Clive, I don`t race so I couldn`t really tell. Race tracks are clean (at least the few I`ve seen) and race engines more often serviced or rebuild. I didn`t assume bmw851 was only useing his for track days. Imho for a normal street ridden bike filters make sense. There are filters socks with an inne...

I've learnt not to stand next to my 14 y.o. son when we stop for a leak.He starts after me,finishes before me and piddles twice as far as me.Old age :banghead: :oops: :lol: Ha ha , I dont have a 14 yearold son to "sword fight " with but aint that the truth . And its a pain in the arse whe...

Interesting comments, love the shaving your ears, isn't it funny my hair went on holidays without me years ago, but appears to be coming back, and in the strangest places, everywhere but not my head, Dang. I've had the same debate many, many times over the years about open mouth velocity stacks, wit...

Thanks Clive, I plan to leave them as is, won't be riding it enough to worry about filters. Read your post, should have looked bit further down the page D'Oh! lower pressure pump is interesting, I suspect this could be an on going problem, but will wait and see. Only plan the one track day on it at ...

Nice find mate.It's in better shape than mine.We're not far away from each other,I'm in Wollongong. Cheers Andrew Gidday Andrew, Just went through your restoration post, good lord, dang your a braver man than me, :choo: The level of advice and info available on this site is amazing, I've gone from ...

Thanks for that guys, will delve deeper into the site, just measured them and they are 39mm, have found the distributor for Oz so can now order a rebuild kit for them. Yeah the crank breather pipe is fairly dodgey and will look at doing something a bit neater, the rear race spools are a temp I drill...

Does anyone know much about these, have picked up a was running well '89 750 Sport with all of 5200km on it (yes it's true) which I'm doing a minor restoration on, and it has a set fitted, the bike has been in storge for god knows how long, few bits perished with age but all over fairly good, have b...