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No worries, I can remember at the time, being quite concerned about it and wanting to make sure all us Firemen wore breathing apparatus at any possible fire involving carbon fibre. It's great stuff but not when it burns, a bit like that once wonderful material called asbestos!

I seem to remember that when carbon fibre is involved in fire it releases micro hooked fragments that just love to lodge in lungs. Potentially quite a serious problem for Firefighters due to modern car design and other forms of construction. Not that in a silencer it would be directly involved in a fire, but it's close enough to be degraded and shot out the tailpipe with the heat that is produced. Just a thought !

No, it's good to go, I swapped it for a Keihin out of curiosity. If you're interested, message me, I'll strip it and send some pictures.

I've got one ! I was keeping it as a spare but probably won't swap it back again. ?

A good result !

NGK LZFH perhaps ?

A low profile, 90' plug cap might do the job at first glance.

This was the Mecatecno five years ago, with a gearbox. It's interesting that their current bike is gear free, were they just after a super light bike or did they feel gears were unnecessary. They've obviously got the facility to produce the gearbox should it be needed to compete with the EM.

Rightly or wrongly I always use ptfe tape around bike or car bleeder nipples to try to stop the 'false' bubbles. It usually does the trick for me when vacuum bleeding.

Looks to me, from the photo, like it's possible but with both bikes at an angle, on full lock and with the handle bars dropped ?

I always liked the look of the red JCM that Tony Scarlett rode, at the time it looked very light, slim and the bike to win on !

The early ones had a Tau engine, I'd a 323 at the time. The later newer look bikes, I thought, had a Gas gas engine, never heard of the Yamaha motor though.

I can remember JCM parts were difficult to get, even back in the day. I'm sure it was Quinns in Gateshead that imported them. There's probably a bunch of generic parts that could be sourced from other bikes of that period.

Fairly sure my Montesa 330 came out of the box with a plastic shield, was ripped to shreds in quick time so I made my own wrap around alloy one.

I can't give you an answer on that, but I once bought a "240" JCM monopro from a well known dealer, got it home and stripped it, only to find an unusually large piston within. It was a 323, I wasn't too happy. So it's not a stupid question !