Trials Construction Under Way

Contemplating the dirty deed, Hockey-boy waxes philosophic over how to best lay out a section for this week-end's event at the Ranch at B&J Racing. The Scottish format trials has become a hit with many trials riders, in that they don't have to remember which line to ride.....

Here we see several of the illustrious ITSA/B&J trials lay-out crew hard at work. Note the deep reflection and contemplation of the task at hand on the face of our test dummy. If we'd used Mr. Nubbie then he'd of been our crash test dummy.

The recent bit of tornadic weather at the ranch played havoc with the loop and our sections. As a result there are new sections and pieces of the loop will be new too! Even our existing sections got an update and are even better than ever.

We'd like to Thank our lay-out crew from this past long Thanksgiving. Thanks to Mennonite Mike, Mr. Nubbie, Hockey-boy, Trialsrooster and Parsley the Log King.

Come watch, come play, come join the fun. Saturday, 12/03 is the final event of the 2005 ITSA Championship series (followed by year-end awards banquet); Sunday, 12/04, is the first event in the 2006 ITSA Championship series.



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ITSA Finale and Rewards

Our final ITSA (International Twin-Shock Association) trials for the 2005 season will be held out at the ranch on December 3rd. It will be followed immediately that evening by our end-of-year awards banquet to be held at The Lunchbox in Dickson. We will be treated to some good home-cooking and to see your choices click HERE for the reservation form. Please note that we are needing an accurate head-count to accomodate everyone. If you're planning on attending just fill out the dang form and send it in along with your payment! We are looking forward to seeing all of you there. We're also talking about breakfast on Sunday morning.......

Then on Sunday the 4th we will open our 2006 ITSA season with Round #1 out at the ranch with a whole new loop of sections.

Click HERE to check out the ITSA points standings on the B&J website. It would be a good idea to check out the standings closely, because there are several classes that are very tight and could be won by any of two or three folks. If you're not in contention you will want to come and watch the whining and bickering that might ensue!

See Ya'!

Ragged to Riches El Finito

We were gonna' show you a picture of the installation of the tank, but the picture quality was less than desireable (in other words they suck). So instead, we decided to go ahead and show you our finished cosmetically updated TY175 project.

So basically, what does it take for a good cosmetic refurb? First of all, give it a bath. Then grab a couple cans of high quality rattle-can paint and decide what you're going to shoot and then prep your parts properly and spray away.

Now that the paint looks so shiny you can't possibly put those old ragged fenders back on. So add the front and rear fender of your color choice with a new rear inner-fender and a front mud-guard stay.

Then toss your ripped and duct-tape repaired seat and rusty dented leaky cosmetically challenged fuel tank aside and replace it with our one piece shiny un-molested tank/seat unit. This tank comes as you see it with the decals, but it is finished in white gel-coat and can be easily painted in any scheme or color that you desire.

So go ahead, take your bike apart, choose a color and a graphics scheme and be creative. Turn that pigs ear into a silk purse.

Compare our before and after pictures above. How'd we do? Any questions or comments? Let 'er rip.

Team Poverty Rides.....

Gas Prices becoming a problem? Don't stay home. Stay tuned for how to mooch off your buds and save money.

Brought to you by Team Poverty, a.k.a. B&J Racing. Above you see Team Poverty's Tracker wagon and our vintage Holsclaw two-rail trailer, soon to be three-rail. Anybody know of a spare Holsclaw rail?

It's parked in front of Mike Parsley's lavish motor-home. Mike had the honor of being Team Poverty's first victim. We arrived in time to see Mike parked in a nicely shaded campsite. Thinking this would be a great place to park we pulled in to say Hi! After the usual greeting Mike inquired as to where we were staying and we proceeded to take that as an open invitation and moved in with him!

And later when dinner time arrived Mike inquired as to whether we had any food with us. We informed him all we had was drinks, but would be happy to un-hook the Holsclaw from the Tracker and drive all the way back to town to pick up some stuff to put on the grill. We had brought our grill and charcoal for such an occasion. Mike said he had plenty of chicken to go around and had some chili that he could make up also. So we took him up on it and didn't un-hook the Holsclaw and we mooched dinner off him too!

All that mooching worked real well and this week-end we are headed to Jonesboro to try out some more of our mooching skills.

We are currently welcoming comments from the jaded masses (Mark Sturtevant).

Ragged to Riches Part 3

All righty.

We just couldn't resist showing you this neat little can of Silkolene RG-2 synthetic grease in a cheese-whiz type of a can. Granted it would probably be infinitely more interesting to actually see something mechanical happening but this grease in a cheese-whiz can is the bomb. Everyone here got a pretty good chuckle at the idea.....until we used it! This ingenuous idea makes dispersing the grease where you need it much more accurate and less wasteful. Not to mention the savings in shop rags and soap used in trying to clean a good synthetic grease from your hands. That brings us to the point of the grease itself. Silkolene Pro RG2 is a waterproofing synthetic grease. It was designed for bearing and chassis lubrication where wet conditions are involved. It works! Also, this keeps the contaminents out of the grease because it's all sealed up in that little squirt can.

What you see happening here is the final part of the installation of some trick tapered-head bearings. The stock bearings were pitted and non-captive, which means that Bob lost most of 'em upon dis-assembly. (Sorry....those little balls just go everywhere!) Our taper bearing kit is easier to install and taper bearings have more load bearing surface. This provides smoother operation and better feel to the rider, plus properly maintained they'll last forever.

We put new seals in the forks. The tubes were fine but the clear finish Yamaha had put on the lower legs was is sad shape. We painted the lowers to fix this and change the look.

We added one of our generic front fenders and mudguard stays. We prefer this to the stock fender as the stock unit can become clogged under muddy conditions making for interesting entertainment for your friends. For this reason it was quite a while before I told Pee Wee about this benefit!

So it's on to putting the engine and wheels on.

Check back next week, it's time to see what we're doing for a tank and seat.