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Cheers fellas All info gratetfullly recieved. Front wheel is buggered so complete front end swap not out of question. I'm not in a rush so i'll decide which way to go & keep em peeled for suitable bits. I do like the idea of goin for the full usd set up, I've been runnin without fairing, streetf...

Ayup folks I made the fatal mistake of going out for one last spin to collect some cleaning stuff for the bike before laying it up for the winter, I was also going to get a new battery for my Husaberg ready for winter, but 200 yards from the shop I binned the storm...Doh! Any way, as I now need to a...

I agree the colour coding is probably not significant, but may be indicative of different batches or periods. On the subject of comparing internals I stopped short of dismantling my cct's, but there was signiificantly more slack / wear in the old one,as you might expect. I've just dug my old cct out...

I changed the front cylinder CCT today due to excessive rattling & while I had them side by side I thought I would have a close look at them.This is what I found: OLD CCT (pink dot): free length 67mm ( due to weakened spring ) tensioner internals loose & rattly occasionally able to push plun...

end of a bell
as in "cheers you fnuckin........"
aimed loudly at dozy drivers

Cheers fellas thanks for the reassurance I'm expecting new tensioner any day so not riding until job done. Sirch,when i had tensioner out earlier in year i was expecting to find a compression spring like the old Austins/MG's used to have, this was a bombproof design,why the hell did Honda have to co...

I had same problem in May. I had checked out the previous years mot details online ( when previous owner mot'd) this showed an advisory note on "slightly notchy head bearings" I completely forgot about this before going for new mot as I never noticed anything when riding. :roll: However th...

recently noticed front cam chain getting more rattly(idling & off load in particular), I checked tensioner few months back & seemed fine (I now have a replacement on order from David Silver, which I presume is a pattern part, but if honda one is so shite shouldn't be too much of a worry) I h...