Ordering parts from a trade only place

Finaly found a place that does ecery single part i need for the 1985 Suzi TS
125 X, from swing arm bushes that seem to replace the whole stoopid assembly
of needle roller bearings, metal bushes, spacers, oil seals, more spacers,
caps and so on (£100 quids worth of metal there) to crank bearings, seals,
gasket sets, even light switch gear.

Too good to be true tho.. they're a trade only supplier, anyone heard of
Stainforths ??

Local bike dealers dont know them, and arent interested in ordering me parts
from them, it's be a bit of a hassle for me to pretend to be a dealer and
set up an account.. just to order a few parts from them we are a limited
company.. just computers not bikes.. and it's not me.. me dad.. IT
contractor and all that.

Anyhoo, anyone know where i may find a place that deals with these people..
http://www.staniforths.com/index.htm
i guess i should ask them direct, but i was kinda hoping there's someone on
here who orders stuff from them, and can get me some prices and let me order
some parts through them.. i'll pay a little bit towards the trouble of
someone doing that if i can get parts near trade prices of course.

 

CampinGazz says...

They're reasonably big and have a good enough reputation within the
trade. I'm surprised your local dealer hasn't heard of them, cos quite a
few independent bike shops use them for pattern parts.

 

Staniforths. They're a long old-established wholesaler, and they don't
deal with the public, only with shops.

So tell your dealer to order from them. OK, you tried that. Go to
another dealer, since this one is shite.

Bills mounting up already, aren't they? ;-))

 

Not that he didn't get fair warning on the prices on the suspension
components! I was amazed at how needlessly complicated the Suzuki "Full
Floater" back end was when I bought one for the SO. Also when he gets his
new crank bearings and finds he can't just bodge them on there (assuming he
can get the old one's off before bolloxing the crank webs), then it's off to
a good MotoX dealer who can do the crank for £30-40 or so.
The joy of Ebay and SOBs.

JB

 

I expected that with any machine i bought, so far we've spent about 50 quid
on it, and it was fine untill i decided to 'whip' the engine out to replace
the crank bearings, as the engine vibrates quite a bit.. it does have 23k
miles on it, so i did expect that,

That's true, but once i've replaced these bearings, and grease them up every
year, they'll last another 17 years or so, that's the reason i'm doing the
crank bearings.. actually replacing all the bearings in there i can find,
the biggest ones are 8 quid, smaller ones 3 to 5 quid, so i may as well bung
new uns in while i have the case appart, but when i've finished, the engine
will be fit for another 15k or so.. which is how long they're supposed to
last, this one has had top end re-builds before, but the crankcase has never
been appart.

Crank shaft bearings are already out, came out easily.. heated the cases up
in the oven a bit, and pushed them out, jury rigged a press.. bottle jack
pushing against a roof joist, (near the wall for strength) length of wood
for the extension, sockets used for spacers/pushers on the bearings, poped
out easily,

I'm not attempting to seperate the crank shaft it's self yet, that'll be
taken to an engineering co with the proper presses etc to replace the big
end bearing,

Wasn't an ebay motor.. responded to an ad in the local paper for a DT125,
ended up with the TS for half the price, even if i'd have bought the DT, or
even the kmx they had, i'd have prolly had the suspension appart for
re-greasing, then found seized bushes etc, so would be in the same
position.. just suzuki decided to make things harder with the full floater
swing arm,

 

Greease them up? How do you think two-stroke bearings are lubricated?

Sheesh.

 

Bad form - ah. Suspension bearings. Not main bearings.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

The last twostroke gentleman's motorcycle to have individually
greaseable bearings was the Spagthorpe GoLightly - a mere stripling of a
machine, with three horizontally opposed cylinders of some 2.5litres
displacement per cylinder. Piston ported, with inspection chambers, the
rider had to take great care the ports didn't open up during riding as
his leg could be sucked into the cylinder.

Production was halted in 1904 when the supply of bearing grease was
found to be contaminated with coaldust, which gave rise to crankcase
fires.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

[snip]

You expected to have to replace the crank bearings after 23k miles =:-O

 

mb says...

It's a TS125 that has probably been in the hands of a few clueless
teenagers, I'd expect to change them after 10K miles.

 

.....and if it's been run out of two-stroke oil by some numty teenager,
even earlier than that.