Delay the decay!
WORDS AND PHOTOS: PAUL ‘THE ARTIST’ BERRYMAN
Two bloody years! That’s how long I’ve been devoting all my attention to getting this DR600 running properly.
If you read last time’s article you’ll know it’s had a new cam-chain, which doesn’t sound like a performance mod but it’s cured the previously miles-adrift cam timing.
That one small improvement has led to many significant benefits; it’s a different beast now, cruising and top speeds are way up, overall liveliness is much improved and it’s even more of a hoot to thump-thump-thump around the local country lanes. I’m genuinely hopeful the motor is now just about as good as it’ll ever get, as there’s not much else left to change. A tweak to the carburation on the dyno is all that really remains to do, but that’ll be saved for (yet) another part!
So, having hopefully cured the engine’s woes, it was time
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