Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Bib Mousse no good for road riding, only good for lower speed riding. Speed will melt the buggers.

Maybe Tubliss are tempting, as a compromise.

Meh. Leave bike in shop, pay £35, come back to bike with new tyres.
Even with all the right tools, theirs are better and faster.

It’s not just the levers etc. it’s jacking the bike, dropping out the rear wheel, stopping the cush drive rubbers falling all over the place. I don’t even have a work stand. If it can’t be done on a side stand, it’s going in the shop.

They run mousses on the Baja 1000 and do well over a ton on them. They do feel a bit odd.

Apparently monster gains in traction on tubliss in the technical stuff because you can run 5psi and not flat. I've never tried them

Yea but they don't leave it in for thousands of miles on their bike commuting and going to/from lanes all year round. I think that's the rub. For racing (or exclusively offroad, frequent servicing and lubricating*) then yes, mousse.

(*mousses fail if not frequently lubed)

I'm keen to try tubliss, I like the low psi traction.

The guy I bought my DRZ from had a heavy inner tube and then what seems another piece of inner tube cut in half around the outside to protect. He said he'd run pressured super low no hassle (he's a very good rider). I just left like this and had no issue.

Ha, I'm old enough to remember putting an old tyre inside another to prevent skidding through on my sweet fixie. sound like the same tech!

My UHD's have held up with Bikeseal inside them. No idea if I've had any punctures but we're talking a couple years and a few thousand miles. I was often running as flat as possible until the past winter when I put 50/50's on and stuck to road pressure for the moment.

With Trackers and UHD's I think I had something like 6-8psi on the digital scale and it would wallow a bit on the road but grip anything available on lanes.

Trackers and UHD's

That's my current set-up and has been working well with no punctures for about a year. This includes motorway riding as well as MX and enduro.

I like doing this stuff, cleaning and checking for any problems.

Also hate having chipped wheels from ham fisted and satisfaction of seeing a job well done.

I put IRC's on, the tyres that come OEM with CRF300L's, for winter riding while the lanes are all TRO'd. They are a fine road-cum-gravel tyre. Unfortunately due to all the experiences (like the bike now needing repair) there's been little or no option to push them to low pressure sloppy conditions.

My bike has tube only wheels as not setup tubeless from factory but its common to see Pirelli rally scorpion str fitted to them, which is advertised as tubeless. I guess its fine to run them with a tube as I see others do it? I'm a serial over thinker.

Yeah it’s fine.

Can run tubeless with a tube, can't run tubed as tubeless... or so the rule should be.

If you had a serious puncture on a tubeless tyre that a dogturd won't fix, after removing the offending article you could run a tube until you get the tyre replaced.

Waiting game on payouts, will likely have to leave it sitting until the money comes, because I can't afford to spunk cash on a wheel rebuild at the moment.

Fine.

If a dogturd don't fix it. the tyre maybe unfixable ;)

But an inner tube will keep it in place until you get the new tyre at a garage.

I’m slowly getting there on my RD250 project. So far:

Rebuilt engine, cylinders bored .5mm over.
Ported cylinders to 250LC + specs.
Recut heads, decked barrels and made copper head gaskets to set squish at .95mm.
Made expansion chambers
Rebuilt front forks with stiffer, straight weight springs and (knock off) gold valves.
Revised front brakes, new master cylinder (smaller bore) and braided hose.
Fitted electronic ignition (magneto style)
Rewired for DC charging.
Made a little tailpiece for rear light and license plate mount.
Loads of other little stuff I forget!

Hopefully just a bit more and I can get to testing. Needs a little run in and some jetting passes before next weekend….

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Looking great. That's a lot of small mods, no surprise you've been getting bored of the spannering. At least you'll be getting the payoff soon.

True.

Fucking hate this part of the whole insurance malarkey. How you feeling at the moment? Body ok?

Still some aches, biggest effect is increased anxiety on the road. Not in my ability, but in the fear of every fucker tailgating that they might not stop (again).

The anxiety sucks. I've got similar around town and it's sucked a lot of the pleasure out of city riding. Hope you get everything sorted soon.

City riding was never pleasurable for me, but it was tolerable. Now though, it’s quite intolerable. Ah well. It will subside, or it won’t, but it is what it is.