Andy wrote:Jesus Christ Fontyyy... who's working on it, Erv Kanemoto?

Mate, the results of letting just any old monkey (no pun intended) work on an NSR are not too far from you right now.

And the parts list runs something like

repair cylinder*1
replate cylinder*2
piston and rings*2
head gasket*2
base gasket*2
powervalve clip*2
small end bearing*2
piston pin*2
powervalve oil seal*2
both crank seals
cylinder dowl*2
piston pin clip*4
air filter*1
front head*1
exhaust gasket*2
spark plug*2
gearchange shaft*1
gearbox seal*1
clutch lifter o-ring*1
clutch plate kit*1
dry clutch disc*6
front sproket*1
chain*1
HRC jet kit*1

and so on

OK it may not be at the cheapest place in the world, but buying and fitting that little lot and any other bits needed is never going to be cheap anywhere.

We'll see, when my Aprilia blew up I took it to a place locally that (successfully) races them and had them rebuild it, cost me loads to say it was only a 125 and it was superb, then when I had my CBR4 setup I took it to RMD Dyno and Rob Matthews (he did Reynolds bike at the time he now works with Foggy Petronas) did it, once again it was ace but cost a small fortune (£200+ for the setup alone!).

This is the first bike I've had tht wasn't from a top dealer for top money, and it's the first bike I've had a real problem with (I wouldn't call a top end on an RS125sp after 12000 miles a problem). I've got a theory you get what you pay for, it's worked OK for me so far.
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