NBM Woolford custom brake hose, £25.83Miles covered/time: N/a What’s good: Standard braided brake hose kits are all very well for standard fitment brake hoses, but if you need a custom size, where do you go? I needed a full hose to replace the part hose/part metal pipe front brake line on my BMW R100GS after acquiring a disc upgrade kit ...
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- 10 April 2012
Hagon shock service, £99.50Miles covered/time: N/a What’s good: Faced with a £300 bill to replace a weary Hagon shock on the extensively neglected 1989 BMW R100GS I bought last year, I was pleased to discover that a Hagon shock service comes in at a third of that cost. The service included a full strip and rebuild, plus new damper rod, ...
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- 13 March 2012
Clarke M8 thread repair kit, £17.99 What’s good: If you spend any amount of your time fiddling with older bikes in the garage, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll encounter a stripped thread, typically where a steel fastener in an aluminium engine case has been overtightened or become corroded. Whether the cause is your own ham-fistedness or the ...
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- 02 February 2012
Oxford Maximiser 3800, £62Time used: Three weeks What’s good: Foolproof, automated care for your battery. I recently bought a fairly ancient BMW R80, whose various shortcomings included a very poorly gel-type battery. Old Boxers tend to be unwilling to start at all if their battery is in anything less than A1 nick, and mine was grumpily living up to this reputation, ...
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- 27 June 2011
Get more involved with motorcyclenews.com by updating your personal MCN web page and meeting new people. Since we launched the new MCN site in March, we have introduced a stack of new features in the community area, including personal photo and video galleries for every member. Did you know that you can do all this...? Upload photos and videos and other info about ...
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- 05 June 2007
