It has come to our attention, as well as to the Factory, that some of the 2T bikes are exhibiting corrosion on the ECU pins. One pin in particular which controls the Oil Injection (OI) system can get corroded and at times can break free. This has led to a much larger and costlier mechanical failure, not to mention the downtime for the rider. We received a bulletin from the Factory (attached) that although is specific to the 2022 XTrainers, Beta Canada is extending this to all 2T and 4T models (Enduro, Trials) as they are all susceptible to this issue.
*When using ACF-50 the treatment must be done every 6 months as well.
*The use of latex gloves is recommended when applying dielectric grease.
If any concerns / comments and/or suggestions please let us know.
Thanks very much.
]]>Steel tank bikes should have the fuel tank filled to the top to help reduce the chances of the tank having condensation buildup and begin the process of oxidization inside your fuel tank. While Plastic fuel tanks are best to be stored empty, so drain that fuel out, put it in the lawn mower, the snowblower, or even in the car if it's not pre-mix, simply use it up and keep fresh fuel for the bike in the spring. If your bike is fuel injected you will need to keep the tank full and the fuel system charged, pressurized to keep it at its best. Any remaining fuel should have some fuel stabilizer put in it to help hold it from going stale over the winter months.
If you ride a bike that still has a carburettor on it, it is the best practice to drain the fuel bowl from the bottom of the bowl. First, this removes all the fuel that could contaminate your system, second, it also will allow any small particles of crud that made it past your fuel filters to be removed as well. The old school of thought was to keep fuel bowls full and charged at all times to help keep gaskets moist and prevent the chance of leaks, with today's modern gaskets and o-rings that is less of a concern, yet ethanol contamination is more prevalent. The fuels that we have available to us are susceptible to contamination and residue. If you have ever had the chance to look at the inside of a carb that has been stored for any length of time you will see what I am referring to.
Used oil, even slightly will start to change properties and can have an acidic nature to it. This means you have your internal engine bearing sitting in contaminated oil and could under the right circumstances harm your internal components. Take the time to drain out the old oil and put in fresh at the end of the season, small bikes only use a couple of litres while larger street bikes use upwards of 4L, that's only 30-$60 worth of oil and in the long run, can save you thousands in engine rebuilds.
Keep it topped up; a good tender will put a constant trickle to the battery and keep it warm enough to prevent any chance of freezing. Lithium batteries generally require a different charger then a lead acid one does. Optimate make a fantastic product that has been trusted for many years and is available as a smart charger that will predetermine what type of charge is required, either traditional lead acid or a lithium-ion charge. One of the worst things you can do for your bikes charging system is to start it up for a few minutes every month. You need to SET IT AND FORGET IT.
Don't forget to give it a good wash and get all that old dirt off of it before it turns to cement on you. But keep in mind practices of using a pressure washer are NOT RECOMMENDED (we will get into that in another post). Now would also be a good time to give it a good once over for greasing, and maybe put some wax or spray with a can of SC1 to help any moisture bead off that may get onto it over the winter.
Get those tires off the concrete as concrete can pull the oils out of the rubber and will cause your tires to prematurely dry rot, forcing you to get new tires before you have worn them out.
A cover is to merely keep the dust off, keep any prying eyes off, and may also help keep any damage from occurring over the winter from something, or someone accidentally falling onto, into, or banging your pride and joy.
Or you can tuck your baby away in the basement like this old girl gets. Now that's some special treatment.
If you are going to be storing the bike for a more extended period then a few months over the winter, this may be a practice you want to consider. This is an old-school technique that for most modern bikes does not apply. As most modern bikes have cylinders that are coated, they have fewer tendencies to rust, but there is still potential over extended periods of time. This practice of fogging an engine will most likely cause you to require new spark plugs in the future. What this does is coat your entire cylinder wall and combustion chamber with a thin coating of oil thereby helping reduce any chance of internal oxidization.
You could also just leave it outside to let the weather get on it, just in case you find a good riding day.
