Spent some time with my girl this morning.
The front forks were bent from me dumping it in the road a while ago ... also the handle bars bolt to the lowers leaving them sloppy.
The angle of the bars was to much For me as well.
I brought it into work and straightened everything using the level on my iPhone ... worked great.
Then I found a position I liked the bars, not straight but not so much angle.
You can see how much I rotated them in this pic.
I put a #6 screw in the hole and turned them till they hit the screw then welded the bars in place.
Took her for a spin and the steering felt heavy, the pressure was at 5lbs, brought the front up to 25lbs and the back to 10lbs ... felt better but still a bit heavy. Took her off road on the sand hill by the house and it was much better ... we will have to get her off road for some trail riding soon and see what's what.
The gearing is still too tall ... a OldMiniBikes member is sending me a 72 tooth sprocket, that will help.
I see eBay has an 84 tooth sprocket, I will keep that in mind.
The TAV's driver and driven engage too soon and they need to do that at higher RPMs ..
I will take them to work, make a tool to disassemble the driven, take out 3 of the pucks.
The driven will get its spring wound a little tighter.
That should force the driven and driver to start working at higher RPM's.
I wont know what I want till I feel it.
The jackshaft support needed some re-engineering to fit under the driven. I used carriage bolts the keep the heads as low as possible and not tear up the belt. The support mounting holes were slotted so it can be slid in and secured.
The motor starts hard and wont idle very well ... I suspect the lack of fuel filter might be a problem ... I will go back to the motor mounted tank next time the motor comes out.
That will likely be when the 30 degree valve seat cutter gets here from India.
It will get the new SS valves that I thought came with it installed .. then I can work on cleaning the carb and jetting ...
On the plus side I put the UNI air filter on with out the outer cover and it ran ok ...