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Can never under-do front braking, twin discs derigure. It's a cafe racer after all

Hi again folks, sunny Vancouver Island cafe racer man checking in. Is there a cast rear wheel with a drum brake I can use on my 77 roadster (standard)? I would prefer a 18 inch but would use a 16 inch if I have to... I have today swapped the front wheel from spoked to cast because the...

My take on "wooden" brakes is imagine squeezing a wooden fence post, no movement no matter how hard you squeeze... with brakes a combination of too large a diameter master cyl with braided brake lines gives a brake lever that doesn't move much when it is squoze. Squeeze it harder and you get...

Makes a heluvamess over the back of the bike, but that's what the Great God Honda and mothership yamahamaha invented chain guards for... but that's a whole nother thing to disagree about!

Mr really cheap saves engine oil from oil changes and uses that on the chain, perhaps through a scottoiler

Set the valve clearances and check the cam timing. Then check the ign timing then check you have the right plug cap on the right plug... Then check you have the right point connected to the right coil.......

Time for the Forum to have a quiet word with the business in question???

Congratulations on having the patience skills and knowledge to identify the problems and find solutions!

Mon ami, votre enterprise est un escapade personale. Methinks youm on a personal learning curve mayet, there bay mooch we con tell yer that yow cor learn yersel Binny from the Black Country

On my bike the centre stand bolts had rusted into the stand pivot eyes, no amount of 'ommerin' would shift them, off it all came c/o angle grinder

Shows the upper limit of the fork slider movement Posted via Mobile

When returning a bike brake system to use from a total strip down, clean and rebuild it can be a devil of a job to fill and bleed the system. The difficulty is getting all the air out of the hydraulic cylinder of the master cyl. It can take ages and hundreds of pumps. One way of speeding the...

Done it by a dab of grease on the stanchions and seeing how far the grease gets wiped by the sliders. 25 mm of stanchion not wiped by the dust seal

No, I'm making an aluminium large capacity tank... details to follow It's a slooow process as I've not done this before

Oh and I broke with tratishun and kept the yamahamaha air boxes... :yikes:

Clip ons every time :)

Been scratching tonight, on the dual carriageway managed to wring out the magic 160. Job done

Fleabuy, came from India i believe. I bought the wrong ones and needed to become creative, bought the custom bike ones instead of the roadster ones. They work well but don't pivot up. I use a pair of axle stands under them as I ditched the centre stand. I also was able to tuck the 2:1 in...

Yup, darn near ampussable The issue is that cv carbs require still air from which to draw from. Bike manufacturers go to great lengths to design air boxes to provide still air for the carbs even at high rpm, road speeds and throttle openings. Individual pod type air filters work fine on...

This "no front brake" thing I simply don't get. When the front brake of a bike, single disc or twin disc, provides at least 2/3rds of the vehicle braking, why oh why would anyone want to reduce the capability of their bike? Any "shaved" riders brave enough to tell their stories of failing to...