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Greetings Painter, glad to see you've arrived on these 'ere hallowed pages, and bearing a mystery to boot (if indeed that is what one does with a mystery). What makes a perfectly good plug go bad ? Is it environmental, societal, or a bit of metal swarf clogging the contacts? A fragment of piston rin...

It's a case of building up the surfaces which meet and form the stop, to reduce the travel Twist. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
The stand needs to go far enough over centre to stop it rolling off too easily, but any further seems counter-productive.

Sunbeem.

If the stand goes too far over centre Twist, make sure you put some weld on the pivot area before altering the legs, then you'll see if they need alteration too, when in the correct position.
ME109 has a picture of what looked to me like the definitive stand-weld ...

Sunbeem.

Nice one Jeff, if you meet anyone with a puncture on the road, they'll think you're Santa.

Sunbeem.

PS. And it's one less worry for the tubeless amongst us. It's all adding up.

The tyre shop man failed on my back tyre, much to his dismay, so I told him about the strap trick afterwards.

We need a test, but how many of us fit our own tyres ?

Sunbeem.

Jeff, last time I bought a rear tyre, I had bother getting the beads seated. I tightened a cargo ratchet strap around the circumference of the tyre, (I heard it on Boxerworks!), and that made the beads a lot looser and easier to seat as the tube inflated. Perhaps it would work in reverse, and allow ...

I had another call today. He's seen the bike, which refused to start. This put him off a bit, but the bike was last taxed in 2006 I think, so we agreed that the condition of anything rubbery was maybe going to be questionable. He can't remember the actual mileage, but thinks it was under 10,000 and ...

I had a phone call yesterday from a guy I met when he asked about the RS recently. He was wanting to get a bike again, after having British bikes in his youth. Seeing the RS, he walked over and chatted for a while. He knew of a BMW that might be on the market, so I gave him my number, and agreed to ...

Welcome Sabre2, and here's hoping you mend quickly. I took my son's advice when he said "Dad, if at first you don't succeed, skydiving is probably not for you." The differences between health services in Oz, the USA and England is just one of the fascinating subjects we discuss with a comb...

A very instructive thread, with a happy ending -- thanks Twist.
Nice to know your potential runner is now a potential non-runner.

Sunbeem.