NEWS brought to you by PW Parts from the Peewee guy Speak to anyone that started riding a motorcycle at an early age and chances are they started on a PW50 or PW80. The iconic little 2 strokes from Yamaha that have been putting smiles on young boys and girls faces since 1981. Fast forward 35 years and these little gems can be found lying all over the country in Micro Start XP1 from Batt Holdings Batt Holdings has secured the sole rights for the USA brand Anti-Gravity Batteries & the Micro Jump Starters. We looked at the Micro-Start XP-1 from Batt racing. The zipped pouch that it comes in is no bigger than a biggish calculator. Inside is a mad array of adapters for charging various electronic devices from phones to laptops, and a ridiculously lightweight (15 ounces), 225-amp-hour lithium/ ion battery, just one by three by six inches, which, incidentally, can also be used to jump-start your BAKKIE. What? It’s true. The pouch includes a set of battery-post clamps, and the company claims the power pack will start a V8-engined vehicle— not once, but several times. Could this mean the end of jumper cables? We’ve always hated those things, and especially hate what happens when we play good Samaritan to jump some poor bloke’s dead ATV, Bakkie, superbike or SXS. And then – they take off with your jumper cables. With the Micro-Start you are in complete control of the situation. And of course if your own vehicle becomes stranded you are various states of disrepair From this PeeWee Parts was born, an importer of good quality aftermarket spare parts for PW50’s and PW80’s. Peewee Parts, a small family run business operating from the south of Johannesburg, stocks over 250 individual parts for peewees from cosmetic items like plastic and decal sets, to mechanical parts like engine rebuild kits, bearings, gaskets, cables, carburettors, etc, they even stock some performance upgrade parts to give your peewee a little extra go. They send goods country wide with RAM hand to hand couriers daily, and tracking numbers provided to follow your goods to your door. They also buy, fix and sell peewees and normally always have bikes in stock for sale. They say that all parts are in stock all the time, and we keep a constant flow of stock from our overseas partners, and some parts are supplemented with genuine Yamaha parts where they cannot source the aftermarket part, making peewee parts a one stop shop. They have a fully interactive e-commerce website, where orders can be placed and paid for online. So if your Peewee needs a bit of love give them a call on 081 813 5017 or visit www.pwparts.co.za or mail info@pwparts.co.za completely removed from the need for a donor vehicle—handy if you are in the middle of nowhere. So how well does the XP-1 work? We disconnected Bruce’s Batt Racings Bakkie Battery (That’s lots of B’s) to give it a try by clamping the leads directly to the battery cables. Hit the starter and it sounded just like the bakkies standard battery was swinging things. Ain’t technology grand? This little job will slip into your bumbag or even your enduro jacket pocket. What a pleasure. Stock arrives at Batt Holdings soon. Trade enquiries are welcome. Priced from R1500.00 (011) 205-0216. www.battholdings.co.za ANGEL GT The highest mileage sport touring tyre: 100% italian gran turismo. ANGEL ST The first tyre with a double soul. HOLDER OF 7 WORLD RECORDS! On March 15th 2009, 15 Journalists and 12 Pirelli Testers set 7 FIM World Duration Records at Nardò Technical Center in Southern Italy. On just one set of Angel ST tyres they covered a distance of 5,135 km at an average speed of 214 km/h in a tough 24H non stop trial which proved the consistency and the performance of ANGEL ST. Pirelli tyres distributed by www.bike-wise.co.za 14 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JULY 2016
HEAD & BRAIN PROTECTION 360 TURBINE TECHNOLOGY: UP TO 30% REDUCTION OF HEAD IMPACT AT CONCUSSION LEVEL UP TO 40% REDUCTION OF ROTATIONAL ACCELERATION TO HEAD AND BRAIN WWW.LEATT.COM JOHNNY AUBERT
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