Ok, I decided to be lazy this time and pay my usual mechanic to do the top end, clean the powervalve, and sort out a few niggling things that take him 10 minutes and me hours. He pulled it to bits, said that the top end was worn, the bottom end looked ok, but with a bike of this age (97 and 8000 miles) he'd do it if it was his. I chose to do just the top end, so he went ahead and did it, ran it in somewhat, then put it on the dyno to check the tuning of it, in the quest for possible more power. He gives me the bike back, I take it home and test ride it, after taking it nice and easy to get it warm (10 mins or so) I open it up, runs horribly, horribly flat. I'm concerned at this point. Pull the dirty outer air filter off, check the powervalve is hooked up, and try again. No difference. Take it back to him. He says the main jet was blocked, and apparently rebuilds the carby at the same time. I go to test ride it, power is much better, but still signifigantly down on power from the upper midrange onwards. (where a 200 spends most of it's time...) I've left it with him, he doesn't seem to have any more ideas, says he's gone over, pulled apart and checked damn near everything. I've had plenty of work done by him in the past, had big hassles with a shock once, he doesn't charge at all unreasonably, and with problems like this just cops it himself, so he's not making a killing off me or anything, not getting ripped off, but I just want my bike fixed! Anyone got suggestions on what to do? If neither he or I can fix it, I'm just going to have to pay someone else to look at it, which doesn't seem like it'll work real well since they've never seen it before, don't know half of what's been done, and are under 0 obligation to be reasonable with costs. It doesn't seem particularly rich or lean in the top end, just not making the power it should. Charlie
