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went to a bike night tonight in the Wirral. left a cloudy Manchester into brilliant sunshine. what a difference. Some cool bikes there and I took a pikky of a Yosh inspired GS. Racetech titanium pipes, electronic dash, must have spent !000's bike spewed oil out on the way home, no damage done but its too dark to check where. I have an idea though.

Well i finally passed MOD 1 after three failed attempts! Was pretty nervous again this morning and not looking forward to the avoidance again, lots of deep breaths trying to get karma and then repeating to myself 'I can do this'...and I did. What a happy bunny I am today. Roll on MOD 2.

i could think of more thrilling things to do with bippos ass, but thats another thread completely!

Like the pictures Mike Wiltshire is a favourite place for me too - I like Devizes went to New Romney on the Kent coast Sunday, this photo was taken in a place inland called Tenterden where, luckily, I found a shop open that sold bolts as one of the 8mm stud fixings on the exhaust had vibrated off so I screwed it back together then had a pizza (restaurant with some outside seats/tables) sitting from where the photo is taken, the black bike with a reflective jacket on it is my XJ600N.

Are we talking about bippos ass or yours foams?

You probably need a puller to get it off the con rod if it will not just slide out, it MIGHT be possible to heat it and then give it a whack with a drift but there is always the potential to damage something else along the way if you do that unless you are really careful, as your splitting the engine anyway why not wait till you have it apart and then take it off of the crankshaft and deal with it in a vice rather than trying to sod about with it attached to the engine? That seems to be the best idea I can come up with for the moment maybe others will have a better idea. Just a thought why not just junk the con rod & piston altogether and fit new when you have it all in bits? Good luck Fakhir.

thats a Honda Shadow 750 motor in a custom one off frame with a 250" rear wheel (poss a 280") http://motomodification.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/HONDA-SHADOW-750-SPIRIT-2006.jpg And it looks fooking hideous

the shafts are not locking the engine cases together, It's the srew heads that are doing that...6mm drill, just drill the heads off like my 'slice' says

In case if I drill the screw heads off, will the engine block come off easily? I mean the shaft threads pass through block 1 and then into the second block. If head is gone, how am I doing to separate the engine blocks? The shaft threads are locking BOTH the engine casings/blocks right ?

Sorry Tommy, Hello Guys!! My name is Jack, I'm 35 and live in England. I have three cats, well I say I have three cats they are actually my wife's. She had them before we met... Unfortunately I cannot prove the cats actually belong to her. i have though on occasions asked for some king of proof that she is the rightful owner of the aforementioned moggies alas as yet I'm still to receive any hard evidence. Who knows she could well be the local 'cat napper'... Some nights (most) I hear my darling wife, lets call her Ali (as that is her name) sneaking around the house in the wee hours... Usually wearing dark clothes with her head totally covered in a black vale... It's about this time I also notice she is usually (always without fail) carrying a large net ( it's large enough to catch a cat in to give you some idea of the scale)... I hear the door slowly closing and the latch shutting tight. I lay awake for a brief moment thinking "why is my wife ( for ease lets still assume her name is Ali) (which it really is) leaving the house in the wee hours, all dressed in black. Not forgetting carrying a large net ?( big enough to catch a cat in).... I soon drift off into a deep and peaceful sleep... Albeit not helped by my neighbours (i assume its them as the voice does sound mildly familiar) whispering "here kitty kitty" which is sometimes followed (always) with a swishing noise (similar to the noise a large net catching a cat would make)... I awake the following morning and usually (always) am greeted with the fantastic news that one of the three male cats (which I presume are my wife's) has given birth to a fully grown cat (that looks somewhat dishevelled as if it has just been caught... In a large net).. My darling wife always looks so proud of the new born large adult cat.... Alas even in that proud moment I know (as she is my wife) that she looks a little sleepy... As if she has been up all night catching other people's cats (and then portraying them as her own) but I know better than that. So back to the point... These highway hawk fat pipes will they make my bike sound loud?... Not too loud so I scare away 57 new born fully grown adult cat kittens... Thanks Jack

Well it was a nice day up here, so I took the bike to work, 1200hrs start as opposed to the usual 0600hrs. Then into work, chained to a desk And finally the trip home, 2000hrs instead of 1800hrs Then got told to Moooove along......sorry

What I like about going to work on the bike is that due to my brilliant working hours I finish at 12:00 on a Friday, so as there is no hurry to get home every other week so I tend to go for a ride out into the wonderful Wiltshire countryside. Here are some wonderful snapshots. my MOT station, I even have to help the tester with the MOT on the way to the MOT in a village on the way Although I live in a market town and work in another town between us there is so much countryside it's unbelievable, just two minutes you can be in the serenity of the countryside.

the main one! when you've come out of a bend that you entered on the perfect line, at the right speed, in the right gear, and you feel like the bike is a part of you, that's why we love our bike's

For me it's the mechanical side of things. I just love getting stuck in and getting covered in dirt and oil.