[#19]

This was my wife's race bike, it's been in storage since she got knocked up with our first in 2010.

It's nothing new or special, basically stock all around but I had switched to racing a 250 last year and I felt I wasn't totally done with the bigger bikes and since we had this sitting around and even though i'm super busy with life in general, working with the race club and working on 4 other bikes I thought what the hell and took on another project -waking this bike and getting it racing again. I thought if I can figure out how to get the bike to track with everything else then I can use it to race in the Formula Classic, Middleweight Superbike, or Sportsman races which should be fun. Although if I did all those races i'd be doing 5 or 6 races a day and running the event! probably not possible..


I brought it home and gave it a quick look over. It looked pretty good with no obvious problems, actually pretty clean.


I stripped it down and got into it. First things first.. I figured i'd pull the carbs and clean them. Although i'd "winterized" it myself I figured this was necessary. Pulling the carbs on this bike was the worst i've ever had to do, the boots are real short and I could barely get a screwdriver on the clamp nuts. Once I finally backed the nuts off I ended up having to pry the carbs out and once I looked into them.. they were spotless! oh well.

I planned on deleting the air solenoid system for the ram air, this is necessary to run the bike without gauges. I need to do something about the dash because we moved the clip-ons to under the top clamp and because of this the levers run out of space into the gauges. I'm looking at modifying the front fairing stay, hoping I can keep the stock gauges and just re-position them to give me more clearance.

I modified the airbox snorkel by cutting it back so that I can run a proper front stand as originally it extended to under the lower clamp.

I'm currently waiting on some parts before putting it all back together. I ordered some new carb boots and I need a new chain link to return the lighter chain and Mission gearing.