drewpy

Eric, share a tent with blackhat and you'll know all about windy city first hand!

the spoking bits OK if you have YouTube (oh you don't use it now!) its the tensioning bit that I'm not quite sure on!

my life's an open book! shit read though

haha

did a search and came up with this 1980 XS1100G 3X1-000101 Diamond Silver 1981 XS1100H 3X1-003101 Black Red handlebars are aftermarket, seat recovered

Manchester Miv 36 marriages? that's some going!

SD great Intro and jealous of your weather!

Stonerose I'm not far from the east lancs too, plus OT who lives just off it

Ellfie you'll pick it up as you go along, just ask on here if you get stuck and we'll reply with some sarkey comment

to the YOC Mr Roy

Howdy Doody Partner, spittoon's near Kev. to the forum

Dave FRZ Al is the guy in the know on FZR's (i'd guess) Paul what's that crappy link you put in, don't work!

tried speed sport? (yamaha topdog)

certainly in racing, need to check the regs though as if in the proddy class there's not a lot you can do! CRMC are the body that introduced the new proddy class for 80's sports bikes.

the bit about tuning I picked up off t'internet. I did read that a few peeps have started racing the fz600 in a classification. So in the near future there will be more info out there.

its a CVT, but you need to tune it to the revs vs power of the engine. the front variator has rollers in it ( different weights to alter acceleration characteristics, engine side) which push the two halves together forcing the V belt to rise and gives it the final top speed. the rear has a clutch/variator operated by centrifugal force which I put a stronger Red contra spring in. this holds the other variator at the back down to keep engine revs up. then there's' the clutch springs themselves which pull against centrifuge so bites at certain revs. too early and the motor will bog being out of its power band, too late and it'll rev its arse off. its quite a setup!

as I've said in the text, its not mine I'm doing it for a friend and learn about mending hair dryers its been interesting especially the variator side and how it works!

Slom, wouldn't mind seeing a picture of you vespa

nice, sounds cheap too

As it happens, I just got an official Yam service manual for the fz600 (in anticipation, thanks Brownie). A 1986 edition no less. stock fork length is 517.5mm or 20.4". min free length 512.5 (19") the engine is an XJ600 and gas flowing and Neta exhaust seems to be the favoured route with a stage 3 dynojet!

deja vue methinks

That's shame mate, you were doing really well too!

kaizer lots of drag artistes on here too

Elffie good buy there, give it a service and probably have to strip the carbs as full of gunge (modern ethanol fuel to blame)

found the cheapest sheet baffle packs from kart shops. there's ZIP kart near me.