10-21-2021, 05:53 AM
(10-21-2021, 05:36 AM)Django_imp Wrote: As already said, the RD was my first bike when I was 18, had it 5 years and about 93 tkm. Disassembled it once to every single screw and put it together again. It had the 3rd overbore and the 3rd crankshaft. Carbs were no problem, but you had to keep them clean, hole in piston otherwise.
Really liked it, but fuel consumption was really bad, and then the oil...
Hole in piston - yep, had that on my 250X7 and my T500. You would think it would be catastrophic wouldn't you but just split the cases and remove the molten pieces, new piston and away you go again. I never knew what caused it on the X7, on the T500 I had a rubber air inlet leak making the mixture a little weak, one hot day took me over the threshold and I came to a halt on the side of the road.
It was by a farmers field. My parents house was the other side of it so I made a beeline for it, I got six feet before I stepped on a plank of wood with nails in it. I managed to get a nail, it went through my boot, my foot and out of the top of my boot. A big mad rusty bugger, it was a very long walk over that field!