..South Circular was pretty grim. Wish car owners would get their bloody head-lights/fog-lights aligned correctly!

Sheared as in the head has snapped leaving threaded section in the wheel? Or has the allen socket just stripped? Several of the Allen sockets failed when I took the old off (not putting the new ones in though) and I used a Dremel to grind off the sides so I could get a spanner on to them.
If it's the former then perhaps a screw extractor set:
http://www.screwfix.com/p/screw-extractor-5-piece-set/18643
although I never really got on with them...

..my commute round most of the South Circular is worse - i'd rate Clifton's Roundabout as the UK's worst.

Glad you made it in one piece!

You know you love it really. Which one is your most hated and loved?


Mickey

always loathed 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day' by Wizzard, so bad that even George Michael's Last Christmas is bearable by comparison.
strangely i've always liked Fairytail of New York by Kirsty Maccoll and The Pogues - tho i bet many here will hate it...

Thanks for the info. I have just ordered an original Yam one. Ouch. Now all I have to do is spend another 3 ish hours taking it all apart and putting back together. Bollox!!!! You live and learn..sometimes...Why did they have to bury the damn cable so well and create a right pain of an attachment at the cluch end!!

if its any consolation - it does feel reassuringly decent quality when you take it out the bag..

One of the most violent outings I've had in a go kart ever lol.... Just what I expected. Some nice tussles with a bit of argy bargy thrown in.

Starting positions were decided by blind lottery. Our team put over £40 in the bag and started about 28th out of 36th so I hate to think how much was put in for pole position. We finished in about 32nd (someone walked away with our time sheets so can't give any times) which wasn't bad considering we had a stop go for contact, many spins, and my spectacular spin backwards into the pit line entry just coming in too hot for the driver change.

I think the only time we were on the leader board was briefly during qualifying and maybe on lap one into the race after a monumental pile up into turn 1, and another at the 2nd hairpin, which I managed to pick my way through. I think we might have even got into the top ten. This was short lived as I was also involved in some argy bargy.

Marcin, Kitcrazy and Steeve66 drove well in what was a very unpredictable kart. Next year no drivers over 15 stone. 
 
The only prizes that night was last call in the raffle which bagged me three of the finest note books a man could wish for. Marcin won a tee shirt and Steeve gave up after the large plasma TV and the holiday in Austria went.

 In all a cracking evening.

Big of you to own up to your attempt to reverse in to the pit lane, and then head in to the fuel stop lane... Great night out though, will def do it again. Can't believe how brutal it was - some seriously tough racing

I could buy 1/10 of one now.......hmmmmm, which tenth to have? 

I could buy another 1/10 as well, hey, if we all club together we could buy one and then, collectively, tell Exup he's not allowed to have a go on it? 

Heard about this this morning on the radio, very sad news, hope everyone is OK.

Pretty sure what you've pictured is the collar (9) which is drawn a little out of proportion on the diagram. Hmm. Odd. Is your Exup in bits still? Perhaps post a picture of the other collars as well? I've just put mine back together this morning and cert the collars looked like the photo you've posted..

Quote from: slimwilly on 23 November 2013, 06:47:34 am

This house has a  conservatory , plastic roof open plan with the kitchen,obvious against building regs,,


but over night it bloody freezes in here,i got a fluffy furry hat on fot the first hour until the woodburner warms up.


Red ears



It is 5 degrees in here , and -3 outside

Same layout as ours, bloody freezing, can keep the temp up in the evening with huge curtain across between kitchen/living room and conservatory but the mornings...brrrrrr
Dont know about you but ours is rented, cant understand the thinking freezing in the winter, baking in the summer and cant hear the tel when it rains 

Same here and mine's rented too so I can't change it - although mine has a 'solid' roof, it's just solid plastic sheet with a layer of PB under it, just can't understand why he didn't shove some insulation in the gap. At least I have a wood burner stove - when I can be arsed to get it lit.

Somewhere in Spain...

Removed the exhaust to take the rust off the clamps and paint them with exhaust paint to prevent the rust setting in (any suggestions btw? I've got a can of halfords spray on exhaust paint but if anyone knows of something better?).
Found the support bracket (just behind the Exup) had corroded off and will need welding back on. So it'll be a few weeks off the road...

Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve!!!!, look forward to the right up buddy,


Out of interest...from experience.....how reliable are ktm road bikes???,based on the 990 would you keep one long term, say 10 years with just normal wear & tear???


& what sort of stuff can you annihilate with the 990 please?


Cheers


Fras

I've had mine from new since '07 - the only fault has been a failed water pump. Generally reliability is pretty good with, if the Superduke.net forum is anything to go by, few problems. But they are idiosyncratic buggers - changing the oil requires removing two drain plugs, two filters and cleaning two screens. Changing the coolant requires lifting the front of the bike 50cms - harder to do than you might imagine. Battery access appears to have been conceived by someone convinced you never needed to get to it...
It might say a lot pointing out that when I leave the country to go to France, Holland or Spain I'll always take the Fazer, not the SD.
As for annihilating - ALL the performance is under 80 odd mph; to 60 or 70 and between 20 and 70 I'd say almost nothing can touch it, but in general the Fazer is quicker. And more comfortable - the SD is a bike you perch very much 'on top' of, with very little wind protection, none actually. It feels like you're sitting on a billiard ball, it turns so quickly but leaves you just as exposed to the elements.
No electric rider aids, nothing to make you feels safe - just a sophisticated but violent V Twin strapped in to a bicycle frame with two thumping great Brembo brakes on huge disks mounted on forks that are near vertical.

Fantastic.