so today, i got to say really sucked and really i want nothing to do with this sport anoymore. i had nothing but engine problems....... from the minute i brought the bike out of the car, to when i put the bike in the car. i lost miserably.... got 5th both motos, and almsot was getting lapped. but i fugured if i was gonna loose, mays well loose gracefully. so i did insane big jumps, and scrubed a few..... owell. so now for the engine problems.
i pull it out of the car, go to start it, and it takes about 15 kicks. i run the first practice, and i felt really good, and nothing felt wrong with the bike. i come back in, and all the sudden the motot dies and will not start for sh*t. so i go to start to wrench in the thing. i pull the carb off, reeds, and everything was out. (did this 2 times, and couldent figure out whats wrong.) now its the end of practice. and theres a riders meeting. i go (blaster still appart) and listen for a second, and check the race order. im the second race. so im like well this is great. i ran back to the car, took the reeds off the cage, and bent them the opsite way. put everyhting together. still wont start. and now its the end of the first race, so everyone in my class was at the gate. i had about 6 ppl helping me to try to stat this thing. i wind up jump starting it, and it started. but ran like sh*t. it was boggy as hell, and would not idle, and was spuing smoke. i got all my gear on, and bolted up to the gate got set, and the gate dropped not within 1 minute of getting it stated. i wind up falling in the second lap, and bent my bars, but luckly the bike did start up again(big realif, so this way i woudent get a DNF) i finished the race with bent bars, that were touching the tank. i get back to the pits, and the bike stalls. so i go to work on it. it turns out it was the reeds. they were not fully shutting. and it was just puuring gas into the cylinder. i had no top end power, no low end power, and no powerband. if i let off the throttle, it would stall and never start. i tore the bike appart again, and went eveywhere looking for reeds, and the only guy who would have them was racing. and i never saw him again. (he had a 250r and raced c i think) i i just bent them as far as they would go befor snapping, and played with them as best i could. finally i got them working ok. put everything back together, and it started on the 20th kick or so, and ran throuh the revs ok. sounded ok. took the carb reeds out agian, and put a TGIF fridays credit card half way down the reeds and bolted to the cage. started and ran fine. ran the second moto still had no powerband, or anything, and still lost miserably. but i will thank all the people who helped me get everything going.
so in total this weekend, i spent 1/8th riding time, and 7/8th fixing this bike. it really let me down this time. and this race got me thinking. this is my last year in school boy class. and i bombed it. theres no way i will be able to keep up in c class EVER! so i decided to sell my blaster and buy a 250r and do basic mods to it like porting and such. i have no idea when this will happen tho. i need a job first. so for now, i just need to do extensive work on the blaster tomorrow, and get it rdy for next race.
i will post somme pics in a second. but my mom dident get any of the big table, cause she was too lazy to walk over to the spot where u could see it from the stands and take a couple.
i pull it out of the car, go to start it, and it takes about 15 kicks. i run the first practice, and i felt really good, and nothing felt wrong with the bike. i come back in, and all the sudden the motot dies and will not start for sh*t. so i go to start to wrench in the thing. i pull the carb off, reeds, and everything was out. (did this 2 times, and couldent figure out whats wrong.) now its the end of practice. and theres a riders meeting. i go (blaster still appart) and listen for a second, and check the race order. im the second race. so im like well this is great. i ran back to the car, took the reeds off the cage, and bent them the opsite way. put everyhting together. still wont start. and now its the end of the first race, so everyone in my class was at the gate. i had about 6 ppl helping me to try to stat this thing. i wind up jump starting it, and it started. but ran like sh*t. it was boggy as hell, and would not idle, and was spuing smoke. i got all my gear on, and bolted up to the gate got set, and the gate dropped not within 1 minute of getting it stated. i wind up falling in the second lap, and bent my bars, but luckly the bike did start up again(big realif, so this way i woudent get a DNF) i finished the race with bent bars, that were touching the tank. i get back to the pits, and the bike stalls. so i go to work on it. it turns out it was the reeds. they were not fully shutting. and it was just puuring gas into the cylinder. i had no top end power, no low end power, and no powerband. if i let off the throttle, it would stall and never start. i tore the bike appart again, and went eveywhere looking for reeds, and the only guy who would have them was racing. and i never saw him again. (he had a 250r and raced c i think) i i just bent them as far as they would go befor snapping, and played with them as best i could. finally i got them working ok. put everything back together, and it started on the 20th kick or so, and ran throuh the revs ok. sounded ok. took the carb reeds out agian, and put a TGIF fridays credit card half way down the reeds and bolted to the cage. started and ran fine. ran the second moto still had no powerband, or anything, and still lost miserably. but i will thank all the people who helped me get everything going.
so in total this weekend, i spent 1/8th riding time, and 7/8th fixing this bike. it really let me down this time. and this race got me thinking. this is my last year in school boy class. and i bombed it. theres no way i will be able to keep up in c class EVER! so i decided to sell my blaster and buy a 250r and do basic mods to it like porting and such. i have no idea when this will happen tho. i need a job first. so for now, i just need to do extensive work on the blaster tomorrow, and get it rdy for next race.
i will post somme pics in a second. but my mom dident get any of the big table, cause she was too lazy to walk over to the spot where u could see it from the stands and take a couple.
