No Jools, its not the same attaching system.
I´ll send it back, please send me your adress.
Been a bit busy, but own youguys a little report from the last outing.
The 3MA rode for about 20 minutes before it holed a piston. Little hole, but a hole anyways
No panic or nothing, it just started loosing power down the straight, clutch in, and when I came to a holt, engine still running, but it was a 125cc
Had the change to try the tps and start from a stand still situation, and it was MUCH better.
The hole in the piston was my fault… I knew jetting at the top was good for this track when 15-18 degrees, but this morning was cold, very cold.
New piston as well as rings for the other one are already ordered in Italy.
I´ll change the piston, give it a major clean up, jet a bit richer… and then… I´ll have to think about it.
I have the complete TZR series. Nice, but I´m not really the collector type, so perhaps 3MA and 2MA are coming up for sale. Will have to think about it.
Back to the race weekend.
I ended up borrowing a 99 bone stock R6 on street tyres. In all my live i´ve ridden a 4stroke for something like half an hour or so.
10 minutes practice on the R6… and then I got thrown to the wolves in a wet race on a bike I´ve practiced on for 10 minutes and with a tottaly different engine character to what I´m used to.
Went Ok, ended up 3rd last or something.
Sunday, still with the R6… it was fast, even in a short straight, the 600ccs gain considerably on the 250 2 stroke, but the R6 was no fun at all, not compared to a Little 2stroke.
Race Sunday. I´m the guy outbreaking an opponent on the inside from 4.47 and then we disappear at 4.51
Went good, and I can understand with a lot of people choose the 4strokes, they just ride… but are booring as hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z32QVFrsdy0This kind of ends this chapter regarding the 3MA.
If all goes after plan, I´ll have a single cylinder 250cc stroke cagiva/gasgas hybrid for NeXT year and the 3MA will not be used.
My impressions are that the 3MA is a good bike, a very good bike. Very stable, easy to extract decent power of.
On the other side, it is big(ish), heavy and quite hard to setup carburation wise.
I had fun running it... and the sound of a 3MA pushing 6th at full tilt 12000 rpm... well, its just glorious