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General Two Stroke Talk / 2013 KTM 150 problems

« on: May 23, 2013, 11:59:21 PM »

Guys I think I solved it.

Frustrated at KTM I rang my dealer back up and told them to sort this out, so they said send the piston, cylinder, barrel and spark plug to them, so I did. They phoned today and said the bike was running too lean. So correct me if I'm wrong, the two times I ceased the bike up I was on the gas and there's not been enough oil going through making the bike overheat. I've never had this problem on my 2010 125 and I wish my dealer had said if your quite a fast lad then step up the jetting. I did some searching and I've heard 195 - 205. But I'll got on a KTM forum to find out most probably.

Thanks to everyone who helped to find the source of the problem you've been great help.

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General Two Stroke Talk / 2013 KTM 150 problems

« on: May 21, 2013, 10:56:27 PM »

Wow, thanks a lot for all your help

to answer a few questions

not sure with the octane, but it's unleaded petrol

Fuel to oil ratio is 1:40

Cooling and water pump is fine

Not sure about an air leak

Jetting is 185

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General Two Stroke Talk / 2013 KTM 150 problems

« on: May 20, 2013, 10:20:13 PM »

The piston is scratched on the exhaust side both times and has welded itself to the barrel, and the cylinder is scratched and chipped

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General Two Stroke Talk / 2013 KTM 150 problems

« on: May 20, 2013, 07:32:19 PM »

Let me tell you the story

Picked up my KTM 150 at Christmas and it's been a great bike all winter had no problem with it on my field, that all changed on april 16th. Decided to get away from my field and venture to one of my local tracks, it's a sand track but not stupidly deep, it ran fine the first session then two laps into the second session it stopped instantly. I knew the bike had ceased, and was surprised that after 8 hours of riding it had blown up. Got home that day and took the bike apart, the piston was badly damaged and that's all. I was advised to put a bigger jet in so I swapped the standard 182 to a 185.



after that the bike ran fine the next 2 weeks then just last sunday the bike blew up again 3 laps into practice, the dirt type was loamy.


 
what is going on why is it ceasing up? please help!!!

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General Two Stroke Talk / 2 stroke project (Update 20/05)

« on: May 20, 2013, 06:57:44 PM »

If you are going that route, try researching the Peregrine Falcon.  It is the fastest bird of prey (actually fastest animal) on earth.  It was endangered but is making a comeback, like the 2 stroke. Most people think birds of prey are pretty cool, however insects tend to gross people out me included.  My wife is in charge of household spider removal duties.

Thanks for the suggestion and it has a nice back story by them making a comeback, failed to mention that the animal i'm doing will be mechanical, I think a falcon won't be as hard to make using parts as the scorpion was.

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General Two Stroke Talk / 2 stroke project (Update 20/05)

« on: May 19, 2013, 09:26:34 PM »

Thanks for all the comments, I've updated the thread to let you know what I've been up to. check it out up top and give me some feedback on what you think.

The chicks dig 2 stroke thing is a kind of a good idea, I've already got some ideas floating up in my head

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General Two Stroke Talk / 2 stroke project (Update 20/05)

« on: May 07, 2013, 01:30:55 PM »

Thanks for that streaks, some more questions might be up soon.

Any more benefits to a 2 stroke compared to a 4 stroke if anyones got some will be great.

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General Two Stroke Talk / 2 stroke project (Update 20/05)

« on: May 06, 2013, 05:56:45 PM »

Introduction: Hello there, this is my first post of many on this forum. I'm a graphics design student from the UK with a huge love for 2 strokes and love riding them, I love beating 4 strokes on my KTM 150 be it 250, 350 or 450, just goes to show they've still got it.

Why I'm here: Enough chit chat time to talk about this project as I said I'm a graphics designer and I'm coming up to my final project in college. We can do what ever we want to do and my first thought was instantly 2 strokes. one of the objectives of my final project is to have some sort of client, who would review my work and say what they like and what needs changing on what I'm producing. I really wanted this to be a community project so I thought why not let die hard 2 stroke fans be my clients. you can get involved and decide what you like and dislike about what i'm producing, I want a project that we're all going to like at the end of the day and I'll be posting what i'm producing on here.

The plan: make a poster, magazine ad and stickers for KTM (I had to do it for a single brand) trying get there 2 stroke range back on the radar of advertising and get people to purchase there 2 stroke range, they produce ads for there 4 strokes so we're about to change that.

Conclusion: So basically that's all of it. I would appreciate if people would participate and take this seriously as I think it's going to be fun if everyone gets involved. sorry if i'm rambling on making no sense. looking forward to the weeks ahead.

UPDATE It's been a while since I wrote on here but i've been busy with this project, plus my 2013 ktm 150 blew up for the second time in 3 weeks so that's kept me pretty stressed, but anyway let me tell you what I have been up to.

Week 1 so basically week 1 I had a look at a few mx ads for inspiration after getting a few ideas I moved away from mx ads and started just looking at random advertisments and boy did I find some good ones.

Week 2 more research, but I really started to find an idea that stood out, while searching for advertisements I came across this http://thaiads.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/benznk.jpg this really got me thinking of like a "don't judge a book by it's cover" sort of style, two strokes are often taken for granted on there ability and this ad gave me an idea of saying "it may look harmless but it can do damage" obviously a crocodile doesn't look harmless so I took it a bit smaller. I started researching insects, while researching insects I came across the scorpion and thought "this is perfect" looking at a scorpion some are tiny and look nowhere near harmless but carry a massive sting I thought this would be great to simulate what a 2 stroke is like. So basically long story short I've thought outside the box and avoided mx all together and tried something different.

sounds very confusing but let me know what you think, remember this is a community project so if you don't like it I won't do it I have many other ideas this was just a popular idea and my teachers liked it a lot, but I wanted to check with you guys first to see what you think. let me know.

thanks for reading

SpeckleZz