any monkey owners on here

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powerplus
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any monkey owners on here

Post by powerplus » Mon May 07, 2018 9:17 am

hi

i was just wandering if there are any monkey owners lurking

barry

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Newtsalad
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Re: any monkey owners on here

Post by Newtsalad » Mon May 07, 2018 9:59 am

Indeed there are! :D Welcome!

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steveST100
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Re: any monkey owners on here

Post by steveST100 » Mon May 07, 2018 12:58 pm

Welcome Barry.

Yes i run the monkey bit of the forum.
Hows the bike doing?

steve g

powerplus
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Re: any monkey owners on here

Post by powerplus » Tue May 08, 2018 4:39 pm

hi steve

thanks for remembering me

yes the monkey is running fine but getting a little tatty now

best thing i did was lengthen the swing arm about 2.5" stopped it pulling wheelies on the steep roads

gearing is 18/39 and it pulls to around 8000rpm speedo shows around 55mph

but dont like to run that fast i stick to around 40 to 45

i am in portugal again and have had some runs up into the mountains this winter around 80 miles each time and the 110cc engine pulls great and does around 100mpg

im getting fed up with wearing out knobbly monkey tyres that the rear only lasts around 1000mls , front about 1500mls so will need to find something more modern possibly some scooter tyres

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Re: any monkey owners on here

Post by Tranberg » Tue May 08, 2018 5:00 pm

mynetmoto.com have several different non-knobby tyres in 3.50-8

https://gb.mynetmoto.com/shop.cfm/tyre/ ... tyres.html

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