The chain was only 12 months old. It looks grotty cos I used an acid cleaner on it last year which took some of the gold coating off and I will confess to not lubing it as often as I should. I had a pretty big off last september on the left side and replaced full faring stator and casing left bar le...

Oh yes. Very lucky I was only doing 3 mph when it let go and did no damege to me or bike. I clocked about fast speed on Rainford bypass less than 10 mins earlier and could have been very messy.

http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb458/turbosnail/Mobile%20Uploads/20150409_160101_zpszwjqqmra.jpg went to the scotchy on wednesday and had a broken chain on my zx9. It looks like the chain didn't just fail it fractured then gave up later as you can see from the rust where the link has cracked ....

A bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush.

Here a pic of the falco with a mille swing arm . It's a very popular upgrade on the aprilia forum and it's a straight swap and they are only about 100 quid for a good on on egay

Here are some pics of my turbo project which is nearly finished. Just ironing out some little issues before I take it to OTC for maping. main problem has been oil syphoning from the oil cooler back to the turbo cos it's a lot higher. This caused it to spit fresh oil from the exhaust on every start u...