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There's lovely....

Result indeed, it's not often you get the noise but not the expense......

Re the Acumen, I posted a wiring post in the Workshop Knowledgebase to save you trying to reinvent the wheel.
Mine is the one with the voltmeter built in, but should be the same.

Could try that, as I use the plastic ones when working on other people's bikes.

Mine are hard plastic, so slide annoyingly, disturbing the straps holding my scottoiler nozzle in place, and I always forget to readjust it again....
That's why I fitted bobbins.

Only change them if they feel notchy, otherwise leave well enough alone.

Yes, but the under arm ones let the swing arm slide up and along the cups, so that the cups end up nearer the engine, whereas bobbins stay where they are.

Today I fitted the reground cams I had done last autumn. They are about 1mm higher, with about 10 degrees more dwell. I set them as per the standard ones, didn't degree them in, so may not be as good as they could be yet. But rode it around for ten miles or so, TBH knackered so didn't want to be out...

Several people have just drilled and tapped directly in the swing arm, even simpler.
Mine are fine, and get used quite a lot, and others have done this, no-one as far as I kn ow has had one fail or thread strip.

Or has there?

Cheers, Chris.
Now what's an Etymole?


(And I really wasn't having a pop, each to his own.
Two wheels good, etc.)

Well done Amos, got it sorted. Re scales, don't bother. Just do what Amos did, get the front end jacked up, and you can easily feel whether the forks will flop to one side or the other. If you're not sure, tighten them a bit more, then you WILL feel it being too tight. The loosen it until it's nice ...

Snoogle wrote:Have to let us know when the next one is. My bike isn't back together or taxed yet lol small details I know!

Just bring what you've got to the workshop day, and you can ride it home.
No biggie.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Not old enough for "comfortable bars" as yet......Maybe the time will come, and if it's that or stopping riding ok, but Nnoooooooooooooooooooooo!! Might as well get a Varadero. Still feel a bit queasy 'cause I have a clock fitted. And that's digital, at least. J...

Since finishing fitting the reground cams to my engine this weekend the swing arm brace is the next thing on the horizon, along with getting a spare subframe painted or powder coated, not sure which yet. I've got the brace from a Blade already sitting on the bench, the Blade mounting bracket as well...

Mine sticks a bit, as I fitted soft rubber grips and din't trim them short enough. You can train yourself to shut it rather than rely on the spring, if you do it for a while it gets to be second nature. Then if it doesn't shut by itself you're less likely to bin it. Or if you ride someone else's bik...

Doesn't look anything like a chickung, I was expecting feathers at least.

Not too shabby for an outdoors one, though