Raptor Chapter

As a side note my 71 BSA is getting fork mods that split damping duties between legs, Hi and low speed damping, comp in RHS , rebound in LHS, there wasnt enough to room to get both in each. Will find out how this goes soon. As for the Maxton works, although a bit spendy, everything else remains stoc...

Where there is pressure the spring goes towards it, not too critical in this application, I would put flat side out, spring side in.

Stock Raptor forks are under sprung and overdamped, they are fine until you hit a washboard road surface, then the overdamping fails to let the forks respond properly, it wasnt till I took my old Norton out over the same roads as my raptor that i realised this. The Norton being dead smooth and the R...

Maxton did my forks for about £400 years ago, re sprung and new guts, huge improvement.
Not a weekend job though , took ages, check for turnaround time.

I have done mine a couple of times, dont recall any real difficulty, if they are a bit stuck , heat will help, dunk in boiling water then press the seals out, dont pry, get a socket that fits neatly as the pusher and a big socket as the receiver, stick in vice and tighten , swap over for each side. ...

All good, thanks

You can change the exhaust note and gain power with a cam swap, this wont upset your neighbours much but it will add power and get rid of the two C50s having a playfight in their pyjamas note. New inlet cams are fitted from an FI SV650, , the old inlets are used to replace the exhaust cams, retiming...

hadnt visited for awhile, forgot password, new one is totally forgetable, how do I change it?
Sussed it eventually, senior moment.

A good alloy welder can fix this if you still have the other bit. i had a break at the same spot, got it fixed locally.

if you succeed in bleeding it correctly and its still crap, then probably the master cylinder is faulty. its well documented, a new one sorts it out, i dont know why they were so duff, i couldnt find anything obviously wrong with mine but it was pretty scubby, I suspect the internal non return valve...

Heres to the next 59 K, Ive got a spare motor just in case

Cracked half a ton on it earlier this year. Overall impressions, great bike, very reliable, it wears stuff out.Jist like most modern bikes. However it has a certain charm, a perky sense of devilment even,,it is a "bugger to go " as they say and doesnt like hanging around ,unlike most "...

If you want to upgrade the bike heres my take. Handling, if you are not short fit different rear triangles to lift the rear a bit, helps cure headshakes, and feels better allround, top value. For about £400 Maxton will rework the fork internals , this is a good fix for the undersprung overdamped sto...

650 brakes, same as a thou. I reckon all the original master cylinders ( rear ) had a type fault.
new ones seem OK, my rear has been fine since I changed the master cylinder.

Had the BSA since 1981, not the stock tank, its off a later T140, fits right on.
It is the bike I have had longest, still compares well on handling, big skinny wheels , not fashionable, but they work so well.