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Post by victor on Jan 12, 2016 22:54:41 GMT 1
Hi
Dismantled the cush drive on my F2 tonight and found that someone had added thin sheets of aluminium or hard plastic between the rubbers. Is this a performance mod? Condition of rubbers looks OK.
Greg
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Post by russpuss on Jan 12, 2016 23:00:40 GMT 1
I've heard of pieces of innertube cut up and used to take the slack before.
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Post by bazzer5115 on Jan 12, 2016 23:04:15 GMT 1
I did the same on my suzuki gp100 work bike(owned from new,now 36 yrs old with 98.000 miles on clock!)
I did it to take up play in worn Cush rubbers,so I suspect the same been done to yours,it's a common bodge!
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Post by JonW on Jan 13, 2016 6:33:15 GMT 1
its a bodge to lengthen the life of shrinking/worn rubbers. you can still get em new or buy good used ones...
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Post by billbott on Jan 13, 2016 8:20:22 GMT 1
I did the same on my suzuki gp100 work bike(owned from new,now 36 yrs old with 98.000 miles on clock!) I did it to take up play in worn Cush rubbers,so I suspect the same been done to yours,it's a common bodge! Surely this bike deserves a thread of its own?!! |
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Post by bazzer5115 on Jan 13, 2016 9:07:01 GMT 1
It would be one hell of a long thread.
The bike is in immaculate condition,and I could tell a few stories about our time together.I was a 19 yr old apprentice when I bought it and know I 56 yrs old and looking forward to retirement!
I will see if my mate will post a picture of it on forum.
Funny thing is back in the day there were loads of these gp100"s around as work bikes,now I think mine the only one still in daily use in plymouth.
Baz
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Post by tout on Jan 13, 2016 10:46:04 GMT 1
I did the same on my suzuki gp100 work bike(owned from new,now 36 yrs old with 98.000 miles on clock!) I did it to take up play in worn Cush rubbers,so I suspect the same been done to yours,it's a common bodge! Surely this bike deserves a thread of its own?!! Had a w reg drum and a y plate disc brake both blue, cracking little bikes . Fairy liquid bottle,cut into strips used to sort the Cush drive chain snatch probs |
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Post by steven on Jan 13, 2016 11:13:51 GMT 1
Hi Bazzer, I read your post at my work last night about your GP100 on my phone. The first thing I thought was, Wow ! I wonder how many rebores and re-builds etc its had? if its done 98000 miles. As I see others are interested in your GP100, I also would be keen to see it. I also have had my Zed since I was an apprentice, and it was NEVER off the road or not MOT,d until 3 or so years ago when I put my LC back on the road. I Have owned my Zed for 28 years, The only reason I sold my very first LC was to buy my Zed, and I always regretted selling the LC, so now I have my LC back on the road, Id like to get my old Zed back on the road again too. Was it a GP 100 or a GP 125 they had in the 1985 film Restless Natives ? We watched Restless Natives again recently for the first time since..... I had it on a VHS cassette, taped off the telly years ago. I enjoyed it lots, cant be many films that you see MK 2 escorts chasing GP100,s/125,s about. steven. www.imdb.com/title/tt0089904/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_Natives |
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Post by Norbo on Jan 13, 2016 11:34:07 GMT 1
lots of people do it to stop movement in worn rubbers
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Post by JonW on Jan 13, 2016 12:15:30 GMT 1
Ahh Restless Natives... superb fil-mmm.
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Post by bazzer5115 on Jan 13, 2016 13:20:03 GMT 1
It started life as a gp100u,wire wheels and drum brakes,in blue.
It now has 125 top-end(done about 15 yrs ago-bought a scrap gp125)disc brake,alloy wheels,and is sprayed in ford focus st orange,had my 2 race bikes done in that colour so did gp100 at the same time.
It had new crank at 65,000 and again at 93,000 been rebored at 35,000, 65,000 and. 93,000.
My mate going to try and post picture of it!
Baz
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Post by bazzer5115 on Jan 13, 2016 13:49:35 GMT 1
It's still got many original parts,including clutch,gearbox etc and headlight bulb not been changed for about 25yrs!!!
Bike is still in daily use,and will undoubtedly outlive me.
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Post by billbott on Jan 13, 2016 16:11:23 GMT 1
Looking forward to the pictures.
I was expecting a “Triggers Broom” tale, but it sounds far from it!
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Post by victor on Jan 13, 2016 22:35:17 GMT 1
Actually the rubbers do not look worn but can not tell if they have shrunk.
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