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Hi Everyone,
Riding Trials has given me some incredible experiences and over the years we have made some amazing friends! How good is to fly overseas, grab a campervan and drive to a Trial to meet with friends new and old to socialise. Have a bike waiting ready to ride for 2 Days, pay your money (NO License required)! Happy Days!

Thank you Geoff Lewis for preparing the GO Fantic which ran like a Swiss watch all Weekend! What a MACHINE !

What a FAN TIC TRIAL!

Some TASFANTICMANIACS! Nigel, Dungar Pilot and Ian (PickTas)
Donna snapped some action shots:




Thank you Everyone for making us feel so Welcome! CHEERS

Greg
How unusual it was to have 3 Fantics at one event in Tasmania.
I enjoyed riding round with you, and checking out the lines to take.

Donna has some nice photo's of the Mt Joy site here. The only comment I would make is.....perhaps you could smile a little when Donna takes your picture?
If you focus on smiling perhaps you will put your foot down a little more often Ha ha.

A lot of mainland state riders come for a ride and have a holiday in Tas, either before or after the Tas 2 Day Tas Title Trial.
We can store riders bikes for them while they do the tourist thing.
I hope you are enjoying your holiday at the moment.

Ps - Development work on the Fantic continues in the secret Fan Tas Tic workshop..... only in the dark of the night....

Ian

eagle wrote:Here is my Honda TLR 250 so far, i've got a small fibreglass tank to install yet

Very nice Brian, you have me curious about the rear mudguard. What is it off and any chance of posting closer photos, maybe from above?

picktas wrote:Greg
How unusual it was to have 3 Fantics at one event in Tasmania.
I enjoyed riding round with you, and checking out the lines to take.

Donna has some nice photo's of the Mt Joy site here. The only comment I would make is.....perhaps you could smile a little when Donna takes your picture?
If you focus on smiling perhaps you will put your foot down a little more often Ha ha.

A lot of mainland state riders come for a ride and have a holiday in Tas, either before or after the Tas 2 Day Tas Title Trial.
We can store riders bikes for them while they do the tourist thing.
I hope you are enjoying your holiday at the moment.

Ps - Development work on the Fantic continues in the secret Fan Tas Tic workshop..... only in the dark of the night....

Ian

We are having a great holiday thankyou Ian. Seeing 3 FANTICs lined up to ride a section was new to me as well. Mount Joy presented us with shale rocks that splinter off and slide about under your tyres, I have not ridden anything like it, but what a Beautiful place with cleverly set sections! Going new places and seeing how things are done has always interested me and everyone has their own ideas on how to do things.

Nigel was kind enough to give us a guided tour through the Man/Bike Cave today, some pristine and some works in progress, some quite Exotic! Now that is the biggest collection of FANTICs I have Seen!

Here is a sneak peak of Ian's FAN TIC, I especially like the back wheel spinning backwards, that is my kind of technology! The should express my feelings:

The rear mudguard is from Shedworks & it's called an EVO mudguard for Honda tlr 250, unfortunately it's not very flexible so i hope i don't crash to much

I've been working on my Cota 348 for weeks now trying to get it running better, so I can be part of the dinosaur, behemoth, gigantor or whatever it is unofficial class that Greg Harding dreamed up for the Easter 2 day trial
Part of that work was repacking the main exhaust and the end muffler
I got quite a surprise when I cut the back off the main section because the packing was made of something quite unexpected. If anyone knows what the original packing in these things is, please don't let on just yet until a few people have had a stab at it

Wild guess only, Asbestos ?

I`ll have a guess and say newspaper. Hopefully a Spanish newspaper!

Bully fanatic wrote:I`ll have a guess and say newspaper. Hopefully a Spanish newspaper!

With trials reports "Bultaco Wins Again"

Steel wool and wasp nests?

Yes BOGWHEEL, and you just beat sherpa, who also got the right answer. It was steel wool, tightly wound and there was a hellavalot of it and it took ages to get it all out

Sorry Terry, I managed to delete your bit about the writing on the flywheel.

The written reminder on the flywheel is mainly for my crap memory. It's been about 3 years since I had that flywheel off last and it is so nice to have a reminder like that when you are in a hurry to get ready for Easter. I also write on some motors that don't say on them how much oil to put in (like the mower)

Steel wool/mesh