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Had this before myself....Sorry to tell you, but it does sound like your chain has stretched in one place, only way to fix is to replace it really. Unfortunatly, thats what I had to do not long ago, I noticed my chain was a bit slack, so I tried to tighten it...as is yours, it would be ok in one spot, and slack in another. Hope this helps. Wait for some more replies so as to be sure.

In all the miles (300,000) I have ridden in the last 2.5 years, Ive seen lots of stupid driving, parking and general chaos. Heres just a peek at what Ive seen in regards to parking..... Firstly..A professional, ahem parks his instructors car on a junction and in a bus stop on a yellow line... Secondly...what happened here....Motorbike bays at an ASDA, but this managed to get between the bollards to prevent cars entering... Ive seen many things, cars parked in the outside lane of the M6, I didnt have time to take photos as I stopped to abuse them and move them on seeing as Id had to filter for 5 miles because they had decided to stop and have TEA!!! 2 cars driving down the M1 near Leicester had had some bump and where taking it out on each other, playing dodgems at speeds in excess of 90mph, I had trouble avoiding the bits of debris that was coming from said vehicles as they wacked each other on purpose ....reg plates and info duly reported.... People cooking on gas stoves on the front seats of vans.....Good luck to them... And this goes out to the 2 D**Ks in the nissan micras who carried on regardless across the miniroundabout without looking and made me swerve into oncoming traffic..YOU ARE F**KWITS, GO AND SIT IN A DARK CORNER AND PLAY WITH YOURSELVES!!!!

Heres more translations for us.... Tool box DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted airplane part you were drying. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say, "Ouch...." ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VICE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub you want the bearing race out of. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2 socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering an automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters. PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack. SNAP-ON GASKET SC! RAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog**** off your boot. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps off in bolt holes you couldn't use anyway. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the tensile strength on everything you forgot to disconnect. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large prybar that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the handle. AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, it's main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the first few hours of the Batt! le of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last over tightened 50 years ago by someone at Ford, and neatly rounds off their heads. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses too short. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts not far from the obj! ect we are trying to hit. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. DAMMIT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage While yelling "DAMMIT" at the top of your lungs. It is also the next tool that you will need. EXPLETIVE: A balm, usually applied verbally in hindsight, which somehow eases those pains and indignities following our every deficiency in foresight. MMMM so so true...

Welcome to thee club matey. Well, if that was me, ID take it to a professional bike tyre person and have it plugged properly, yes they can last, but it depends on the type of tyre, the type of bike, and your riding. Over here, some garages wont repair certain types of tyres (speed rating). It also depends where the nail went in and what damage it did. Best to get it professionaly checked and plugged. Over here it costs arond £20-30.00 The last thing you would want is it blowing on you. If you have had it professionaly plugged, yes it may last the season, but be wary that it may not perform as well.

Have to agree with merv here, u do have to choose wiseley with tyres....have done 300,000 miles on bikes, many miles in rain,hail and snow in the last 3 years...tyre choice is crucial to your well being, choose a crappy tyre, get crappy results. Ive used several brands of tyres and never skimpt on buying cheapies. As for the remark above about ...Londons easy..I courier all over the UK and even into France and Germany, long distance urgent stuff, like donar organs, to blood samples to chemicals to be tested, machine parts, documents etc...you shouldnt go round assuming somebody knows less or more than you. For all you know, merv may be a courier king.... Remember this if nothing else.... Unless you have lived my life Dont judge me because you dont know, never have and never will know every little thing and detail about me.

Welcome to the site!!!! Oooo er..I think he was being a jobsworth. It does apply to cars but with bikes I dont think so. All wheels on the same axle have to be the same size..so strictly speaking..u have 1 on each axle..size is not important. Id have told him to go fetch VOSA if he was that bothered. >Click here for mandatory wheel info<

Love wet weather....spent lots of time out in it..fully geared up...and sometimes not.. last years summer was corking...riding thro floodwater...sailing down the motorways covering upto 1000 miles daily. Its good fun trying to put down the power round bends and finding your revs going up quickly..but not your speed....Im near manchester..well 15 minutes away...so im usually out and about. PM me if you are going ooot. P

No experience with these, but as they are Honda copies....Are the parts available easily? Would a Honda part fit instead? Look around near you to see. May be better with an actual Honda....or a nice YAMAHA!!!

