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I ride all year but I won't be going that far for a bacon sarnie and a mug of tea. Not until it warms up and dries out a bit.

I've got one. Its a great bit of kit but the water runs out before I've finished. At least twice! Its also good for keeping cool when camping.

Anywhere with a 10-mile radius of Saffron Walden.

Sadly my forum name comes from the film 'Mr. Jolly lives next door' Don't let that put you off though, a lot of ladies like a bit of rough- my missus has put up with me for six years!

That's lovely!

Will the first person to receive theirs post about it here? That way the rest of us will have some idea that theirs will be on its way

UPDATE: Well, ho-ho-ho.. On my way back from a job interview today I decided to stop off and have a well-earned cigarette. Cigarette smoked, I got back on the bike, thumbed the start button and nothing. It's been a bit temperamental over the last few days but a jiggle and more thumbing sorted it out in a few seconds. This time though, 20 minutes went by and nothing. Yes, I checked the neutral wire/switch, side-stand switch and jiggled more wires and did all I could do when you're at the side of the road with no tools. I got onto the shop I bought it from and asked if they'd recover it and they gave me a number of a company to call but before I dialled up, I tried the start button again and it started. Grrr! Anyway, long story short, I rode it to the shop, told them about the start problem which they knew about when I phoned them for recovery and said while they were at it, would they mind having a look at what's causing and possibly diagnosing the rattle. I mentioned the head bearings and what I'd done with megawatt's advice and they said they'd take a look at it today and certainly by tomorrow so hopefully I'll have a reliable, rattle-free bike by the weekend. Apparently, the start button problem isn't unique to me.

The thing that's about to have you off.

17KG crank! Bloody hell, that's heavy!

No but it's not them. I could check them but the sound is coming from the cockpit area. Now I'm satisfied the head bearings are ok, I'm going to wait until there's a decent spell of dry weather forecast and pull the front end off and have a look.

Well, after talking to Mr. megawatt on the phone earlier I can confirm that it's wetter in East Sussex than it is in NW London and that there was a little bit of play in the forks/head bearing. I couldn't get the front wheel off the ground owing to not having a jack but followed Mr. m's advice about grabbing the bottom of the fork legs and pulling/pushing them backwards and forwards and despite the wheel being on the ground could feel a bit of play so had a go at the nut underneath the top yoke and tightened it about 1/32 in total and I can't feel any play now. I've not been out on it yet but as there's a gap in the rain I think now might be a good time to do it. EDIT: Still rattling

I'm not counting but a couple of weeks I would have thought.

I won't be able to get the front wheel off the ground but I'll happily give you a bell and we can work it out. My instincts are telling me it's the bearing nut that's got something to do with it. Cheers!

Cheers mate, I'll have a look

I definitely have forwards and backwards movement because I can hear and feel the click (or I could before the rattle) when I put the brakes on. I'm now thinking the nut has come completely undone and it's this that's rattling which would lead me to think that I've got a danger situation going on.

A nut underneath? That warrants further investigation then, I thought there was only the one on top!

She'll love you for it. I know mine will, especially because she doesn't know I've sent for one in her name yet!

It sounded like a broken bracket to me at first. I've had a good look and if I want to find the source there's no alternative but to take to top fairing off. I really wanted to avoid that though as I have no garage and any repairs/maintenance I have to do in the street. If we could get a run of a few dry days, no problem. The headstock nut needed doing because it was only just finger tight as it turned out so I thought that might be it but now it's just nipped up it made no difference.

I've got a 1997 ZX7R P2 which has an alarming rattle coming from the front end. It sounds like it's coming from underneath the top yoke/ignition switch area. I can only describe it as sounding like a pocket-full of change when you're running for the bus but louder. It started suddenly as if something had come loose and has got progressively worse, it now rattles even if I go over a crack in the road and the thing that's bothering me the most is that I don't know if it's dangerous; it's a scruffy old thing and if it was just a fastner or something I'd leave it but I've had a good look round it and tightened up the headstock bearing nut but that's not it. Steering seems unaffected but short of pulling the front end off, which I don't really want to do as it's my only mode of transport at the moment and the weather, I can't see what it is. I've jiggled everything and tried to replicate it while the bike's been stationary but I can't get it to do it unless I'm riding it. So far, I've not done more than about 50mph on it since it started because I live in central London and I've not been "out" on it so don't know if it goes away at speed but I'd rather not find out incase something serious breaks but at sub-50 speeds it rattles like a bugger. Any ideas? All the plastics are tight and there's nothing obviously loose on it. Is there a nut underneath the yoke? Like I said, steering seems unaffected but until I know what it is it'll be bothering me.

Cheers, mate. Good one!

Are you sure the pads don't need replacing? As the pads wear, fluid in the reservoir drops/cables get longer which will cause the lever to move closer to the bars.

Adjust the clutch and use exhaust bandage.

I only have one at the moment; been out of work for eight months :-/ I think the most I've had in one go was a GS450, CBR1000, FZ1, GS650 and a Piaggio Zip 100.

Will there be camping or is it just a ride out? When "rally" is mentioned, I hear "party".

The million dollar question: Where is it?