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Well I've got my new tyres now as mentioned last month, and had them fitted by the shop. Can't say that's a job I would like todo with the old tyre levers - hehe shaved knuckles springs to mind.
Here you can see a picture of the front tyre, even though it's a road legal tyre the tread still has a fair bit of spacing between the knobbles.
I also had a heavy duty inner tube fitted at the same time cos mine had a slow puncture :-(
I also brought a new chain and sprockets because the original ones showed signs of wear, I guess they wear out a lot faster on the dirtbikes because of the load they are under due to all the jumps etc.
As you can see above both the sprockets are made by renthal and I've kept the standard gearing They didn't cost as much as I thought they would either :-)
Here you can see the chain, it's made by iRiS and no I've not heard of them either but it was the only "O"-Ring chain they had, the Renthal one didn't have any "O"-Rings. I thought it would be better to go for this one as I won't be cleaning the chain after every run. If it turns out to be no good then I'll change it for a DID or something :-)
I also got some new bolts to hold the sprocket on. I thought as I was changing the sprockets might as well do the bolts for a few extra quid.