Love your bike it's engineering excellence. Very well put together well sorted bike with beautiful engineering and stunning looks..that sounds lush to.
@@vicsclassicautos cool...I used to have a Kawasaki kh100ex I used to get off the Speedo downhill..great fun and after that a cagiva mito 125 I used to get 110mph indicated..flat on the tank..good days.
but then it would have looked like every other rd ....i cut the mono shock off and fitted twin shocks because i wanted it old school and it would have been far too easy to bolt a few bits on and call it different....i like headaches
I don't know if they'll fit, but have you thought of turning the rear shocks through 180 degrees, so the reservoir sits @ the front, thus reducing the polar moments of inertia, so the bike turns easier? Have you noticed from 0:08, how slack your kick start is, as it waggles around every time you blip the throttle? i had a Beckett tuned ( ported/piped & modified cylinder head to close up the squish clearance/change width & angle of the squish band, significant improvement in mid range )350 LC, running ART pistons with Castrol oil & the Autolube set @ maximum stroke. I always warmed the engine up by riding it straight after start up ( no excess idling that let acid [ from the petrol] from a cold engine wear the bore prematurely, never opened up the engine until I got water temp. And @ 11, 500 miles I went to start the engine one morning & got piston slap ! When I stripped it down, found out, as now expected, the rear of the piston skirt had collapsed ( while the piston rings were still in tolerance ! ) While I've no experience of modern 2T oils, back then (mid '80s ) cylinder reed induction used to eat pistons ! If I had another chance ( being on a tight budget ) I'd go for crankcase reed induction. Apart from that, lovely bikes ( I had mine fitted with a 4 gallon Maxton TZ alloy tank [ but for local use I never used more than 1/2 a tank of gas ] & a TZ "G" seat, as for my size that was a really comfortable fit ).
Hello Jim, thanks for comments, I run a synthetic racing oil so a lot of the issues with oil in fuel issues have been sorted now, The bike does handle very well, the rear shocks seem to work spot on, the kick is a bit on the wobbly side due to it being 40 years old and quite worn, still works ok but it is a bit like me , getting saggy lol
shame you cant smell it....I love a two stroke, have you seen the test ride after i modified the exhausts ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z54xT7ky0AQ.html
Love it but unless you are jumping it lower it so it handles on street better. By looks of tires it is street bike not dirt bike, why 12.inches of travel? Other than suspension height that is a proper looking crotch rocket and looooove 2 strokes
