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  • Your Tips – paint your wagon

    Your Tips – paint your wagon

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    In the October 2015 edition of CMM a chap called Rob Neal wrote about high-temperature paint for his CX500 well, I have a similar vintage CBX1000 and have used VHT silver spray paint to good

  • Five Minute Fix – finding small parts

    Five Minute Fix – finding small parts

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    Words/Pictures by Steve Cooper Dropping a fixing into a bike is a pain with ages spent crawling around to no avail. Rather than waste time stand back, take a deep breath and then put something

  • Advice on nuts and bolts

    Advice on nuts and bolts

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    Q: Can you tell me how to tell if a nut or bolt is usable or not.  I think I over-torqued a bolt/acorn nut combination due to using a cheap torque wrench which didn’t click.

  • Suzuki RV90 weak lights

    Suzuki RV90 weak lights

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    Q: My new bike is a Suzuki RV90 running 6v magneto electrics. Needless to say the lights are feeble, the stop lamp glows dismally and indicators don’t. Apart from making sure all connectors and earth

  • Five Minute Fix – disc valve covers

    Five Minute Fix – disc valve covers

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    Words/Picture by Steve Cooper Many 60s, 70s and 80s strokers run disc-valve induction systems with the carburettor sitting at the end of the crank. With this type of intake system it’s vital that the chamber

  • 1981 Yamaha TR1 popping exhaust

    1981 Yamaha TR1 popping exhaust

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    Q: Hi, great article in a recent mag on the TR1. I own a 1981 model which I rebuilt from a basket case. It’s a lovely bike and as John Nutting says the torque is

  • 1984 Yamaha TY250 yellowed tank

    1984 Yamaha TY250 yellowed tank

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    Q: Having recently acquired a 1984 TY250 trials for restoration but I find myself with a plastic fuel tank that has a nice yellowy tinge to it. Is there any way of returning this it

  • Moto Morini Corsarino

    Moto Morini Corsarino

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    Q: I’m a long-time reader of your excellent mag and I also suffer from petrol addiction! I have a Moto Morini Corsarino 50cc four-stroke that has started to develop a running issue. After a couple

  • 1979 Suzuki GS850G fuel meter wiring

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    Q: I have recently got my 1979 Suzuki GS850G fuel meter to work but the wiring is incorrect. I cannot as yet find the live feed from the meter to the tank gauge (due to

  • Video: Nostalgia Scramble 2010

    Video: Nostalgia Scramble 2010

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    Here’s a memory from Nostalgia scramble 2010, CDB will be up at the 2016 Nostalgia come say hi to us and claim your CDB toolbox magnet.

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