Some people on the Portland Puddle Cutters text group where asking if Tomos Racing Transmission Fluid (TRTF) was as great as it appeared. I didn’t know honestly. I had seen the article before but it never occured to me to try it. Right about this time I had put Royal Purple ATF into my Tomos …
So the project started out as a friend of a friends first maxi. I went with them on the original purchase and said it was a good base to start with, they picked it up, and started fixing it themselves. It was a 1hp restricted E-50 maxi missing the intake and carb so I suggested …
If you collect any one thing for long enough eventually that thing will start to find you. People will know your that guy and just give you those things. You might end up with some really rare stuff for cheap, or you might end up with 1000 copies of Jurassic Park on VHS. Only the …
I had an idea to have a tool that I could attach to any bike and record acceleration times between any two speeds to aid in tuning. For the express purposes of determing if the bike was getting faster or slower while I was tuning. Smart people might say they already have this technology, in …
So the Puddle Cutters, like many clubs do, raffle a bike during our rally weekend. I usually volunteered to build them because it’s fun and I take a bit of pride in it. A raffle, at it’s core, should be fun. Everyone is excited, they scream and yell and throw spent tickets on the ground …
I think I am the only person who loves a stock Gurtner carb. Well, not the Peugeot carbs. Or the AR2-10 because you can’t remove the diffuser. But that AR2-12 and the AR1 carbs, that’s me all day. Years ago, when Handy Bikes was a wonderland of NOS parts and lore for those in the …
So I don’t know if this is a thing other people do, or what they call it, but I do it and I call them this. So let’s start there. Dummy bearings are normal bearings that have been ground down to slide into the location where they normally go. I use them for test assembling …
It’s one thing to do sweet dyno pulls and post graphs that look cool, and I was excited to do that. But ultimately I’d like to sell these as a functional part to the masses that crave them. For that I have to actually test these in the real world. By trade I’m a metal …
So far I’ve done only street testing with a butt dyno, which are notorious for weak accuracy. To be a bit more scientific I called up my friends at Scooter Swap Shop and set up a dyno session on their rolling dyno. They are super nice guys who know their tuning so if you are …
There were issues with the last test part. The rubber was still too soft with the 60A blend and the airbox would try to fall off when I rode. The plan was easy, just get the next harder rubber and make another. Well, thing is, that was the hardest rubber they made in that compound …