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Giving it the beans in 4th gear and theres a loud crack, engine dies and rear wheel locks. After the longest skid ever i jump off to investigate. Checked over a couple of things but when i undid the oil filler cap, oil pissed out as if it had way too much in it. I check oil before every ride and...

So the worst thing that could happen to me happened to me this weekend. I dont know what exactly happened but a exhaust valve got mangled into the piston.. I wasnt riding it hard left a stop sign casually shifting through the gears i hit 3rd gear no sudden noises the tire just locked up. So i...

The problem started a few weeks ago. I was out on my first long ride for the season. After riding on small roads, through the city centre and then some more small roads, I decided to head back home on the freeway. After approximately one km I felt the engine dying. It was just like when you run...

An electrician I'm not. I have just installed lights on my '09 FE450. For the rear I plugged in the three pole molex plug under the battery box to the rear light and I used the two pole molex with a jumper from the white (power) wire to the green and yellow wire that my schematic indicates is...

I just blew up my husaberg fc550. The bike is only ridden as a supermoto, I want some more power, any suggestions while i have the cases split? I would love to upgrade my internals across the board, but i can't seem to find any info on options? PLEASE HELP BERG FAMILY! Also can you swap...

Sad day. 53hour bike, that has been cared for alot.. 5hour oil changes and so on.. Today, when passing a buddy`s XT660, the motor blew up. :( Have been in the garage tonight, ripping it apart.. Top end has 4 open valves :( all bent, lucky me, but none of them broke (pheuh) The...

Amazing day!! Clear ice, no snow. The 550 was working like a champ. Dragging the bars and grinning like a fool. Rode for about a 2 hours. Max speed on the digital unit said 140 kmh. Perfect. Rolled up to the truck to load up and call it a day and realized that the motor was knocking like...

okey dokey here's my weekend. after 2 weeks of monsoonal rain, a heap of parts for my mx6 (car) finally rocked up so after spending all saturday doing an engine install and seeing the physio on friday for a dammaged disc in my back (has stopped me riding for about 2 months) I decided sundy...

Hi Got the niggly suspected ignition fault fixed with me 99 electric start 400 enduro and just as it was running ok, the bloody thing exploded.... Aaaagh.......... Suspected broken piston and/or conrod, though I s'pose the first goes automatically with the second thinking about it -...