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I was cruising the web tonight and came across this site- god knows what the prices and shipping are but it's got me drooling...... http://www.hpower.com.au/bike.html Anyone tried this stuff or similar? Presumably super unleaded and anti-knock additives are a must, it probably won't tick over and fu...

ok, ok, I dropped it, and scuffed the clutch cover. For most bikes you can get a Kevlar/ Carbon fibre cover which just glues on ove the top- supposedly to stop wearing through the cover when you drop it, but we all know it's actually to hide the crash damage from when you did already. I've had a tra...

I've got those too, but mine are plain black.- didn't know they did the carbon finish. Those Minx ones are horrible- (IMO) that round bit hangs down like they've just stuck a round mirror onto a shaped one. In the front I've fitted the tear-drop shaped ones from the Powerbronze catalogue. They fit t...

Looked standard except for cans- shinier'n mine as well!

Don't see many round Swanley/Sevenoaks any more

Holding my hand up to unfair judgement on the Bridgestone 021 rear. :oops: I was blaming the 021, but I changed it for a Mich 2CT (they didn't have the Bridge in stock at the time) and it's still doing what I described above. Turned out to be the 020 front, which wasn't worn down to legal limits (ha...

Running straight throughs will need K&N and Dynojet kit, IMO. And if you haven't already, tickover will need to be set a bit higher, or it'll stall more. Oh, and don't forget to read all the posts about derestricting the original down pipes, if you're using them. If you look inot the right hand ...

I've got another one.
RATFAG.
The furious smoking my wife does when she's too annoyed with me to speak.

How's it going with the POLL: Y want a cracker?

(it was suggested to me that i was getting too obscure again).

Mine's the same. Dropped it on the right hand side, so just cut the end off a Rightguard can and clamped it with a hose clip. Only one straight-through Carbon Can Co on it now, left-hand side so looks odd. Might be swapping it over to the r/h side soon, but the restriction in the collector will rest...

Maybe it's because I use the bike every day for work in all weathers, frost, snow and all.

Or maybe it's the ******ing nail I found in the rear Xmas Eve morning.......

Aspersions unfairly cast, possibly.

Will update once repaired.

Just don't stop checking your mirrors for bikes!

Seriously, let us know how soon you don't spot a bike coming up on you fast- it's amazing how difficult we can be to spot from a car, even with high beam on etc.

Every so often I come out with words that should exist but aren't in the dictionary yet.

Words like:

Groanads (tank/bollock interface)

Bed-raggled (alternative to "bedraggled", but much more accurate.

Any more you can think of?

You'll also need to undo the handlebars and rest them on rags on the bodywork, unbolt the brake calipers from the legs, leaving them hanging. Remove wheel. If you then undo the fixing on the lower fork triple which holds the brake line the you can get away without taking the brake lines out. Just ma...

Use M&P tapered head bearings, that way you won't have to do it all again in a few months (for wheely monkeys) or two years (for those who don't /can't.
Just my opinion, don't take offence, I'm one of those who can't.

Might just be a starter sprag clutch engaging as it slows to a stop?

[quote="cupasoop"]What ever happened to hello? quote] Sorry 'bout that, Wrote the post when I had just stripped and rebuilt the clutch for fifth time! Thanks for all the suggestions, thought I'd fixed it when I found that the previous owner hadn't set the outermost clutch plate in the slot...