Thursday, December 17, 2015

Breathing

At current settings, my plug was pretty black and sooty. I knew the Uni filter I had squashed into a space too small for it was clogging air flow. This new system breathes much better.

It's been a while...

The latest and greatest of the Tracker.   I hated, hated, hated the less than 2 inches of travel from the stock Ryca fork lowering kit.  Chipped my teeth everytime I hit a bump. I looked at all the options that would allow upright standard handlebars and the ability to raise the fork tubes in the triple to lower the front end so that I could get rid of the spacers that limit my travel to 2.0 inches.  I finally sprung for a new triple set with stem, from Cheney Engineering.  Love it, works a dream.  I now have full travel up front and the bike is like a new motorcycle. Oh ya, got Rycashawn's front brake caliper upgrade and a Nissin 14mm master cylinder.  It will lock the front wheel now. Love it, R1 brakes on the tracker haha.

 What's next?  Probably painting the tail, maybe extending the exhaust and hopefully a TM36 pumper carb for maximum pleasure.  Already heated and bent the kickstand so I don't need a hockey puck and 2x4 to keep it from tipping over.  Longterm plans:  Lithium battery, new battery box, hinged seat with storage below and some more traditional old school flat track bars.