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Few days after buying my bike i was riding along and my leg had a warm moist feel, like i was wetting myself.
One of the head bolts had stripped the threads and was blowing oil up my leg, shop fixed it.
much later i had a local service the bike.... thrust washer missing from cam shaft so a bit of cam float, wrong chain and sprocket and oversize rear tyre which had been trimmed by the chain slightly, i was wondering at this point how my bike got the MOT.
Had 3 years of fun and a new swing arm spindal and front tyre before the flywheel magnets failed (fell apart) pre-internet days so scrap yards and small ads. Couldn't get the part and breakers wouldn't buy my bike for spares because the parts it needed where the only bit's they where interested in.
Sat in a garage for several years until one day we happened on someone who had the same bike except someone drove a lorry over the back of his so he had a good engine....... i had a bike with a broken engine, two become one :)
£500 beater Z250 single learnt a bit keeping that on the road ;)