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Old Feb 22, 2014 | 08:08 AM
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He said it was someones old race bike and if i grandma it, it will run like **** cause it wants to accelerate hard all the time.but also dont race it. Old race horse
 
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Old Feb 28, 2014 | 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by sephrin
Got bike back yesterday. Compression jumped up to 210 215 212 217. Fires right up.

Mechanic said this is the last time it can be shimmed. But also said its got stage 2 or 3 jetting, done correctly. He said it was so
Uh, WUT?? Compression numbers for your bike is only 185-191psi.

Your "mechanic" says so and this means what exactly? If you get into the habit of taking a shop's word as gospel, I see alot of rides in your future and I dont mean the good kind.

Its cool if you dont wrench on your own bike. But(especially with an older bike), I would still get a manual and educate yourself as much as possible. Then when something fails thats outside your reach, you have a pretty good sense of what caused it and what repair would entail when you take it somewhere.
 
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