Beta workshop

[Sir Fallsalot]

Decided to start a thread on the ongoing maintenance and repairs for the Beta 

First entry was from some work last night when doing some maintenance i noticed the rear shock  mud plate has been rubbing against the swingarm I've heard this is common on the KTM's but not read any reports on it for the Beta's
The two scuff marks above the wear mark are where the air box is hitting the swing arm when my fat arse is bottoming the suspension out

I cut and shaped a bit of Ali to fit where the flap touches so that will wear out instead of the swing arm

I bonded it on with Tiger Seal the stuff used to stick car trim on good stuff

I sprayed it this morning with some stone chip for colour mainly because it's what i had kicking around not too worried about the finish it will be covered in crap next time i'm out

with the mud flap fitted and look at my shiny new non gay tyre 

[YamaHead]

Solid fix there Fred....

[boboneleg]

Nice work Fred, that should stop it wearing anymore 

[Six30]

21 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Decided to start a thread on the ongoing maintenance and repairs for the Beta 

First entry was from some work last night when doing some maintenance i noticed the rear shock  mud plate has been rubbing against the swingarm I've heard this is common on the KTM's but not read any reports on it for the Beta's
The two scuff marks above the wear mark are where the air box is hitting the swing arm when my fat arse is bottoming the suspension out

I cut and shaped a bit of Ali to fit where the flap touches so that will wear out instead of the swing arm

I bonded it on with Tiger Seal the stuff used to stick car trim on good stuff

I sprayed it this morning with some stone chip for colour mainly because it's what i had kicking around not too worried about the finish it will be covered in crap next time i'm out

with the mud flap fitted and look at my shiny new non gay tyre 

poor original design  ?

[Sir Fallsalot]

6 hours ago, Six30 said:

poor original design  ?

Probably, but i have found since looking at this that almost all bikes with the mud flap set up like this suffer from it. If you take it off then the rear shock gets destroyed with all the crap hitting it so its the lesser of the two evils i expect.

[busabeast]

cant see that wearing through any time soon, good fix