Firstly I may be celebrating to early
Tonight after riding about 25 miles at about 65 mph I lost most of my oil out of the engine breather. But at least it never smoked lol.
These are the pistons I used and they are from TMS Nottingham
http://www.tms-motorcycles.co.uk/store/products/popup/?imgversionid=3&itemid=1685Just to answer a few other questions in the last couple of posts.
I had the bores resleeved and bored to +20 imperial purely because I had a set of pistons that size.
The new pistons were metric which meant the bores needed to be 70.5 (I think).
What I did was take the barrels, the old pistons and the new pistons to the guy who done the rebore. He measured it in front of me and everything was great. He tried the rings, gapped perfectly as I already knew and told me there did not seem to be any reason for it to smoke.
He honed the bores for the new pistons while I stood there as the difference apparently is miniscule.
I put it together, smoking stopped, oil stopped pumping out of the breather and my world was complete for about 2 days. I deliberately put a pipe on the breather and threaded it thru to the top of the gearbox my side so that I could monitor it easily temporarily of course.
Drove to work this morning about 15 miles, no smoke, no oil loss and averaged about 65 mph as its all motorway.
Drove home via a friends house so it was about 40 miles (same average speed about 65 ish) and got home to an extremely oil covered right leg and an empty oil tank
I so hate motorbikes at this moment in time