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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: 09.0 on May 12, 2015, 11:10:16 am
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I bought a set of radiators from a 'melbourne' based seller via ebay. Only to be told the last pair were damaged so I have to wait for a set to come from China. This is those sneaky Asian pricks getting you to buy local when they are actually in China. I have emailed a second supplier and asked if they will be shipped from Melbourne as stated and just got the reply that they will be coming from China.
Lying pricks. They always want to buck the system.
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But they ARE cheap. And apparently work OK from what I've heard?
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I'm going for my second set as the first have broken already.
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They look good but I've been told by a radiator guy that they will do "a" job but won't last. Maybe he was right?
K
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I'm going for my second set as the first have broken already.
You had better learn how to TIG weld Brad or buy them in bulk.
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Didn't Alex put a pair on his YZ125 build? GPI brand from memory, don't know if there Chinese though.
Found the topic
http://forum.ozvmx.com/index.php?topic=36259.30 (http://forum.ozvmx.com/index.php?topic=36259.30)
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The fit on them is crap, most of the shroud bolts don't line up from what I've seen.
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I threw a set of the GPI - RAD ones on my 89 KX, they fitted okay - BUT the outlet hose tube angle on the RH lower radiator was all wrong... I bent it to where I wanted it with a big ring spanner. ;)
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Never trust anyone you can blindfold with a bootlace Brad.
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Have had a set on my drz400 for about a year and a half have done 4000ks and they have been fine , they fitted up without a problem maybe I've just been lucky
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Never trust a motocross bike that needs a radiator.. :-X
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Radiators 101
1. Australians mine the aluminium
2. They ship it up to China
3. The Chinese build cheap stuff - but pack it in inpenetrable, hardy packing complete with annoying tie-wires. (They do this on purpose)
4. They send the built stuff back down to us
5. We spend two hours trying to break open the packaging. (Toys cannot be opened. Or torches from Coles)
6. The item breaks within 36 hours.
7. We take it to the tip ... where it gets buried (amongst all the nappies).
8. It breaks down ... over some 300 years.
9. It gets mined again ... back in a fairly raw state by now. The mines are all owned by Chinese. As is rest of Australia
10. The Chinese ship the raw product up to China - now called Austrinia. Our descendants all moved there because housing was cheap.
11. We make cheap beer in aluminium cans - and ship it down to Australia for the Chinese.
12. But the tangs break off and they can't get the beer readily. (We do this on purpose.)
The Wash-up
After three cycles (circa 900 years), the aluminium is too diluted by nappy poo to be of any use.
Closing with a quote from good ol' Aldo: "If aluminium was any good, they'd make steel out of it."
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The quality of chinabay radiators is variable. Good ones are fine.
I take the attitude that I'm getting what I'm paying for, and sometimes I'll get something much better....
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Since when do VMX bikes have radiators ????
Some say they can have disk brakes even , some say water cooling , we just call them modern . ;D ;D ;D
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Didn't Alex put a pair on his YZ125 build? GPI brand from memory, don't know if there Chinese though.
Found the topic
http://forum.ozvmx.com/index.php?topic=36259.30 (http://forum.ozvmx.com/index.php?topic=36259.30)
I do have the GPI ones on my YZ125. They fit well, look great and i have taken the bike for two rides and all OK. They are out of China but you cant get new OEM ones any more and have you seen the state of the bent, twisted and corroded used OEM ones for sale on FleaBay. At 32 years old, i guess i consider my bike a modern vingtage. Those Asians are sneaky and i believe they do hold some stock in OZ, but they dont take long to come from China. At least they make them, and for a good price too!!
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Since when do VMX bikes have radiators ????
Some say they can have disk brakes even , some say water cooling , we just call them modern . ;D ;D ;D
News flash! The first production MX bike with a radiator is nearly 36 years old.
News flash! 1990 was a quarter of a century ago.
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i thought yamaha made the first water cooled bike yz125 rad up the front
road bikes been water cooled since 1908 500cc 2t twin scott over 100 years
japs just copy eveything
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Damn those 1973 Suzuki 750 triple Water bottle powered VMX sidecars and their liquid cooling.... ;)
and hang on, I got a legal disk brake and electric start from1969... on my Pre75 MX sidecar ::) ;)
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Brought a pair for my current project yz 250 k perfect fit got them of evilbay and was listed in China
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News flash! The first production MX bike with a radiator is nearly 36 years old.
News flash! 1990 was a quarter of a century ago.
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i thought yamaha made the first water cooled bike yz125 rad up the front
road bikes been water cooled since 1908 500cc 2t twin scott over 100 years
japs just copy eveything
The 36yo water cooled MX bike must be a little obscure?
My (fading) memory was that my '81 RM125 (34 years and counting) was the year Suzuki and Yamaha first produced Water Cooled bikes (125cc only, at least for Suzuki). I, less clearly, thought Honda and Kawasaki did likewise.
Almost certainly it was the year Yamahas patent on single shock ran out.
Pits full off "Full Floater", "Pro Link", "Unitrac" and the overnight outdated "Monocross" (ie: same as the previous 5+ years.)
Radical advances.
Clutching at upgrade straws its "Bold new graphics, revised shock settings, and airforks (revisited)" for the main, these days.
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1980 KTM125, which would have been released in late 1979, making it nearly 36 years old.
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1980 KTM125, which would have been released in late 1979, making it nearly 36 years old.
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Amazing and a little sobering.
Non bike people (as well as some VMX fanatics), don't recognize my '81 as "vintage".
My like new 2008 YZ250F is well on the way.....