hello from noob, or is that boob? >;~))

[drewMember]

hi all, new to the whole bike forums deal, been member of some car ones though.

i’m in Deni 45 min from Echuca/ murry, vic boarder.

current rides, 00 583 monster, 02 lc4.

hasbeen, 03 300 exc wast of money! bought brand new.= whole other rant thread in that one!

first ever ride all of my own= honda xl 70! a 6 yr olds dream come true! out grew it, put ct 90 wheels on it= extra 3 yrs riding!

anyway HI !

[JasonMember]

Welcome on board “XY” – good to see you amongst it.

Pity the 300 was not a good experience for you.

Fezza

[Anonymous]

Welcome to OBT mate. Menace is down in Vicco, if you ever near his parts (I shudder at the though ) you should shout him up for a ride. He’s on a new Kato 300 but it has recently bitten him so he is in a state of recovery

[Mick DMember]

Welcome XY,good to see you finally managed to get signed up. Plenty more laughs here than TT,we don’t take ourselves all that serious here.
Cheers
Mick

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Hello XY (sounds a bit fordish) how the hell are you?

please feel free to start a thread on why the ’03-300exc was a distrastrous smelly pig with evil handling and the steering of a wet sheep….hows that to start off?

BC

Sorta like poking a brown snake with a short twig really

[Mick DMember]

Mr Blue wrote:

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Hello XY (sounds a bit fordish) how the hell are you?

please feel free to start a thread on why the ’03-300exc was a distrastrous smelly pig with evil handling and the steering of a wet sheep….hows that to start off?

BC

Sorta like poking a brown snake with a short twig really

Right, Mr Blue early 70’s Fordish. 71/72

[drewMember]

Yep, unimaginative me. my carry over name from a car forum. Blood type = blue oval, an XY and 78 Transit owner ( both waiting for the operating theater to be available ) + lots of projects.

so many forums, i could not think of a good suitable name for each and every forum.

so one username fits all

hmmm not much wrong with the exc 300’s power, stopping or handling.

Just the W@n**rs at the dealership! KTM Aust. never contacted me back when i emailed them over my bike seizing after only 23 hrs / 1300 kms.

they promptly called the closest dealer to me and started ripping it into them, as i should Never have been sold a 2 smoker in the first place!

but the dealer closest to me is not the one that sold me the 300!

the dealer happily blamed my use of stale fuel, “it had evaporated, leaving the mix too rich”, fresh mix that day just before the ride, all of 60-70kms round trip to the river!

gladly ( “looked after me” ) shafted me out of 6 weeks income= pensioner );

admittedly 1/3 of the cost was a $550-600 cylinder repair and re-niklesil.

i’m not naming names as someone my know them and be related to or friends with them. and they may be the best blokes about.

however it is not ABS Motorcycles in Bendigo.

and i think that ends the rant.

[Eric SmithMember]

How come you should have never been sold a 2-banger? They should be ok for just about anything a 4-stroke can do. Not great, but they can be adapted. Champo rode his TM300 2t almost 500km in two days, mostly at road speeds and all he changed was the front sprocket.

Mind you, poor service is poor service so I’m not arguing about that!

Oh, and welcome to OBT! :woohoo:

[drewMember]

ABS said that because i have a 20-30 km commute to where we ride and to the river. a std spec/ jetting would not be the best for road speeds. and they would have set the jetting to suit before i would have taken delivery.

and the seller never told me that if you ride in the hills you need to hold a percentage of throttle on decent to avoid leaning out the big end too much, and apparently the same goes for deceleration.

the dealer that “fixed” the bike “Guaranteed that it would not seize again” after the re-build and re-jetting so suit my needs.

but i would not trust them any more than i trust a hungry dog to watch over my sangers!

[Anonymous]

xy-transit wrote:

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i’m not naming names as someone my know them and be related to or friends with them. and they may be the best blokes about.

however it is not ABS Motorcycles in Bendigo.

:laugh:

I know Andrew who works in the service department really well :blush:

Never fun dealing with unhelpful shop owners. That’s total BS about your ‘road jetting’, you can ride the bike faster in the bush than on the road if you wanted to.

Oh well, it’s all in the past now…..

[drewMember]

yeah Andrew Bane is a top bloke.

do you know where Peter Clarke ended up?

well i know very little about 2 stroke bikes and trust what others tell me, within reason, until i’m set straight.

Thanks for the welcome and info!

[Anonymous]

I was just taking the p*ss mate, I don’t know Andrew at all. I just got his name off their website as I thought it would be funny to pretend I knew him after your previous post:laugh:

[drewMember]

Haha Harrrh :laugh:

yes well certainly had me going!

👿

[GregMember]

Moto wrote:

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That’s total BS about your ‘road jetting’, you can ride the bike faster in the bush than on the road if you wanted to.

There is far more chance of full throttle running thus cause lean siezures when running on the road, longer times at full throttle for a mortal like me on a bitumen road than a gun like you in the bush Moto, that may have been their thinking :huh:

Also I read everywhere with interest that those Kato 300’s come jetted from the factory rich or so everyone says here and on other forums :blush:

All that above yes Champo’s completed a few big rides lately and not a problem, very impressive

TB

[Anonymous]

It’s okay, it was an elaborate ruse

I got done on April fools buying the line that BMW had bought KTM :laugh:

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