..........and still no chain guide. Dave, don't you ever learn!:074:

Stuck the subframe back together again yesterday.

Can you spot the problem here?

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/8586/0ank.jpg

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/5047/mt25.jpg

I think we'll go for a bit of reinforcement.

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/6614/0rzh.jpg

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/3056/61ew.jpg

That'll do for the short-term. The whole nav setup is still a bit of an ugly bodge job. I'd like to do something better in the long run.

Not sure quite how though. Being of a lanky persuasion, I run my bars a lot higher than stock. I also need to be able to have mirrors fitted as I use the bike day-to-day. This means I've ended up with everything mounted quite high...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...06434315_n.jpg

...which allows clearance for the bars to turn, and puts it in a nice place to read while stood up or sat down, but it's a decent chunk of weight very high up. I didn't realise quite how much until it fell off during the Carlisle Rally and the bike suddenly got a lot easier to flick from side to side.

My ideal solution would probably involve replacing all the plastics and screen with a 1 piece GRP fairing, probably shoving the headlight/screen forward a couple of inches in the process to make a bit more space for everything to sit lower. Taper bars to get rid of the crossbar and mount the Yam clocks on the bars like JMo did. Ally subframe to hold it all together.

Or I could just accept the inevitable and build a 450 rally bike...