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Mad Hatter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:07 pm Not today but yesterday, I changed some wheel bearings as the old ones looked like the been reclaimed from kit that was dumped off the cost of Normandy on D-Day

Erk!! Seriously buggered them....

SteveR wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:30 pm

Mad Hatter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:07 pm Not today but yesterday, I changed some wheel bearings as the old ones looked like the been reclaimed from kit that was dumped off the cost of Normandy on D-Day

Erk!! Seriously buggered them....

I'm finding it fairly annoying that someone has bodged and neglected a nice bike like this, but its about fit and healthy again now

Just fitted a bloody loud horn to my bike, all ready for the campervan invasion in the Highlands this season

Mad Hatter wrote: ↑Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:51 am

SteveR wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:30 pm

Mad Hatter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:07 pm Not today but yesterday, I changed some wheel bearings as the old ones looked like the been reclaimed from kit that was dumped off the cost of Normandy on D-Day

Erk!! Seriously buggered them....

I'm finding it fairly annoying that someone has bodged and neglected a nice bike like this, but its about fit and healthy again now

Sounds like an Owner like me there....

For a while now started to have battery issues and decided to get a new battery. It hold OK for a couple of months but then started to have difficulty starting the bike again. Decided to check the voltage with the bike running and the voltimeter wouldn't read more than 13 then. Decided then to get a new stator. Very easy job, just take cover out, remove old gasket and put new one, replace stator and get all together again! Battery problem solved

fitted kriega bags and a ram x grip great bit of kit

this is the ram x grip large as I have a s7 and it fits great , I was concerned at first that I would see my phone disappear behind me on a lane or in the wind but this thing grips very well and I can say that my phone will still be there after my ride , also when I want quick sat nav directions it flips into landscape mode easy , the sled has a usb point under the seat so I run a cable up and can keep the phone topped up or charge my go-pro batteriesi can recommend RAM XGRIP,

That looks like a lovely bike Are you happy with it?

Split the casing on the ktm 640 to find the horrors inside Needs all new bearings .. as there seems to be alot of grind going on in the bearings and can only assume they have alot of the shards of this lot in it Also needs new piston rebore nikasil coating new piston and the con rod needs renewing as it as a few milimeters of play upwards .

and this is what a ktm 640 looks like tucked under your workbench waiting to be fixed

qcnr wrote: ↑Wed Jul 04, 2018 7:48 am That looks like a lovely bike Are you happy with it?

Absolutley brilliant can hold its own on the motorway nimble through traffic great offroad better than my xcx tiger But limited luggage i need to put a rack on it for more room now going Kriega route soft bags