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How many miles, you suppose? I have never found a dealer who's tech would take the time to be absolutely meticulous with the various tune-up parameters. Of course, YMMV . . . Otherwise, make a careful inspection of the intakes and vacuum taps to be certain something didn't come off (like a vacuum cap).

I am able to read the writing on the stone when I zoom in. For those who can't for whatever reason, here is what it says:

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And on the anchor's plinth: ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY

Valve clearances are too tight. Check and set them at 4 & 6 thou inlet and exhaust. Tech probably set them to 2 & 4.

it hasn't been a ton of miles since October. Maybe 1000 ...

As long as the bike WAS/IS running fine, except for the idle.. there are a lot of common possibilities that at least from what I've read so far, you have not addressed. In no particular order. Fuel (different octane, different brand,etc) Ambient temp, humidity. Anything out of the "norm" since you last rode Air Filters !!!!! Fuel Filters !!! (not as likely) The throttle cable itself. (this is tricky, but if it's fairly new... or really old, they can stretch that little weee bit. There is an idle set, that may just need a pinch higher idle. What is your normal idle RPM ? Air leaks.. (go around with a torque wrench, and check everything that air passes thru. Intake, exhaust, crossover, In fact. If you have the torque wrench out, hit everything that has a bolt or nut. You'll be surprised, with the amount of torque we get from two cans, it can sure rattle stuff loose.

It's the anchor from the USS Oklahoma, sunk at Pearl Harbor. You might be able to read some of it on the monument next to the anchor. Edit: I see that it was discussed above.

PM sent. I would love to buy this setup for my V11.

Ha ha I did indeed mate...! Still got a wee glow on. Cheers

That's going to depend on the entire process. Given that we'll run these on idle machinery, the internal cost is pretty cheap. Can't give any numbers until the first piece comes off the mill.

G'day folk's Well I finally managed to get a ride in and properly try these new settings! Friday had the day off to take Dad to a meeting so the plan was to ride to Dad's and brother would drive the three of us to the meeting. The weather forecast for Friday was going to be 7 degrees and a sunny high of 13 but no wind or rain...you beauty! Of course it was nothing like that come 5.30am Friday, the scenario for Friday is now Saturdays forecast! Bugger it I've been hanging out to get a ride in for over a week now so sod it and into my wets and off we go. The rain has eased but roads are soaking (here goes my nice clean bike too!) so gassed up and we hit the twisty bits Drouin to Lang Lang.Bloody hell this feels good.I know I didn't get much of a chance to try the settings as before but having gone with Guzzimoto's suggestion and winding settings all the way in ( closed ) and counting back from there to get a true setting of +3 C and +9 R ( as opposed to counting back from full open ) I reckon it has made a difference! By this stage we're in the higher part of the road and it's now raining quite hard in bursts and there's a bit of muck from the various farms that face the road, but I notice more FEEL from the front which made light of the conditions! Ha ha I reckon I rode it a bit harder than I would normally do in the wet too. Interesting and looking forward to the ride home later. So the sun's out @ 1pm but it's drizzling at times by the coast ( at least no sign of the predicted hail ) and the Lang Lang to Drouin road is damp this time round as opposed to soaking as per ride in. I was going to behave but when fate tempts you with an open and clear road with no traffic on it what's a bloke to do....? Ha ha this road has a bit of everything open sweepers and some slightly tighter ones on leaving Lang Lang and the coastal flats then it tightens up as you climb into the tail end of the ranges ( about 200-250 metres altitude ) and run along up and down round and round before coming into Drouin.All up about 40 kays of fun but the road is tricky due to conditions in parts ie Road subsidence /overbanding/ potholes and on one climb, dips which have the bike airborne on two occasions.At the 100k speed limit it's actually fun but anything more and you need to pay attention so it's a VERY GOOD test for your suspension! I'm impressed at how much more feel I now have from the front end and will leave it at these settings for a while longer and ride more and on other roads to evaluate further. This road throws up some big hits and the old girl never deflected and when landing from airborne never bottomed and landed straight and true so I reckon I'm nearly there. I may try C4 R12 at some stage just to see how it goes.... But I'm thinking that maybe any further adjustments may have to come via shim stack for high speed compression on next suspension service?Then again this road would please the moto cross fans in the audience so we'll leave it be for a bit. Really looking forward to my next ride! Cheers Guzzler.

Anything for the bikes . Cheers Tom.

I started a conversion to Speedhut gauges but never completed it. So, the gauges and other bits are for sale at a discount. Before I did any work on my bike I partially staged the installation by buying a new intrument holder (lower plastic portion) from Harpers and the metal portion (that attaches to the triple clamp) from Ebay. I fabticated brackets based from other members comments in this string. Everything you need including a plug for the crankcase where the speedo cable came out to do the conversion is here. The speedometer is the GPS version and is set to 20,000 miles. The metal portion of the intrument holder has a slight bend - use the one from your machine. Cost is $200. Call Dave 973 632-2237

Problem solved, I had reconnected bullets earlier, bad mistake. I cut wires and put in a different connector and all seems good. Grateful for this board, I love this motorcycle but without you guys helping I think I would have pushed it off a bridge by now.