Oops!

Whilst doing a bit of tinkering (taking things apart making sure they look ok and putting them back together again) on the bike tonight, I managed to break a cardinal sin of maintenance work - over tightening of bolts. I overtightened a banjo bolt (a hollow bolt with holes drilled in to attach oil lines together) and subsequently it snapped. Thankfully the broken end unscrewed easily from the engine casing otherwise a nightmare would have ensued.

One of the nicest things about the KTM is that it came with a full spare parts manual as standard, meaning that anything can be looked up and an OEM part number found and ordered. Hopefully the bolt is a standard size and I will be able to pick one up tomorrow from a car spares shop. If not I'll order one.

On another note my new toys have arrived. I've done the typical overexcited schoolboy thing of taking the GPS with me everywhere and marvelling at how it knows where I am. The standard mapping, although a worldwide basemap, is a bit pants, and does not support Autorouting. I have managed to find an extremely good website: http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php
which has free routable maps for download. There are also a set of maps made by smellybiker called Wunderlust available to download for $50 which are updated by bikers and are apparently much better and more detailed than the expensive Garmin ones. I shall see how well the free ones do and may invest in the Wunderlust on the move if neccessary.

The GPS has more features than I could ever hope to use - a barometric altimeter, info on the best time to go hunting and fishing, compass, provision for marine navigation, airbourne navigation and even some sort of tool for skydiving with the option for HAHO or HALO jumps - might come in useful some day. One fantastic feature is has is the ability to be powered by a USB lead, meaning that I can use it as much as I like on the bike without fear of running out of AA batteries. I've put a couple of USB rechargeable AA batteries in just in case anyway though.