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Well... pretty much multiply your prices by 1.5 to 2 and that's how much stuff costs in Europe. All this while in Eastern Europe countries the average yearly salary is under 10k USD. Fortunately I'm lucky enough to be able to make decent money, because there's no way you'd afford expenses such...

Thanks! I thought these shims were like oil filters, where you have a ten page list of bikes using the same filter. But it turns out they aren't... I found a Hotcams shim kit listed on a local store for around $125, but honestly it seems a bit wasteful to buy an entire kit for only two shims...

I managed to get the "new" valve today. Though it was poorly packed, it checked out OK (straight and no marks or pitting) so I gave it a very light lapping and did a "beta installation" using the old gasket as I didn't want to risk ruining another head gasket if something somehow required...

Small update: -fitted the clutch cover. Turns out the instructions from the manual are wrong. If you do that (start installing with the marks lined up) you'll end with the pull rod being grabbed 1-2 teeth too early, leading to the pull lever hitting the silver clutch cable holder (while also...

It looks very nice, but... yet another "new" bike that's pretty much identical with the previous model from 20-25 years ago. Apart from the looks, I'd doubt that anyone test riding would tell the difference between this and the original 599 hornet from the late 90's! Non adjustable suspension-...

Either retarded or intoxicated... or both...

Happy new year! May 2019 be better than the previous years!

The intake valves were clean, and the exhaust valve had some carbon deposits - way more than it should have been for 7500 miles, but still a bit better than how the rest of my valves were before cleaning. Got them polished using a half worn scotchbrite pad and some elbow grease. I'm 90% sure...

I've finally received the valves and cleaned, installed and lightly lapped 2 of them. One of them however has some pitting, as shown in the picture. Is this something normal/ safe to use? I've seen engines with much more than 7500 miles (as the seller claimed the donor bike had) and they...

Well, there are a lot of hipsters nowadays...

End of year update; Good news- this week the weather has wormed up a bit over freezing, warm enough to be able to work outside using knitted work gloves. And I received the new head gasket. Bad news- The rest (valves and taps) had to go through the national post service, which is now...

Speaking of ridiculous and completely useless death traps, these are my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHl24QynOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0w5U6Udi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYrnARTTjg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxm9lKrlmIk If I ever win the...

Re: Site Bug Thread // Droid Mobile Chrome won't load threads, but follows links At random times, when I load the front page of this forum, it gives me the login session of another user! It already happened at least 3-4 times in the last few weeks. Sometimes it went away after reloading, other...

Most likely they will bore out the existing 390 engine...

Today I cleaned and installed the water pump, bent the clutch boss locking tab and installed the rest of the clutch parts. Anyone got any tips for installing the clutch cover? Didn't have time to fiddle with it too much today, but it seemed that it only caught the tip of the pull rod

Thanks for the tip! Hopefully it won't be necessary but at this point it seems that anything is possible, so... better to be prepared. I've now ordered a set of 10pcs M10*1.25 helicoil style threads.

After taking the head apart I think I figured out what I did- I did put the valves in the right places, but then I put everything else (springs, seats, buckets, keepers) swapped. So the reason it was binding at that point was that as the exhaust springs were in the intake valves while the...

So... after what's been described as (quoting the sales rep) "a error that made your order to be taken off the workflow thus leading to delays" I finally received the overhead valve press. As expected, the press end was too wide for a bike head but luckily it had a M12 thread- same as the press...

I've seen many bikes 13-15y newer than yours looking much worse, so yours was definitely taken care of. If everything ends up like those freshly coated rims, it will look great! Always liked these vintage sport bikes...

As much as I can tell by looking from above yes, they seem to be in the right places. And no extra or missing parts :) If my estimations are correct (knowing the free length, installed length and installed force, as they are specified in the manual) it'd take around 33kgf to fully push in an...