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I'm not young, but I'm not particularly unfit. Just somewhat fucked up. I am classified by my government now as disabled, I only just received a light blue disabled pensioners card in the mail :shock: :? :oops: :roll: - yet I work for myself, for one of Oz's leading suspension companies and as a tea...

I've a semi completed ignition cover that will eventually take the KTM 250 / 300 ES. But I''m also awaiting a look at the Gas Gas 2t ES set up - this gets rid of the extra direction change in the drive that the KTM has. Both of those ES set ups rank as factory made Garage Engineering. Basic add ons....

Unfortunately, the price reflects what happens to anything imported through legal channels to be resold here in OZ. It's as I've written a few times when blokes have wanted a SH dealer here in OZ - Be Careful Of What You Wish For, As You May Receive It! Someone brings them in, they pay all the taxes...

Put some holes in that solid (well , I assume that's what it is) chunk of alloy the plates are going to. It's a head steady, on an AF it really isn't an integral part of the frame strength / engine interface, as it is on a steel, back bone frame. Looks good. You mean I should drill some holes (or a...

Put some holes in that solid (well , I assume that's what it is) chunk of alloy the plates are going to. It's a head steady, on an AF it really isn't an integral part of the frame strength / engine interface, as it is on a steel, back bone frame. Looks good.

By the extensive use of 7020 by various frame builders (Spondon / Harris / Enid Puceflace etc) I thought it might be fairly freely available in the UK. Fantastic stuff to use, especially with a sheet Y / cradle build. Don't limit yourself to use of one thickness of sheet - that's the beauty of the t...

All that greif because a drongo that should never have been allowed near a bike couldn't take the time to put a light smear of grease on a bolt - one of the things that shits me to tears, when you find the resultant corrosion. :twisted: :roll: :twisted: :roll: :twisted: :roll: :twisted: :roll: :twis...

You're kidding, surely?

Lunacy, I say.

But a very, very cool sort of Lunacy.....

I like flat sheet Ys, but the few I've done have been full flat sheet cradle/Ys - the first one probably 7 years ago out of 6061, and the most recent last Xmas for a mate who I foolishly showed that picture posted here. That was done in 7020 / 7005. With flat sheet Ys, you are making something with ...

Std ( got a lot of them) and UFO (the same..). Whatever good quality filter oil I have, currently Silkolene. I fit filter skins, and as I have foam in all the airbox vents and across the top of the airbox - I ride in a Lot of dust - I can go through 6 or more (one only at a time) filter skins, yet s...

I know next to nothing about Rotaries, but love them - if only for the way so many 'Big Engine' or 'Muscle Car' devotees (such as my 2 brothers) seem to hate them so much. :D We've quite a few new RX8s in my quiet little suburb, gorgeous little cars. And on my street there's a group of young blokes ...

Without a doubt, the KX500 is a far more modern and advanced power plant than our CR500s. By earlier 2t tech and design levels. And the modern 4ts take that concept into (literally) another century. BUT - the big point is, with , even in an incredibly low state of tune (which a std 500, and even mos...

The holes that connect the spars to the crossmember where the head stay and the bend tubing above the head are not big and could clog with the creme sealant or at least cut way donw on flow. I'll measure them, memory says they are between 1/8" and 3/16" https://bannedcr500riders.com/image...

Bob, your welder can do what he likes to do. Each to his own. I prefer not to extend the HAZ zone. There are no weld points with an AF conversion that have such heavy sections / differences in sections that I consider require preheating of the weldment pieces. Perhaps your welder prefers to preheat,...

bearosos have you ever done your epoxy method on a gen 2 250 like the 2nd picture? . The only generation AF I've never done is a Gen2 - weird but that's how it has gone. But that looks far from impossible. Think laterally. Consider a simple alloy plate, perhaps with a definite bend point, with the ...

Any number of reasons - weight distribution, Crank / other spinning assembly influences, centre of gravity of engine and whole aircraft / lowering centre of pressure with regards to aerodynamics when combined with all other aspects of flight dynamics etc, etc , etc. Flight engineering is a fascinati...

I've welded TIG for 36 of my 50 years. None of the frame sections of an AF build are thick enough to require pre-heating, unless, as I wrote , your stuck with a piddly little weld unit, such as a sub 150/180 amp power source. Or even worse, trying to get it done with a DC unit :shock: . Or perhaps i...

I've just plugged them with some metal epoxy. There's a zillion types around. We then used some Kreem tank sealant in the tubes used for the fuel cells - there are, once again, a lot of other fuel intended sealants around. There's many areas that may have a chance to have leaks appear, and you'd pot...

Very uninspiring welds. The crack looks to be generating from the finishing crater, right through the middle of the weld. Locating a finish point away from a high stress area, and / or doing a crater fill is one of the first things you learn with aluminium welding. Hence the "uninspiring weld&q...

Put that short a KS lever on that only the tip of the lever hits the peg and you'll bet certain that there's bugger all fulcrum effect.

You could use a better quality hub from one of the aftermarket suppliers easily on a 500, I think. The first Rekluses for 500s - I think I may have been one of the earliest to try them, as we exchanged a bit of information about what was needed - required me to take approximately (to the best of my ...

I don't give a stuff about banjo bolts - it's the thread O.D and pitch that I found useful.

Another bloke on CR500riders did a set up with banjo fittings, and had banjo bolts made up.

He posted that the thread was 17.5mm O.D. x 1mm thread pitch in the head.

A useful thing to know.

Perhaps then, they should be given out to them upon qualifying for the profession.....................

I'd ride it, as a 134cc.

Would probably be a fantastic little bike, set up properly. The only thing lacking on LM CR125s was horsepower / a good power delivery. That may have been taken care of by the engine mods.