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Hovering over thread titles pops up a brief bit of the first post. Me likey!! Hitting enter double-spaces text lines. Me not so likely...

Greetings dude!!! Welcome to the forum and hope the rebuild goes well - Certainly got the weather for it!!

Damn... Why did you drop it? How do you make sure its not twisted? Check it, see if it's twisted, I expect...

120 miles was just a general guide for a group ride plan. A lot depends on the individual bike and how you ride it - My FJ gets as much as 50+mpg on motorways, but drops to mid-20s in the town traffic... It also changes if I rag it like a mad thing! So - Fill it up, zero the counter, then ride around normally until you hit Reserve. That mileage will be your approximate limit for planning. Now refill the tank before you forget - Note the amount of fuel you fill up with! So with the Miles To Reserve figure in mind and the amount of fuel used, you can calculate rough Miles Per Gallon. You can get the Total Tank capacity from the owners manual. Subtract the Fill-Up quantity from the Tank Total and that will give you an approximate remaining Reverve measure, from which you can then calculate how many miles you'll get on Reserve, too. I'm crap at maths, but even I can do this stuff!! And yes, keeping a Can In The Pan is always a good idea, especially on long trips! Just make sure it's something designed to hold fuel - A few of us favour those 2L bottles for camping fuel, though the big green plastic thingies usually fill a single saddlebag quite nicely. I wonder if this is the oldest thread resurrected thus-far...?

I prefer the non-chrome, so I can see where you're coming from. I just thought swapping would only lose you money... unless you're buying the Custom one 2nd Hand?

The only big difference is you now get your bike serviced on the right hand side of the Club workshop with Ernie instead of the left side with Doc Hacker...

Not much difference betwixt the two, is there? Your 1300A vs this 1300? Just a can of matte spray paint and a weekend of stripping, spraying and reassembling, with a few beers to fill the space while each coat is drying?

Buy another FJ? I'd normally be somewhat offensive and highly discourteous toward you... but you upgraded to an FJR, which doesn't count as treachery, heh heh!!

Three. There's a stalker hiding behind the tree!! Welcome to the world, Ben!! How long before he gets his CBT, then?

Interesting... Colours remind me of the bikes in MegaForce!!

Don't worry - It's only a Honda!!

Bandages... or proper Exhaust Wrap? The latter is used often in custom bikes...

It's the wife's 2001. My 1999 melted out its oil seal and pissed the sump contents all down the A329-M. Rebuilding because she had left it unridden to the point where the frame was rotting out and she now wants to sell it... or ride it... or maybe sell it... or keep it but store it.... or maybe sell it.... or..... I really don't know, TBH.

Hola Ricardo!!

Forward the email with attachments and tell them you're sending back exactly what they sent, in the manner they sent it. Then go find a decent insurance company!

Actually, we did that. I'm talking more about the sharp edges on the engine, that will still rip through the protection and gouge the paint. Not far to go, actually. Next big part is figuring out the electrics routing and getting the coils/carbs/airbox stuff in above the cylinders...

Good luck getting it back in... It took two of us the other week on my 650 rebuild. Then again, we *were* trying not to scratch the freshly painted frame!!

Well, it is... in a way. It's like a speedo that goes up to 140mph on a bike that struggles to breach 100.

The film techniques were groundbreaking... but they destroyed it with the whiny kid! "You can't kill people. You can't!" "WHY?" "You just can't. Trust me on this!" Just the opposite - It's the reason you and I are talking, the reason I have bikes and know how to maintain them, the reason I have a job and the reason you don't get 31 different raw diseases coming out of your taps! Each to their own, I guess... I personally don't mind going out in the throes of passion when both of my 'Kurilla III Custom' sexbot twins fail to auto-update their firmware!

But as a movie, it's god-awful!!

Clearly *you* haven't seen The Terminator series, or at least T2 - Skynet went live on "August 29th, 1997"!!! As I recall, that day was pretty uneventful, unless you lived in the village of Rais in Algeria. T3 has the actual Fucked Date as being July 24, 2004, but even less happened on that day! Have yet to see what mess the latest movie comes up with, given that it's a reboot and all...

Free, yes... but Linux/Ubuntu, etc are only of any real use if you're into programming and coding. The vast majority of apps and programs I want to use have issues running on OSes outside of Windows. Win8 & 8.1 are pretty naff overall. I'd take Vista over MacOS any day, but the best ones for my uses remain XP and 7.

The design specs only planned in for that far, probably. Same as how they factor in work hours, mileage and whatever else for the warranty. If they'd expected it to last longer, they'd have put that in the service schedule. As is, splines would probably come under 'moving parts', which get done every 10k up to 40, then annually thereafter. They also say, "The replacement of all wheel and brake-related parts, including the tires, should be left to a Yamaha dealer, who has the necessary professional knowledge and experience". The fact that history has proven how long it *can* last has no impact on how long Yamaha design/expect it to last.

OMG, did he just fuck a perfectly good CBX750???!! What a wanker.... If he didn't want it, I'd have had it. No need to paint the road with it!!

You think most of them even know what that is? Those who specialise in bikes will know the sorts of parts they will sell often, just as pro thieves know what bikes are common enough to need parts too. High-end design costs money. Dragstars are Harleys for budgetarily-challenged Cruiser-Boys who only do, at most, 1800 miles a year and only in dry weather. There are cost-cuts and compromises all over it, yet it remains pretty darn hardy which is why it's such a good bike... generally. However, it wasn't intended to last more than about 40k, which is where problems start creeping in even if you're meticulous with the thing. That's why the OM service schedule only goes that far. The spline service requires more than just basic tools - A bike jack for one (Yam could never advocate two blokes hoiking it up by hand onto carpet-covered bricks), which is why the big stuff like that is only in workshop manuals. It's intended for mechanics to do that and make money from it, which is also why those manuals are so expensive. The fact that we can figure out how to do it is not Yam's concern either. But regardless, I'd say it's more something to keep an eye on, rather than an actual fault or design flaw with the bike.