Has anyone rewound the stator themselves? My xr250 like all of them it seems has a terribly poor headlight and I was toying with the idea of getting the stator rewound but was also thinking of having a go myself. How hard can it be........ :D

Is that right? I went to fire my bike up while I wait for my V5 to turn up thus tax it. Alas, It wouldn't start, and I noted a small drip of oil on the floor coming from the left cover, so off came the cover, and oil pissed out (didn't know it had a wet ignition) to reveal a hermatite gasket...

bought an ovalish shaped led tail light from china it cost 5euro posted . it took about 2 weeks to get hear . I mounted it under the carrier on my 600 transalp I have an old rickman ranger 28lt top box so the mounting plate has holes in it already . I just used a piece of stainless steel that...

SOLVED!!! - Wanted URGENTLY! G650 GS Lowering links Hey guys, Tracey finally has her dream G650 GS, :rolleyes: but even with the factory lower seat and the pre-load wound off the back shock and the front forks pushed up the yokes 20mm its still in tippy-toe land. So............... Anyone...

Morning. Tyre related question. I'm running a 2003 Vara 1000 on Trail Attacks, as they're supposed to be good. In the dry, fine. In the wet.....not so sure. I rode it this weekend for the first time in wet conditions. Managed to get the rear to break out on the M25, where it splits at the A21...

I noticed the road signs warning of potholes and slowed down a bit, then bang and I was almost launched. I hadn't seen anything that should have been avoided but I immediately looked behind to see a shower of plastic skating over the tarmac. I stopped and nearly shit myself, both side rear...

Well I have just purchased an old XL600 project bike off eBay 1986 which wont start. I really should know better but I just couldn't help myself anyway it arrived today and as is always the case it wasn't quite as good as I had hoped but then again I am a bit of an optomist and as it was in the...

Well, the Black Isle is not really an island, it's a peninsula just across the Moray Firth from me. Went out for a wee blast to roads that I'd never been on before, just goes to show, dozens of small single track roads, some straight as a die for about 1/2 mile, enough to get the old girl wound...

I found the horn was not up to much so I called to some one who collects scrap cars just to weight them in when he has a load or 2 the crusher truck comes along and makes them look like a big tin or spam . so I whipped the horn off it and the wires leading too it . it didn't cost me anything ...

Good day i have got a question. My V2 1000 has started having the following problem. When you start it up it fire's straight up with the choke on. Then when it ticks over for a few seconds the tone of the engin changes and it dies. Then it does not want to start. It only fires up again with the...

Well, she's now back in one peice - almost - just the pillion foot-pegs to fit but I've ran out of paint so they'll have to wait. I was always a bit annoyed by the crappy/rusty looking 'U' bolt holding the ram-mount I use for the sat-nav. So I made something up from some stuff I had lying...

As some of you are aware my missus had a bad fall in the early hours of Monday morning resulting in a gash to her head, bruising to her arm and worst of all a broken hip. Having found her laying on the floor in a pool of blood and screaming in pain a 999 call was logged. Arrived at A&E and...

Evening all, I received the gift of a new coil for my 89 (f plate) domi for Christmas, it came from Ebay Cardiff motorcycles specified as being for 88 to 02 I'd managed to snap the aging HT lead on the way back from the MOT having just got the old girl back on the road after a gap of a few...

Hi folks, I was at the bike show at the NEC last week and picked myself up a nice new replacement screen for my XL1000 from Skidmarx. Now the big question... Has anyone tried replacing their screen before? Is it terribly complicated? With my old Bandit I wound up having to take most of the...

Hi there. Recently got a 2000 FX650 and am having great fun with it. Although I'm having trouble with the brakes working, and the gear lever, foot brake being the wrong way round, guess what else I drive .... Have given it a basic service, and its all running quite well, apart from under...

I was on my way back from recce'ing the National Rally Campsite & had an off, I hit a patch of gravel exiting a roundabout & off I came lowsided down the road, the AT slid down the road into a grass verge near the Ponderosa Cafe in North Wales. Luckily for me a convoy of Mazda MX 5 owners...

(First off: Lots more pictures at Ural Red Star 650 - forsale.rodentia.org.uk) 1999 Ural "Red Star" 650cc (Solo - so no sidecar and solo gearing.) Not run for a while. SORN'd, MOT has expired. Needs some work before it will pass (see below) so it will need to picked up with trailer or van. I...

Posting some pictures of a Honda 1989 AX1 that I used to own as there appears to be little information on the site about these bikes. They were a Japan only bike, I think although some were imported into the UK when masses of greys were brought in, I have seen them elsewhere including Malta...

:DOn the way home from work tonight I was having a spirited ride :rolleyes: along the A556 dual carriageway a few sets of traffic lights and a few roundabouts. One guy in his family people carrier tried to race me off the lights :eek: mind you he had his fog lights on so that made him look...