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One of life's great mysteries

About 10 years ago I brought a woman home after a night of hard drinking. When she came downstairs in the morning, she asked "why do you have motorcycles in your living room?". I proceeded to start one (CR250's sound best indoors), she got mad and later told her dad about it. He said "you better...

Jackson here, always looking for minibike events. I'll bring some bikes to the fairgrounds show for sure.

All I know about it is it was built in 2001 by a guy in Michigan named Joe Walmsley and painted by Christy Chrysler. Can you guys tell me anything about it?

The problem I'm facing is the thickness of the plate being too close to the drive sprocket. Am I ok to use a spacer or am I better off milling the plate down?

I'm going to have to modify the plate but I'm worried about sprocket and chain clearance.

It did not. I'm guessing its the copper finish ring?

I'm currently assembling a Predator 212 and am installing a Wiseco flat top piston. The problem is that it came with 5 rings and the piston only has 2 grooves. I have the scrunch ring and the 2 oil rings on either side of it seated into place on the bottom groove of the piston. This leaves me...

What got me thinking about that is when I needed to instal the torque converter and headlight on my ct200u. I had the bike in the back of my van and walked into a local welding shop. Turns out it was a production welding shop that was doing the battery trays for Chevy volts. As I was leaving a...

I've been wanting to do a write up on this somewhere for a while. I figured this is a good place for it. What area are you from and how is your access to welding, machining and fabrication when a work or personal project (not just minibikes) exceeds your skill level or capabilities? What is...

This comment sent me into a world of reading about that company. Quite interesting. Turns out that the Fag factory was right down the road from where the Army had me stationed.

This is the box that the German case bearing came in (no pun intended). I made sure to lube and pack it (also no pun intended).

I have not purchased rockers or push rods yet. Definitely not going to use the stock ones. Do you have any suggestions on which to use and ratio?