Lithium grease? Hmmm.maybe you did this to yourself... I should explain more clearly. When I fitted the bolts I placed about 1mm cubed of lithium grease on the end of the bolt. An infinitesimally small amount. I have now inspected the gunk in the threads of the broken bolts, and it appears to be an...

BTW,the rubber is the intended transfer of torque part of the equation :idea: That's not how my bike was setup. If you look at the photos, the only mechanism which locates the sprocket is 5 bolts. Nothing more. Therefore it is the BOLTS which transfer the torque to the wheel. The rubber may smooth ...

Thanks Mick. If you have a good photo of the bolt end on, showing the cross section where it failed, it can be possible to say if the bolts failed in a brittle or ductile fashion. This can help identify the root cause. Here you go. This is a small image. Links to huge image below it. http://4sure.co...

Thanks for taking an interest Higgy. The stuff on the bolts is a little lithium grease, and nothing more. All the bolts went in clean and easy, and bolted down without a problem. They also undid easily when I removed them. (Question, what fool arranges loose nuts behind the drive-plate for the bolts...

All excellent and relevant questions! I never did any miles on the original tyres, except to get them replaced. No, I did not offset the sprocket at all, but after I lost two of the original sprocket bolts due to loosening, I replaced them all. All the alignments seem correct. I now face the problem...

New Thread for this subject. As I said in the other thread, after about 100km of open road riding, never above 6000 rpm and always below 120km/h, I lost all drive after a non-powered gear change from 4th to 5th, in an 80km/h zone. I had stopped at Taitapu 15km beforehand and visually inspected the r...

Remember the distressing part of metal I found inside my engine case when I did the starter motor? And my horror at the "nasty metal sound" the bike sometimes makes when cold? Well, I had thought it was yet another piece of metal caught somewhere in the engine, with stiff/cold oil picking ...

I have a Metzler M3 sportec 130/70 on the front, and the Dunlop D250 180/60 on the rear. I needed to trim the left edge of the D250 quite a bit to get it to clear the chain. Because the tyres on it (Michelins) when I got it were 9 years old, and the bike had been off the road for 6 years, they were ...

Good value!

This is the original part from Nippon Denso: not a knock off or alternative starter.

New starter + MotoLectric starter cable upgrade = starts in less than 1 second. Every time!

My mistake: $75 USD + shipping. Take a look at the images of the cables on the web site. While good pictures, they do not show the quality of the items in sufficient detail to impress you, apparently. If you wrapped your mitts around these things you would see that the price is extremely good for wh...

http://www.motolectric.com/hicap.all.html WOW! What a difference this outstanding modification has made to my bike. With the right choke setting it leaps into life within 1 second of hitting the starter. Every. Single. Time. This compared to it often grinding on for 6-7 without starting, and having ...

{groaning}...only noticeable when taking off in first gear. Mine does this too - and I have found that the best way to launch a 906 in a dignified way is to let the clutch out very very slowly with the bike at idle, or only *just* above idle. This results in least groaning. Having the clutch get &q...

Yes, I got the MotoLectric starter cable upgrade. I have never seen or felt finer cables in my life. If they work as well as they look and feel, then they will be stunning. I plan to ride the bike (it is a 906) for the rest of the summer barring any more failures or problems, and then spend some tim...

OK, I am starting to feel like my Duke is very similar to my Porsche: Things fail for no apparent reason, and then are fixed for no apparent reason. Either by intervention, or without it. I removed the spark plugs, inspected them, found them to be in pristine condition and refitted them. Started the...

Shees! The bike ran fine for about 6 days of happy motoring, but then one cylinder would cut out periodically, and then cut back in again. Now when I start it, its running on one pot only. The last ride saw me do about 4 klicks on just the one cylinder, limping home. Brand new Champions installed. T...