Floydy Racing engine build, Zeeltronic ignition, phenomenal exhausts by Mark Dent at Performance Fabrications
3D printed grab rails – one way to get round a spares shortage
This is what you find on a 1980s bike
And this is what you can do with a clean up and fresh connectors. You can also work wonders with a brass brush and ultrasonic cleaning
Dave and Ian’s TDR250s
This was actually two TDR250s one after the other, but I forgot to take many pics of the second one which belongs to Ian Davis of the superb ETTO Motorcycles. ETTO stands for each to their own and it’s one of the best custom engineering shops in the UK. One day, you’ll see his one finished, and it will be awesome.
Also pretty neat is the one you see here, belonging to Dave, who works just up the road from Ian. The loom itself isn’t too complicated (though if you want to keep the original ignition system connectors only Kojaycat can provide them. But I digress). The big thing with TDRs is chasing out all the tiny sources of unreliability. Wires get chafed, corrosion creeps in, bulbs seize in their holders, and previous owners behave like apes with spanners.
Anyway, they got new looms. I decided to wrap them because that’s what Yamaha did, and anyway the odd central design, which is like a spider, won’t work with any other method.
You might be tempted to leave the warning lights. They look OK
But here’s what decades of chafing do. The wire insulation has rubbed right through
And the bulb holders are so corroded they don’t light the bulbs. Which are covered in crap anyway
