Saturday June 28 th   Suzuki GSF1200 Bandit At our workshop session Saturday June 28 th Roger, Ioin and Steve all worked on the Suzuki 1200 Bandit, the problem they were trying to overcome was the dragging front brakes.   They pulled apart the front brake calipers and after a little difficulty managed to extract the pistons and install a new set of pistons on the left hand side . Once the brakes were back together the left hand front brake still dragged too much but with some judicial fiddling it eventually freed up enough that we could move to something else at the following session.   The next thing we would be doing was to check the valve clearances and the balance the bike’s four carburettors.   Ducati 250 cc single.  John made some excellent progress with Graham’s help. John was waiting for rocker cover gaskets to come from Italy, however Graham helped him make his own. Using nothing more than gasket paper, a ball peen hammer, Stanley knife and s...

  Saturday June 14th 2025 This workshop session was a quiet one.   At its peek there were just seven of us!   A  huge thank you to Gareth for listing the contents of tool trolleys one to four and for Allan doing the same with the newer green tool chest. It was a huge help and by doing the red tool trolley myself I was able to complete the set so we now know exactly what is where (For a week anyway!) Many thanks also to Jo for collecting and bringing the new project bike into the workshop. It was a Honda CBR1000 that its donor Paul had owned for around 20 years.   It hadn't run properly for a number of years but the bike was in generally sound condition and would make a good project especially for those wanting to learn how to overcome the impact that time stood still can have on a bike and its carburettors Also many thanks to Jo for providing us with temporary use of her starter pack (I hope that’s what you call it.)   Guess where it came in handy!! ...