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Oddjob:
The newly painted rims were my spare set, luckily I bought them cheap and so I could have one pair painted without being off the road. However the front end now has a clunk it didn’t have before just as the bike comes to a stop. Maybe it’s jarred the newly installed taper bearings or maybe it’s bent the fork stanchions, got a spare pair of those complete but the ones on now are hard chromed so I’d like it if they were ok. Got a new set of radial Brembo calipers to go on as well so I might as well do everything at the same time.

I’ll be having the new rims fitted with new tyres, already got a brand new Michelin Road 6 rear free of charge off Michelin due to one of my tyres cracking so oddly they sent it back to France and cut it apart. They blamed the emissions from my freezer for causing the cracking, oddly enough the next tyre did exactly the same thing so maybe they were onto something

Laverdaroo:
Road 6's are my favourite tyre, they are simply incredibubble in the wet on the VFR. My mate uses them in his club races as wets when he's hard up. Great choice Ken.

Oddjob:
If you go onto Camcoats website Roo and click on his Instagram link you'll see my gold rims near the top of the page, still in the boot of the car ATM.

Thought I'd mention the ozone being produced by Fridges and Freezers as most people have one in their garage, they reckon it affects the rubber and it was ripping mine apart under traction, not helped by the motor having huge amounts of torque and me using it all, got a heavy hand most rides, I just don't do slow even these days.

Laverdaroo:
Ive heard of it before but never had an issue although the year before last The VFR was parked up against my bait freezer and the left hand side of the tire was a lot more worn and in a worse state than the right and i\'m no straight line lover so just thought it was me acting the goat going up the gorge at Cheddar but that might have summut to do with it maybe. I always thought it was a 'get out of jail free' card produced by the tyre manufacturers and \i sold them for years at City etc etc...

I'll check em out on the site mate.

Pm sent by the way....

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