Honda-SOHC

Use A6 North of Manchester, good road roughly parallels M6.
Scottish Borders are beautiful,  Moffat, Kelso, St Mary's Loch.
Glasgow roads are horrible,  get out of town ASAP!

Loch Lomond, pretty but jammed with tourists. Roads to Inverary and Oban good, ferries to islands from Oban.
Lots of bikes stop at The Green Welly, Tyndrum for fuel, bike and rider. Glencoe, of course.

Eilean Donan Castle, Isle of Skye, lots to see on Skye. Plockton.
Applecross and Bealach na Ba, amazing road.
Applecross Inn recommended.
After NC500 avoid the A9 south, not a great road for bikes, 50mph average speed cameras full length.
Head to Grantown on Spey and Ballater, then Balmoral Castle, Braemar and Glenshee. (my favourite road) or to Aboyne then south over Cairn o'Mount, fantastic views from the top car park.

Dunnottar Castle near Stonehaven, A92 coast road, Glen Clova all worth a look.
Broughty Ferry is nice, sandy beach and Visoccis Ice cream. 😎 Friendly bikers too.

Coast road through Fife is great, lovely old fishing villages.

In the Highlands fuel stops can be a long way apart so plan ahead. Some close on Sundays.

If you need any help let me know. I'd be happy to meet up for a ride if you want.

You dont ever use the slot anyway, when building before fitting cam stick fingers down tunnel, push slipper to carbs and hold whilst nipping up locknut then just undo when built and holding pressure on kickstart, nipping up whilst holding pressure.

Check the tensioner fold over tabs are crimped over tight to hold theteeth on the bolt in mesh with the rack, people forcing the screw slot in the false idea that this will tension the chain is what damages the meshing in the first place

Done. Raised my voice a bit too! 

As long as the nut screws on leave it alone as you dont need that slot

found on mine that you need a magnet to tell if washer is stuck to head on some of the less accessable ones

A top tip Martin; I'll try that, thanks!