Hello from Spain

[culcune]

Late welcome from me. You probably won't have to tinker with the Qingqi as much as the others. Member 'snortin norton' has a very nice Norton. Again, welcome!

[Billy]

Hi! Great pictures! I remember way back, when Norway first win the Eu Football games Haha! But we are not good enough any more!

Congratulation to Spain!
Remember always to keep your rubber to the ground,... and don´t forget... when your wheels stop turning put your feet down!!
Regards Billy In the Pilippines

[Supersignet]

Welcome to the site. Congrats on the big win. Nice bike you have too. I hope to see some ride reports and more pics in the near future.
Mike

[forchetto]

And another think. Some of guys in Ukraine did open front fork. And its only one (left) side have a spring in it. So what do you think why is so? And is it give a good result to add spring to right one.

I partially opened my forks today to check and count how many springs I have. You can't see them in the photo as they're below the solid spacer tubes, but I can assure you that there are TWO of them...I think that your friends have made a mistake. With only one spring on one side the handling would be very soft and unbalanced.

[vladg]

forchetto some of my Ukrainian friends having idea to do work with engine but without service manual its still tricky. Could You scan and post torque specs from your manual of DR200. At least something better then nothing. Thanks.

[forchetto]

Will do as soon as the cat gets off my scanner and I've cleaned off his hairs...

[bigdamo]

I partially opened my forks today to check and count how many springs I have. You can't see them in the photo as they're below the solid spacer tubes, but I can assure you that there are TWO of them...I think that your friends have made a mistake. With only one spring on one side the handling would be very soft and unbalanced.

Hi
welcome

Some forks do indeed have only one spring in one fork leg.(my scorpa trials bike has only one spring)

There have been one sided fork springs around for along time I think I had a KTM 10 years ago with Marzocchis with one spring.

Mtb bikes are pushing the bounds with this technology.

[forchetto]

Some forks do indeed have only one spring in one fork leg.(my scorpa trials bike has only one spring)
There have been one sided fork springs around for along time I think I had a KTM 10 years ago with Marzocchis with one spring.
Mtb bikes are pushing the bounds with this technology.

You're right. Thinking about it, if the triple clamps are rigid enough and the single spring is rated correctly there's no reason why a single spring won't work.
There's a bit of weight saving there as well.

I've been to a site to see that trials bike of yours...amazed by the weights quoted, something like 71 kg or 158 pounds, I've got a Honda Dax ST70 replica that weighs more than that!.

[forchetto]

forchetto some of my Ukrainian friends having idea to do work with engine but without service manual its still tricky. Could You scan and post torque specs from your manual of DR200. At least something better then nothing. Thanks.

Here they are, in .jpg format:

Chassis Torque settings for Suzuki DR200SE:

http://www.telecable.es/personales/a...quechassis.jpg

Engine Torque settings for Suzuki DR200SE:

http://www.telecable.es/personales/a...rqueengine.jpg

General chart for bolts not listed in other two documents:

http://www.telecable.es/personales/a...quegeneral.jpg

[vladg]

Thanks Forchetto for help.