wild foamy

put it this way, my DT was in very good condition, had a 65cc big bore kit, bigone exhaust and expansion pipe, cone filter and about 38,000 on the clock, i put it on gumtree for £350 and within a few hours someone rang me up and near bit my hand off for it. a good condition original spec DT can go for around £500, best thing to do is look on eBay for DT50s, click "completed listings" under the preferances and see what they have been selling for

i broke a piston ring on my DT50 once and it dropped into the engine, i literally turned the bike upside down, gave it a shake and then counted the bits that fell out to make sure that they were all out, if you have the engine out of the bike its even easier, but seeing as it has "blown up" i would split the cases anyway and remove the fragmentation that has no doubt surely found its way into your sump

urm...

honestly kev... women are not objects to be drooled over. although tbf, Sach is amazingly beautifull, i wonder if Goff is still around on the boards?, maybe she could put together a skimpy latex number for us...

ah yes that's well worn :S

if that video appears, this thread is going... there are some things that should not be on the internet and that video would be one of them, along with goatsee

That'd be great if you could ask bud, if they are cheaper than the vistaprint ones then it would be great to save a bit of money, all the details should be in the t-shirt thread but if there's anything else you need to know send me a pm

the adjuster will help move the lever to a position more comfortable but if there is movement in the lever it is probably worn (and considering that bike is 21 years old, it almost definately is worn). caliper seals arent expensive so it may be worth doing those whilst your at it, all the crap and corrosion builds up behind the seals and squeezes the piston against the rubber which causes binding in the brake disks

what is this shit?

not nescessarily, when my old swift got written off the insurance company sold it to a car breaker

even if that was the case, there are bound to be many many salvageable parts that could bring other RXS' back to life

stainless brake lines are a worthy investment for this bike as the disks are plenty large enough to give good braking, a new set of seals for the brake master cylinder will set you back about £50, with that many miles on the clock i wouldnt be surprised if the gear linkage has worn and the hole become elongated, i was planning to bore my lever out and press in a bush of the correct size but never got around to it

+1 for the extractor drills, i.e. "Easy out" sets. make sure you know the size of the screw or the part number before you extract it, im not familiar with your bike type but if it is a bleed JET and has a hole in it as soon as you use an extractor on it you will need to replace it as it is no longer a metered size. good luck to you

Hi there, welcome to the forum, First of all, there is definately a small amount of play in the system before the drive even counts because in theory as you change up a gear the geartrain is wanting to overtake you in order to catch up with the rest of the drivetrain but that isnt a mechanically proven concept, but electrical tape wound around the cush drives doesnt sound right, aslong as you have changed that that's basically all you can do with my XJ, it always had a bit of a clunk into first, a lot of it is due to your perception on selecting a gear, you wait until the revs are at a certain point before selecting that gear, within a month of riding that bike on a regular basis you WILL know when/where that bike wants a gear or when/where you shouldnt be changing gear

Well that's all the motivation i need, 3 votes for, and from the most active members on the forum, expect a thread to be open at the end of december

If Tim Hickox is ever in berkshire, i will buy him a pint two strokes are dying but only because they are being dismissed as being unclean and arent being devloped to the full potential they are capable of

Nice one, ta slice What about re-painting? im assuming i will need some sort of flexable primer and a laquer to finish?, unless i can get it in two-pack

Slight update peeps, i robbed the top-end off the other DT50 i bought for spares so fingers crossed it should be ready to run (going to have to move it outside though as the residents of the block wouldnt appreciate a two-stroke smokescreen methink, it also appears that this bike has 3 destinctive colours, a black tank which shouldnt be too big a problem to respray, a blue headlight which was my donkeys' original colour, a white rear mudguard that has been painted grey and a black front mudguard, i would really really like to get it back to the original soft blue colour but i was wanting to know what the best way is for stripping paint off plastic parts? and indeed applying paint to plastic parts? not sure what the paint code is, but after spending the last couple of hours surfing google i suspect it may be "peacock blue"

welcome to the forum LUke, i had a 1989 Yamaha DT50MX when i was 16, kept it for just over a year and sold it to buy a car , now im 20 and i bought 2 spares or repair DT50s

well that's the thing, i have to get the pre-orders, with the shirts it was a little more complicated because i had to preorder in sizes, colour and any custom text needed. i can probably get a local print firm to sort it although until i know for sure how many people are going to be wanting calenders i cant get a definate price. also as was the case with t-shirts, 26 people wanted to order one (or two in some cases) but when it actually came to ordering them only 11 people went through with the order, if i had preordered 26 t-shirts i would probably still have half of them or be waiting for payment from the other people

Ah, the wonders of 6v electronics eh shambles?

Hey everyone, Now that the demand for T-shirts has died done somewhat, I remember earlier i put this idea forward sorta jokingly at first, but im actually seeing it as a possibility now and was wondering what your thoughts would be. Basically i was thinking of putting together a YOC calender, it will have to be for 2014 as we are very nearly into 2013 and it would also give us the entire year of 2013 to gather the nescessary input, idea being that the photos and artwork for each month are posted in from our beloved members, formed into a calender and used to decorate your man cave, house, workplace or shed. the prices from vistaprint would be £6 for a wall calender and £3 for a desk sized (exc postage) although discounts would be available for bulk buys or when combined with other merchandise such as mugs, pens, shirts e.t.c. would anyone be interested in participating? the way i was thinking of working it was to invite members to post photos and artwork of their bikes in interesting and seasonally relevant scenes (for example, if you want to submit a design for Januarys page, maybe a DT50 covered in snow) and then cast these designs open to vote, then at the end of that month the votes would close and the photo with the most votes would get entered into the calender, then entries would begin for February, and at the end of February the votes would close, the winning photo gets added to the calender e.t.c. Possibly even doing a slightly more raunchy/comedy calender for a charity event or to raise funds for the forum. Let me know what you think peeps - Foamy x

Welcome to forum Leona, hopefully someone will have an XJ6 on here

the only experiance ive had with road-legal offroad tyres is the ones that were on my DT50, and tbh they did a pretty decent job of cutting through the crap on the roads

I saw, i lol'd