Hello welcome!

Nice, what's condition is the bike in?

@SpookDog
Click on your name so it takes you to your profile
Top right of your profile you’ll see a grey circle with three dots in it, click that and voila!

Clicking the background area behind that will give you the option to upload a photo for your profile, the same applies for the icon for your name

Hope that helps

@Schonker Welcome to the club, post some pics dude.

@ifixbikes nice

@Calum hi all i changed the front to a 15 now and its fine now does 68 in 5th and should rev out in 6th should do about 80 but haven't had a open road with out traffic, very strange to lower the std gearing would this been part of the restriction ?

@gibboharps Welcome to the club dude!

@Darty Not much to tell as yet - ran the mic' over it and put it on the surface table to check true / balance...so far so good. However whether it's chocolate, or had poor heat treatment, etc...time will tell. I'll post as I learn about it.

@SimonR22 Welcome to the club!!!

@shultz Hello and welcome. Nice looking dt there mate. What's the plan for it then a completely original as it left the factory restoration or a 'restomod' with a few upgrades? And yes, those guys from BAracing do some seriously impressive work.

@NINJA is the attraction of the dark side...

@Ronnie hello and welcome Ronnie. If it's been laid up in the garden for a few years my guess is the carb may need a good clean. Take the float bowl off to get to the jets, take them out and blow them through. Maybe just with your mouth and wash with petrol or get a can of carb cleaner or if you're not confident to take the carb apart you could try some fuel system cleaner that you add to the fuel tank but if you get yourself a Haynes manual you can't really go wrong and you'll almost certainly use the manual again and again, definitely a worthwhile investment. As for the powervalve, that may just need a clean to stop it sticking. I'm sure somewhere on this forum there's a link to download the manual for free. Good luck and when you get a chance share a few pics of your new ride.

@markus-w just move the reeds switch from the Rev gauges and tape it up about 6” away from the Rev gauge. Don’t cut it out. Took me 15 mins to do And makes a great difference. Because it used to rev up to about 7500-8000rpm and stop. Now it will happily rev to 11000rpm

@dtStevie98 said in Dutchie going long distance on a DT...:

Whilst the DTR forks are floppy as anything

Thanks

Hahha, I rode a stock DTR the other day, that front fork is WAY too soft, even without luggage, will need stiffer springs and prolly heavier oil.
Also the front brake was lacking stopping power, so if I'm going the DTR forks it will be with the X caliper and preferably biggers discs.

But I'm finding different hubs with diff brake disc patterns, so need to work that out.

ANother solution is fork swap, thinking YZ 89-90 but not sure how much of an improvement that is.

And recently I'm also thinking if a DTR might be a better base, see my question above about the rear top rack.
Becuase luggage would be blocking the tail light of the X.

@Calum true

Welcome!

Throw up a picture of your ride

@NINJA thank you and yes I will as soon as I've worked out how to from Android phone. I have read callums post on embedding images so will have a go this evening when I get home from work. It is the blue one in my profile picture.

That was the Kickstarter I ended up spraying the break peddle black and anodised blue to match ,

Did you get your carb problem sorted out?