Scooterotica

johnny diamond wrote:RALPH's NUMBER IS 01302 857082
he's in the scooter business......not a secret sociaty
and usualy gets a little tetchy when he spends an hour on the phone with a guy who has spent
lottsa dosh buying one of his previous works....who wishes to know every snippet of info about his purchase.....then once revealed by ralph in glorious detail....proceeds to have the work done by bodgit and co. down the road for a tenner instead of letting the craftsman restore it to its former glory.

i known ralph a long while and i have seen him play with scooter engines both for myself and other paying customers he never ever lets anything slip by even the smallest of things gets the 'ralph' treatment,if you think he is taking a long while then you are getting a proper job ,i can understand why ralph gets pissed of with messers after restoring/tuning a scooter and giving out strict instructions to a customer about his work only to find that the customer ignores his advice and fucks it all up,then goes down the road to 'bodgitts' to rectify what the customer himself has destroyed! oh and the usual 'not going to him anymore'!
ralph has made his own vocabulary up for these customers unfortunately scooterotica blots them out or i could have mentioned one or two of them,the problem being that there are plenty of 'have a go ' scooterists out there but things have become serious and ralph is still as serious about scooters now as he was 30 odd years ago but his patience with 'have a go scooterists' has diminished some what!
ralph i know what you mean!
i know you will read this so why not come on here?
i'll see if i can get the restrictions lifted!
happy new year
regards
joe

i think he would be a fantastic addition to this forum like ian frankland is to the lcgb site as are the current racers/sprinters on this one dave webster was posting on here for a while what happened to him ?

joespeed wrote:i know you will read this so why not come on here

That would be a real fillip Joe..but I fear we would do his head in..and he would rant at few.. ..would be great though.

Lam46 wrote:

joespeed wrote:i know you will read this so why not come on here

That would be a real fillip Joe..but I fear we would do his head in..and he would rant at few.. ..would be great though.

i dont think you will get ralph to come on here but as i have said before there are too many 'snipers' on forums like this,that is members with a user names and no back bone,i get this on other forums too,if you say something that others disagree with you get 'jumped on' and you dont know who is who!
his is one thing i asked about 'where you are situated' to be a compulsary posting!
besides ralph will be testing and getting results from his work rather than tittle tattling on here!
happy new year
regards
joe

back to the point!
there are plenty of ts 250 pistons
on ebay.even wiseco at cheep money.
then use the port timing calc on this site
to cut the piston skirt if nessacery and get your required
inlet timing.

For all engine work Ralph is the very best, then theres all the rest.