Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Every new gasket I have fitted has only leaked if I installed the gasket wrong. Or the mating surface were very out of shape. Paper gaskets are usually a compress to take the differences in trueness out of the two mating surfaces. More modern things use an o ring.

True, sometimes they fold and do cause a problem. This reminds me of a very bad time me and my boss had with my gear box years a go on my Aprillia RS 125. We spent 2 weeks, on and off hours after work trying to figure how to fix it. It was slipping so I ordered numerous bits over time and the cable even snapped! The Haynes manual and what we did was 100% correct, but it just wouldn't fix. I then got it delivered to a mechanic who fixed it by starting from the very beginning. I guess we did do something wrong and we won't ever find out what it was.

failed my theory on saturday by 3 points in hazard perception :(

My advice is to click 3 times when you see a hazard. On my practice CD, I would often click just before the points come into play and learnt to click 3 times. The points system is like 5,4,3,2,1... in a specific time period, so clicking 3 times gives you a great chance to get something.