I have now made a start and after removing the silencers and raising the bike and inch or two by placing some scrap timber under the centre stand and precariously pulling the bike over to the right I was able to wiggle the back wheel out to the left. This was only after I realised that a bolt that passed through the side of the swing and located the brake plate had to be unscrewed, the picture shows my allen key still protruding from the bolt head, having screwed it back in, on my six year older bike in France, you don't have to do this.
Removing the swing arm, first necessitated a trip to Halfords to buy a substantially bigger socket than anything I had in my kit, 30mm to be precise, then I could unscrew the chrome end caps to the pins, the exposed end of the pins had an allen key socket in the ends, but try as I might I couldn't get a key to fit, 6mm was too small and the 8mm wouldn't fit, until I tapped in an 8mm bit that had a chamfer on it, what a tight fit!. The pins unscrewed easily enough and after a bit of a jiggle the swing arm complete with final drive box was on the floor alongside the bike.
A quick clean up and load it all into the back of the car to transport back home and that was enough for the day.
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