Just an update 🙂 come start of the month she is getting new clutch as that's forever needing slipping, new top end, new brakes and a tail tidy!! Except for top end I'm attempting the rest meself 😱

The Fanny hammer swapped it for a kwaki

@Minia That is a lovely bike, great to see!

Remember AndyYam?

It wasn't as simple as that. He got it back but it took ages.

Went through small claims court.

@Calum I seen them on adrenalinpedstop and your right they look just as good !

Yo, sounds like a nice tight DT now.

With regards to Reed modification, if you run the 170 kit and you plan to ride it quite hard more often than not, then some Boyesen Reeds may be beneficial. The standard Reeds might start to flutter at very high RPM runs. But for dicking about and legal riding 😛 Standard intake setup is actually ideal.

Again, running Pre-Mix for an everyday motor is not ideal. And low RPM is lost abit if you want to have a safe high RPM ratio, I find. I always go a little rich. The standard Oil pump is up to it even for the 170 or the 200. But if your a racer, I would defiantly go Pre-Mix, take it all off, plug it off, and never go back.

Love to see some pics

And as a young 69 year old I can confirm that the advice these lads have on here is top shop I got my first DT just over two years ago and fond the info helped me no end and not sure if I would have carried on with it if I hadn't had them there to help out , enjoy

Hi welcome,

Be careful when you buy a battered dt that you don't get a ringer. They are very prone to being stolen and as such there are a lot of ringers out there.

They were all built to copy the style of motocross of their era, so it will just be personal taste. If you love your yz then perhaps stick to a similar year dt.

When they get that old though they tend to be worse for wear. Fear not as parts are readily available and fairly cheap.

Any problems then throwing in the relevant sections and we'll help where we can

it's an interesting twist the butchering aspect , I remember back in the good old days ( ok never mind the age jokes I will slap your legs !! I am not that old at 22 and a little bit ) the same argument about people butchering old british twins and the like , but nine times out of ten it was being done to bikes that the race rep go faster boys had smashed up and could not put back to go faster trim so did Easy rider /street fighter things with them , but what they did they was they managed to put bikes back on the road that were heading for the scrap bin , and the fact that they were heading for the bin made it financially viable to do the easy rider /Street fighter thing , and now many years later what has happened is many of the bikes they did have fallen by the way side as often the frames were not up to the job the heart of the project the engine has been bought by the classic brigade and used to bring classic bikes back from the almost dead back to life , so it would appear to me that as long as they don't end up in the scrap bin don't worry too much everything has it's day and what goes around comes around , the moral being never throw things in the scrap bin if it is at all repairable just put it at the back of the shed and wait for its day to come back round , it will given time just give it a good wrapping to make sure it does not deteriorate and stick a label on it so you know when you get to the age some think I am you will know what it is , what do you mean is this the voice of experience ?? NO I am far too young to be that wise , lol
Cal Shhhhh