richardg
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There were 3 known 2-stroke tuners I recall: Stan Stephens, Padgetts and Terry Beckett.
I think Terry Becket was your man.
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I think Terry Becket was your man.
Honda CB200
Honda Superdream 250 - Nicked from garage.
Kawasaki xj400
Honda CX500
A rest for 10 years whilst the kids were small
Kawasaki ZX6 G2 ( Ithink it was the very one reviewed by men and motors on youtube.)
1998 Fireblade - A beautiful dark blue and gold colour.
2002 R1
2007 ZX10 Ninja - Bought from new and still in my possession. I don't ride as much as I used to, but I still take an annual pilgrimage abroad each year with some like minded friends.
Honda Superdream 250 - Nicked from garage.
Kawasaki xj400
Honda CX500
A rest for 10 years whilst the kids were small
Kawasaki ZX6 G2 ( Ithink it was the very one reviewed by men and motors on youtube.)
1998 Fireblade - A beautiful dark blue and gold colour.
2002 R1
2007 ZX10 Ninja - Bought from new and still in my possession. I don't ride as much as I used to, but I still take an annual pilgrimage abroad each year with some like minded friends.
He was from down south but the name prompted google. Terry Beckett was the one from Nottingham. As I recall pretty much all the proddy bikes that went well were tuned by one or the other.
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I did my own tuning and still have my trusty riffler from back then. I remember most of those names but not the last two.
richardg
Admonishtrator
Yes I did mine too. I remember getting a wood file from the garage, and without even taking the barrel off, just made the ports on my DT100 bigger. Made ****-all difference surprisingly.
Not one to be put off, I then had an MBX125, put an All Speed on it, K&N filter, filled the ATAC exhaust chamber with exhaust filler. Couldn't be arsed jetting it because it immediately went like stink. 3 weeks later, I put a hole in the piston trying to get a ton out of it down the Beverley bypass.
It was never right after that.
Not one to be put off, I then had an MBX125, put an All Speed on it, K&N filter, filled the ATAC exhaust chamber with exhaust filler. Couldn't be arsed jetting it because it immediately went like stink. 3 weeks later, I put a hole in the piston trying to get a ton out of it down the Beverley bypass.
It was never right after that.
James
Lord of the Erg\o/s
I had come from a GSX250, so I knew little better. The power on-tap, in comparison, was frightening. My last bike, a Yamaha FZR-1000W, was infinitely better in every way - but I did not feel the same attachment to it. The GSX1100 had soul.
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Oh I was a bit more scientific than that and had good results. I had "Two stroke tuning" by A. Graham Bell and loads of tuning articles by Matt Oxley in one of the bike mags which gave precise instructions. Ports were raised on exhausts, widened on transfers and lowered on inlets, radiused and matched to one another, heads lapped in without head gaskets to maximise squish, extra base gasket to raise transfers and inlets etc etc... Harpower reed valves with cut out and gas flowed reed cages, allspeed expansions, no air filter but airbox had to be kept or it just didn't run, 15 sizes up on standard main jets!! 2 clicks up on needle jet, Gold palladium plugs, pre mix in tank lube with racing 2 stroke oil, autolube not used. It was fun.
-alan-
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Did it work ?
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Yes. As I outlined in a previous post. And it remained reliable!
-alan-
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You must have been doing something right 
Was put off thoughts of tuning my own RD after taking it to the local main dealer for a service, hammering it down the local dual-carriageway flat out with the new-found turn of speed, and then coasting to a halt with a holed left piston less than 15 minutes later. 'Nothing to do with us mate, must have been on its last legs before you brought it in' . Ended up paying them for the collection of the bike, new parts, and the repair work. Oh the gullibility of youth.
Was put off thoughts of tuning my own RD after taking it to the local main dealer for a service, hammering it down the local dual-carriageway flat out with the new-found turn of speed, and then coasting to a halt with a holed left piston less than 15 minutes later. 'Nothing to do with us mate, must have been on its last legs before you brought it in' . Ended up paying them for the collection of the bike, new parts, and the repair work. Oh the gullibility of youth.
richardg
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Lol same issue as me upthread except I did it myself. Since learnt that Increased air flow requires increased oil and fuel flow. One size up on the main jet would have probably avoided that.You must have been doing something right
Was put off thoughts of tuning my own RD after taking it to the local main dealer for a service, hammering it down the local dual-carriageway flat out with the new-found turn of speed, and then coasting to a halt with a holed left piston less than 15 minutes later. 'Nothing to do with us mate, must have been on its last legs before you brought it in' . Ended up paying them for the collection of the bike, new parts, and the repair work. Oh the gullibility of youth.
Depends on the cause. I holed a piston in my X7 halfway to London because the rubber boot around the air inlet was loose (my fault). This strikes me as the type of mistake that could be made servicing a bike. I was aware it was going remarkably well just before it failed but since this was my first bike the change in performance was not a cause for concern but (short lived) joy.
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With 15 sizes up from standard mine had the Arkless-Yamaha TLPCS..... total loss petrol cooling system!
-alan-
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Y'know I often wondered what the cause was - had assumed they must have set the points wrongly, but that's another suspect, and given that they tend to make more power when running lean, a much more likely one. It was actually striking just how well the thing was going - right up to the melt-down
Tricky things strokers..too much oil in the mix and you displace fuel volume, which makes it run leaner, and more prone to seizing. Almost counterintuitive.
RustyB
Registered Ginga
I'm with you on that one. I found those first Ducati V twins, for all their engine lovliness, to be stupidly slow steering to almost comic degree. Ahoy, corner coming up...start counter-steering now.... No chance to change line if you needed to. That's what you get with 5 inches of trail, 30 degrees of rake and a long wheelbase. Maybe those who reacted positively to the Ducati's stability had had one too many scary moments aboard wobble-'sakis.