Bob Farnham vs. Taymar Racing

[LC'Adam]

Both these guys have offered to lap the top of my cylinder to the head and do a 'mid range boosting' port overhaul. They also offered to do a reed block mod. As well as checking the bore/piston/rings and adjusting where necessary.


Who do you think will offer the best quality to price ratio?

[LC'Adam]

I am swaying toward Bob cause Taymar said they don't do tuning if you have a Micron cause they hole pistons

I would use Stan but can never get hold of him unless you call his premium rate line and the quality of his work is a bit of a grey area

[lcowner]

imo that premium rate line is a real piss take,who the f**k does he think he is?well i know who he is but u catch my drift!

[LC'Adam]

I know mate yeah, he was very rude to me last time I called. The word is he hardly ever does the work him self any more (gets monkeys and clowns to do it). He just sits manning the premium rate line all day. Then occasionally fettels old air cooled engines when it goes quiet.

My next door neighbors sent 2x KX125 barrels to him to be bored out, re-plated and tuned. They were both returned with incorrectly assembled power-valves that fouled the piston when engine was running.

Then low and behold after much agro, he refunds them, sorts out the problem and then announces he no longer does motocross work..... hmmmm

Bob seems a nice guy, Martin at Taymar left me in an awkward position when he said he doesn't tune bikes if you run a Micron (of which I have fitted )

It does leave Mick Abbey (who is a seriously nice bloke) I spoke on the phone to him (normal rate land line) for over an hour about LC tuning, BUT he doesn't offer a rebore service or any head modification/skimming

So its looking like Farnham to me.

Any one had dealings with him?

[Norbo]

id just go with the best price .

[mellow]

BOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO BRAINER!!!!!

MUCH better than stan....always has been.Reliable decent tunes
not forgettin free advice n chats for ages ;D

[mellow]

yeah i been to bobs.....obviously lol.just up the rd from me

[LC'Adam]

Yeah, thanks for the confirmation mellow.

Love my big rant about Stan, epic

Bob the 2 stroke builder it is

[stuboy]

I remember taking a stan stevens tuned bike back because it had a intermittent ignition fault.
It went back 3 times and each time he had it a week and he said he could find no faults.
When it went wrong the fourth time I looked at it myself.
As the rotor came off I noticed that the woodruff key was stuck to the inside of the rotor.
I could find nothing wrong so I reassembled the engine. When I went to put the rotor on I tried the woodruff in the slot and noticed that it was very tight. On examination it had a burr which was snagging on the rotor. As the rotor was going on it was pussing the woodruff key out. Consequently the rotor kept slipping !!! I filed the bur off and never had the fault again.
Whos the expert !!!!!!

[nikfubar]

Mick Abbey does do rebores, just got my barrels back from him. He did me a fast road tune & said the bores didn't need doing so just honed them.

[r1olly]

Had my rd 500 pv rebuild and tuned by bob yrs ago, done top job

[carlos]

I used Taymar for my engine rebuild, really helped me out, got me loads of bits, and I didn't wait too long! He also got me a Gibson pipe with nowhere near the wait that they were quoting! Again it's not far from me so it's easy to pop in and talk to him!

Obviously i've never used anyone else, so I can't make a direct comparison, but then I won't ever use anyone else!

[twostroker]

May 12, 2011 21:19:17 GMT 1 mellow said:

BOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO BRAINER!!!!!

x1

[portgrinder]

Hi All I can offer a re bore service my only problem is that I don't do them my self as I don't own a boring bar so I have to send them 40mls away to get done by my man in Teesside that I have used for yrs as I now live in Harrogate and no boddy does them around here it is a pain But on a brighter note I can now offer head skiming and re profiling for single heads for £20 ea +post

Mick

Mick