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A cracking way to pack up smoking mind

You're getting to sound more like Yoda every day DT

Personally I'd be pre-mixing nearer to 50-1 than 30-1. Try this download for working out your ratio's for pre-mix, if it helps. http://www.dansmc.com/mc_software.htm (scroll down towards bottom of the page for the download.) Nev

If the consensus goes with the Blue ones, Paul, then I'm cool with that,and will have one of those mate, but would also be looking at getting a couple made up like the one I've doctored at the bottom. Btw I've given it a 3xxxl perspective

Cheers Pizzle, glad you got a result with your exhaust mate

Here ya go mate

Hi and welcome Casper, there ya go Paul White, black t-shirt, white Yamaha logo, with a blue infill maybe? Sorry Casper if yer headscratching mate, we getting new t-shirts soon, and your pic is an idea

Or alternately Praise............... they Loud

Never used them but like the tent sheds they sell

Would have thought you would have some sort of reference to Simon Milward, Mervin, being a Devon lad, now there was a bloke with balls, shame he died doing his trip mind, and he was doing it for various charities he felt pretty strong about, not just a sight seeing jolly. His bike is back at John T Motorcycles in Newton Abbot, where it was built for him, bit battered but hey what would you expect the mileage its done.I often chat to John about Simon and his bike, apparently he was a diamond geezer.Have a butchers at the links. They've left his blog as it was the day he died. http://www.bikeland.org/story.php?storyID=16815

Hi, and welcome to the forum

Aye happy birthday Andy, no guessing where most of any birthday monies are going ey?

Praise the Lord

Using standard panels but new ones, I've sprayed old ones black and theyre o.k but thought sod it and bought new, so I was thinking of selling old panels to offset cost of new stuff, polisport double headlamp unit, may keep old headlamp unit for mot's, if dodgy, acerbis front mudguard (the one on bike in pic,)have part sprayed green, R&G rear mudguard as are standard on 2004 onwards I think, with a polisport tail tidy & led light under it. Also some decent panel vinyls. My lads after flogging his scooter,and getting a DT, so I dare say most of the stuff I've taken off, will more than likely go on his if n when he gets one. Nice video,and well put together, but not keen on the blurr then focus bit, I keep reaching for my glasses btw it's a cracking DT you have there .

Mine says "chow chuurr," but like a pratt I bought mine off ebay, came from China

Sorry to hear that mate, whereabouts in Devon are you?

Nice looking bike Andy, just looks like it needs tickling up, unless it was like mine when I first bought it, looked o.k on the outside, but the panels and stuff hid a multitude of sins, only finding all the rust and road crap, when I'd got it all stripped bare. For the engine cover plastics I put on a couple of coats of grey plastic primer first, then sprayed with the Aluminium coat, quick drying stuff, gave 3 coats of that, on the metal casing, just sprayed straight onto it, again 3 coats. With wirebrushing the pipe, I used the electric drill with brass wire cups and wheel fitments, a much more foregiving than using a 4" grinderette with steel wire cups and wheels, thats more for frame, swinging arm etc,and deffo not on chrome or aluminium base pieces. Good luck with the DEP oh and don't forget plenty of elbow grease. lol

Aye OG had the same problem when I put the Paris Dakar bars onto the Rieju,luckily mind it was just the clutch cable I had to buy, £14 quid off e-bay for a universal cable you chop down and make to suit.

The Renthal Twin Wall conversion kit came today, and fitted, hopefully I've put them on correctly, with them facing inwards and not facing outwards, as didn't come with any fitting instructions.

Cheers for that Andy, the engine itself is just cleaned down with parafin,and a rotary wire brush on a drill, but the barrel, cylinder head and plastic clutch and flywheel casings are all done with a can of Hycote Aluminium Coat spray, I bought from a place called Trago Mills local to me, although Halfrauds do sell it but at twice the price When polishing up the DEP end can put lashings of T-Cut onto it let it dry then buff off with a drill and sheepskin buffer pad, don't worry if it goes black either, just part of the process. Good luck with it and hope you have as much fun doing your project too, believe me it's a proper journey, lol P.S a little tip when doing your project, use your camera/ phone to take as many pics of stuff before taking things off it, as it helps for when putting bits back on again a few months later.

Cheers Jack, aye bring 'em down, I need you to look at a couple of things on the bike anyroad, and try and bring Craig with you too, I need him to have a look at the Speedfight, as I canna get it running right. Our Loz and Neil came over last night, I think Neil now might be toying with the same colour scheme for his R6, he seemed pretty impressed, and our Loz is working on a cracking design for the tank, and if she can pull it off, either get her to airbrush it or get Neil to make some vinyls for it, not sure yet. Rang CMS in Plymouth about doing the 2.4mm overbore, and gas flowing,was very impressed with their prices, so I'll drop the engine off with them when I get chance, hopefully next week some time. Still looking for a bracket for the Brembo conversion, so I can keep the same forks, don't know if your mate that flogged his sumo the other week has one knocking around, do you?

Well what can I say OG, thanks a mill, if I could bloody embed a video I'd embed "AH thankyou,"but seeing as I can't bloody embed still, I shall give you a Buddist mantra, "Owaaar tannaar syamm"

Hi OG, I don't think do twin walls in 22mm, they do the twin walls basically for strength in case of a dropped bike , plus I thought they out gunned the Renthal Paris Dakar bars for height and width dimensions, there's also another type similar to these called Fat Bars, and whilst reading all about Twin Walls and Fat Bars, I've never read of any problems fitting them, or of them needing conversion kits, so I just presumed they'd fit my top yokes, I dare say I could go into the 'lord of the flies' forum and ask them how they fitted theirs but I just don't understand a word they say, with all that text speak and they really are a nice looking bar even by being cable tied on I dare say that as a last resort, I can let Wayno see if he can mill about 3/8th off the handlebar seat(there is a slight taper there) on the top yoke so there is enough meat between the seating and the clamp thread,and ream out a radius of just over 14mm, then have him make two new top clamps as I reckon if they are reamed out they wont have enough thickness from the out side radius and the top of the clamp.Just seems a bit of a tattar, at the end of the day As for swapping them, well I got them off ebay, and doubt as theres nowt wrong with them, they'll take them back, especially as they were £84 quid, caveat emptor and all that bollocks.

Went to put on the new Renthal Twin Wall handlebars today, but came across a slight problem, the o/d of the bar is 28.5mm and the clamps are meant to take 22mm bars, has anybody else fitted these type of bar? and how did they get around the difference in bar to clamp size? is there some type of conversion kit you need to buy? any help is much appreciated.

Went to put on the new Renthal Twin Wall handlebars today, but came across a slight problem, the o/d of the bar is 28mm and the clamps on the top yoke are for a 22mm handlebar, but after a quick ebay shopping trip found some universal fat bar conversion clamps, cheers again OG Other than that little problem, made some inroads with putting some other stuff on, part sprayed the new front mudguard with the metalic 'rover tara' green, seems to have come out o.k, and the bar grips were bought off ebay that colour, a cracking match, if I do say so myself.