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I tend to have my front shock all the way to soft (any skipping from the front scares me witless) and fairly hard on the rear. On the sport shocks I could not feel a massive range of adjustment on the front when I experimented.

The MRA screen:

http://www.bikehps.com/acatalog/MRA_Spo ... reens.html

Paul - wasn't too expensive (I'm on civil service wages!)

I got the "hard parts" of pipes, torque arm, screen, head protectors etc 2nd hand, either on eBay or here. Except big-deal stuff I fit things myself.

The paint was a little one-man shop near where I live, he does sign-writing too, so he ...

As promised, here is the Marrakech Red R1100SS with the white GT stripe, black wheels and reflective red wheel stripes. While I was at it I fitted an Ilmberger front fender and cleaned up my Ilm hugger.

Before this I fitted a Y-piece, chipped the bike with a Lazer Racing EPROM, fitted a K&N and ...

I have an MRA high screen (although it's not the highest they do it has a slight flip). It works for me, and as soon as I knew it was an improvement I stuck my stock screen on eBay.

At 40mph+ it just moves the widblast from under my chinbar to the mid-point on my lid, making things much quieter ...

Good enough to roll the edges of the rear tyre and get some slides, means good enough for me mate. I'm not a racetrack guy and I don't want to bin it on the road, so the absolute limits are irrelevant to me.

Time to change it though- towards the end I too was jacking up preload to compensate for ...

I just priced it up, and the cheapest I can source Wilbers is about 450 GBP for a rear, WP is 435 GBP with remote preload. Not sure about others. If I find a new BMW sport shock on the 'Bay Iwill buy it - at 40k miles mine has given up and leaked it's oil.

Oh, should sat I have the evo2 (?) brakes with servo and ABS, and the bike is an 02 single-spark.

You say that the brake light works fine and I assume the side light does too? As I recall, if the brake light bulb fails, the rear side light :? takes over both functions of side light and brake light so its not always apparent that the brake light bulb may have failed, apart from the red light on ...

A few weeks ago I had the misfortune of having to jump-start my bike. I removed the plastic cover from the starter motor to find a decent supply to attach jump-leads to.

It took me ages, and I shredded my hand.

What tools are best for this? The bend is too much for a flexi driver or a universal ...

Hi Adrian - I have used a Garmin i3 on my bike a few times. The first was an experiement with the suction mount on the rev counter face. It worked perfectly for about half an hour... then ejected itself onto the road in Parliament Square. Fortunately I was going slow, and the unit is pretty tough ...

Just need to finish cleaning the bike and re-assemble now. Am currently painting the forks.

Oh ho ho bl000dy ho.

* I have had my front wheel painted with 2-pack. Should I get the disk mount faces faced - or is an even coating of paint OK?
* Or can I just get rid of the excess paint with a dremel?
* Is it essential to run a die down the threads of the disk mounts? - if I have to do it I'll get the same guys to ...

Far be it from my place to advise BMW on intake / exhaust tuning! I'm not saying they didn't know what they were doing... but you have to admit that the OEM suppliers are playing to different rules than you and I.

Just as Lennie developed his induct, there is nothing to stop people experimenting. I ...