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Just to let you know the FJ has passed it's MOT this morning , Yippee, so off and out today before the rain gets here to have a bit of a blast round the local roads. Going to go to Ledbury for a trip out to pick up the wife's birthday pressie and a good excuse to blow the dust off of the bike. Going to use the camera to take a video of the trip so I can get an idea of how it looks from the cockpit, this thing is AWESOME it goes like a bloody missile. Tasky is right this thing is a motorway muncher.

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Thanks all, glad you liked it, next time I might even get round the corners without using all the road !

You won't have caused any damage,... The drive cable turns a mechanism inside the speedo, which in turn creates a magnetic field, The needle part is attached to a coil (like a clock spring and as thin as one) which responds to the changes in the field, whilst the needle will be up against the stop, it won't be being wound up by the mechanical parts! it will survive.

was the floorboards hitting the ground here, drewpy. anyway this don`t was the most scary moment ) the most scaring moment was when a retard coming from opposite side, was starting overtaking a car with 1 mile before the place I was, but when he pass me he was still in the parallel line with the other car, of course on my road side... I had 80m/h when he start the overtaking and when he pass me, I had under 10 m/h, with no place to go in the right side because was a 1m depth channel ... and the f idiots, both of them, pass me with over 100 m/h I think. I guess the other idiot accelerate and don`t leave him to overtake but freak, when you see that, you start using your f brakes, don`t go to kill the biker in front of you. this is the major problem in Romania, most of the people drive ok, make you feel safe, and BOOM.. you find a retard like this and game is over. and you have big chances to find one like this. BUT, like always, if you ride like you are invisible, you will survive ) in UK is not the case, because most are bad drivers, and never make you feel safe so you are concentrate all the time on the road ) bad drivers but a lot more civilized and not so retarded like some romanian drivers. when I enter in romania, I was forced to wait 2,5 h because was an accident with a bus... a car start overtake the bus, the bus driver accelerate and don`t leave the car to overtake, the car was forced to push the bus in the channel to avoid the collision with the car was coming from opposite side and this is how you ruin some lives because you are a f idiot bus driver.

@ bippo, in germany and austria I chose the camping sites, in romania both, camping sites or "pensiune" .. something like inn`s in UK, or bed and breakfast. one night at pensiune in romania is something like 15-25 euro depending of the region and rank. this is in germany, on the river Rhine https://www.dropbox.com/s/2k6kqn1cx0wjv7v/2014-07-10%2012.59.47.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/jy3a86pfpvythof/2014-07-10%2014.13.24.jpg this is in austria, somewhere... lol https://www.dropbox.com/s/8t7x26s97vmret2/2014-07-12%2005.57.43.jpg and my neighbours in austria: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wdvxoh76w3cmwao/2014-07-12%2006.05.44.jpg and this is in romania: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g6otnoxhgqkt4nq/2014-07-15%2020.22.54.jpg

Your Dads very clever and VERY patient, not many have the skill to do something like that.

Hey, I like naked ladies as much as the next guy.

I would see exactly what is wrong with the low mileage one. Swaping parts is a good idea because it cost nothing. Then assess what it would cost to get the high mileage one running again and flog it. Slice - I wouldn't go for the Duke. I love them but a service and new belts are going to be £300 and you then have a rough one and still £800 spent.

Dont worry. Nayruf gave me loads of info on o rings. Have tracked down the proper part. Had £10 minimum order but its the right part for the job. Actually talked through what i needed with them. Being part of the 2 stroke system and the mess the knackerd one made. I wanted it right. Only downside is i will have a 'couple' of spares.