Just copy and paste the link mate.

Yeah, my advice would be to have a shield made that would shield it from the majority of exposure. Not uncommon practice for air filters.

As said I've never had an issur and I've ridden in all sorts.from sunny to torrential rain. But perhaps your situation may be more difficult.

Some photos might be handy here so we xan visualise the problem.

Yamaha do a ruthless two stroke race bred machine called the TZ. The TZ is a full Grand Prix bike. So presumably it runs some sketchy kind of little end bearing.

http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?nav=item.view&id=201394504785&alt=web

That's the rods I use. Very high quality. But PJME recommend Long rods for generic builds. Mines supposively tuned.