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MIne would be my old bonnie that I sold when I was young and stupid, my neighbour has a 750 bonnie in his garage that he's afraid of so I keep chipping away at him to sell it, living in hope, would not want to ride it just sit it in the living room and look at it! The wife would have a few words to say no doubt.

Running in is about NOT overstressing the engine, it has nothing to do with speed and has everything to do with being gentle with your engine so DON'T go flat out nor run it really slow in low gear let it run freely using gentle throttle and gear shifting and you should be fine in aboiut 250 miles, all my rebuilds have been treated this way and I have never had a problem, tell a lie my AJS used to eat crank pins cos it was badly designed but your bike is well made and can take it if you treat it right.

Hi Michael, welcome to the YOC, if you have any probs then bung it in the workshop section if it's just general chat then try the BAR. Nice little bike you have, heard lots of good things about them.

Your right of course that the wiring diagram only shows the 3 connectors and it probably will not matter what you use as long as it has the same voltage, but what happened to the original one? and why was it removed? Was it just to tidy up the front end that it was removed or some thing else? It might be an idea to look for an original part from a breaker near your self or even evilbay has some good bit's and bob's now and then that might fit, or better still if the originals are so expensive why not try one off a different Yammie that is cheaper, if your not concerned about looks then it should be an easy fix but if you want the bling factor then the more shiny it is the more it will cost. I see in your original post that it costs 400 dollars for the proper one that it should have so one off of any cheap yamm will almost certainly fit and work it's just as you say the red line warning that you will have to keep an eye on when riding. Take a photo of the instrument area and post it up, it might be that theres a bolt on cheap part that will drop straight in! What is the fixing for the present part ie does it sit on a mounting or is it just bolted to some where for convenience? Sorry to be so long winded about this but without a picture it's difficult to get a handle on what might work.

HI Bertie, Not sure if the forks your on about will fit but the only thing I do know is that the fork rake angle should not be changed, if the forks you want to use are longer or shorter than the present ones I would say that it not a good choice to put them in but if they are approx the same size give or take a few mils then it shouldn't be a major problem, if you put in really long forks for instance the rake will tend to tip the bike backwards ie towards the rear wheel whereas to short will tip it forward over the front wheel thus changing the dynamic of the bikes handling and putting extra strain on the fork yoke and steering head. Hope that makes some sort of sense and at least gives you a running start on what not to put in.

HI Roy and welcome,

Hi Murf, Welcome to the YOC, Theres a guy on here ANDYBUC who has one of your dream bikes, he has just posted about a vibration in the floorboards so he might be a good guy to PM and have a chat with. Look for XVS Yamaha floorboard vibration in yamaha customs section.

Welcome Andy, looks like you have found your new home, good luck finding your bike and with your CBT.

Hi, Might be an idea to get hold of a manual for it BEFORE you attach anything to the electrics, tachos are usually vehicle specific, so just bunging on the first shiny bit you like might be a bit of a mistake. check twice fit once is a good way to go. Oh and please do an intro (see above) it's just polite to say Hi first so we know who were talking to. Other than that Welcome to the YOC it's always nice to meet new people.

NO not at the same time it's not that big but he really bangs on about it.

Welcome Jerry, nice project bikes, should keep you busy for a few months, happy days happy thoughts, wish you lots of luck.

Hi Baggo, My neighbour swears by his ARGOS plastic green house, cost him about 30 quid and he can get most of the bike in it plus he uses it as a spray booth, talk about multi functional, always worth a look I suppose.

Thank you AIRHEAD as usual the font of all knowledge & a master of suspense.

HI Andy, Ok listened to your noise, seems a bit odd but just a suggestion it is probably/possibly air being forced back past the rings on the compression stroke, if you look at your vid it only happens when the piston is rising towards TDC and drops off immediatly you pass the compression stroke. Course it might be nothing like that but it's a suggestion not a diagnosis. Do a compression test to see if its got the right pressure. Hope that helps a bit.

There was another question the other week about removing the floor board thingys and replacing them with foot pegs, don't know what happend to it might be worth while having a search through the old message boards to see if that might be the way to go. It was someting about getting the bike to lean a bit further when cornering I think, I don't know much about them, do they scrape on the ground when you lean it hard over? This might solve 2 problems with one fix!

Funnily enough Matthew I was goiing to suggest just that about the bottle, had the same thing on my AJS many moons ago and found that if I ran it into a bottle when out and about as soon as I parked it it filled itself back up again, worked right up till the crank pin broke and sent the flywheels through the casing.

Try riding an OLD XJ750 for a couple of hundred miles THEN you will know all about vibratio!! :biglaugha:

Hi Jimmy, If I still had it I would not swap it, some twat sold it years ago (ME, what a DUMB ARSE) if only we could go back an give ourselves a clout round the ear when we were about to do something monumentally stupid!!! ARGHHHH! I'm upset now

There are some things you SHOULD NOT do when your 80, sticking your head between your legs and kissing your arse goodbye is one of them. :biglaugha:

Hi Andrew, murph4017 had a post up about this in 2008 would you believe! seems to be par for the bike from what I can remember he suggested wearing thicker soled boots? Seems a bit simplistic but if it worked for him give it a try.

Looked at your MR2 site that looks quite slick, really would make a nice addition to the site and help out with common probs. All you need to do now is get it set up (not going to hold my breath waiting tho). Have you asked ALEXASIGNO if it can be done? I think it's him who runs the site, or not maybe, someone must run it and be able to add or remove stuff! Embarrased to say I DO NOT KNOW who is responsible for the site and it's management, perhaps one of you could let me know?

What can you say to that? If I could I would buy you the flag myself, some days it pays to stay in bed!

As some say DILLIGAF to them all, pretend your a Harley driver and you can ignore them. :biglaugha:

Still got no flag tho (cheap bugger) :biglaugha:

Hi Jimmy, Envious of the XJR truly nice looking bike.