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Head bearings. Apparently these as fitted in the factory to the MT07 are of the same kind of standard as the rest of the bike, and don't last as far as you'd expect them to. There have been a few cases of them being replaced under warranty, for the lucky few people whose warranties were...

I'll start with with a full and transparent disclosure - I'm not a fan of noisy exhausts, and this colours my judgement. Although that means I come across as skeptical, I'm still interested in what people say. So there are a lot of posts / threads about exhausts here, and I honestly find it a...

Mine is due for renewal on Wednesday, and as usual the old company send me a ridiculously inflated renewal price. Last year I paid just under £200, comprehensive, with a £250 excess. I got the renewal notice on Friday, which was £352, with (wait for it) an £800 excess. A quick visit to the...

Interesting this. I use my MT07 mostly to commute, and occasionally at weekends. I use my R1 for weekends, and occasionally to commute. I could have just one bike of course, but I like having a spare, it's 2 hours to get to work from where I am on public transport, the bike is less than an...

I'm looking to tidy up the grotty faded black paint on the brake reservoir and brackets that hold the clutch, front brake etc on my other bike. I want it to look original, so Hammerite isn't really going to work. Any ideas / guesses as to what would work best? It might just be a can of matt...

A stately 15 year old garagemate for the MT07, showing a few wrinkles but generally still in good health. But holy crap, this thing flies . . .

A few times we have discussed whether ABS works or not, I saw this .gif today, thought it was a useful demonstration. Assuming the link actually works; motorcycles - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 Video Conversion.

£16 on Ebay got me the left hand switchgear from a Yamaha YZF R125. So, first problem . . . Comparing the wiring diagrams for the two bikes, most of the wires are matching, just two differences; - The horn wires are both different, but that's pretty clear on the wiring diagrams, so just...

Just need that 3rd number. . .

Going to go to Infinity this weekend for a complete set of new gear. I've sort of settled on Rukka Granite for the jacket and trousers, Alpinestars monofuse boots, and Rukka mars gloves. All of these are Gore-tex. Wife has said I can spend about £500 for everything, so my budget is around...

I'm working on a problem here, and a bit of digging about has raised a few questions. Problem - some scrote tried to steal my bike, and broke the ignition barrel casting. (they smacked the bars round to break the steering lock, but then discovered the disk lock and gave up). Problem - Yamaha...

Cutting a long story short, they whacked the bars to break the steering lock, appear to have tried to wheel it forward (presumably into a waiting van), found it had a disk lock on and abandoned it. Maybe they were attracting attention, it was a busy street in broad daylight. The casting around...

You might have seen a while ago we were talking about ABS brakes, and the phenomenon of 'risk compensation' came up. Broadly speaking, it is the tendency for someone to change their behavior when they perceive less risk. So in the case of ABS, it may be that the rider feels he is better able to...

G'day. Couple of questions for you guys about your bikes. This is mostly idle curiosity, but might be useful. - Would I be right in saying that MT07s sold in Australia have a smaller engine capacity to the rest of the world, and / or are restricted? Feel free to correct me, I'm just repeating...

This is certainly take it to the dealer time, but wonder if anyone has ever had this difficult to describe problem. When I leave the bike for a while, then get on and pull away, if I'm anything but super gentle, something 'slips' in the drivetrain. It just does it once, and it only seems to do...

My phonecam is a bit potato, in the first one the colour looks a bit wierd. The others are more accurate. May I present . . . the shocker!

Was reading some stuff recently about how in the UK they've still not managed to find an effective way of stopping people using their phones in cars. They're proposing doubling the number of points, bigger fines etc. The issue is always the same though - it is very difficult to enforce. Most...

I still can't quite reconcile this idea that the 07 is a 250/350lc for the 21st century. It's fast and light, and all that, but that's where it ends for me. Someone said it was because it's also cheap, but it's not lc cheap. In their heyday, the LC's were almost all owned by 17 - 25 year olds -...

Having learned that salted roads + aluminium bike parts don't work together very well, I now cover the bike with this stuff before the gritters come out to play. I got a 1l bottle of it plus aerosol for about £30. That is a lifetime supply. I see the same on Ebay here for a fiver more, but it's...

I can't see anything in the handbook about it, does anybody know how to adjust the idle speed?