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Ouch! Hope you've got plenty of pain relief. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. There was a brown 250 there which I assumed was yours. Evidently not. Having been away from bikes for quite a few years, I have to admit that owing to the conditions I was comically slow and upright around the roundabouts.

I assume that the rev counter is a bit more acurrate. I wouldn't bank on it. After I'd ridden my Morini a while it dawned on me that the correlation between the speedo and tacho wasn't correct. Sprockets were correct so I downloaded a GPS speedo onto my phone and checked its accuracy against my van...

Before you take anything apart, I'd just eyeball the disc against the front of the caliper as a close reference point as you spin the wheel.

That is strange, given that the discs have been substantially skimmed. One thought - are the discs sitting flat onto the hub, and is the hub of the wheel true? If you haven't already, it might be worth raising the front end and spinning the wheel and checking for run-out. It doesn't need much to mak...

Hi Jen,

I think you're right on all counts.
Given that my tank badges are in good condition but the side panel badges are scruffy, it might make sense to paint those in a less brilliant white:

Before I put an ad in the wanted section for some hen's teeth, I wanted to garner peoples thoughts on tank badge colour. I have moulded black plastic ones with white lettering and they're in good nick but the white is very much an off-white, more magnolia, and at odds with the brilliant white 3½ bad...

Thanks for the replies. I went for the one off ebay as I'm impatient and wanted to try out my new rearsets and there's no guarantee I'd win the Morini Club auction. The ebay seller does two versions - long to suit fixed footpegs and short to suit folding footpegs. I went for the short. Needed a litt...

Does anyone have a kickstart extender they'd be prepared to part with before I start trying to make my own?
Were the NLM ones aluminium or steel?

Thanks
Howard

My understanding is that Tarozzi ceased production some time ago. I would like to be corrected on this however! I'm not sure on that but I ordered a set of Tarozzi rearsets from https://www.caferacerwebshop.com/en/ a few weeks ago and they've been despatched today coincidentally. They did contact m...

Well, I popped the shocks off this afternoon while I've got no work on, and they're fine. Damping feels good over the whole range with no loss over small displacements. No sign of any leaks. I'm almost disappointed. They're scruffy and could do with a repaint, and I'd like to get the springs coated ...

Hey John, thanks for that link. I may well give that a try when I've had a closer look at the shocks. They're probably not the root cause of the tank slapper but they are nearly 50 years old so would likely benefit from some TLC. Norbert, I think you're right. Once the tank slapper had been initiate...

Hi Jenny, I don't have a steering damper fitted. I think it would have broken the mounting bracket if I'd had one, the oscillation was that violent. I used to have one on my Sport, years ago, and always thought the bracket was weedy and flexed a lot. Yes, you've found the stretch of road. I've been ...

The shocks are the original (1977) Marzocchis so could well benefit from a rebuild or replacement with Hagons that many people seem to like. To be fair, they don't feel soft or lacking in damping but it might not be a bad idea to give them a closer look off the bike. I googled tank slappers on rumbl...

Anyone suffered from a tank slapper going over rumble strips? Just come back from an hour or so out on my 3½ and the handling is impeccable. Except that when I was on a dual carriageway approaching a roundabout in the outside lane, and for a few hundred yards there are quite severe rumble strips. Do...

Ah. Have to say yours looks a lot worse than mine did :( I'm not sure that looks recoverable at home. I don't think normal brake usage will rectify that. I did a few hundred miles on mine with nothing like the level of rust/patchiness and it didn't improve, hence resorting to the orbital sander as I...