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yep yellow rules lol, i call mine 3 cheese, as its 3 different colours of yellow, tank/seat cowel and hugger are orig, fairing and seat unit another shade, and mudguard and belly pan the 3rd shade, but there again if i got it too pretty it wouldnt get used as much, just need to check if my mot man w...

Well, after replacing the clutch cover with the one i got from Alistair [AMCQ46] top man, shes all back together and not leaking water anymore, a 30mile test ride today confirms everything aok, so now serviced and running well, and looking a little better than when i got it, the only thing i had to ...

Well, it goes on, cheap buckled newly powder coated wheel now in bin, original chipped wheel now powder coated [crap coating job this time], and fitted, rest of bike put back together, and thinking all is now sorted, will give her a quick run down the road just to check all is ok. first problem, i o...

so the replacement fork leg arrived from d&k, fast delivery, and in good condition, although they omitted to tell me the price was plus del plus vat, so a little more than i thought, so thats been stripped and cleaned/painted, and new hagon spring with 10w oil and 145mm air gap, wheels back from...

can anyone tell me which way round fork seals should go in, the side with the spring on top or underneath???
cheers Hammie

no bazzer not pcoated, just painted with some silver i had in the garage, it had been painted badley in situ, so you can imagine what a top job it had had done, thought i might as well give it a proper job whilst it was out of the bike, did consider stripping and polishing it, but only for about 5 s...

off bazza on this forum, £35 exchange for your old ones
cheers hammie

tbh it seemed to ride ok, but as its a new to me bike, cheap and pretty unloved, with lots of pre cons, i want to get it safe, as its a rapid bike and i dont want anything going wrong at oh my word mph lol, once the forks are back in [stripped the bent one today for practice, and was full of black s...

cheers bsm, holes were already in fairing, only on one side though????? [proper minter mine u know lol], workshop is only my garage, where the cars will never see the light of day, or anything else from the clutter and crap we accumulate, its the only room in the house that nobody but me goes in, [m...

So, ccts changed for manual ones, wondered where the little oil drip was coming from at the rear, after reading some posts found that the rear is suseptable to leaking, siliconed and tightened back up, again after reading posts rear swingarm linkage stripped checked [luckily all ok] painted polished...

just got some hagon front springs, and have found that ive got more than enough 10w fork oil in the garage, hagons recommend 150mm airgap???? with 10w oil, just waiting for the wheels to come back from the powder coaters then i will take the forks off, give them a tidy up and paint, and change the s...

Hi all, after reading some posts on here, and seeing the state of some of the swingarm linkage bearings i thought it prudent to check mine out, my bike being a multi ownered not too cared for model lol, stripped it all down expecting the worst, but in fairness, no seized bearings, all cleaned up, re...

bazzas manual ccts fitted today, followed the guide, all back together and running tickety boo, gave it a new air filt spark plugs and an oil change to boot, how i did mine was as per guide, screwed them in as tight as i could by hand and turned em back a quarter turn, this was giving me around 5-7m...

cheers for that, will be tommorrow now

couple more questions, bike stripped now and ready for replacements, cams in correct positions and marks lined up etc, to clarify the movement [ie up and down ie slack] sorry for my mis use of deflection ie side to side, so i should be looking for 5-7mm of up down movement in the cam chain between t...