its been a long time coming but ive finally got hold of a digicam and snapped some pics of my piston and cylinder. The bike had new pistons put in it approx 100kms before this happened... the previous pistons were missing about 1 cm of ring, so im thinking there still some metal bouncing around in there
Any remarks/comments/advice on fixing properly are welcome 
http://www.bikepics.com/members/tvjoyce2002/91nsr250/
Cheers,
Tim
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