Saturday February 22nd 2025 Kawasaki Z250A1 Scorpion Steve, Don and there able assistants work to complete the project.  There work included installing a second hand throttle from, all things, a KZ550.   They also installed new handlebar grips, a new gear change lever, a new rear tank rear mounting rubber and new aftermarket fuel tap.  When it came to time to start the bike there wasn't the slightest sign of life.  Various things were considered such a loss of spark, faulty condensers etc.  Because the bike had run at last year’s Llandovery bike weekend and its engine and carbs hadn’t been touched recently. It had to be something else.  Checking for fuel in the carburetors revealed that there wasn’t a great deal of it.  Disconnecting the fuel feed from the new fuel tap revealed that no fuel was coming out of it, despite a fair amount of fuel having been added to the tank. The fact that the problem was with the fuel tap was confirmed when the bik...

  Saturday February 8th 2025 Jiailing 125.  A new carburettor complete with a fully functional choke was installed and after a good few kicks the bike fired up, idled nicely, ran quietly and without obviously burning oil.  One or two more hurdles were overcome, these included fitting a new front brake cable.  The wheel had to be removed and the brake arm moved round on its splines to get sufficient adjustment in the cable but it worked nicely. The rear wheel spindle needed further tightening and the fuel tap was found to be leaking and in need of replacement. Another odd fault presented itself in the form of the chain appearing to jam at random.  The front sprocket was secured by two bolts and we believed it was smaller than standard, Every time the position of the split link coincided with the head of one of the bolts the chain appeared to jam because the link was touching the bolt head.  Unlike the other links in the chain the side plate on the split lin...