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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...

I thought the whole point of carbon cans is that they don't have the weight of steel!
I use Carbon Can Co and their weave and sheet thickness seems to stand up to backfires, thrashing, everything except crashing, actually... (Sore Point. I expect it will heal!)

Dropped my Storm :oops: fitted with a pair of Carbon Can Co straight-throughs on, and one can is sadly no longer with us. I had the choice of fitting the standard cans back on, but it's nowhere near MOT time, so just blanked off the R/H pipe and left the remaining L/H side carbon can on. Lost a litt...

Fitted a 21 rear at the Bulldog this year, and it's still on. Ride all year, and use it for work, so although i haven't logged the mileage it's lasting longer that the 020's I usually run. But is it me, or is the middle bit damned hard an slippy? The roads have been awful since the leaves started dr...

Flush mount fronts, and mirrors with LED indicators in as well. rear, replaced tail light with Powerbronze combi tail light/indicators, and also fited dinky winkers from them as well. So two LED sets front, and two LED sets rear... Still flashed too bloody fast, until I fitted a resistor. Stil, they...

I fitted a rear light with built-in indicators, and also a pair of dinky winkers for the rear. Front end, I fitted a pair of flush mount ovals which go over the holes in the fairing that the original indicators poke through, job done. Then I also fitted a pair on mirrors with indicators in as well. ...

Good tip about choke not staying in position, thanks. I find that if I pull choke fully out, then release it as I start cranking and leave throttle shut it starts even when really cold. If I open the throttle at all while cranking it won't start for around half a minute, them backfires like you woul...

Count me in too. Never done a track day, but as I only live about 20 mins form Brands....
Noisy one or nothing... I only put the standard cans on once a year for the MOT- it feels horrible.
Carbon Can Co straight-throughs every time.

Mad Ax wrote:90% - agree that some of the questions are a little bit vague, some of them I just plain and simple got wrong ;)

88%. I must be even more simple.

Still, it also means that if the pass rate is only 80%, 1 in 5 of all the broken vehicles coming out of their repair shops are still broken....

I bought the yellow one. Or, if you happen to be a workmate of mine, the flying custard colour. Bananas come up too. I don't care- if I get trollied by a car, I can hold up bits of shattered bright yellow plastic and ask the beak why he couldn't bloody see me? And it doesn't show bees that splatter ...

IMO, cheap tyres or brake pads and you're heading for an accident, but saw Lazer Zloch replacement front pads on Wemoto for less than £10 each side, sintered. I thought I'd try some, Wemoto said they recommended them, same as more expensive stuff but without the brand name. Obviously I can't commen...

Braided lines only work better when they're under lots of pressure. Clutch line is almost no pressure at all, it's only working against the clutch springs, not clamping pads against discs like a brake line. There'll be no benefit in fitting braided clutch lines except for aesthetics, IMO. Unless any...