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Ello all... Now I probably know the answer to this question but wanted to pick the massive brains on here anyway. Well I purchased a 1999 Thundercat last week, all was fine until Friday on the way to work. Whilst going round a roundabout it popped out of second and made an awul mechanical noise - sort of noise that a chain rattling against something would make. Immediately thought - un oh its the infamous 2nd gear problem! On my test ride before purchase I checked as well as I could for this, accelerated hard in 2nd and no problems. Well it hasnt fallen out of gear again since but has been a bit "clunky" changing into 2nd from 1st (no problems going down from 3rd tho…

I just found another xs850. It's the 2nd one I've owned. This one slips or should I say bangs or slams out of gear when on the throttle Not when down shifting. Only when on throttle. I'm not to familiar with these bikes.

Evening All I have a 2nd question in as many days... Yam xvs 650 1997 front brake master cylinder kit Does anybody know if/where I can get some new seals for front master cylinder as Yamaha want to charge an arm, a leg and a pint of blood.. In their infinate wisdom Yamaha made these seals VERY special.. My brake seal stockist says that on measuring the 2 seals some dimensions are metric and some imperial My measurements for the 2 seals are... 1st seal (small) is od = 13mm,,,,,id = 5.75mm,,,,,, height = 3.5mm 2nd seal (larger) is od = 13mm,,,,,id = 7.8mm,,,,,,, height = 4mm Hope someone else has had the same problem and found a solution cheers To…

.....That I've got one of my bikes STOLEN! I packed my friend's borrowed truck up last Thursday night with all the camping gear, firewood, & my little lad's bicycle & PeeDub50........got up Friday morning to find that some Punk-Ass Meth-Head had dug into my buddy's truck, set everything else aside.....just to take the PeeDub! He was getting too big for the little beast, so now I'm starting on a quest to find him a newer, little bigger off-roader.......probably an XR or the likes. Needless to say.......It's Open Season on ScumBag Drug Addict Thieves in my Neighborhood!

Club got together again today..not on track as superbikes and cars were doing their thing..just a showing of the bikes to the public. How about this 1976 RD400?

Everyone got together today for a photo shoot which is going into UK 2stroke magazine. Keep an eye out for us. Note a couple of waterbuses and a Yam RZ500 (that guy has had that RZ from new).

Hi guys, I have recently purchased my first Yamaha and I love it. The problem I have is that when I got it I gave it a good service, changed the gearbox oil ect.. I also drained the existing 2 stroke oil and replaced it with good quality fully synsethic oil and since then its been running really badly. When it gets to about 7000 rpm it splutters and mutters and I have to ease off the throttle and gently try to accelerate again which helps a bit but its still not right. Is it the 2 stroke oil coz thats the only thing I have changed??? I am very confused with it. What 2 stroke oil would you recommend? Also I want to get a better performance exhaust on it, can any one rec…

Merry Christmas to one and all. Can anyone advise the mechanics of the oil level warning light - ie what is the mechanism for making it come on. Mine has started to come on even though the oil reservoir is full.

congrats to russia.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyDDKee7LY0&feature=youtu.be

police chased 3 chinese school girls from an undisclosed location in Breitmet today and ended up at Oulton Park, where the BSB testing was taking place. A unidentified local spokes-person called kev, commented..... "piss off, ya bastards" and sped away @ 45mph on a passola, closely followed by a "boney arsed" aquaintance. this edition brought to you by. Bolton Evening News "breaking news, not wind"

Went for a 3 hour round trip today on my DT. Was lovely weather when i set off, 15mins from home i got drenched, the heavens opened and let three weeks of no rain down in aboun 5mins. The lil bike is going great, but oooohh what a sore ass i have all evening, the dam thing is just to narrow. I had a great day on some lovely roads, only met 4 other bikes on me travels, 3 of them gave a Best bit--- 195kilom's on a full tank and still not on reserve,, cant be far away though. Only put a fiver in to top-up tank---great eh!! Anyway that was my days events, just thaught id share.

3 mice are sitting in a bar drinking Tequila shots. The first mouse says "I am so hard that I run into mouse traps for fun. As the bar closes I bench press it 20 times". The second mouse says "I am so hard I get the mouse killer tablets from their boxes, crush them and snort them". The third mouse gets up to leave. The other two mice say "where are you going?" He replies........................................................."Home to sh*g the cat!!"

I've just bought 3 XS500's for about 500$, I don't know if it's too much money, but for now I think the winter will be over soon, when I start to get them build together again, they are all laying in boxes only one is part fittet together again, but I have to dismantle it, so the bike gets a new start. My son did se the pictures of the bikes and his comment was: That's no bike it has no seat and is ugly. This is the one I showed him. I didn't dare to show him this one.

hi all, im a newbie, just bought an 02 plate fazer 600, the bike is restricted to 33 bhp at the moment, im wondering if there is a way to remove this without costly garage bills? i picked a bad day to buy a bike lol i rode from monmoth to runcorn cheshire, in masses of rain, but to say the bike was restricted she still performed well, maybe i should have switched to yamaha sooner!

im going for my 33 break test on the 29th of june just wandering what its like, ie what have a gotta do, is it basically just the cbt?

i have a new exhaust in my garage pre fix 3bw is this a dt125 or 200

What a fantastic documentary, could have done without the 3D aspect to be honest, I just found it distracting, but the content of the film could not have been better! If you get the oppertunity......go see it!

Ive been searching my face off looking for a 3into1 header for my 81 xs850. Does anyone know where I can find an after-market manufacturer/distributor in Canada? i dont really wanna pay a bunch of brokerage and extra taxes for cross border purchases. Any info helps, thanks peeps.

Hi guys. After initially posting a question about which bike to get I finally got mine last week wednesday. I only managed to take her out for a ride to work yesterday and what a ride it was fantastic. (it is a 2004 yamaha r6 with 7500 on the clock). As I was riding on the dual carriage way and giving it a decent amount of revs gearchanging was no problem at all but when going down a 30mph stretch after pulling away I changed through the gears but going from 3rd to 4th I pulled the clutch in as per usual and lifted the gear lever with my foot and it clicked as if to engage but when I let the clutch out it just reved as though I had put it into neutral. I pulled in t…

cool engineering, and it does sound good http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/30/honda-125cc-inline-4-cylinder-monkey-bike/