Hi all. popped into local bike shop today to buy new jacket as its my burfday. Got chatting re MOT and new tyre required etc. Service manager pipes up; “don’t forget to put the original pipes back on for the MOT or it will fail for being too noisy….” WHAT?!? He hasn’t heard the bike (I dropped in in the car for the jacket). Apparently new regs say after market exhaust should be…Read More

I am trying to find out where I can get some piston ring sets to fit the above machine.
Ebay is so far being a no go and CMC can’t get anything older than a 1990.

Any help or direction to where I might be able to get some please.

I had to replace the regulator/rectifier on an N reg Virago 250 because too late I realised it was delivering about 15V and boiled the baterry dry. Amazingly with distilled water the battery has recovered. After I replaced the rectifier I noticed the main fuse had blown and melted the fuse holder. I replaced the fuse and holder with a 20A blade fuse and the bike starts fine. However,…Read More