Hawk update.. front tire, fork brace and sprocket

OneLeggedRider · 08-05-2019, 03:15 PM

Just to let you know the bike is running starting and idling great still. Jay rode it today for an hour and a half and said it's a real treat to ride a bike that doesn't have any issues. And it still sounds amazing, I could hear him coming from a long ways off.

We started with installing the new Kenda Trakmaster front tire, it has a bizarre tread pattern with big open voids like a Swamper and has rave reviews on the mx track yet is still DOT approved. I warned Jay in advance that sometimes a front tire can be more difficult than a rear before we even got started. We gave the new heavy duty tube a light dusting of talcum powder and the tire was changed 25 minutes later.

I said to Jay "well that was pretty painless" and ofcourse that jinxed the rest of the day.

The brace, even though advertised for 19 and 21" wheels was for a 19" tire and if we had checked it for clearance with the tire on it we would have saved a couple hours of heartache and sorrow. And we had already drilled, bent and cut it so that's $70 down the drain.

After that we pulled the passenger pegs and brackets, and centered the license plate. Now it was on to the 13 tooth sprocket, easy peezy right? I mean Dan and others had done it without troubles right? Keep in mind I'm running the gold 520 O-ring chain.

We pulled the IMS shifter (which has so little clearance it requires an open end wrench and some swearing) and the sprocket cover, kicked the tire forward and swapped the 12 for the 13. I noticed Jay was having some trouble getting the sprocket cover back on so I said "gimme that" and pondered if I was overpaying him.. The cover infact would not go on so upon further investigation I discovered the chain had been rubbing it even with the 12 tooth on.

So I broke out the dremel and tapered the area that had been rubbing, no luck so I removed the section with an angle grinder. While doing so a huge spider crawled out of the cover onto my hand and booked up my arm! I tossed the cover across the room and almost tossed the still spinning grinder as well. After I calmed down we put the cover on.

The new tire is noticeably louder than stock and does have some vibration but Jay said it performed well. We have a hairpin sweeper down from my house and he took it at 65mph without ever letting up. And compared to the stock tire that had a bulge in it from the factory it's a huge improvement. And he said the 13/33 gearing is spot on, you can actually wind 1st and 2nd gear now and feels much better at highway speeds.

paulsstag · 08-05-2019, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by OneLeggedRider

Just to let you know the bike is running starting and idling great still. Jay rode it today for an hour and a half and said it's a real treat to ride a bike that doesn't have any issues. And it still sounds amazing, I could hear him coming from a long ways off.

We started with installing the new Kenda Trakmaster front tire, it has a bizarre tread pattern with big open voids like a Swamper and has rave reviews on the mx track yet is still DOT approved. I warned Jay in advance that sometimes a front tire can be more difficult than a rear before we even got started. We gave the new heavy duty tube a light dusting of talcum powder and the tire was changed 25 minutes later.

I said to Jay "well that was pretty painless" and ofcourse that jinxed the rest of the day.

The brace, even though advertised for 19 and 21" wheels was for a 19" tire and if we had checked it for clearance with the tire on it we would have saved a couple hours of heartache and sorrow. And we had already drilled, bent and cut it so that's $70 down the drain.

After that we pulled the passenger pegs and brackets, and centered the license plate. Now it was on to the 13 tooth sprocket, easy peezy right? I mean Dan and others had done it without troubles right? Keep in mind I'm running the gold 520 O-ring chain.

We pulled the IMS shifter (which has so little clearance it requires an open end wrench and some swearing) and the sprocket cover, kicked the tire forward and swapped the 12 for the 13. I noticed Jay was having some trouble getting the sprocket cover back on so I said "gimme that" and pondered if I was overpaying him.. The cover infact would not go on so upon further investigation I discovered the chain had been rubbing it even with the 12 tooth on.

So I broke out the dremel and tapered the area that had been rubbing, no luck so I removed the section with an angle grinder. While doing so a huge spider crawled out of the cover onto my hand and booked up my arm! I tossed the cover across the room and almost tossed the still spinning grinder as well. After I calmed down we put the cover on.

The new tire is noticeably louder than stock and does have some vibration but Jay said it performed well. We have a hairpin sweeper down from my house and he took it at 65mph without ever letting up. And compared to the stock tire that had a bulge in it from the factory it's a huge improvement. And he said the 13/33 gearing is spot on, you can actually wind 1st and 2nd gear now and feels much better at highway speeds.

I had to laugh about the spider , I think most of us react the same way even the really cool tough guys

I can see the note coming from Jay " oneleggedrider back in hospital with a spider bite and a deep angle grinder cut and his leg is broken again as he tripped up on the extension cord to the grinder "

I enjoy your posts
Thanks
Paul

**JerryHawk250** · 08-06-2019, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by paulsstag

I had to laugh about the spider , I think most of us react the same way even the really cool tough guys

I can see the note coming from Jay " oneleggedrider back in hospital with a spider bite and a deep angle grinder cut and his leg is broken again as he tripped up on the extension cord to the grinder "

I enjoy your posts
Thanks
Paul

I had the same thing flash through my mind. lol. I can hear him screaming like a little girl.

