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ben350 · Guru

RE: 1988 dtr

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

just needs the gators putting over the forks and the rebuilds done, had a little ride and goes nice, still plently of room for improvement though

ben350 · Guru

Frame colour looks pretty good actually, but I'd have painted the swingarm the same colour orange. Personally the lights dont do it for me!

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

nah it'd look rubbish with a orange swingarm, the headlight will go when funds allow for something a bit more modern along with a vapour speedo, that and a new end can, i gutted the origional but its still butt ugly and weighs loads lol. you not like the rear light as well then? its such a tiny little thing! still a work in progress but atleast it handles like it should now and everything else is just little bits really since i won't have to get the frame out again!

-- Edited by fuggie on Monday 29th of November 2010 04:00:57 PM

ben350 · Guru

Yeah it looks ok from what I can see - reminds me of a bike from Mad Max like my old battered mk1 Billy Whizz

zo0op · DTR Senior Member

100x beta :)

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

cheers guys, definatly taking the mad max comment as a compliament, i've always built survival bikes, this time i'm aiming for less of a total rat though!
kinda like one of my old bikes

-- Edited by fuggie on Friday 3rd of December 2010 11:14:04 AM

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

oh i got the part cheers ben, shall now have a working speedo finally!

ben350 · Guru

NP mate

You'd have loved my old mk3 Toyota Hilux then - lifted and painted matt black with A-bar and roll bars etc

-- Edited by ben350 on Friday 3rd of December 2010 01:05:44 PM

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

thats awesome man, i'll have to dig out a pic of my ole 110 defender that also got the matt black treatment, trucks look so mean in matt

my last bike

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

couldn't find a matt black pic, heres one where it was a ratty orange though lol

ben350 · Guru

Sweet!

I always liked the 110's over the 90's - looks much more like a truck than a chunky car imho

welsh dt · DTR Respected Member

if anyone needs and landrover spares let me know as im the manager of a 4x4(landys) centre

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

had so much trouble thinking the bike had a electrical problem, turned out the tdr carb is jetted very differently to the dtr carb though appearing the same, got super confused cus it ran fairly well one time but think that was because the float jammed and made it alot richer for a few minutes on the test run lol just changing the carb and opening up the can has made the bike twice as fast! its running a rediculous 300 main jet lol (270 is standard on the tdr!)

ben350 · Guru

I've got 4 DTR carbs if you get stuck ;)

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

only 4 :P dude how many dt's have you had!

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

stuck a 330 main in it today, its still a touch lean in the upper powerband so will be trying a 340 later and maybe 350, its getting seriously fast for a 125 now though, massive grin, lifting the front under accleration in first with standard gearing, really surprised at how fast these little bikes are when you take out all the yamaha restrictions hidden everywhere, still running a barrel with the transfer restriction they put in on the sleeved barrels and yet to make up a big bore cylinder for it so more to come :)

ben350 · Guru

lol 3 in total but these were collected when gathering parts for my current 125R-SM

I havent forgotten your YPVS thing btw just keep taking it to work in my ruck sack and then bringing it back again ffs!!!

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

ended up that the 350 main jet was spot on with the tdr carb, i've backed off the povervalve about a 8th, it lost the tinyest bit of power up top but the powers useable in the rest of the rev range now (and brought the powerband back down onto the rev counter lol!)

my mate just got himself a kdx 200 and got some decent tyres on it now so will be off to have a play in the mud:)

DT-R_bradders · Guru

thats lookin gd m8! i cant wait to get out on mine its been ages : (
wer bouts u from m8?

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

i'm in Ipswich, Suffolk, deffo would be up for a gas about if your not too far :)

DT-R_bradders · Guru

im in hemel hempstead hertfordshire, jus looked on aa route planner its bout 88 miles avoiding motorways 90 odd on motorways so prob a bit to far confuse

lol well see wen i get it on the road n go green laning see if we go out towards you my dad goes miles greenlaning so see wat happens m8 itll be gd tho

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

yeah give me a shout if your out laneing a bit closer this way

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

made some shorter links for the rear suspension earlier, should give a load more travel on the rear suspension and got the rear at the angle i wanted, it looked kinda squashed with the angle of the swingarm and the standard panels so kinda nabbed seiki's idea with trimming the rear panels which has got it looking like its meant to be like that, kinda, definatly need to get rid of that hoofing can which is fully on show now!

-- Edited by fuggie on Wednesday 2nd of February 2011 01:15:36 PM

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

i resprung the front earlier and taken it out for a thrash, theres more travel on the front but its a little stiffer than I wanted but atleast its not bottoming out off small jumps now!

DT-R_bradders · Guru

that looks proper badass now m8! smile

how much longer did you make them links?and how does it handle now? gotta make a set of thos i think itll go nicly with my usd's as i think the front is a bit higher now. got any close up pics of the links?

fuggie · DTR Senior Member

cheers man, they look better from a distance!only had hand tools to fab them(and got bored on the finishing for the mo lol). i made them 10mm shorter which i think is about as far as you can go cus it only leaves a few mm clearance on the rest of the linkage, i used two strips of 5mm steel (had to have a good route around the garage for that!) and from memory the hole centres need to be 9.4cm apart to make them 10mm shorter than the standard ones, it handles well, a little sharper on the steering and feels fairly similar on the rear suspension though has more travel in reserve for the bigger bumps, the seat height is higher (feels massive compaired) though can still get feet on the floor easy enough, overall its a decent mod and real easy, the origionals are basically a template and my favourite bit is it didn't cost a penny biggrin

-- Edited by fuggie on Wednesday 2nd of February 2011 06:37:24 PM

DT-R_bradders · Guru

thats kl man im def gonna make me a set of thos. u done a good job there m8! biggrin

louisBOSS · DTR Senior Member

Altight them things u got made

It is for the bottom of the shock isisnt , it like were the bolt go throw to tighten up the bottom shock.If so would you sell me me ? as i depstare need one to put my bike altogther . thanks

Seiki · Admin

You're better off putting the chain through the rear footrests brackets mate