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Universal race stand. $15 or will swap for 6 pack of cheap beer.

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Universal race stand. $15 or will swap for 6 pack of cheap beer.

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Also this Whipps roller stand. Good if garage space is a bit tight. Bike can be hard up against a wall and easily pulled out. $40

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Had a few offers, thanks guys.
It’s going up tonight with an OB member, many thanks Paul.
Struck a good contra, he has some forks that need a service. Happy days.

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I think the choke butterfly and spindle restricts the engines breathing. We always removed it as a performance mod over durability. The XR650 ran well on the ride, bit of a lean hesitation in the middle with a 162 main but not too bad.
If the choke had a fast idle I’d be more inclined to leave it in. You have to do the fast idle by hand anyway so the butterfly is not worth having.

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Bumping this old thread. I’m in the market for some braces, has much changed the the last 2 years? Pods, Asterix?!

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I’ve got about a dozen sets of these folding levers left, OB members can have them for $50 a set. About every bike except KTM/Berg

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Thanks Mick! Anything you need from me? Front tyre perhaps?

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Couple of weeks, still have to get the frame back from blasting and weld all the holes up…
First race is march and i’d like it together a month before that.

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RHK (Red Hot Kev) is Kevin Titmans own brand. He’s doing we’ll with it and beating the US Internet sales game. The 270mm discs he has are fine, I’d run one. They look so similar to the Braking Batfly it’s uncanny. Almost look like tgey are made in the same factory….
270mm is a good compromise between braking surface area and damage from ruts.

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As you guys have worked out the R and X caliper mounts/discs are the same.
For brake disc brand it’s all over the place out there. The EBC stuff is good but we have warped a few discs on XR650R’s in Safari, always had to have spares. In the old days when Braking first made a non floating front disc for the XR600 it would not last one club day without warping.
The floating discs are much better.
3 years ago i got 2 sample KX450 270mm floating discs and caliper brackets out of China. Look like a Batfly. Cost about $25 each. Slotted wave floating. Looked OK. Asked the guy i was sponsoring in Pro Open at the time to run them on his practice bike to get some idea of the quality. He said “No fkn way am i using that chinese s%*t on my bike” and he bought a Braking Batfly for $400 (my cost). Never again will i tell a tester what a product sample costs. If they ask it’s from Austria, made by a Duval Monk and costs $5000.
Well the discs sat around i forgot about them. Gave them away a year or so ago. Then this year i see them again, in the JTR catalog, in nice RHK packaging. Same parts as I had. I called the guy i gave my disc to, he was still using it, really liked it.
So all that is cheap is not junk.

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Any dates for the northen inland pony express series for 2013?

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Jimmy, yes the old XR frames are weak at the join you mentioned. They need gusseting and we’ll make up steel glide plates (bash plates with no side protection and plenty of holes), weld them in to try and tie the frame together.

Plenty of photos when we get to that bit…

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Hi Mick,
The gearbox is the only urgent bit, mine looks like a train wreck, burnt shift forks, dogs all but snapped off….
So, basically mainshaft, countershaft and forks. I can cobble an engine together for the first meeting in mid Feb with the 100mm piston then make a short stroke later when i have a spare engine. Will be alloy welding again by then and i have the templates for the big fin head that i used to cut out with a bandsaw at Ballards….great job that was.

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105mm piston, supposed to be 11:1 but Wiseco are always optimistic with stated CR. Will take some machining to get there. Works out to 692.8cc with the stock rod/crank combo.

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