Got a bike and a Kit and Now I Have a Couple Newbie Questions

[Frostbite]

I looked today M5, the bike has 32 hours on it and 639 miles.

Is that a lot or a few?

I was told the valves were just done and the piston was replaced as well, just because?

 

[M5-]

That's nothing, mine had over 400 hours on it and 6000 dirt miles before I had to re do the motor, it was still running strong just burning a bunch of oil. If you know the initial valve set has been done at about 10 hours your are good to go otherwise I would check them and set them to spec as they will move after break in.

Throw a JD jet kit there, gut the pipe if it hasn't been done, pull off all the smog crap and ride the crap out of it.


M5

 

[Frostbite]

Yes, the valves were just done and the bike has the JD jet kit and a FMF pipe from the header back.

I still want to make a wheeled dealy for the front ski. Does anyone have dimensions of their wheel kit?

How long are the axles? How wide is too wide?

It looks like I will be using 10" pneumatic wheels from Harbor Freight.

I will just order some aluminum rod off of Ebay and some rectangular block and just do it!

 

[kell8071]

Don't waste your money on the TS brake line. I went through this company on ebay and you get two 5' SS braided lines, washers and bolts for half the cost of the TS unit.

http://www.speedlinez.com/UniversalBrakelines.html

The initial investment is high so I'm all for finding ways to make it cheaper!

oh, and I built a wheeled cart but hated it and now just use a cheap harbor freight dolley to move it around in the garage.

Kell