I said I'm tight, so I made one but the FTDI cable is faulty, bought another FTDI cable.

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Valencia Orange XB12Scg - serviced by Maz 2018
Black P3 Blast - serviced by Maz and fixed by Maz in 2019

How does an output bearing repair cost 3k!!!!!

I've done loads of output bearings on all sorts of gearboxes including having smashed up cases repaired and journals re-machined, none cost more than a hundred quid and a few hours of my time.

Regardless - christmas came early at cheesetowers so I hopefully wont ever need to find out.


Whilst I'm waiting for santa to turn up I turned my attentions to other areas.....

Sick of getting cold dirty water thrown off the back wheel, running down my back and down the crack of my arse to soak my pants within 2 minutes of riding on wet roads I decided to do the unthinkable and make my Buell more practical.

Few minutes measuring and cutting up some scrap hard anodised ally sheet I had knocking about, bent into shape, stuck a reflector on and gave it a coat of matt black to hide it a bit.



And fitted, looks gash but hopefully will stop me getting wet pants.





Before I fitted it, I washed the bike and took a couple of pictures

You could put fake fur on that, and if stopped by the police for speeding you could say that you thought you were being chased by a badger

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I'm a Hornithologist, I get excited by exotic birds.........

Dont care, it has to be better than walking around all day at work looking like I've pissed myself. Though if I've driven the van in that morning I may have a little more explaining to do.

Engine has to come out and cases split

3K is if an HD dealer does it at 90 quid an hour plus parts......Honestly 2.5 to 3k is the ballpark figure

SHeee eeet!

2.5K to rebuild that prehistoric lump of pig iron - feck that! I'll sling in a proper water cooled jap lump for a third of that.

Someone has does an Aprilia V twin conversion. It didn't look easy. I can't remember where I saw it to give a link.

I think it was on here but I never saw it finished

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08 Specialized Langster

I paid £250 for a Mille engine and I bet the lads at Aprilia Perfomance Tamworth could throw it in your bike ...not much they can't do with these engines.

I bet they can...

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08 Specialized Langster

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Need a fancy bike lift? No bother...



Special tool to undo the rear spindle, fire up the welder.


Turns out the rear spindle is F tight


Turn the welder up to 11 and go again....

Had to get a 4ft breaker bar on the rear spindle to shift it! Yes I had undone the pinch bolt. I did it back up with a torque wrench to 50ftlb.


So why I'm I messing about in the garage tonight?

Just to keep Maz happy and prove that my teachers were wrong and you can educate pork



Fitting it didn't exactly go to plan....

The tensioner hit the exhaust bracket so I fitted the washers behind the bracket as I've read on the web and to counteract the offset fitted all the shims on one side of the pulley (there still wasn't enough supplied though)

I had to repeatedly fit and trim the belt guard until I got clearance and took about 10mm off in total.

And once fitted the belt sits just fractionally off the rear edge of the pulley, I need to remove the washers and fit something thinner in their place.

Didn't you have the hex drive in the tool kit?

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08 Specialized Langster

Did you read this viewtopic.php?f=17&t=10#p348 ?......ie. throw the supplied shims in the bin.
Did you remove the spindle and copperslip it ?

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Mithered ta death.
92 MB
96 S2T
98 S1W
00 M2
01 X1
03 P3
10 CR