Bill_on_a_bike

nah fair enough probably is something a bit wrong then. As said above, cleaning the air filter, and tightening clips on rubbers between carb and airbox, and carb and engine, it can't hurt. If your uncles going to clean the carb though, he'll have to loosen them all off anyway, when he puts them back i'm sure he'll tighten them up. Get your uncle or someone to check the float height while the carbs off aswell. Clean the air filter though, easy job and can solve what seem major problems. good luck with it all

How new are you to all this? No offence bud, and it wouldn't be the first time i'd done it, but it does sound like stalling to me.

I saw a bike out of the window of the bus, looking at the end of his teather with a little moped. I got off the bus at my usual stop about 200 yards down the road. I walked straight back and asked if he needed any help, he said it was fine and he knew what is was, something to do with the battery. They were saying on TV today how all the recent snow brought about great commeradery between strangers, and I think it's fantastic. I'd stop to help a biker aslong as it was safe for me to do so, and i'd hope a biker would do the same for me. Even if you're not mechanically minded, anyone can ride to a petrol station and back. It makes me sad to think stopping to help a female might land me in the doo, but i'd still do it, i'd so what Tim said though, about making it obvious who you are and asking from a distance.

Wouldn't worry about your boots being too hot though, i've never had that atall. My old textile jacket used to get pretty hot in the summer, but only if i was sitting in traffic, which i avoided like the plague. Anything above 15mph is enough air flow to keep you cool, in this country anyway. Haven't had the leather jacket long enough to ride through summer, but it's got some big ol' air vents on it, and the thermal lining comes out so i'm hoping it won't be too bad. If it is i'm going to buy a textile jacket. As said by others, Hein Gericke ftw

Doesn't like crazt dealership money to me. Any dealership warrenty on an SR 125 has long since expired, so find an independant bloke who knows what he's doing.

Could be a weak starter motor, the residual heat and fuel from it running off the bump will make it easier to start. Put this in pit stop perhaps?

Any washers? Holes in diaphrams?

Reported top speeds to all tend to be a bit ambitious.

Although, buying by mail order, how careful is Mr.DHL really going to be with you 1 drop and it's uselses lid?

Sure it actually needs replacing? Not just tightening?

I'd imagine it will be total pig to do. Don't expect it to be cheap.

this'll be my first summer with a leather jacket, I'm gonna try and get out on some hotter days, thermal lining out, vents open, before the main summer, and judge if I should pick up a textile jacket. Need to get me some new trousers soon whatever happens, mine are looking pretty nackered.

Someone buy me a shed, I wanna pull engines apart

Washing waterproof stuff can wash away their waterproof / windproof properties. Had a look at Fabsil type products?

Gotta be a harley IMO, I don't care how well they turn corners, that's not the point atall.

I saw my local Yam. Dealer head honcho spin a VTR round on it's SIDE Stand alone. I'd like to think they're stronger than they look, but i fear they're not.

I fear not, most 400s did tend to be quite small.

WOW yamaha acknowledged that the SR ever existed, ever, that is something.

Not sure about counter weight orientation, but I think the two cogs usually have marks on that align them. How you align them to the crank and balance shaft, i'm not sure, woodruft key? If you've read that somewhere it may well be correct.

I didn't know they even made cogs out of plastic, well, not for the internals of engines anyway.

THe polysteirene lining is held in place with a glue, and if the lining comes away from the shell, it significantly reduces the helmets impact taking ability. This glue degrades after a while, and this is also what can happen when you drop a lid. This was my understanding anyway, i'm no chemist, but polysteirene and its glue are all organic chemicals, and they'll do all sorts of fancy stupid stuff given enough time.

Best way to warm it up is to ride it, but gently. Initally 30 seconds to a minute to get the oil a bit thinner, but after that riding it won't hurt it aslong as you don't rag it's nuts off.

Those seat belt things are designed to come undone aren't they really, whatever is holding it in can be released with the great big button on the side. Once the Double D is on, it's a fiddle to get it off even if you want it to, that couldn't happen accidentally. Also, becasue everytime you put a double D on you're resetting the tention, it's always right.

They drive the balance shafts, which are shafts with eccentric weights attached. They spin in anti-phase with the crank shaft so as to reduce vibration as much as possible.

Now you've got it apart you might as well. Won't cost lots for the parts. Soak friction plates in oil overnight before fitting