mollami,
To heck with the Jawa Moto, I want the Jawa Girl.
More photos of her please! Maybe a few more of the bike too.
Thanks,
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mollami,
To heck with the Jawa Moto, I want the Jawa Girl.
More photos of her please! Maybe a few more of the bike too.
Thanks,
Haha, I want both :naughty: But I think Jawa Girls are extremely rare species, for example, there is evidence of only one in Internet of them :D
Found another! So you are getting a new old Jawa? Neat. I remember them from the old days going down the road fogging mosquitos.Quote:
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Oh my, a second Jawa Girl! Only 10 more and we can make a calendar :D
Nice. Have to say I dig quite much those retro Jawa Girls :D
Installed the rear carriage rack. Now the Jawa is ready for RTW or whatever :lol8:
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Jawa is not a racing machine. I am cool with that because it means I don't lose my driving license that easily. Bad sounds in that video, my Jawa sounds more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=80&v=Vez5IV5_-KQ
What kind of ignition is on your "Jawa" - old school, with contact breaker, or something newer?
CDI ignition. Should be reliable and pretty much issue free. Contact breaker Jawas has got a lot of hate.
Oh, that is good!
I heard from local "Jawa" riders so many... to put it mildly - bad words about "Jawa's" contact breakers.
BTW, did herra Simpanen revealed to you some mojo, how to start "Jawa's" engine without a hitch, something like - open petcock, choke, kick softly, contact, give some throttle and kick manly, or similar sequence?
Are "Jawa's" still fitted with "Jikov" carbs?
Yeah, it does have Jikov carburator. Have you heard anything of it? I have heard some bad things like that if would not be very quick to supply fuel as requested if you go full throttle. Not sure if it is the carb or that the Jawa have such a huge fly wheel that it doesn't get revs as quickly as some MX two stroke. I haven't had issues with the carb, but I have driven very tenderly as I am breaking in the engine. People bad mouthed MZ's Bing carburator too, but the mechanic was enthusiastic of it and said it is a good carb. I dunno what's wrong with people, they seem to appreciate only over engineered stuff in bikes. As an B.Eng. myself I appreciate the most simple, low cost, and reliable systems. An engineer should strive to design low cost, purposeful, and reliable systems. Guess "purposeful" in markets is some over engineered high price status bike?
Simpanen did instruct me to open petcock, open choke, and then kick three times, enable electricity, and kick once without touching the throttle at any point. Said it will start each time if cold engine. Appears to work. When I drove the machine to home I stopped to eat at half way. When I was about to continue driving the Jawa went "temperamental" :lol8: and refused to start up. I kicked it 5 minutes, thinking how I knew this would happen and how stupid it was to not drive the bike straight away to home. However, the man called who took me to the merchant and asked where I am. I explained the situation and he said that when he had IC 350 (his father and brother had Jawas) when the engine did that he gave full throttle when kicking so that the spark plugs would dry out. I was a little sceptical but chose to give it a go. Full throttle and Jawa showed signs of life. Another kick with throttle and it started up happily and idled like nothing would had happened :lol8:
I am in heaven. Cars should be four stroke, bikes are good if two stroke. We have in Finland a word "prätkä". I don't know what would be a good translation for it. Jawa is a prätkä, or the prätkä, even, with MZ, there is no question of that. It is not "moottoripyörä", which translates to motorcycle. Prätkä is not a humiliating word, it is like, hmm, the real thing with no faking motorcycle.
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Not by the way saying over engineered bikes would be bad. Just saying less than over engineered bikes can be good.
Underengineered stuff can be repaired, or rather "repaired", with spare parts from any local hardware store, like hammer, wire, zip ties, WD40, etc. You can't really fix a fuel injection on the side of the road, can you?
Yeah, local hardware store is the shop to get stuff, and there is no hi-tec to repair. When the design is simple it is usually easy to repair too.
From what I heard, those "Jikov" carbs (at least, those "Made in Czechoslovakia", up to early '90s) were OK, and I don't have a reason to believe that ever since something changed in a bad way. Allegedly, with well tuned "Jikov", "Jawa" consumes averagely 4,5 l/100km, (in every day life, from 3,5 to 5,5 liters). As practice shows, "Jawa" also runs nicely with "Dellorto" VHBZ 26 carb, but if somethings works nicely, why to experiment?
This little thing you mentioned about delay, when you quickly twist the throttle... It is the case with every single "plain vanilla" slider type carb, without acceleration pump or some similar... thingie. IMO, when you have small displacement, low power bike, this deficiency of a carb is not so noticeable - in any case, when you quickly open the throttle, your engine doesn't have enough power to spin-up rear wheel immediately and what you get is only this annoying growl. You will see for yourself is this peculiarity of slider carb bother you on your bike.
I see that "Jawa" still have, almost air-tight, full chain guard. Do you know what is the best chain lube for that sort of protected chains? A good molybdenum disulfide grease - grease generously and forget about it 'till the next decade. :lol8: I'm serious. You can go to car spare parts shop and get for patty cash a tube or two of CV joints grease.
