Berlin

@%$^%*(&^%~@~@##' *&^$£$%*@: !!!

I've been replacing the selector forks in my Bimota for a while now. The engine was stripped and prepared and I found a donor engine for some of the parts and bought the rest new.

I've just spend two weekends stripping it, replacing the parts, rebuilding it and putting the bike back together.

I finally got it all back together and looking as good as new and had a coffee before firing it up.

It turns out that having got to the stage of firing the bike up, I took it off the paddock stand and tried to push it out of the garage.
...Somethings wrong!

Even with the clutch pulled in, the clutch wasn't disengaging. In gear, the bike was locked.

SO I pulled the newly gasketed clutch cover off and the clutch basket. All seemed well so kept on fiddling.

NOOOOOOOOO!

on rebuilding it, I replaced BOTH the final drive shaft AND the countershaft. The Pegaso (the donor engine) is a FIVE valve head and so has a different cam chain assembly.

So the counter shaft is 3mm SHORTER than the F650 engine!!!!!!

That means I've wasted 16 hours and all the new gaskets and I have to completely strip the whole thing and replace the original countershaft!

For the sake of 3mm!!!!!!!

I'm going to cry!
Carl