Oh my, that's not a site for sissys!  

ohiomoto wrote on 01/22/24 at 18:13:03:



right?? Those Germans and Austrians are tough!

Tanks Dave, thats good to know.

Installed taller rear shocks!
There is a lot of info here about 412s and I believe Serowbot has his bike with Intruder 800 shocks...?
I must admit, 412s are available here, but for the amount of cash that is ... khm, ever so slightly over the budget. And 800cc intruder is not that frequent on the roads... 125 Intruder however is very much available, and that makes parts for it going for peanuts. Weights are not horribly dissimilar, plus I no longer have a rear seat... so... Yeah, I've done it.

Now I know why the rubber bushing has a steel pipe bushing inside! The 14mm / 23mm-ish rubber bushing I could get from local ebay was without it, and it's an ABSOLUTE pita to mount the thing. Not to mention properly tightening the nuts. So If ever someone thought about installing it like car suspensions are installed... Better not.

The shocks are now 31cm  / 12,1" long.
Do I have to worry about something rubbing? I kept checking this very website, and adjusted belt / brake, checked that small bolt just over the lover section of the belt that was mentioned somewhere... Anything else?

And 1 issue:
Belt squeak: Adjusted it like advised here, twisting it 90 degrees (tight twist), and it still squeaks, especially under load. Seem to be worse when it's colder, wetter etc.
Never had a belt driven bike before, so is it like... normal?  

Also my front brakes now started to squeal, but I think that's now gone after a 15km ride...

You'd think that one would be ready for a trip less then a week before it, but somehow it just never the case is it??

Thanks a lot for any advice!

The ride there was colder, just over 0 Celsius, sometimes wet, mostly not. We got pretty lucky with the weather, it could have rained more, or be much colder. I could have been -2 and bone dry too, that would have been perfect.

At one point the rain thrown over the engine by the front wheel cooled it soo much down that i had to set it richer with the mixture screw so that it would idle.

We took mostly highways and 3 days, travelling only in daylight.
Bike made it pretty well! The only issue I got was that once i set it rich for the cold, when it got like 5 degrees warmer it rode awful just off idle, which happened a lot on the highway, so I kept turning that screw and never got it right again.

The new job is cleaning/rejetting the carb for a Dyna muffler, so it will be doen now properly.

And we got there!

heated grips worked perfect
the salvaged free screen that I mounted with some rough pipe clamps and zip ties, worked perfect
Longer shocks from 125 intruder were fine, newer bottomed, did not feel unstable.
seat covered with a bit of dead sheep, perfect, actually, 4 days riding fixed my back. (I had a bad back just before)
E07+ wintertire never slipped

Apart of the lightswitch needing some wiggle to turn on lights and the idle mixture it was all very reliable and good. I did most of my touring on Jawas, CZs before and I'm not used to this at all!

Very happy with the bike.
Thanks for all the info from this forum!

Thanks Dave, I'll check out the choke. It feels like it would not hold though, the spring pulls it back at the slightest touch. I guess it's worn. It's a 1987 bike.
Also, didn't those early models had notches on the needle with a circlip?
Well, I'll find it out soon enough and there are tons of info here about jetting, adjusting the carb. A HD dyna muffler is on the way already!