save time I put points from two posts on my one posting. If you are offended by the insinuations I made about your feet and groonies it was not aimed at you. 

You can rest assured there is probably nothing wrong with your riding technique either.

Hope you can get over this unintended malignment and move on.

On 10/11/2018 at 8:33 AM, Farangwithaplan said:

I said exactly what I said. Reread it without looking for problems that aren't there. I said the radius is getting tight. Will A tighter radius cause more guide wear? Yes it will. Basic geometry.

 

I have also noted in  two previous posts that a smaller sprocket is a common option and is fine.

 

I don't doubt anything you say. What is your point? Can you actually highlight where I disputed what you say? I'll bet a coke you can't.

 

What is the radius at the front of the swingarm mount on your trials bike? What is the radius on the swing arm mount of the CRF? I'd be willing to put a few beers on it that a 9 tooth sprocket will not fit on a CRF and I have never bothered to look at one.

 

9 tooth sprockets work on trials bikes because, you know, they are designed to. Because trials bikes by their very design have less chain revolutions than most other bikes and are ridden a lot less distances, of course you are going to see a lot less wear. Start comparing apples with apples.

 

 

 

 

 

9 tooth sprockets are necessary on a trials bike to get the very low gearing, the reason they last is that trials bikes don't do that many miles. Simple as that.

What I don't understand is the correlation between size 9 feet and not squashing your cobblers on the saddle. Are you sure you are riding the bike correctly?

There are certainly some varied ideas to consider.