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What a great weekend, my family and myself really enjoyed it. The only critisism i have is that on the site plan we were led to belive that there was shower blocks and toilets available so to find that wasnt the case was a let down. If you were not expecting anything to be on site then you can accomadate yourself in the preperation before leaving home.

Try Bel-Ray gearsaver and should be 550cc in 05 but 500cc is sufficient, giving you 2 refills out of litre bottle.

Try the old vice method boys for breaking your beads, get someone to hold wheel and nip up tyre in the vice and keep revolving round and nipping up until it goes! also a little washing up liquid and water solution squirted around prior to starting is a good idea and let it soak in a bit.

Get a larger socket than the outside diameter of the bearing and another that will fit through the dog bone where the bearing sits and push the old bearing out. put the whole assembly into a vice and press the old one out and use the same procedure to put the new one back in, cushty!!! nice and carefull as they are soft cage bearings. Use water resistant grease when putting everything back together. ps... it helps if two people are involved one to hold the lot still in the vice to start and then the other to operate the vice.

Try an E.Mail to John Shirt junior through Gas Gas uk website.

Not everyone has got big mits like you though Mick!!!!

If you knew how long i had to stand there for them to keep still !!! I bloody well gave up in the end.... in their defence though our back garden is a serious slope.

Heres a Pic of the two bikes that i get to chase round after each week!!!

Thanks for all the different advice lads, i have managed to remove late last night. I froze the yoke, stem and then put in the vice and then heated the bearing localy and managed to get a screw driver knocked in at the bottom of the bearing and prized up enough to get two thicker screw drivers either side and prized right off and it came off quite easy. I then put the new bottom one on by putting the whole thing back in the headstock and with the old top bearing in place with a washer on top then put the top plate back on and pressed the bottom one on to the spindle by tightening the top nut and it worked a treat. I know it sounds bodgy but it worked quite well.

Has anyone got any suggestions to get the bottom bearing off the yoke spindle on a 125 gasser. Ive got it in the freezer at the moment and then will try heating the bearing and see if it will move. I havent got any type of puller that will fit so having to knock about with a drift and hammer.

Have a look at the section OTHER on the top of the home page and go to Technical and then Ron Millam .Interesting piece on fuel mixtures there. Bel Ray do a oil MC1 For high dillution mixes, if you want to safely run 75 to 100 to 1 ratio.

Evo Stick time bond is good . Builders merchants or Band Q.

Yeh i dabbled with some 3m spray mount as a trial on and old bit of plastic which didnt work but i think the stuff i tried is for sticking pictures or summat that the wife uses, ill have to shop about.

Ive just painted my lads 125 pro seat unit and have managed to save the raised 125 sticker that sits in the middle. What i want to know is can anyone recomend a strong glue to restick it with. I was going to use time bond but its not compatible with celulose paint which i belive is in tins of spray paint.

Thanks for the tips lads ,ill probably stick with the Mich then. Excellent tip about putting a tube in the tyre and inflating for a couple of days, obvious if you think about it but hindsight is a wonderfull thing aint it.

Has anyone out there used Pirrelli tyres at all and how do they perform against Michelin. Would they be ample for Schoolboy use particually the front . Any advice appriciated.

With the no youve got try a bearing supplier , like where i am we have Oxford bolt and bearing and they seem to be able to get what i ever need. At the end of the day its only a soft cage needle roller so you should find someone will match it. Mick

Regarding the Repsol ive just put it in my lads gasser and the clutch action is better with less drag and the changes are smoother, he is chuffed with and we were previously on Bel-Ray which was also very good but harder to get hold of.