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Friday 9-5
Saturday 9-1
Exceptions are on Long weekends; We will be closed on the Saturday of all long weekends.
We are now on our WINTER hour program, until the first week of March 2023
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday 9am-1pm
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Aug 3, 2021
From Rob Lang
The last 8 months have left me overwhelmed with gratitude to both my local community and Canada’s riding community. The morning of October 22nd was one of the hardest mornings of my life. In that moment, I couldn’t have dreamt of the blessings it would send to me. Since then, I’ve been blown away by the generosity of everyone and the kindness of friends and strangers. There have been hard moments and days since that morning, but they’ve each been replaced with smiles and gratitude at the kindness you’ve all shown me.
As we settle back into our “new” shop, I’d like to take a moment to thank some by name and others by task.
Thank you, Craig Sulyma. You’ve been right beside me for all of this and I appreciate how you donated your home as a temporary showroom, drop off and pick up point, worked to accommodate customers with extended hours, and have gone above and beyond to provide customers with the service they’ve come to expect from us. Thank you, Roma Sulyma, for allowing us to disrupt your home and life with this!
Thank you, Ken, Michelle, and Kenny Henderson, for graciously offering the farm workshop as a temporary shop for me to continue repair services, storage for equipment, warehousing of inventory, and help with cleaning and sorting.
Thank you, Harry Huigenbos, our property owner. You also woke up on October 22nd to see your building destroyed, and I appreciate how you worked with me to rebuild, acted as subcontractor, navigated through COVID regulations, building supplies shortages, and helped me to get up and running as quickly as possible.
Thank you, Grant Huigenbos, owner/operator of Bos Equipment, for accepting all of our incoming parts and bike shipments, for being a pick up and drop off point for customers, and for fabricating our new entry cage and security bars.
Thank you, Kevin Perry, for helping with transportation, shuttling parts and bikes around, and for helping me in the shop when I needed a hand. Thank you also for all of your runs to the post office, and for all the coffee and doughnuts over the winter!
Thank you, Matt Stone, for helping me get through a busy winter season of wrenching, along with helping clean and organize what was recovered from the fire.
Thank you, Art Ash and Andy Gale, Presidents of the OFTR and SOCT respectively, for starting a Go Fund Me page. To all of you that contributed, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!
Thank you, Naylor Systems & Chicago Pneumatics, for donating a new compressor. Thank you, Daryl Spain, for facilitating that and for the professional installation of the new air system.
Thank you, Dmitry Sokolov and HP Canada, for helping us get our new IT equipment arranged and up and running.
Thank you, Dave Taplay, owner of Taplay Fire Protection, for installing our new state of the art security system.
Thank you, Rick Post and Spring Marketing Solutions, for the continued help with monitoring our social media and digital presence.
Thank you, Rick Post and Amber Stairs & Railings, for the gorgeous new showroom counter top.
Thank you, Darko Helm and Insta-All Sign Service, for your time and wonderful presentation of our large format pictures and the huge collage wall of rider photos behind the counter.
Thank you to all who helped slowly sort through all of the soot covered products, tools, and equipment! Matt Stone, Aaron Wilcox, Jeff Belanger, Ray & Kevin Perry, Kenny Henderson, and all others who I may have missed.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped us move out of the burnt shop at the end of October. I’m sure we may have missed some of your names in that whirlwind, but thank you to Murray McPhail, Thomas Gora, Carl McIntyre, Nate Meyer, Stewart Alton, Richard Bryant, Jon Orchard, Chris Greig, and any others!
Thank you, everyone, for your support over the last 8 months. It has truly been overwhelming and has brought me to tears. Thank you for your kind words and messages, thank you for your donations of time and finances, thank you for your purchases of motorcycles, parts, and accessories, and thank you for sticking with us when it got hard.
We are so excited for you to come and see our new and improved shop and showroom, and we’re planning a huge grand re-opening party for later this year! Stay tuned for details on that, because it’s going to be great!
