Sir Fallsalot Posted August 23, 2024 Share Posted August 23, 2024 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 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YamaHead Posted August 23, 2024 Share Posted August 23, 2024 Solid fix there Fred.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted August 23, 2024 Share Posted August 23, 2024 Nice work Fred, that should stop it wearing anymore 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six30 Posted August 24, 2024 Share Posted August 24, 2024 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted August 24, 2024 Author Share Posted August 24, 2024 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busabeast Posted August 24, 2024 Share Posted August 24, 2024 cant see that wearing through any time soon, good fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 On the Beta group page someone pointed out the difference between the X Trainer and RR air filter cage and said on my bike their interchangeable which sounded correct as they use the same air filter. So i ordered one and it arrived tonight The one on the left is for the X trainer looks a bit more restricting than the RR one. The bike is running a little rich from new and is definitely thirstier than the 2022 bike so hoping this will help lean it out a bit without messing with the jetting. So put a clean filter on and fuck it don't fit. I placed the cage on a piece of paper and drew around it and the footprint of both cages are identical it's that locating spigot thingy is about 6mm longer than the X Trainer one I got my needle files out and started filing a new locating bump, after about 30 minutes it was done and it fits just need some time to test ride it now 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Is there any liklelyhood of you cleaning any of those bikes 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 9 minutes ago, boboneleg said: Is there any liklelyhood of you cleaning any of those bikes Just as well Pete isn't here to see this shit. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earache Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 35 minutes ago, Buckster said: Just as well Pete isn't here to see this shit. It'd kill him. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckster Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 25 minutes ago, Earache said: It'd kill him. Okay, who sent a picture of a dirty bike to Pete? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Fallsalot Posted Wednesday at 20:59 Author Share Posted Wednesday at 20:59 22 hours ago, boboneleg said: Is there any liklelyhood of you cleaning any of those bikes It's easier to hoover the mud off the garage floor 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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