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Thanks for all the help on this - i finally got the seals installed last weekend - unfortunately I had a number of issues and had to rope my wife in to help so no pictures.... My experience however is : getting the forks out was easy - one tip was I needed to use a low profile 6mm hex socket and my smallest toque wrench to do back up due to the space issue on the top fork holder. Separating the tubes - one separated relevantly ok, however the other was pig..., due to the bearing ring not wanting to budget inside. by pulling the forks apart it pulls the slider bush against the

Yes, the bolt went through the clamp that sits around the frame. Thank you for clarification.

From the pic it looks as though the bolt is through a clamp that sits around the Honda frame? If that's the case, no, you can't put enough force through that bolt to the crush the frame.

You have an infestation of spanner frats, or possibly ambitious variants of the smaller chuck key lemming. You need to eradicate them: 1. Clear a space round the motorcycle. This needs to be at least 2 feet wide and free of any flat surface above ground level. This provides a potential killing ground any rodent type creature will be wary of. 2. Place a dark coloured cloth on the workshop floor just outside the killing ground. The contrasting colour shows red to beady little eyes suggesting danger, but will make any movement such as that caused by the orange

The front is far easier Andy

Well maybe it is a bit optimistic! However, I have managed to thread one cable through to the battery compartment without even taking off the panels - that was to take power to my top box which has an alarm and electronic locking. As for the other electrical stuff I want, it is all located at the front of the bike and I have already found that there is a suitable gap beside the frame tubes which makes it fairly easy to bring wires up into the battery compartment from below on either side of the bike, so this seems like a sensible location to centralise all my add-on wiring, rather than und