European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troub lesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w"with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. If zi s mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

There is also Kawasaki owners club good people on there too. Kwaka owner 2!!!

Nice looking machine you have there..hope your not using it!!! She`ll clean up nicely, i agree with another post..purple is the way to go!!! Looks in good nick for the year and make...ive seen a few guzzis in bad shape that are newer! But I guess that goes for most bikes. Enjoy her, lots of heritage behind that machine, get some experience on her before you start lookin at the R1s!!!!

Worth wise over a grand. Yes they are good to learn on and can be reliable if you look after them. Ive had 2 in the past. As long as they are run on very good 2stroke oil and maintained they are good. Rear shockers are reasonably easy to do with a bit of know how. They cost about 60 -£80 second hand possibly less. Better to get a new one though. They can be little monsters to ride, very powerfull derestricted for a 125, so the inexperienced may need to look for a different type of bike, a 4 stroke as Shockz said. But remember, you may need deep pockets to repair it, a blown engine can cost 200 -300 quid to repair!!! The one your looking at seems to have had a less than a good life to say its a 2004 model, its had many replacement parts for one reason or another. So is the work thats been done, a good standard or is it bodged? If its still on its original engine bore...how many miles has it done? I used to get 20.000 miles out of a new piston, bore and rings set. (Yes ive done a lot of miles on these bikes, around 80,000ish) before she started to smoke a bit too much, and around 25,000 before i blew the engine, but i did used to play with big 1200 zzrs and zx12s and stay in front of them Being a 2 stroke, its the piston and bore that wears....these machines redline at 11,000 rpm..thats a lot of revs for one piston!!!! Hark at me, I could go on for ages about these. PM me if you have any other Qs Point 1 Learning machine.....maybe ..but not for the faint hearted Point 2 Can cost big money to repair Point 3 If looked after, will be a good machine Point 4 Damn good fun!!! Point 5 I want another!

Wow, hes nice. Dogs great too!

DON'T KNOW WHAT DOCTOR WROTE THIS, BUT I LIKE HIM! . HEALTH QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true? A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... Don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap. Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables? A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products. Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake? A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain. Bottoms up! Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio? A: Well, if you have a body and you have fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc. Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program? A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain...Good! Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you? A: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!!!... Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you? Q: Is chocolate bad for me? A: Are you crazy? HELLO . Cocoa beans! Another vegetable!!! It's the best feel-good food around! Q: Is swimming good for your figure? A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me. Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets. And remember: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Beer in one hand - Kebab in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming : Woo Hoo, what a ride!

Sorry, hadnt taken into account of the digital age. .. A speedo healer would be a good addon for speedo sake.

to the forum matey. To answer your question. What your speedo says is what your doing, regardless of what sprockets are fitted....People change sprockets to either have a better top end speed and slower acceleration, or faster acceration with a lower top end speed. The speedo drive on your front wheel goes off the actual wheel itself, very close to the cetre axle, so there will be no change in your actual speed as opposed to your shown speed. The only way your speedo would be mega wrong is if you put bigger or smaller wheels on your bike (Smaller the wheel, the more revolutions, bigger the wheel the less revolutions to cover the same distance.) Hope this helps. P

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to the forum matey. Hope you have a good stay. Get that xs road worthy asap. Plenty people on here can help with the techy bits if you get stuck.

Have you checked the throttle cable isnt too slack? May not be pulling enough to use all the slack cable. To check if your running one cylinder, start her up , put hand NEAR the engine on both sides...if it is running on one, one will be cold. Youll notice pretty much straight away though.

to the forum matey. Hope you have an enjoyable stay.

to the forum Bob and Wifey. Enjoy your stay. Nice bunch on here. Yep, we have a workshop bit for all the fiddly and not so fiddly techy bits. Have fun.

to the forum matey. Enjoy your stay. We are not all mad here. But it helps....

Keep up the enthusiasm!!!! Yes bar end mirrors are dear, but add a little more to asthetics of the machine. I can see your project being a crazy mad masterpiece. Cant wait to see the fin. Beware of sharp edges though, MOT man will disapoint you at your next MOT.