Help with TY 175 bits please. TIA

[Vagabond]

G’day, I’m new here, but I need a bit of advice.

You see, I’ve just been given a TY 175. Now, before you get all schadenfreuded, I should point out that I bought my second wife a nice new (yellow) one…I think it was my second wife— it was that skinny one… and I’m still running around on it on my land in Killarney. So I have a little credibility on that score, and the one I’ve been given, is not what you’d call mint. I’ll bring it back, but it’ll need a few parts. I’m well aware that most of the bits and pieces are available via the local Yammie dealer, but I thought you blokes might have better suggestions.

The major items I’ll need are:

Front guard
Rear guard
Seat (entire seat; not just a cover)
Air cleaner
Piston/rings

BTW: Why don’t any of you trialsy blokes enter the Killarney Trail Ride. I know it’s mainly for go-fasts, but I have ridden, and it’s okay; you just boogy away alongside all that at your own pace. It’s a nice day. I have one treasured memory of a whole line of turkeys on motorcross bikes queued up to blast a hill. They were waiting on one side to paddle their way down, cross the gully at the bottom, and blast the opposite hill. I just rode out of the line-up, picked my way down through the scrub, negotiated the gully with aplomb, and crawled up the hill opposite. I rather wished my friends had been watching. I passed about twenty guys.

Thanks in anticipation.

Vagabond

[David Lahey]

Hi Vagabond
What's all that about multiple wives, yellow TY175s and schadenfreude? Am I missing out on something?

I too enjoy riding fund-raising trail rides around southern Queensland, but only the ones with extreme terrain. There are a few that are more like paddock and gully rides and they are a bit ho-hum on a (twinshock) trials bike. I've heard that the Killarney ride is well attended but would really like a trials bike rider's version of how good (steep and rocky) the terrain is.

Seat available as a Sammy Miller part (Don Newell in Brisbane) about $150
Replica rear plastic guard on eBay from the UK - very good quality ($80)
Universal front and rear plastic guards made by Gonelli fit OK ($60 for the pair) (Don Newell)
Fibreglass replica front guards from someone at Tenterfield on eBay (about $80)
Air filter - Unifilter made in Australia available through any bike shop or over the phone or internet (http://www.uniflow.com.au I think) about $30
Wiseco make piston kits but the TY175 but I haven't tried them (about $160). There are cheap ones on eBay from overseas ($80) but don't know if they are any good.

Good luck
David (I ride a yellow TY175 too)

[Vagabond]

Trail rides and enduros in places like Dalby, where it's flat as, wouldn't suit a trials bile at all but the mountain country of Killarney, offers a heap of opportunities. I only ever rode once; it went through my place, and I got free entry and a hamburger, so I thought I'd have a go. I didn't spend a lot of time actually ON the track, but I found a lot of interesting topography to explore.