The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

General Category => General Announcements => Topic started by: MR.E on November 15, 2015, 01:46:24 AM

Title: Resurfacing
Post by: MR.E on November 15, 2015, 01:46:24 AM

Morning lads

Hope you're all well.

It's been a long while since I logged on!
Since last time we spoke we've had two girls after Pip and built a charity for kids

I also built a 1983 Dakar r65 replica, that's sold about a week later.
The race bike has gone a bit full on, I've spent a lot of time lightening the engine internals, each Conrad is 120g lighter and the gearbox has had 440g of weight removed

Got the crank to do, skim the heads etc, decided Togo all out and see what it'll do, at stock it did 33bhp at rear wheel with wets on the dyno, which I believe is standard output, I'm aiming to double the output

Anyway, hope to catch up with you all soon

Elliott

Title: Re: Resurfacing
Post by: montmil on November 15, 2015, 10:51:19 AM

Good to know you're OK, Elliott. We'll have your "missing-have you seen me" photo removed from the milk cartons.

Keep us up to date on the R65 race mods. Pics always welcome.

Title: Re: Resurfacing
Post by: MR.E on November 15, 2015, 01:56:19 PM

Cheers monte, didn't realise it created such concern!

I'll start a thread on the build, I'm still focussed on proving the R65 is a decent competitive engine, though the guy that raised the challenge I haven't heard from in a while but I'm still out to prove a point

All the best

Title: Re: Resurfacing
Post by: Ed Miller on November 16, 2015, 01:33:03 PM

I just noticed that Seiben?rock?  is advertising a big bore kit for the R45 and R65s.  I couldn't find it in their on line catalog yet though.

Title: Re: Resurfacing
Post by: Tony Smith on November 16, 2015, 02:07:26 PM

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I just noticed that Seiben?rock?  is advertising a big bore kit for the R45 and R65s.  I couldn't find it in their on line catalog yet though.

Be a good thing if they have dropped it.
Some time ago I put out a general call in the forums to try and find anyone who had fitted a bigbore kit to an R65 and was happy with it. I had one person tell me that they were, only to retract that a few months later when they experienced problems.

Title: Re: Resurfacing
Post by: MR.E on November 16, 2015, 02:53:28 PM

There is a kit floating around from the UK eBay fro a 750 r65 kit.

I'm happy with the R65 as a road bike, just proving it'll compete on track with the 750's, or it won't and i'll supercharge it so it does!!!

I read somewhere about an r65 with milled r100 barrels and RS heads that was a bit of a monster!

My main problem is to ride the bike in classic events it has to look classic, which means finding a rolling chassis to let me play with the old kids!