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Hi Ken Welcome to the YOC, you live in AUSTRALIA and you don't get the chance to take "LONG RIDES" are you sure mate cos last time I looked you were on the biggest bloody island in the world???? Just pulling your dong mate your more than welcome to join us Poms!!! PS my Bro lives in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, so if you can put up with him we can put up with you.

Hi Tom, Welcome to the YOC. PS I'm another oldie!!!

Jimmy that's a "FAIL" your going the wrong way!!!!!!!!! UP UP UP >>>>>>>>>>

Never thought of that!!! makes sense when you think about it really, should think myself lucky that I never snapped them all off.

Good news, just shows that this site is more than useful on occasion and telling people how you messed up can help with advise, glad you got it out ok, the next time I do a clutch I will be more careful when doing up the bolts and not be so ham fisted just pinch them up not wind them into next week!!!!

Melvyn, I just did the "SAME DAMNED THING" with the Suzuki a couple of days ago, your best bet is to see if the bolt is actually tight in the thread, I poked around inside the thread and was surprised to find that the bolt end was in fact loose, it seems that the steel collar that sits inside the spring holds the thread from getting to tight and if your lucky the bolt has not gone fully into the housing, I think you will find that the bolts have a long unthreaded shaft and it should break off at about the thread shaft junction, at least mine did, so your best bet is to get up close and personal with a bright light shining down the hole and pray to the gods of good luck that some judicious poking and prying will make the bugger move, I used an old worn electrical screwdriver and a toffee hammer to gently work it out. Good luck mate, the alternative is to get a really fine drill and drill the centre and whack in a self tapper screw and see if you can get it out that way.

Double Diamond, bloody hell where did you drag that up from looks like piss tastes the same and you only drank it when you could not afford PROPER beer. Happy days!!!

Tasky I have a Bandit 400 if your interested? give me a PM, just fixed the clutch and need to replace the rear brake shoes and I have 2 new tyres ready to go on so might be worth your while having a look. Was hoping to get it MOTd in the next week or so and then it's ready to go out.

Welcome Eddie, we DO NOT all dress like that!!!! I was hoping NEVER to see that picture again arggghh will had to get the mind beach out!!!!!

There was a girl I once knew who had a "double ended entrance" Sadly she married someone else!!!!

Obrieans right it says BICYCLE not motorcycle so unless it says NO motor vehicles then you can argue that your not infringing the letter of the law, bet they find a way round it tho!!!

Must say it's nice to find someone who remembers how it used to be!! One of the best intros and made me laugh, thank you and WELCOME to the YOC.

Only joking Ttasky!!!!

If there's a pass mark I wonder how close to FAIL you are? Quite INTEResting really!!

There's always one SMARTARSE!!!!!

Yep hose tail connector.

Can I have some of the "Cocaine toothache drops" please?

Hi Dedi, It's usual to do an INTRO before you jump in with a question, it's just polite to say Hi before you ask strangers to help you out, if you would be so kind as to go to "NEW MEMBERS" section and do an intro you might get a bit more feedback. Welcome to the YOC by the way it's always nice to have new folks join in, someone will have a code for you I'm sure AFTER you do the intro.

Foamy, seems a bit of a "THEME" with your drawings?? Do you have a KNOB fetish? Actually DON'T answer that I might need the MIND BLEACH again!!!

As long as the number/letters are legal size then you could cut down your present on to a smaller size, just trim round the edges until your happy with it! Most have some sort of logo or dealer name on them and that can go for a start, why should you advertise them after all and then leave about 1/8th of an inch round the edges and see how it looks. I have done this before and passed the MOT with it and never had a problem from the boys in blue. If you want to test it out first then use masking tape to get the look you want and see how it comes out.

Well done.

You MIGHT be lucky but I suspect "AS ABOVE".

Welcome to the YOC Reggie.

Welcome John, as long as you ride a bike your welcome here, but it's nice if you actually own a YAM, Welcome to the YOC.

Hi just to say that when I did mine I held the fork in a vice (top) well packed against scratching it and used a wooden mallet to whack the allen key sharply down to break the thread, same for doing it up really, there are some vids on Youtube that show you how to do it you just have to work your way through the dross. Best of luck.