To anyone I may have missed by name, thank you. You know who you are. I’ve appreciated everything you’ve all done for me. I hope I can give as much back to the riding community as you have all given me!
With gratitude,
Rob Lang.
Oct 14, 2021
Update on our blog post as it has been awhile.
We are back in full swing now, still a few minor things to finish over the slower winter months in our shop and store, but we are here full time and back to something we call familiar and home. With all of the worlds uncertainties and changes seems daily we are limiting our in store hours to Monday-Thursday 9am - 6pm Friday 9am - 5pm, and Saturday 9am - 1pm. As we have always done any long weekend holidays we will be closed for the full weekend.
We are now a YETI dealer, as we are learning more about the brand please be patient until our experience level improves as we have as many questions as you might have.
The world as we know it is changing and we are constantly being told from our suppliers that increased costs are coming, majority of these costs are coming from the shipping world, we will try to keep our prices as competitive as possible but foresee prices increasing in the future, if we have it in stock and you think you will need it soon, now is the time to get it.
]]>Upon the light of day it was evident that most of the store had suffered catastrophic damage, and much was lost.
The images of the store flashing thru our minds as we both attempted to help ourselves figure out what had happened, and what the days ahead would bring?
So here we are almost 7 months later, still no real answers of what happened, only speculation and guesses, but we are and have been moving forward as much as possible. The new store is being rebuilt and we have been doing the best we can to keep our customers in parts and service, dealing with both a lack of storefront and all the lock-downs we are all dealing with during this Pandemic.
Craig has been taking orders and phone calls, delivering packages to you from his own house, while Rob has been graciously given a spot at a customers farm to work his magic on suspension and bikes for everyone. We thank everyone for respecting the privacy of both The farm owners property and Craig's family as we all try to get this cleaned up and move on to the next step.
We look forward to getting back to a normal routine at some point in the near future. WE do have a few very exciting things to announce once we are back in the new store so stay tuned and make sure you follow us on either Facebook or Instagram for regular updates.
]]>Two-stroke Pistons Because of a cast piston’s ability to contain higher silicon content compared to forged pistons, and because two strokes have lower cylinder pressures when compared to four-strokes, cast pistons are ideal for two-stroke engines.
Cast pistons are gravity cast from an aluminum alloy with up to 18% silicon content. Silicon is important because:
• It decreases thermal expansion, which changes the geometry after the piston reaches operating temperature. With low thermal expansion characteristics, Cast pistons can be run at tighter tolerances compared with forged pistons. This creates better power and performance, also making them less susceptible to rattling or breaking.
• Silicon gives the pistons better wear characteristics and prolongs piston life by decreasing wear on the piston skirt.
Four-stroke Pistons Four-stroke engines have much higher cylinder pressures when compared to two-strokes and are generally manufactured from forgings. To handle the internal pressures of a four-stroke engine, Vertex’s four-stroke pistons are forged from the highest quality 2618 aluminum alloy for superior strength and durability. Vertex uses unique piston profiles and compression ratios, offered in A, B, C and D sizes, to maximize power and performance while reducing blow-by and oil consumption.
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Cost $349.95 for Enduro Bikes
$249.95 for Trials Bikes
Over the years of both pleasure riding and servicing both ours and customers bikes, we have noticed a common trait on them all, and that is the lack of proper, waterproof grease in all the sensitive locations. As bikes become more reliant on electrical components we are also seeing, more and more electrical issues that stem from poor connections or corrosion. Here at Lang's Offroad, we have made the decision to help our customers avoid those headaches and help prolong the service life of your bike beyond our shop doors.
Pre-mature failure of the components on your bike is not what either of us want to see, we want you to experience your toys to the fullest you can. With International shipping policies overseas, it is unfortunate that factories can not use sufficient greasing principals, so the end user is the one that tends to suffer, but we are here to help with this.
