Hmm time to change the FD bearing on my 1100 I knew it was due to be done and when it was away at mikeyboy s getting the gearbox done he mentioned it was sounding/feeling rough..took the FD off last nite but couldn't remove bearing as I couldn't find my thicker cold chisel to work its way up to remove bearing..so it's going to a mates later today n hopefully he'll pull it off an fit the new one on with hydraulic press ,may as well do the tapered one too as it is a bit loose ..no doubt I'll have to get a loan of his internal bearing race puller ..then I'll attempt to measure the shimming as I read they're too tightly shimmed at factory ...once that's done it should last hopefully more than the 20,000 miles that I seem to be replacing them at ...