Whats wrong with a permanently live(and fused) connection to the cradle--mine's not a Zumo but a Montana, and if the external power supply is lost it will automatically shut down unless you notice and press "stay connected". I find that if I'm stopped and looking at OS detail, or reprogram...

Looks as though the "cam wheels" have vernier adjustments for fine timing setting. A hell of a job keeping the meshing of each gear pair correct as the engine warms up, or has the designer carefully kept the gear train "tower" and cam boxes separate from the head? (I gather that...

Valve timing?--just line up the dots on the teeth--simples--its a case of going up then across with gears to reach the steeply inclined valves--note the exposed hairpin type valve springs like an old Matchless--you can get a lot of coils in "alongside" the valve rather than having the spri...

We are in transylvania now we stopped just on the boarder of Romania last night in a little rustic hostel and very nice it was to.set of this morning at about 10 ish with a stop at a salt mine called salina turda well well worth a visit you have a half mile walk down a tunnel and it opens out into ...

The engine is the right size for a "do it all"--and Yamaha seem pretty good on pricing at the moment. However, it will never be a good trail bike if the trails are as Wales etc (unless you are young, over 6ft and called Knight)--but fine for open fire roads etc. To reinforce a previous com...

If your return leg involves Slovenia......a really nice country to pass through.....If you like spectacular caves, there's a great cave system at Postojna in the South West of the country. There's a little open carriage underground train that takes you through it, then you walk the rest of it. Well...

Robens--ripstop with plenty of anchoring points. Also buy a couple of packs of those short bungy loops with a plastic ball attached(the type used for securing tarps/covers on trailers etc)--cheap as chips on fleabay--then use these bungies on both sides and attach the guys to these. This way you hav...

Live coverage on Quest--and Eurosport--the proper car race!

Good comparison with the Integra--I'd forgotten about that--as I guess most people have!

Its going a bit off topic to actual scoots--remember that this is chain drive, has a rising rate rear suspension, centre stand, upside down forks etc--underneath the "skin" its very like a cross tourer, or Africa twin, with DCT--not at all like a belt drive scoot in construction.