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Many happy returns for your 18th! Here's wishing you are well and getting better. I hope the pain killers won't restrict your alcohol intake this evening. Best wishes

Have a good one mate. Hope to ride with you again some time soon

So the days are nearing to the inevitable purchase of my YBR 125 for commuting to work. I'm sorting out the place where I will keep it at home at the moment, but don't have a place to keep it under cover - like in a garage or secluded area. I'm worried that a bike is such an easy target for vandalism or just plan robbin'! How can I help stop people getting their hands on my pride and joy? I'd love to hear where you keep your bike if not in a garage and if you've had any troubles doing it that way. Parking at work is fine, being a fort with guard dogs! MrL

Hi folks...has anyone ever filed/sanded down the sides of their tyre so that it's less squared off? If this is a really bad idea then can someone tell me why. Also is there a way of getting the shape back so as not to have to buy a new rear? All help appreciated. KW

Hi All, I have a 250LC 1980, I am having running problems when on the road at around 5,000 rpm it will run fine, if i open it up through the gears for aaround 30 seconds, it just cuts out, just like when you go from fuel on to reserve. I then pull over and the bike kickes over after about 30 seconds. the bike is all standard with the right size jets etc, I have removed the tank and cleaned, I have cleaned and checked the fuel tap as well. I have run out of ideas now, has anyone had come across this before? Is there anything else I need to check, is driving me mad as the bike goes very well if you dont open it up!! Any suggestions welcome. Thanks, Mick.

seen this bike before

Hi all, first time poster here, hoping the good people of the owners club can help me with my problem. I bought my first bike 3 weeks ago. Its an '11 YBR 125. The bike has 200 miles on it I have two questions. Sometimes it is really hard to get the bike into neutral. It either skips neutral and jumps to 2nd or says its in neutral (Light comes on) but jerks forward if I release the clutch. Is this something to worry about? If it is a problem, how do I fix it? Will it go away with more miles? My second question is After I turn the bike off, I hear clicking coming from the engine What is it? Much love to anyone that helps and any…

Hi, My bikes missing a woodruff key but I don't know what size they are? Any ideas guys? Thanks, Ollie.

Right im after abit of help my iv got a yamaha ybr125 first bike and everytime i leave it on the side stand after abit the bike wont start like theres no fuel it happens if its been left for 10 min or even a few hours its becoming a pain as i just went to the parents was there 20 min max went out and the bike wouldnt start again had to be somewhere so bump the bike to get it to start i have tried leaving it on the main stand and sometimes has the same problems i dont think its right it happens more on short journeys ie from work home which is about 2 mile max anybody able to help i have taken it back to the shop i got it and they said to leave…

Hi! I've got a Dragstar 650a 05 Plate and I'm looking to make it sound loud and throaty - so that you can hear us coming a mile away. But I want to do it as cost effectivly as possilbe and also so that it passes its MOT (ie with no exhasts stamped 'not for road use') What can you advise?

Has anybody got one of these? I have only just found out about them, I'm tempted to get one now.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-RD350-YPVS-Special-YPVS-Motor-fitted-DTR125-Frame-TZR250-Running-Gear-/251066227938?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item3a74b69ce2 That engine scares me enough in the RD350 chassis, I can't imagine the instability once in there! I still want it though....

hi all been a while since iv put a new topic up, the bobber is in bits in the shed ready for when i decide to get back to biking ...(passed my cage test and been using it since) ......plus im low on funds so cant afford to run both the car and bike..(devistated)... sooooo i thought about how i could make some extra dosh....and came up with a furnace at the mo iv got it all set up ready to melt down any aluminum that i can get my hands on! (gonna give it a test run tomoz night and take some pics) at 1st i was just going to melt it down, turn into blocks then take to the scrap yard......but metal prices have dropped to the point where it wouldnt be worth it. so im thin…

hey guys! i really need help with my 1977 yamaha dt 175! whats going on is the the higher you go up in the gears the slower it gets, 1 and second arnt bad but 3 it kinda flutters and wont have a normal rev to get into the next gear. ive had the carb apart myself and cleaned it out, then i took it to a so called "mechanic" and soaked me for 188 bucks, he said that the rubber between the carb and the air filter had a hole and was sucking in dust, so he put a new rubber on and it still does the same thing! after i got it back from this mechanic it was really bad, the thing would be hard starting and would flutter really bad. then it quit on me 5 miles away from home and i ha…

Hi everyone, having a bit of an issue with my newly aquired TZR125... I knew it had been stood for 3 years before I bought it, so I decided that before trying to fire it up I would drain the tank and clean out the carb. The carb was full of a sticky snot like substance, which I managed to eventually clean out. However the tank appears to have been filled with an epoxy tank liner at some stage which has obviously been partly dissolved by the fuel. This had also caused the gunge in the carb (as well as reed valves). I have managed to get most of it out, but there is still one big lump still in there. What is the best way of removing the lump? I don't want to damage…

Am looking for a suitable vacuum to fit a scottoiler on a diversion (the new one). There is a spare blanked tube that looks like it is used for analysis when it goes on a pc, is this suitable? Thanks Wil

Has anyone had there chroming done at Bob Cooper's in Coventry recently as I have your RD header pipes and you have mine. I picked up my chrome on the 19 May and there was a set of other RD stuff on the bench. The one's I got are off a newer model as there quite short and totally different angle compared to the spare set I have. PS. My bike is an RD350B I hope your on this site...

"Love is the feeling you get when you like something as much as your motorcycle" --- Hunter S. Thompson------

Recently seen a picture of myself on my 98 Divvy 600N and I look like Donkey Kong on a Monkey bike. I need something with a bigger frame at least, gotta be naked too. Really taken with the XJR. Also looking at the CB1300 & ZRX... Neither have to really recent. I'm wondering what else there is out there with similar frame sizes.... Big suzuki's are obviously in there too. Any suggestions peeps? Ta!

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