pilninggas

simple answer - yes. you may wanna try a tyre with a harder middle compound if it is squaring off. have a look on the m and p site.

steve probably wont be able to get classic insurance as he is a young 'un!

£2700? no way Steve you must be mad!!! like ^ said a mini is a great choice, my mate collects em, the amount of bits you can get for them is amazing. if i was in your shoes id get an old fiat panda! (of course staying on bikes for a few years would be better!!!)

cant you just take it to a general motor engineer? i live 5 mins from piston broke engineering, but the guy is too dear, i take specialist jobs like that to a motor engineering shop the otherside of the city - even cheaper!

picked up my new zx6r today. My old man gave me a lift to pick it up from swindon, rode it back - runnning in so tried not to rev it hard. Lovely weather, handles sweetly, makes my FZR1000 feel so primative, but then i knew it would. Looks great will post a pick soon!

with the healthcare thing make sure you have EHIC, it replaced the E111. You should still get decent insurance, but it provide cover under the 'reciprocal agreement'. Ive always travelled with lots of spare carrier bags and bin liners. great as an additional waterproof layer and for bagging stuff up. pulled tight can be used as 'rope'. Remember a decent tape to protect plastics, do make shift repairs etc (a small roll of insulation tape is good).

to be fair you are riding a bike thats probably already had a hard life. My mate had a DT50MX, when we were 16, and we jet washed it. afterwards it was a bugger to start. we put it down to wet lectrics. anyway it went on for a week or two with him getting stranded when it kept dying. So we stripped the top-end, got it rebore and a new piston (a big bore kit would have been better!). We fitted a new plug, new lead and coil and afterwards it was quicker and never missed a beat till he sold it. My guess is lots of little bits had gone past of their use-by-date although it didnt sound like it was suffering from piston slap.

that should work fine, in fact its a great idea as the bike is 6volt. any of the 1-1.5amp voltage regualtors would work and should provide a rock steady 5 volts to drive the sat-nav. id use something like this:http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=10529

all of those were good!

usually you have to drill them out with a bloody good bit, very slowly. youll need to replace them with shear-bolts as well. You may have get loads of stuff out of the way (poss fairing, mudgaurd, rad etc) depending on the bike. A light bike you could flip over if you removed the fluids. the reasuring bit is its quite tough, so its likely to deter amateur thieves.

lol

expect plenty of bad luck with car ownership! and if its a capri, expect plenty of people pointing and laughing and that god-awful ford smell!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ryeBu5D7Tkk&...feature=related

welcome!

a zxr400 is about 55bhp (as are all the sports 4 cyl jap bikes) so you may need to restrcit it.

well i tend to ride the FZR reasonably quickly, i am amazed my licensed has survived the last few years! 3000 - ouch, i have a lame rule for myself, no more than a £1/day for insurance car or bike!

Well iv had the fzr for 9 years, so its been a while! Will do

probably needs a new spark plug - with 2 strokes these have to be changed very regularly. this is very likely if itll start on the kick but not by lectrickery.

Well iv decided after months of procrastination to buy a new bike. just put a deposit down on an 08 ZX-6R, take delivery in 2 weeks. great deal and £200 fully comp. looks like my fzr1000 will be going soon!

weve all been there!

Its no consolation, but it happens, and as we all know bad luck just seems to come in blocks where nothing goes right! Hopefully your wallet and the remote will turn up!

when i did my mechanical engineering degree, a guy on the course did extensive research into this on the uni dyno with (i think) a 250cc bike engine. I think there was something like a measurable improvement of around 7%, but that was under lab conditions and due to the fact the dyno was constantly booked only in a the small rev band of peak torque. It is something to do with hotter gases flowing better^ iirc the thermal shock of gases rapidly cooling on cold downpipe walls increases the tendency for the reynolds number to exceed the transition point from laminar flow to turbulent. Of course i amy be wrong, its been a while!

beats big brother with minime its a bike special tonite, should be fun! see how reactionary and pc the beeb is!

overall im a big fan of ANPR, i drive an old-dog of a rust-bucket Mondeo and i never get pulled because of the vehicles is fully legal. I live right next to the Bristol Ring-Road and it is very funny when the traffic police get up there tugging the people who think the law doesn't apply to them.

what do you mean de-restrict an r6? they are not restricted.