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Good british engineering with a crack in the rocker cover. Been having oil issues with it for a while and just could not find the fault anywhere. Then today I took as much of the front end off as I could to clean and look at it and as you can see el crack
 
Dogbreath said:
Should be pretty simple to weld or braze that. Or bodge it with epoxy.
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New ones £217+vat so thats out the window, Got another of Ebay for a tenner plus delivery. Will try that. The cassings and most of the engine have Magnesium stamped on them so im not sure what sort of welding can be done with them, Prefferably it would be repaired from the inside due to the angle of where it is.

Will try the second hand one and pray its that. Otherwise the bike is MOT's just waiting on tax and to be taken out.

Sounds lovely with the MTC gp pro can. The wife thinks it is totaly unneccissarily loud but Meh what does she know. If its to loud your to old
 
Would chemical metal type stuff not do the trick on a rocker cover?. I remember a mate with a CBR 600FL doing something similar years ago and it worked quite well.
 
Dogbreath said:
My wife wants to get back to bikes (DVLA scum "mistakenly" cancelled her licence years ago after it was stolen, losing both her car and bike entitlements) and wants a cruiser so we've been looking at the bikes I mentioned.
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That is ridiculous.

I think i have to send my license off at somepoint when my 33bhp restriction runs out, i will make photocopies of the license and counter part now, dont want that happening to me! (even though it wouldnt have been stolen, but i have heard a lot of bad stories about DVLA!).
 
Dogbreath said:
I hope you didn't take that as criticism of your choice, I was genuinely wondering. My wife wants to get back to bikes (DVLA scum "mistakenly" cancelled her licence years ago after it was stolen, losing both her car and bike entitlements) and wants a cruiser so we've been looking at the bikes I mentioned. The Bobber does look fantastic for a 125 cruiser, no denying that, though I don't think she'd be too happy with a hard tail!

Reckon it could be a challenge to do the Mod1 on something like that though!
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My understanding and from what Ive been told, THe dvla had some sort of fire and lost a whole heap of records. So when people came to renew licenses they basicly had no records, to stop themselfs incurring huge costs on repairing this issue they just played dumb and let everyone else suffer.

Ive heard that from more than one source, but dont know how true it is.

Ireland apparently had something similar but in where the staff went on strike and when they came back they were overloaded with requests for licenses they just granted them without people doing tests or such, so loads of folk driving trucks and the like with no experience. If you have ever driven in Ireland you would probably believe it. Their learner systems screwed up to. Provisionaly you must have a full license holder with you, if you fail your test you dont and can drive yourself, :confused: but still on a provisional
 
VFR_KID said:
New ones £217+vat so thats out the window, Got another of Ebay for a tenner plus delivery. Will try that. The cassings and most of the engine have Magnesium stamped on them so im not sure what sort of welding can be done with them, Prefferably it would be repaired from the inside due to the angle of where it is.
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You can weld magnesium alloys using the TIG process with suitable filler rods. Not quite as easy as splurging a bit of MIG onto steel, or brazing with oxy-acetylene but still a common process. For a tenner a good s/h one is probably a better plan though.
 
VFR_KID said:
My understanding and from what Ive been told, THe dvla had some sort of fire and lost a whole heap of records. So when people came to renew licenses they basicly had no records, to stop themselfs incurring huge costs on repairing this issue they just played dumb and let everyone else suffer.

Ive heard that from more than one source, but dont know how true it is.
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It is true, numerous people have sent their licences back to gets points removed etc. and they have come back with missing bike entitlement. Some people haven't noticed for ages afterwards, effectively driving around unlicensed. The real kicker is they put the onus of proof back on the licence holder; how many people have documentation relating to a bike test they may have taken 20-30 years back?

My wife's case was a bit different, her flat was broken into and her handbag stolen amongst other stuff (she lived in Liverpool at the time...), so she reported the licence stolen and applied for a replacement that never turned up. Following it up a while later and DVLA told her the licence had been cancelled, and they couldn't do anything about it. She took her car test again, but now fancies getting back on a bike. I would have been absolutely apoplectic if that happened to me, I don't think she kicked up enough of a fuss.

The DVLA are out of control IMO. The appear to be accountable to no-one, and are apparently allowed to make regular, monumental **** ups without fear of reprisal.
 
Thanks for the heads up lads, i've had a lot of bikes over the years but most have been japanese inline fours with a few twin strokers in the early days, i road the Tuono and fell in love with it instantly, a while ago i had the Honda CB1000R which was an excellent bike, but for me the Tuono beats the CB in every department, don't know why i didn't go for the Tuono years ago.
 
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