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Hi you missed a realy good one on ebay last week in sheffield sold for a steal at £3450 ref 230318086011 Hi There. That was MY Rockster. After bids from Holland, Germany & Hungary, Questions from Sweden and only ONE inspection from a local chap, My Rockster eventually sold to somebody from Bava...

Hi Everybody. Long story short...... Rockster is serviced / tuned / new plugs / Filter / TB Balanced / Injection reset. Starting from cold, the Rockster runs rough, almost like one cylinder until it is warmed up then behaves perfectly, no surging or anything. The question is,...... Does the fast idl...

[quote="boxermania"]If you haven't done the sync before, idle and TB's take the brass screws completely out, don't worry about counting turns, and clean them (as you will find a fair ampount of coating on them).quote] After my 1st TB balance, while things were improved, the bike still wasn...

Just a bit of an update...... Following the TB balance, tickover was improved but I still found power delivery "not quite right". I decided to start again but this time I took out the brass adjuster screws. They were filthy with burnt on petrol varnish and black crap. Cleaned with celulose...

pieter1 wrote:How is the air/fuel ratio determined?

Clever Mr. Bosch sorts all that stuff out

Maybe need a valve adj. ? I bought my Rockster 2 years ago. the same day, I fitted a "Y" piece instead of the cat. My bike had an occasional bang on the overrun usually after a long decelleration from high rpm then at about 2000 - 2500 there is a bang. Sometimes, a loud crack, sometimes a...

Hi there. I didn't bottom out and measure the two brass screws before I started. My tickover / idle was about 850 / 900 rpm. So I'm not sure of the total number of turns out. I made and connected the gauge up just to check as my tickover was low. With the obvious difference in readings, I decided to...

Hi there. Yes, just water. The pipe is 1/4 i.d so I used two very short lengths of screenwasher pipe to help it to fit on the TB stubs. There is a little "bounce" but only about 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch in the tubing. It is quite obvious when the TBs are balanced though. I was worried I would...

Hi Everybody. After servicing my Rockster and changing the plugs, tickover was still down (850rpm) and the bike had been running a little rough. I decided a TB balance was in order. I constructed a manometer from the excellent guide found on this site. http://obairlann.net/reaper/motorcycle/manomete...

Hi there. When I bought my Rockster, I took it to Rainbows BMW dealership in Rotherham, England, UK This is one of the best dealerships in the UK as voted for by the bike riding public and also, bike magazines. The owner, Shaun, came out for a look at it. I asked his opinion. He put it in the centre...

The analog speedometer is actually reading digital info from the back wheel? But... why not just have an actual digital speedometer then? Seems like a lot of work to do the motorcycling equivalent of hooking a Bakelite handset up to a cell phone. A bit like taking an ancient aircooled boxer engine,...

Hi Mike. This is about the only one I have of the whole bike. (Taken on a recent trip to Belgium) I tend to take pics of things I'm doing to it. Stuff like exhaust mods so I can fit the throwovers and because my wife has cold hands, a heated grabrail! http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/Unklian/A...

I took the wheel out and the muguard off and the brakes. I wasn't sure what effect the paintstripper would have on stuff. I tried some Nitromors on a tiny piece of the anodised fork legs and they weren't touched. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/Unklian/P1010215.jpg The paint on the fork ends ...

Bubbling fork legs. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/Unklian/P1010212.jpg Underneath is a pile of trouble. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/Unklian/P1010216.jpg Paint strip them. Brass wire brush them till they shine. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/Unklian/P1010222.jpg Wax polish...

Sorry it took so long to get back to you.

It's matt black with green bits.

Not sure of the proper name at the mo, just got back from holiday and jetlagged!

Will probably see you down there though.

Ian.

Hi Paul, riceburner (and everybody else). Trust me, I wish I could have had the discs machined. £350.00 for discs and pads is obscene. The new ones are now fitted (bliss). The old ones were amongst the worst condition discs I've ever seen. There were patches a little larger than the pad area wher...

Hi Everybody. I've had a 2003 Rockster for a week now. When bought, the front brake rotors were in a sorry state, patches of corrosion where the bike had been left standing after wet use. I've tried various methods to "cure" a warped feeling in the front brakes. After checking things with ...