@Calum What years out of interest had cats?

When you look at it £175 is less than two weeks worth of charges, so it would pay for itself pretty quickly.

There are a few post 2007 strokers available like the KTM's and Huskys, so in theory a two stroke has the possibility of passing.

I'd hate to see cities without the occasional sound of a two stoke reverberating off the buildings and a whiff of two stoke, it would take away some of the character

Alternatively we could just wait, as I believe Historical vehicles (40+ years) are also exempt. Classic Lambrettas and Vespas should be cool.

So, there is that ULEZ zone around London and pre 2007 bikes must pay a £12.50 charge to enter. It doesn't currently cause me problems commuting but it may well do when the area expands in 2021. Other cities will most likely follow suit down the line, so would be nice if we can work out if a DT could pass the test.
It would be handy to pop into town on the bike if I wanted too of course

There seems to be 3 main ways of conforming to the rules.
First and second is to obtain a certificate of conformity or a homologation certificate from the manufacturer to present, some seem to be now charging for this privilege. So, what do you think the chances are of Yamaha having these for a DT?

Thirdly, is to take your bike for an emissions test on a case by case basis, so just because one DT passes does not mean yours will. Currently only 1 place in the whole of London has been authorised to do this, Riverbank Motorcycles, and they want £175 for each test. What they are looking for are the Nox levels and the magic number is 0.15g/km or lower.

Lots of older bikes seem to be passing, albeit I've yet to see a 2 stroke mentioned in any blurb I've read yet.

What do we think? Is this possible for a DT, anyone got any idea of Nox emisons on our bikes?

Oh yeah, did any year DT's come with a cat in the silencer?

@Glynn123 In my bookmarks, woo

https://www.thetuningworks.co.uk/store/product_info.php?products_id=1268

I didn't need to read that, damn it

Good read.

@Calum So there are other heads apart from them two, cool I didn't now

At least the whole top end can be ruled out now, plus ive got a spare head to play with, so not all bad. Just need to get to the bottom of this issue once and for all.

At this rate I'll have a nice stash of spares

@NINJA I've been doing plug chops but nothing untoward has been spotted, here is the most recent, was a new plug when the new piston went in

And here is the old head with no casting on top, yet the heads dome defo isnt the restrictive head

And the new fitted

I cant see anything wrong with the plug, but feel free to chime in

It's still basically the same

Gotta be something else....not much left really, CDI, crankcase seals or clutching at straws for an extremely worn carb?

I've never inspected the reeds and the exhaust is a bit of an unknown, so could both be causing possible issues and shouldn't be overlooked.

Got a second hand CDI winging its way to me to rule that out. I'll do that and go from there....

@Calum It had a few small nicks, but was a whole load better looking than the other. Got it from where I bought the bike, it was the best 3mb he had, got loads of the more restrictive ones though.

Sadly no snaps NINJA, I think maybe it's a slightly older head as it had 3mb and Yamaha embossed on the top of it which the other does not

Agreed

Little update. After running it in a little and opening it up a bit, I wasn't particularly impressed. It felt worse than before up top. So I did mess with the squish too much I think. Luckily managed to get another 3mb head in a more normal condition for £25 and have just fitted it and compression tested it and its up, so hopefully tomorrow's ride will be an improvement.

Now I have the old head here may as well look into getting it sorted properly at some stage and swapping back later down the line.