Happy to see some of it worked out. Just get some 3" wide flat bar and make your own fork brace. If I remember right you will need a 14" long piece.

wedooit · 08-06-2019, 11:55 AM

I hate spiders, and would have spoken some new verbiage, dropped the grinder, broke the wheel...yelled, searched for pest control spray bottle. Yelled for the mrs. WAIT the rest of the story….the mrs has a vendetta for the wasps and their nests....she sprays and blows them off with the pressure washer, and the next day they are back or near in the same places. Back to the spider....they die with carb cleaner........funny story one legged!!!!! Yes Jay would post, broken leg again, grinder cut needing stitches, 6 inch cut in jeans, cut grinder cord, broken favorite new grinder blade, broken grinder housing, cant find the housing that was tossed in the chaos, and pest control is on the way! LOL!!!

thanks for the story!!!!! good laugh!!!!

OneLeggedRider · 08-06-2019, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by JerryHawk250

I had the same thing flash through my mind. lol. I can hear him screaming like a little girl.

Happy to see some of it worked out. Just get some 3" wide flat bar and make your own fork brace. If I remember right you will need a 14" long piece.

The crazy thing is we had been fooling with the cover for a good long spell, I think it finally came out of hiding because of heat from the grinder.

Jay had the same thoughts on making a brace with flat bar. Said we could buy a long stick and make 4 or 5, test fit them and paint them gloss black and sell the rest for $75 shipped. I'm willing to bet folks would pay that price for bolt on convenience, maybe more.

**JerryHawk250** · 08-06-2019, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by OneLeggedRider

The crazy thing is we had been fooling with the cover for a good long spell, I think it finally came out of hiding because of heat from the grinder.

Jay had the same thoughts on making a brace with flat bar. Said we could buy a long stick and make 4 or 5, test fit them and paint them gloss black and sell the rest for $75 shipped. I'm willing to bet folks would pay that price for bolt on convenience, maybe more.

I was going to make one myself but never could find the time to do it. I was going to use aluminum stock and drill a few holes in it and polish it up. When I got the notification from Amazon that the fork brace was available I jumped on it.

McFailbutter · 08-09-2019, 09:53 PM

It definitely sounded like a lil school girl scream , when it happened. But tough guys, still have fears. And no one really like surprises.

McFailbutter · 08-09-2019, 10:00 PM

Now if we can only get get the old the running solid. Tired of coming back from rides on onelegged's bike, smelling like a hawk rider. Takes days to wash away.

McFailbutter · 08-09-2019, 10:00 PM

Old TBR*

OneLeggedRider · 08-10-2019, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by McFailbutter

Now if we can only get get the old the running solid. Tired of coming back from rides on onelegged's bike, smelling like a hawk rider. Takes days to wash away.

Well here's the latest. We tested the Hawk carb on the TBR7 and and no improvement or change. Seems all it wants to do now is idle, anything more and it just surges misses and pops. And it wasn't tank ventilation so we're plugging the weep hole. I'm thinking it's the ignition, especially because the problem got steadily worse over time. Hopefully his buddy Kyle (fellow Hawk rider) can get it hauled down here tomorrow and I can test the stator and coil. Kinda hard to diagnose something by word of mouth and over the phone.

We would have it purring already I guarantee you but cousin Jay has this weird affliction with Frisbee Golf, it consumes all of his free time. Now I'm not one to judge anyone by their sexual orientation, I worked at Disney World for 2 years. But this Frisbee thing..

First him and the fellas all strip down to their 70's Bruce Jenner athletic shorts and rub each other down with suntan lotion (don't wanna burn ya know), and then they chug a Zima and give each other high fives and rump slaps (kinda like the volleyball scene in Top Gun). After that I don't know what happens, he comes back sweaty and sore mumbling about so and so getting a hole in one.

But I'm confident we'll get his priorities straightened out with months of medication and electroshock therapy, and possibly a beer or three. And the TBR will run almost as good as the Hawk.

wedooit · 08-11-2019, 10:53 AM

What this about Jay!! I am laughing spilling my morning coffee!! Whiskey tango foxtrot!!! Great morning laugh! Maybe some China fumes will bring g home back! I am still laughing I can't type!

OneLeggedRider · 08-11-2019, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by wedooit

What this about Jay!! I am laughing spilling my morning coffee!! Whiskey tango foxtrot!!! Great morning laugh! Maybe some China fumes will bring g home back! I am still laughing I can't type!

Hahaha! Just me being salty that the bike isn't his highest priority. I knew I wanted a dirtbike and a 4 wheel drive from the time I was 6yrs old and nothing was more important and over the years I've had plenty of both. This is his first dirtbike ever and he's never owned a 4x4 to my knowledge. He enjoys riding but I've seen him let a few street bikes set after something needed work. Where as I wouldn't be able to do that, that's why I learned how to fix them at a very young age.

OneLeggedRider · 08-13-2019, 11:02 AM

Damn neighborhood hooligans out there fooling with my bike, I might have to get an alarm..

