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Hi All I'm Neil and although I signed up a couple of weeks ago, this is the first chance I've had to sit and write an intro of sorts. After my car insurance was due last month I decided that it wasn't worth paying £500 or so to just drive a couple of miles to the station and back so I started looking for a cheap bike to buy. After being outbid on Ebay for a lovely Fs1e I wondered about doing my CBT. A chance visit to the ATC squadron where my son's a cadet I had a look at the staff sergeant's YB100 sitting in the garage. He kept it there so his mrs. didn't know he had it but it hadn't moved for about 6 months due to no MOT. A quick chat and a new ruling from the ATC HQ about vehicles on premises and I ended up agreeing to buy it with a fresh MOT for £300. A week later I did my CBT and picked it up that evening. The first week was fun with a pretty dead battery so no indicators and the 10 mile run I gave it didn't help enough. It only did a top speed of about 47 as well. Remedial action was a new battery and "service" (decoke and clean-up) at my local bike place. They also replaced the points which were shot to pieces - oh, there wasn't an air filter in it either! I've now sourced an air-filter and spare set of points via ebay and it goes a comfy 50-55 now. The top-box slows it down a bit though. The only problem left now is that the main bearing has a bit too much play but it does me ok. It's a great fun bike and a darn sight better than the old 3-speed Puch MS50D I had about 10 years ago. I won't often post on here as I tend to be a lurker but when I do post it tends to be epic! Cheers