2 Strokes Down Under

I'm sure it's been done before.

What's the issue with the oil injection?

Give it another 12 months and it will probably look cheap... I doubt that RZ prices are likely to be affected by our current economic ''deflation".

Bloke on eBay is wrecking a couple of early RD's.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121905952763 ... 370bb&cp=1

He's wrecking a couple of them, so he might have a second set. He's moving house or something and he's a bit slow on emails, but he seems alright.

I'm waiting for a set to turn up in the mail. You might have to wait a week, but I'm happy to measure em up fir you then if no one has one lying around in the meantime.

It's a pretty expansive tool kit! Throw in a rotor puller and you could almost attempt a bottom end rebuild by the side of the road on the Nullabour....

It's almost counterintuitive isn't it, that resonances created between the exhaust and inlet tracts, can pump more air than an increase in Primary CR. Good old 4 stroke theory just doesn't translate. I'm still a bit of a 2T theory noob, so I've been reading my way through Jennings over the past few ...

Yep! AC B model left and right please Pat!

Check your PMs.

I remember reading somewhere recently that the earlier 5 speeds had 3 selector forks and the later 6 speeds have 4. Perhaps that ?Haynes manual was written for the R5 and Ds7 series bikes and then updated (mostly) for the RD. There are a few manuals available on line and plenty of parts schematics t...

Yes, it's been awhile and you could be excused for thinking I've given up, but things have been progressing slowly but surely and I've had some time to throw at it over the last few weeks to push it on a bit. Building a motorcycle from scratch over the Internet would once upon a time, seemed a ridic...

Meh...."cafe racer" is just a couple of words when you look at the technical side of how some of those bikes have been built. Some really nice engineering & "hard yards" have gone into these builds,which I can appreciate. Honestly Id own quiet a few of those bikes cause they...

Your onto it BRG. Florists foam is very workable and safe and easy to use. The old timers used to use styro cut with a hot wire, until people started dying of cancer from the fumes..... http://youtu.be/XeeSsmsm9h0 This guy is working in carbon, but the modelling and moulding process is basically the...

The decompression valve looks like a winner. Husky you say? I've got a bigassed Husky chainsaw that I rarely use because it has so much compression that it's a complete bitch to start. If it doesn't start by the third pull, you're stuffed. Your hand is too sore for 4! It needs a decomp valve.... I l...

Welcome aboard Johnno. Excellent blog article there! What a journey. Your a man after Jennings' own heart. I guess that a stretch of good old country road will tell you everything that a dyno would, without the numbers! You obviously have finely calibrated 'pants seat'. Interesting that those Chines...

Thanks for the report James. I'm glad I didn't go! I can't imagine I would have gotten out of there empty handed....

I made it to the girder forked 900SS and I wasn't sure wether to laugh or barf..... Girder forked SS. 'Ken clown.