We take the time to COMPLETELY strip your bike apart, all bolts removed are either slathered with anti-seize or loc-tite depending on their application. All bearing surfaces are properly greased with WATERPROOF bearing grease, ensuring many rides in the future. All electrical connections have a compound of di-electric grease applied to prolong the chance of corrosion and keep any electrical gremlins away.
Included in the RACE PDI is a few extra little bonuses for you. We will install up to 3 extra accessories on your bike FREE of charge. Also, some of our manufacturers have also stepped up the game and will include an extra Month of Warranty on all bikes that have this done.
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Rider Apparel
If you’ve been investigating Trials for any length of time, you likely have come across many videos of the pros dressed in Spandex, funny looking helmets, gloves, boots, and no goggles.
Well there is a reason for most of that. Cooling and ventilation is the major one. On a trials bike you are not traveling long distances, or at any speed, so you have no cooling effect of the wind on your body, so wearing something a little lighter and more breathable is recommended, but you also want to be protected from the elements of the sun, and brush as well as potential accidents. If you wear your normal Enduro clothes you will in short time find out how hot and exhausted, you are getting. That brings us to the helmet, wearing an open face helmet will help with keeping you cool as well as the open face will have a much larger field of vision so you can see where you are going. Boots for trials riding need to be flexible enough to allow movement on your pegs and encourage feeling of the controls.
Setup of Bike
If you are coming from a world of Enduro or MX bikes and just starting to ride trials, things will seem a little strange. Proper bar positioning, Lever position, Pedal position, all are different then what you have been told, read or shown to use on your bike. Your riding style and foot position on the pegs will be different. Almost everything you have worked so hard to train your brain to do, you need to stop doing and forget it all.
Bar Position is rolled more forward and up rather then back and down, levers should be directly over the forks and parallel with the ground, foot pedals are raised above the pegs, you ride with your "knees in the breeze" or in other words, spread apart, don't hug the bike anymore. Try to keep your feet as wide on the pegs as you possibly, and safely can keep them.
Recommended parts
Fork protection, Frame protection, Swing arm Protection, and case covers are all economical ways for you to keep that beauty looking as good as the day you bought it. Let's face it, we all want to challenge ourselves from time to time, see if we can get over that larger log, or make that impossible looking rock face. Occasionally, sometimes more often then not, that challenge is still a bit out of reach for our skill level at that time, and the bike comes crashing to the ground. When it does, things can happen, parts break, get scratched, or dented. These protection parts help to prevent that and add some security that you might not have to replace those expensive OEM replacement parts.
Flexible levers, again same story, big log, tall rock cliff, bike falling only this time the lever breaks and with a broken lever that can ruin the rest of the ride and force you back to the truck early while your buddies all go off and get to play in the really cool stuff. With flexible levers you stand a better chance of pickling up the bike, brushing the pride off, taking a few jabs from your pals and riding on to the next challenge or obstacle.
Bar ends, now these can be both for a cosmetic sense and a safety factor, some might try to call these "SAFETY BLING". If you fall under the right conditions you could possibly have the throttle tube get jammed into the end of your bar and send the bike revving to the moon which can be detrimental to either the safety of the rider and any participating spectators, or the safety of your new toy spinning in circles on the ground until it blows. This brings us to one other VERY important SAFETY item for trials bikes, a Tether Switch. WE strongly encourage the use of a tether and stock quality magnetic ones that are quick and easy to use.
How to get started
Local groups vary depending on where you are located, but in Ontario we have a couple local groups to attend events and learn the people and the places in your area. Amateur Trials Association ATA, or Southwestern Ontario Classic Trials
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The P-Tech plate bolted right up using supplied hardware to the stock locations, it includes a hole for draining the trans oil, but appears to have missed for the location for the main oil, so removal of the plate may still be required for a service. The P-Tech plate comes with rubber laid in the pan to help drown the vibrations that are common with aluminum plates up against frame rails. The overall look of the plate is fantastic and fit and finish is top quality.
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