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The only unhappy people I have ever encountered on V11 did not keep them long . . .

Nice! you know your references.. There used to be so-called "gentlemen robbers", who did it in style without any harm to anyone. Those days seem to be long gone. When I look around, I can't help but think that our society has lost a lot of the values we got hammered with at school. I remember that we had "Civic tuition", and were taught how to be courteous with everybody else. I get the feeling there should be more people learning about the healing and peace you get from riding a V11... Lots of unhappy people around!

I might have been taking the piss there just a little bit. Baklava is pretty close to my favourite accompaniment to a cup of coffee.

I wondered who might wade into these similar words . . . Balaclava is the face covering named for the appearance of Crimean War helmets at the Battle of Balaclava, the site of present day Yalta in the Ukraine on the Black Sea. Baklava being a Middle Eastern sweet pastry. Robbing banks with baklava is sure to make friends!

I should have just said neck scarf but Balaclava sounds more manly

Yeah..195-200mph down the straights and then knee to knee into the corner....I agree..We can't imagine...thats 60 miles per hour faster than I have ever ridden a bike, and that was for 5 minutes here and there on the straights..not for an hour on..straights/corners and drop off hills with a bloke on my ass.

I suspect, although I haven't checked, that rather than the brake light still not working it is actually permanently on. I broke a spade connector off the original and fitted the new one which had arrived the day after the issues started, initially after I broke the connector the brake light still worked off the foot brake, then nothing during the issue. Now I, thinking about it, I suspect I've managed to fit the microswitch with the plunged wedged in the light on position. I'll check it out later. All was good when I went for a 40 mile spin yesterday, briefly had no neutral light, other than that it was fine.

If the front brake hand lever does not light the brake light, does the rear brake foot lever?

One way to look at it; Jorge Martin is the second loser; said that he suffered a lot from chattering and vibrations, something he has been complaining a lot from the get-go... MM93 is fourth in the championship, minus 10. Looking at the Honda disaster, he can only be happy about his move.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this thinking. Simply include coffee as @audiomick suggests!

Ha ha We call them neck socks down here. Cheers

I don't think it was properly adjusted. Throttle seems fine now. It worked before I removed the idle lever thing when I put new grips on last year.

I read that the Marquez brothers were training together all the time, and were very close during race days. I have known brothers that weren't very friendly, so maybe the exception that confirms the rule.

Jorge Martin has shown the field: -"de quel bois il se chauffe"; which literal translation reads: "he has shown the kind of wood he uses to get warm". English translation is: -"what he is made of"

This’ll put a little more flesh on those fossilised bones… ⛽️ 🏍️

Balaclavas taste great, and baklavas make you look like you're about to rob a bank. I think....

Did you check both filaments with a multi-meter? I've had a number of bulbs for various lights that looked fine, but weren't.

Is Marc Marquez going to make his first podium at Portimao this week-end? He seems to be going pretty well, on his second GP. If it does not get on top, he will not be far.

Here's something interesting. I was talking to my SIL's father a few months ago about this. He's a retired physicist thats spent a good deal of his career in the oil industry. Our long held beliefs and education of the origins of oil are quite possibly flawed. In the history of all forms of drilling for exploration nobody has ever found fossilised material below a drilling depth of 16,000 feet. So thats the maximum depth ever recorded for buried originally organic material, material that may under the correct conditions be turned into a hydrocarbon or crude oil. So why then is a large percentage of our oil derived from wells between 28 and 32,000 feet? This may be the answer and means that oil reserves are instead of being a finite resource are more like a continuing by product of the earths naturally occurring geological conditions. So oil is the product of dead forests under the influence of pressure and heat? Quite possibly not as it turns out. Saturn's larges moon Titan has also been speculated to have vast subsurface deposits of crude oil by both NASA and the European space agency after reviewing probe information. There's never been forests on Titan as the surface is a sea of Methane. https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/41889 As for the death of ICE vehicles, don't worry it ain't going to happen in my lifetime. Phil

The push for this agenda gains momentum every year. The push-back will continue as well thankfully. 2030 was originally 2021. Watching how various nations have recently reacted to real world energy needs gives me hope that the ICE (and coal, LNG, oil) will continue for many more years, until alternatives that actually work can overtake and replace them. "pleasure" vehicles, like most motorcycles, will be an easy target when these bans get traction.

Good thing the man is not inclined towards conspiracy theories.