One more thing considering chain. I think that "Jawas" are fitted with Czech "Favorit" chains. From my understanding, they were OK for low power bikes. But few years ago I bought size 415 "Favorit" chain for my old "Tomos" ATX, and fit him together with the new sprockets... I was unpleasantly surprised how much pretty soon he stretched. To be honest, I expected him to be much better. So, pay attention to the "Jawa's" chain too.
Thank you of the information, will have to get that grease, Simpanen said that is the best, but did not specify what kind of grease. I used grease in MZ too.
I am happy with the Jikov carburator, Simpanen opened one and it looked like a very simple carburator where jets are easily accessible. I don't care if my Jawa is a bit "temperamental". I can live with that easily :lol8:
moilami,
That Jawa looks nice but where is the picture of the Jawa woman that came with the bike?
Hope she is like the other one you posted.
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Hehe, the position for Jawa Style woman has not been filled. There are some candidates, curiously enough Jawa has attracted them, but the position for Jawa Style woman is not very easy to fill.
Here would be a picture of rainy day joy ride.
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Was a great trip, I totally enjoyed of the rain and the colourful autumn. Now I am looking forward to get winter tires for the Jawa.
I've heard that "Nokian" starts production of a studded "Hakkapeliitta" for motorcycles. :lol8:
BTW, what you got as a stock?
"Mitas" H-03?
Mitas 3.25 H-04 front and Mitas 3.5 H-03 rear. Love the Mitas H-04 on front, it does have some profile like well formed bust or rear of a woman!
In MZ I simply had Heidenau on the front and some MX knobble rear. Rear knobble worked very well.
Been thinking this to rear http://www.satapiikki.fi/epages/sata.../18MIC02340VKE
And this to front http://www.satapiikki.fi/epages/sata...ucts/18MI190VK
To me they look like they would fit on my bike.
But what does those numbers mean exactly? Like the rear candidate 120/90-18? 120 is width of course, but is 90 height or "profile"? 18 is obvious diameter, no probs with that.
What profile things I need to consider if I buy tires which are not the same "set" for rear and front?
If I have a 3.5 (inches?) rear tyre, it would be about 88 mm, so quite a lot not that wide as 120/90 tire. Too wide I guess? Should have 4.25 rear for that?
This shit was easier in the good old days when you just drove to the merchant and said do you have them winter tyres for me.
Edit: A nice math fail, 3.5 inches would be about 102 mm.
Heh, before "Heidenau", during DDR time, this factory was making tires branded as "Pneumant". Those tires were not consumable parts - they were for ever.
...And they had such a good grip, as much a marmelade on a flannel shirt. :lol8:
Seriously, if you are looking for some tires for experimenting, maybe you could try to order some "Petroshina" from your big eastern neighbors. They have factory and factory retail store in St. Petersburg, and the prices are hilarious - some 20 euros for 3,25-3,50 18" tires and 3-3,5 for inner tubes.
I had intention to hire my muscovite friend to shove in his pick-up some 18 and 21" "Petroshina" tires for me, but I was afraid of these heavy duty knobs. Those knobs oblige you to ride your bike through the mud and splash him all over. :riding:
Haha, knobbies are fun tires on slow speeds, say below 100 km/h, though 100 km/h is stretching them heavily and it can happen that knobs begin the tear off. I used knobbies on MZ, but I went to off-road and gravel whenever I could. Knobbies are not bad on tarmac on small bikes and slow speeds. I got them knobbies from Team Örthern, Husaberg Finnish importer – may the gods bless his memory – he had a small hill of used knobbies, of which some were just slightly used. That free knobbies thing contributed quite some to my off-road enthusiasm, I think.
Thank you very much of the Petroshina hint, will have to Google right away can I get them in Finland. If them are good in Soviet Russia, then they will do for sure in Finland too :lol8:
Petroshina http://eng.petroshina.ru/catalog.php?idd=19 and http://eng.petroshina.ru/catalog.php?idd=15 would had been just fine, just would need some spikes installed on them, but it seems can't get them in Finland.
This is especially for Zorge since he seem to be the only one who appreciates the Old Gods, that is Jawa and MZ.
"Riding a motorbike is a particular way of travelling. A genuine motorcyclists appreciates the endless ???? feeling of independence, the direct contact with the landscape, the great feeling of drivng down the unknown roads and lanes. Travelling thousands of kilometers with an MZ motorcycle is really a no hazard."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69fwIhU7xbI
Best stuff in Internetz! Them MZ people knew long before "adventure dual sport fame" what is the deal :clap::clap::clap:
"Old Gods"!?
Not only MZs and Jawas. There is sh...load of defuncted East European motorcycle factories - Pannonia, Sokol, SHL, WSK, Czepel, ČZ, Balkan, Simson, Carpati, Promot, Manet... It would be a shame if they get forgotten.
About "Petroshinas": here you go - now you have one itinerary for the next season. Take 100 euros, sit on a bike, go to St. Petersburg and buy two sets of tires along with inner tubes. :icon10:
St. Petersburg is helluva big city, there are almost more people than in the whole Finland, I would for sure get lost there :lol8:
Two of my friends visit Russia regularly to do shopping. Just checked from Google Maps, it is 327 km from here to St. Petersburg. That is nothing, especially since one my friend lives very close to the border, so I can spend a night there. Will have to apply for the Visa too, go do some shopping in Russia and explore authentic Russian cuisine :D