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Plenty of help with airheads here.

Welcome. Enjoy the RT. There's no shortage of advice here

They may may take my freedom but they'll NEVER take my bus pass!

Very sorry to read this. Sincere condolences to those near and dear to Phil.

Sounds convincing. Changing the sensor for a known good un will tell.

I think it was Buzz Aldrin (now 88) who addressed an audience thus ... "Thank you for inviting me, it's great to be here. Hell, it's great to be anywhere!" I count myself pretty fortunate to have been born in the second half of the 20thC. Any other century would have been pretty limiting of my chanc...

Is the headlight oem in every other respect?

Used to brew my own using the late Dave Line's book as my bible. Made some pretty tasty pints though I say so myself! Improvements to malts have apparently made things a little easier these days according to my local home brew shop. Looking at the boom in craft beer, I rather wish I'd stuck at it!

- when I was in the RAF, my accent disappeared and morphed into a quite nondescript, middle-of-the-road, non-accent. When I was home on leave, my mates, mainly miners, said I'd become a posh ****! Pete I'm from Clydebank and Glasgow, but when I was a chaplain in the RAF I remember one Station Comma...

I am saying just that. Blue lights and sirens are for genuine emergency vehicles only and my understanding is that BBs do not count as such. If this job was a genuine (as in life threatening ) emergency, then an emergency vehicle (Police or Ambulance) should have been used. This is one of the reason...

The rider in question should not have used his siren when filtering. The cop should have exercised common sense and had a quiet word with the rider or group admin people at a later date. Discretion. It's what sensible people exercise all the time.

To the tune of the Marseillaise ...

A Gendarme crashed on his 12RT ...

Over to you, gentlemen!

BMW Motorrad dealers tend only to be interested in current bikes. Suggest you contact Keith Garage. The mechanic there is BMW motorrad trained. Ask if you can chat to him over the phone before you bring it down to him. Bit of a distance but more likely to get a result i think. https://www.bing.com/m...

Planned to be there but fate and family decreed otherwise. Next time.

Got an HID unit in the shed you can have for a few quid. Was on 11RT so will fit ok. Original will have to be fitted for MOT.

If coming from the north, cut through sunny West Lothian via Linlithgow and Whitburn and over to Biggar and then Moffat. If there is a large ish turn out can i suggest an outdoor blether after any eats? The weather looks good and the caff may be (almost certainly will be) busy.

As above. Use wet n dry to smooth existing paint (or get it bead blasted if too bad) then paint with smoothrite or similar. Wet n dry again to remove the paint and polish. Job done. I really must get around to doing mine!

I am struggling with why CH thinks the fork tube clamps need to be loosened? Because as you tighten the adjuster you are very slightly reducing the distance between the top and bottom yoke.....pulling the lower yoke up as you turn the adjuster to remove the excessive clearance.....and given that th...

i would suspect a broken cam chain guide. Take the circular inspection cap off and have a look.

Bmw's (airheads at least) are prone to such antics. A crank in line with the drive shaft, narrow ish tyres and if a top box or panniers are added, not a lot is required for it to nod its head! If you have back and forth movement as you say then the races either need adjusting or replacing. Not a di...

Bmw's (airheads at least) are prone to such antics. A crank in line with the drive shaft, narrow ish tyres and if a top box or panniers are added, not a lot is required for it to nod its head! If you have back and forth movement as you say then the races either need adjusting or replacing. Not a dif...

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showpar ... Id=46_0753

Might help?

Didn't hear the clunk as first was engaged. No sign of the butterfly valve in the exhaust manifold. The one that fails and the whole manifold has to be replaced?

Ok. I'm being curmudgeonly. Nice video Ced.

Correction. If you are happy to remove and replace yourself, the job can be done for £595.

http://wilberssuspension.co.uk/wilbersesa.php

Just chatted to the guy re my RT. Very friendly and helpful. :D

Have an angle grinder handy!