Holiday time
Due to one thing and another cropping up at various times, my own collection of dirt bikes has been neglected a little recently. Like most enthusiasts I’ve a few bikes in the shed and they’re there for reasons which will be familiar to a lot of readers. Longest standing member of what has been referred to as ‘my fleet’ is the 250 Bultaco Sherpa T I’ve had from new and it was the subject of a rebuild series itself 20 or more issues back. The newest machine – as in new to me not ‘new’ new – is a TY250 Mono Yamaha, similar to the one I had in the Eighties and in between there are a scattering of British and European machines with one thing in common… they all need a bit of spannering.
Problems I’m facing include grumbling main bearings, leaking fork seals, worn gearchange shaft splines and a clutch needing strong hands to operate the lever. Actually this last one is also the tech feature here and involved the help of someone with more engineering ability than me to do the
