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jompy wrote:You can pick up different types of crash bungs from eBay for £30 bud , take a look

I've been looking on there but they all require cuttin…login to view the rest of this post

Unfortunately I dropped my bike the other day. [emoji22][emoji22][emoji22]
But thank fook for crash bungs! I have the ones that bolt through the top fa…login to view the rest of this post

I assume the previous owner got a refund for my tax...still investigating...

I recently lost my V5 logbook, so did the simple task of filling out the form to get a replacement from DVLA along with my £25 fee.
I waited a few wee…login to view the rest of this post

I recently lost my V5 logbook, so did the simple task of filling out the form to get a replacement from DVLA along with my £25 fee.
I waited a few week…login to view the rest of this post

Hello all, firstly I'm new to forums generally not just this one, never registered on one before but I'm sure I'll find this more than useful and hope I can help others too.

I was born in to bikes with the garage always having at least one in it, holidays to donny and brands most years...

Bought ...

BIG UN wrote:welcome bud,bike looks lovely,had 2 blue uns myself.
and lay off the shiney wheels you lot,
nothing better than polishing yer rim while the mrs is out.

what exhaust you got on it?

Cheers mate, It's a cut down scorpion end can, I've got a carbon wrap on it now

Has anyone fitted the 4 degree ignition advancer? If so is it worth it?
It's supposed to give better throttle response and mid range.

Only used muc off once on my old zx9 took the paint off the wheels !


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk pretty sh!t paint job then I reckon
+1

with muck…login to view the rest of this post

pod wrote:I didn't. Like I say get 2 out , clean and replace. Then repeat for other 2

Ah ok, half a job then [emoji6]


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I'm not an actual member of bmad, but I do go along and happily donate.

BMAD raises money for local charities, unlike most other charities that are major corporations where a lot of the money probably goes to the Mafia.

Anyway, it's the first festival of the season 1st May bank holiday weekend ...

pod wrote:Bloody hell boyz it really ain't that hard, if I can do it in a couple of hrs SOME of you should have no problems

Interested to know how you…login to view the rest of this post

It always seems straight forward on paper, but there doesn't seem to be any other way of getting all 4 Pistons out at once without the pliers...
It wou…login to view the rest of this post

For some reason this thread was posted twice....there seems to be more comments on the other one...

Threads from a couple of real decent gents on the forum...

http://www.yamahar.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=8832&p=135512&hilit=caliper+rebuild#p135512" …login to view the rest of this post

Does anyone have any quick tricks on removing the caliper pistons? Mine are a binding a bit so need to give them a once over. TIA

Does anyone have any quick tricks on removing the caliper pistons? Mine are a binding a bit so need to give them a once over. TIA

Removed the front end yesterday to replace the headset bearings...taken the yoke in to work today to press the new bearing in place...undecided if I s…login to view the rest of this post

Yeah tuning carbed R1s seems to be fraught with issues. I've had 3 different slipons and it ran best with the standard one. But I didn't like how it …login to view the rest of this post

Welcome mate,

Nice to see another 4XV'er [emoji106]

Yeah tuning carbed R1s seems to be fraught with issues. I've had 3 different slipons and it ran best with the standard one. But I didn't like how it …login to view the rest of this post

I've spoken to black widow, who make the collector pipe on eBay, he says its for standard set up with no power loss in any range, will only increase. …login to view the rest of this post

Moise wrote:I've seen it described in a couple of places but not in enough detail to be sure to do it right. It's probably somewhere on R1-forum.com.

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Yeah tuning carbed R1s seems to be fraught with issues. I've had 3 different slipons and it ran best with the standard one. But I didn't like how it …login to view the rest of this post

Yeah tuning carbed R1s seems to be fraught with issues. I've had 3 different slipons and it ran best with the standard one. But I didn't like how it …login to view the rest of this post