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Oh that’s a shame Al, my RD400 had a partial seizure last time out, but I haven’t investigated it yet. However there is a guy called Mally on the RD400 forum hat had issues similar to mine and it turned out to be aftermarket pistons that expanded too much as it was poor quality. So if you find the ...

tony.mon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:37 pm Otherwise, bring the KTM, it'll be a laugh seeing that launch. Good luck with finding the parts.

That was my fall back as I don’t think the storm clutch going to enjoy drag starts

Well that’s a huge step backwards! With the 1st drag outing less than a month away, I thought i would start her up, get her up to temperature and make sure all the basics are still working. After wam up, did a couple of hard starts from about 3 to 4000 revs just to see it it wheelies or spins (it sp...

There is joyful simplicity to rebuilding a little 2 stroke engine

Chaingaurd is required as part of the regulations for the straightliners organised drag events. Looking at the one on my firestorm, i thought it could be a good starting point to fit the RDs braced and extended swing arm, so I contacted Frank & Mac inc, and got a spare one. Some Dremel cuts a ta...

Happy birthday mate

Welcome to the clubhouse

Belated giant birthday greeting

Welcome to the club, good luck with the recovery and rebuild

Happy birthday mate.

Wow, that brought up some great racing.

Good to see at least 2 of the old number two riders in last years factory teams coming to life, now they are not in the shadow of the big star who used to take all the attention on the other side of the garage.

Good work mac and well done to all the winners

Not sure what it is that makes this Forum one of the best on the internet, but it might just be the type of people that the Firestorm attracts ….. they are a bit more genuine (less of a W@nker) than the average keyboard warrior type that are on other groups. Based on that I recon you should stay :th...

My plan for this years Spain trip is to copy the route that these guys called “Motorcycle Diaries” used in this great biking video. https://youtu.be/A0nVcbAGgCs?si=04hqWF4x-4jupwsb I copied the freeze frame picture from the film of the route IMG_0202.png And reverse engineered it to establish all th...

There has been a change of date to the weekend before. The title of the first post now has the new dates.


Friday 2nd, Saturday, 3rd, Sunday 4th.