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Got home from working at the wet Bathurst car races, left home Tuesday 9.00 am, loaded 405 tyres into the truck at the warehouse & drove to Cowra New South Wales for the night about 1 hour away from Bathurst. We set up our truck & annexe in the rain Wednesday morning & started fitting tyres at...

How does everyone go about adjusting the cam sprocket with slotted holes/bolts once the rocker cover is fitted? Not quite ready to do it yet but was looking while putting together the cases a few days ago. One thought I had was using a spare cover I have & milling out the centre for access &...

First job on the new project. Lengthen steering stem 15mm & check fitment of 43mm CBR 600F4i front end. 760mm axle to top compares to 770mm on the 81 Special. New fork tubes & clip-ons are ordered.

What ignition coils should I run on the bike? 1981 Special running Boyer ignition with the blue box. I have 2 new single Sakura coils or the dual wire that is currently on the wiring loom.

Going through all the bits & pieces to put an engine together & there's 750 pistons/barrels with low usage, a stock set with pistons & another set of barrels. Do I fit the 750. stock or bore & fit o/s new pistons? I'm trying to keep it as original as I can apart from some reliability upgrades.

G'day all! I've jumped in the deep end & bought a 1981 XS650 SH basket case + extra stuff. Apparently it had a top-end rattle & was pulled down to check it out. 750 kit was fitted a while ago by PO. Seems like the small ends of the rods are a bit un-happy with some excessive clearance. One of...