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With all the let down from Yamaha over the go-anywhere 1200 Tenere, by let-down I mean yes the bike will go anywhere, if you can afford the dammed thing and as long as there is a road......... Sorry, Anyway, I was considering chopping in the XJR1300 for the New Tenere, but that's a none starter so I was looking at what else I could get.. And by chance I fell over the MidnightStar on the website. I know Goff has one, but my question to you all, well those of you who have some experience of cruiser ownership, what are the pro's and con's of one of these bikes ? The XJR is a bit of a plaything, and the only one of my bikes I use for pillion, so it has to be com…

Firstly hello again! Been a year or so since ive been on here, recent purchase of new bike has brought me back I have a quick question. Ive bought a 1988 fzr400. According to the DVLA etc it is the RR SP, but im under the impression that the rr sp was only in production on the 1992 above models? And a search of the internet only seemed to confirm this. Am I wrong? It certainly feels like it has the longer first gear and close ratio box. Can anybody shed some light? Cheers, will.

I have Banned it and excluded for 10,000 days as well just to make sure any volunteers to embalm, cremate and bury it as well please merv

30 years ago today he was taken from us

Mike's restoration project at Looking for chainguard for RD 400f Daytona Special

I recently purchased a new mikuni carb off ebay as per suggestions on here. It went on fine, bu it seems to be missing the hole for the oil injection line. It is not drilled out. Am I missing something.? It fired first kick, but after noticing the oil line we shut it down. Thoughts and thanks

urgent need of another carb but places seem to want silly money that i just havent got at the minute. can someone please help?

Hello Peeps, Long time no post. My bike is running really well, now I have sorted out the compression (silencer had a crack in it). Now thats she's up and running properly I'd like to modify it a little more. I've got some Boyeson reeds and a ramair pod filter in the post. I'm planning on re-jetting too obviously but wanted to know a little more about the carb in my bike first. My research says its a Mikuni TM28SS but I cant find out whether this carb is a CV (Constant Velocity) carb or not or even if its the right carb at all!??! Do any of you guys know? Cheers $t0F

hi does any one out there know what miles a dt re 2005 does to on a full tank cheers brian

Well... I thought my bikes Idol was a bit high... sounds around 2-2.3kRPM and from what I understand it should be at 1.2k-1.3k So I began to hunt for my idol screw on the carb... could I find it? Noooooo I even looked to the manual to check I wasn't being a tit... turns out that there is NO idol screw!!! now I have been able to source near enough EVERY part for this bike and I have no friggin idea where to start with this thing... I've googled it but then it struck me that the bike has been heavily modified for off-road / mountain riding in wales! So what if this is a different carb? but on that same note are the idol screws not generally universal? Besid…

is 25000 miles classed as high mileage on a bike ??

I have a random problem as the title suggests. I bought a sr125 recently and knew it had an issue with the speedo not working.. but the bike ran great so was happy. I've realised since riding around the block to figure out whats going on that the odometer is actually going backwards?? How is this possible? The speedo cable is fine if i turn the cable then the speedo works and turn it for long enough the odometer goes up correctly but for some reason my speedo drive is running backwards? Has something been set up incorrectly on the front end? It's a 94 model with disc brake at the front only. Any input would be greatly received.. Tia

I often see this as a strange subject for bikes. I dont understand why a bike with 30,000 miles is seen as a bad thing if it has been looked after, services by a dealer and is most importantly straight! Cars now do 100,000 fine without issues! I use my bike almost everyday for work and i do about 80miles a day to and from work and although yes i know it wil be worth less but surely the enjoyment from getting out there on a top class bike and enjoying it is better than worrying about the mileage on it each time. And wouldnt a bike thats used more often be ridden more concervativly as they need the reliability out of it rather than tearing the nuts off it every odd…

hey people, a while since ive been on appologise. been busy with college work and the likes. you know you know. anyway. still on the bike every day rain, wind, ice and especially shine. got my chicken stripes down to near nothing WAHOO! and got a track day at donnington booked up at the ron haslam race school WAHOO some more. however my constant use of my bike is taking its toll on my tyres. what do you lot usually get out of your tyres? any factors which cause high wear other than skidding and burnouts. ive got michelin pilot sports which are brilliant tyres but there not looking like tere going to last much longer!! any high millage fast riding communter tyres available…

good ole Brit, Alan Millyard see's how fast his V10 8 litre viper engined bike will go

In race two Brookes was again fighting with the leading pack, however as Ryuichi Kiyonari (BMW) crashed out in front of him he was forced to take evasive action. Brookes held the Milwaukee Yamaha across the grass and rejoined, but dropped drastically down the order. A strong run of consistent fast laps but Brookes back up into sixth position and holding fourth in the overall standings. Parkes was determined to make improvements for the second race, but he crashed out at Goddards. Josh Brookes Race 1: 3rd / Race 2: 6th / Championship position: 4th "We've been in and out of the pits all weekend and all through testing trying to fast track the learning of the bike - for …

=] a 1992 TZR, fun, hard work though, needed doing as frame, and subframe had rust on, and we also found mains flex running the length of the bike from the headlight to the back light, and that the rear footpegs had been hacksawed off along with some of the frame too...wasnt over impressed... goes and sounds like a treat now though the Ones with the white screen are the older ones, and the black screen the new ones, BTW for those keen eyed people, thats a honda in the background sadly not mine :L

are they any good? obviously mp3 players are the thing to get now but been offered a really good mini disk player from my sisters father in law!! he asked if i'd want it so she said yes dont know much about them though. do you store music on the mini disk things or do you buy them like normal cd's? sorry if i seem thick, not really into this type of thing you know

Hi, got prob. with my mio sporty. Push start doesn't work. It only has alarm, HID (3k), and compact horn. I already changed my battery... but still it does'nt work...