Meet up with Dave (and TS250) at Cromford -I have another new bike to try out.It's a Honda CT125 farm bike (big in Australia) has the TL125 type frame and other stuff from the 70s XL series.Sadly it's now been fitted with a pushrod CG125 motor.On the plus side it has lost the front and rear (sheep) racks! We drive up on to the top of the moor, to a track created by a local farmer that I rode many times last year. Oh Christ,what's this? Barbed wire fencing all round and a new pegged out circuit.We see an older fella come out with tractor and lock up.Apparently its now a pay track only open weekends.Bugger.We get the phone no. and make plans to come back,although I'm somewhat reticent to be getting in the way of all the superquick MX lads.We ask if we can ride the lanes outside? "As far as I'm concerned you can ride ANYWHERE round here" Well that's alright then!
So a simple hour is spent riding up and down to the quarry and back.Dave is the chauffeur for our mate Mark due to my single seat. Apart from one incidence of misfiring ( choke coming on over bumps) the CT125 runs fine,Dave's TS250ER also.So,despite initial disappointment have found out that the CT is Ok,which is what I needed to know.It's a fun little thing to ride albeit with zero power,a 19" front wheel and ridiculous single seat.So two days riding on two untested bikes went Ok (pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13418045@N08/ ).
The following day I stripped the TS185 racebike and put new rings in, still down on psi -needs rebore.That,as they say,is another story....!
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