Sales of goods is all well and good when the guy who tell's you the bike is "all good" is the bloke who sold it to you.....
But in this case, it was an independant mechanic/bike shop that simply didn't do their job properly.
the bloke who sold it to me said nothing about the bike being in a particular state of repair - he simply said that for the time he owned it he'd never had a problem....ofcoarse that doesn't actually mean anything.
As for going to the 'small claims' etc etc, I can actually do more 'damage' to the shop by telling everyone in Wagga how f'ing bad they are, and how they missed what turned out to be fairly obvious problems, had the actually bothered to put the bike on a stand and actually look at it.
The KLR is now with another dealer that I trust slightly more - they've never actually f**ked up on a service, they have taken their sweet time about it, but never actually pharked up.