trying to motivate myself to get my bike done this year. glad to be part of this new site. got the frame painted and all the orange stuff done except the tank....
- Hey you broke the groups posting cherry!!! You are our first post .This is going to work if we want it to. Paint these bikes is a challenge .They were done...
I just posted the most recent pics of my bikes, well the ones that aren't scattered around my garage waiting to be finished (my 3 year+ RD350 project for one)....
-It was really easy and no problem to do. I am going to make you a maneger(moderator) so I'm not the only one that has access to the management of the group...
... Hi Dave, It's done, you are a moderator of this group now.I'll take care of the approvals until I can explain all that stuff to you.You have access to the...
- 65.25 would make it a 5th over!!!!!! NO WAY. 4th is the limit and I wouldn't really recommend going to 4th unless you were really in a bind for parts.You...
... The buzz on large overbores, from what I understand, is that so little steel is left in the sleeve that you can run into cooling problems. That is why I...
Sorry, I should have made my comments more clear, I currently have, on my running 1970 R5, a set of cylinders that are measured at 65.25mm, I stripped the...
-- Don't be fooled by the way the sleeve looks .There is a reason Yamaha only made pistons up to 65 mm . The sleeve ,even though it looks thick enough, will...
Ed, Just let me know what I need to do, you have my email address if you want to discuss this off the group. I'll be around most of the day tomorrow (Saturday)...
- Hi Dave. Right now there's nothing to do. and even later when we make the group private membership approved only there won't be much to do.It will run itself...
-Again, there are no cheapo ways to do this stuff. Buy what you need pay the price get it done right and it will treat you well. It's that simple.These are...
Gotcha! Just let me know when you need a break/hand/whatever! Dave ... work. ... take ... you.You ... made ... the ... well. ... chance ... our ... your...
Thanks for keeping things going. As with many, I had a new R5C in high school, so now you know I'm old! Found one in great shape and had to have it. Pics can...
John, Aren't you in one of the Triumph groups that I belong to? Nice choice of bikes you got there! I really enjoyed your web pages, and that auxilary fuel...
Ed and I have decided that we should post a different members bike on the group homepage every month. This will include finished bikes, projects, cafe's,...
Ed and David, glad to see you 2 taking reins and getting a quality site going. A personal peeve from the previous site was the same question over over over...
... Go for it Dan! this is a group that belongs to it's members so if you want to back into the old group and copy old posts and what not be my guest. put them...
Dan, I am with you on this, I have already posted a piston and ring part # list on a MS Word document. I have a lot of documents I have copied or saved over...
No, i don't have time to go back and PDF all the important posts. Be much quicker if each of us bring over a topic of interest and file in the proper folder....
Good luck trying to do it that way Dan. These guys can't be bothered going into the old posts to look for answers to their questions before they post 'cause...
I know I was one the people asking questions that were posted before. Im sure a lot of the time you guys were pretty pissed about some of the basic or...
Rory, Any of the old FAQs you can dig up and post will most certainly be welcome. Personally, I don't have a problem with helping people out with my meager...
Post them up everybody! Show us your bike(s), whether they be projects or complete. Ed, I really like that shot of your bike loaded to the point of popping a...
- I'm usually very happy to answer these questions but sometimes I can get testy when they are about things that are really basic common sense.It's really good...
This is how I used my R5 for 22 years Dave!!!! I beat the daylights out of it but in a loving way mind you and it treated me really well This photo was in 2006...
Guys, I just moved over to the new group and posted a couple of pics of my R5C project. It has had a pretty hard life with 30k miles, and clearly hasn't run...
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