**JerryHawk250** · 08-13-2019, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by OneLeggedRider

Damn neighborhood hooligans out there fooling with my bike, I might have to get an alarm..

Looks like you picked up an extra 2 horse power just sitting in the yard.

paulsstag · 08-13-2019, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by JerryHawk250

Looks like you picked up an extra 2 horse power just sitting in the yard.

Looks more like 1 and a 1/2 horse power

08-05-2019, 03:15 PM	#1
OneLeggedRider Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: Stockport, Oh. Posts: 1,442	Hawk update.. front tire, fork brace and sprocket Just to let you know the bike is running starting and idling great still. Jay rode it today for an hour and a half and said it's a real treat to ride a bike that doesn't have any issues. And it still sounds amazing, I could hear him coming from a long ways off. We started with installing the new Kenda Trakmaster front tire, it has a bizarre tread pattern with big open voids like a Swamper and has rave reviews on the mx track yet is still DOT approved. I warned Jay in advance that sometimes a front tire can be more difficult than a rear before we even got started. We gave the new heavy duty tube a light dusting of talcum powder and the tire was changed 25 minutes later. I said to Jay "well that was pretty painless" and ofcourse that jinxed the rest of the day. The brace, even though advertised for 19 and 21" wheels was for a 19" tire and if we had checked it for clearance with the tire on it we would have saved a couple hours of heartache and sorrow. And we had already drilled, bent and cut it so that's $70 down the drain. After that we pulled the passenger pegs and brackets, and centered the license plate. Now it was on to the 13 tooth sprocket, easy peezy right? I mean Dan and others had done it without troubles right? Keep in mind I'm running the gold 520 O-ring chain. We pulled the IMS shifter (which has so little clearance it requires an open end wrench and some swearing) and the sprocket cover, kicked the tire forward and swapped the 12 for the 13. I noticed Jay was having some trouble getting the sprocket cover back on so I said "gimme that" and pondered if I was overpaying him.. The cover infact would not go on so upon further investigation I discovered the chain had been rubbing it even with the 12 tooth on. So I broke out the dremel and tapered the area that had been rubbing, no luck so I removed the section with an angle grinder. While doing so a huge spider crawled out of the cover onto my hand and booked up my arm! I tossed the cover across the room and almost tossed the still spinning grinder as well. After I calmed down we put the cover on. The new tire is noticeably louder than stock and does have some vibration but Jay said it performed well. We have a hairpin sweeper down from my house and he took it at 65mph without ever letting up. And compared to the stock tire that had a bulge in it from the factory it's a huge improvement. And he said the 13/33 gearing is spot on, you can actually wind 1st and 2nd gear now and feels much better at highway speeds.
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08-06-2019, 11:55 AM	#4
wedooit Join Date: Jun 2018 Location: Pocatello, Idaho Posts: 794	I hate spiders, and would have spoken some new verbiage, dropped the grinder, broke the wheel...yelled, searched for pest control spray bottle. Yelled for the mrs. WAIT the rest of the story….the mrs has a vendetta for the wasps and their nests....she sprays and blows them off with the pressure washer, and the next day they are back or near in the same places. Back to the spider....they die with carb cleaner........funny story one legged!!!!! Yes Jay would post, broken leg again, grinder cut needing stitches, 6 inch cut in jeans, cut grinder cord, broken favorite new grinder blade, broken grinder housing, cant find the housing that was tossed in the chaos, and pest control is on the way! LOL!!! thanks for the story!!!!! good laugh!!!! __________________ A family that works together, plays together, shoots and trains together, and sleds together, stays together. Second amendment! SkiDoo sleds, NOW 2 TTR225, and a BMS250. A couple of quotes (we are not farmers) "I don't get off the farm much" "Am too old school" I call the china bikes "the china syndrome". Last edited by wedooit; 08-06-2019 at 12:05 PM. Reason: laughing
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08-11-2019, 10:53 AM	#11
wedooit Join Date: Jun 2018 Location: Pocatello, Idaho Posts: 794	What this about Jay!! I am laughing spilling my morning coffee!! Whiskey tango foxtrot!!! Great morning laugh! Maybe some China fumes will bring g home back! I am still laughing I can't type! __________________ A family that works together, plays together, shoots and trains together, and sleds together, stays together. Second amendment! SkiDoo sleds, NOW 2 TTR225, and a BMS250. A couple of quotes (we are not farmers) "I don't get off the farm much" "Am too old school" I call the china bikes "the china syndrome".
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08-13-2019, 11:02 AM	#13
OneLeggedRider Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: Stockport, Oh. Posts: 1,442	Damn neighborhood hooligans out there fooling with my bike, I might have to get an alarm.. Last edited by OneLeggedRider; 10-30-2019 at 01:57 AM.
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08-09-2019, 09:53 PM	#7
McFailbutter Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 126	It definitely sounded like a lil school girl scream , when it happened. But tough guys, still have fears. And no one really like surprises.
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08-09-2019, 10:00 PM	#8
McFailbutter Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 126	Now if we can only get get the old the running solid. Tired of coming back from rides on onelegged's bike, smelling like a hawk rider. Takes days to wash away.
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