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....."In Australia, particularly in Melbourne, in my experience, if you go into a cafe and get a coffee, you have to be really unlucky to get a coffee that is not at least pretty good." Same in New Zealand.... coffee is outstanding... Starbucks open up and then have to close becuase its crap compared to the local cafes.

Gentlemen, thanks for the numerous replies. A cartridge set is on its way, I'll post an update once the set is installed. Cheers Meinolf

No OTR truck drivers in this bunch.....

The thing people forget with dissimilar metal use is there needs to be some form of electrolyte between the 2 for any issue to arise. Putting dissimilar materials together in a benign environment isn't an issue but in a salt air or salt water laden environment then you can have problems. Phil

Absolutely recommend Lolo Pass. Especially between Lewiston and Missoula. Awesome piece of road. Did it on my Ducati StreetFighter a few years ago at speed. One of the best rides of my life.

Not long ago, I stood by while my two boys debated the priorities of making the perfect coffee. The connoisseur declared that a fresh roasting (within days) of quality beans is paramount. The chemist-son argued that the extraction time and temperature were the foremost factor. While they never could agree, I can say I have never had better coffee when either of them made me a cup. All of the coffee-making parameters remind me of The Decent Tune-up . There is really no one aspect "most important" - it is an orchestration. All elements must be present to achieve the outcome.

Not disappointed at all I'm aware of this and buy a lot of stuff that's made in China, pretty hard not to these days. The thing to bare in mind though is that at least large "known" brands have the buying power and leverage with the manufacturer to ensure high quality and sometimes I suspect better materials. There is also the question of quality grading. I have bought identical machinery tooling and accessories like rotary tables etc from a particular retailer and the exact same part from the exact same factory from other independent sources a few times now and the part from the original large retailer is always slightly better quality, fit and finish. I suspect they have the buying power to make the manufacturer send them the first quality items only and the lesser outlets get the second grade stuff. Phil

As far as sound goes, A V11 with titaniums is the finest sounding motorbike in the world. Case closed. I had a serious case of seller's remorse listening to Rosie leaving the driveway.

My Griso makes a wonderful racket when I ‘Give it the berries’! Thing is it’s wonderful for me. The intake honk and exhaust note are just fine, and I ride with earplugs in every single ride because I’m half deaf from a youth of working on noisy motorbikes because everybody knew that noise=power! Really, pipe noise is simply a way of pissing other people off. They don’t want to hear your f*cking noisy motorbike! Now there are some machines that sound sublime, even if un-muffled. A V11 or Honda VTR with a full set of Staintunes are a couple of examples, but even then their use should be considered. Gunning it away from the lights in a built up area is, simply, antisocial. Any of the CARC bikes with a 2 into 1 system sound like shit anyway, the 8V’s particularly, if they are unmuffled, to the general public. Why piss people off? Especially as it will do absolutely nothing in terms of increasing performance??!!

In my continuing journey to improve my machining skills I decided to make replacement Titanium bolts and washers that mount the rear bevel box torque arm bracket to the bevel box. One bolt and two washers done one bolt to go. I've also got enough Ti stock to make a replacement bevel box torque arm bolt as well. Phil

This would show something, surely. It's not impossible that there's a wiring fault in the harness somewhere, let's say for instance the sensor return-to-ecu wire is grounded; since the ecu is looking for input and output to compare, if the return is grounded it sees output with zero return input, which might be interpreted as below zero temps or something. This is a search and destroy diagnosis, and software visibility would surely save a lot of fingerwork.

I've used a lot of aluminium fasteners in aluminium cases without anti-seize and never had an issue. It's what I used before Titanium became affordable. They were anodised 7000 series though. A steel shaft in a bronze bushing is a bearing situation not a galling situation we are talking about here. In Ducati oil pumps the driven steel gear rotates on a ground steel post without any galling. Phil

I am very happy with my Termignoni & Beetle map

I had one. Close second place.

Dissimilar metals are the least likely to gall. Think steel shaft/bronze bushing.. Similar metals such as aluminum cannot be threaded together dry . I KNOW .

Well, Docc is. Was. At least once, in an act of desperation.

Yeah, we throw people outta here every day for making fun comments about the sound of lovely motorcycles . . .

At a risk of getting thrown outta here, I would like to say a pair of Contis on Ducati bevel might be on par with that.

Bialetti: yes, the best option after a really expensive "proper make it by hand" espresso machine. I don't have an established "house brand". I quite like to try different sorts. As far as the Australian "coffee culture" goes: Germany is a country in which rather a lot of coffee is consumed. I have seen threads on German forums that get very intense about which beans, how to grind it, what temperature, and so on. Despite all of that, if you go into a cafe here in Germany and get really lucky, you might get a good coffee. But you probably wont. In Australia, particularly in Melbourne, in my experience, if you go into a cafe and get a coffee, you have to be really unlucky to get a coffee that is not at least pretty good.

Including what it does to your ears. But to be fair, how loud a helmet is does depend to an extent on the seating position of the bike in question, and whether it has a fairing, and if so, how high. And how tall the rider is. And so on. So it is a bit difficult for a helmet manufacturer to make a helmet that is definitely quiet under all foreseeable conditions. Having said that, good helmets tend, in my experience, to be quieter. For "good", read "expensive".

Black 40mm Marzocchi forks without a separate axle nut ( the axle threads into the l/h fork leg) then yes they will fit. They will not fit the early silver 40mm forks because the fork bracket is different internally and the later black 43mm forks because the fork cap thread pitch and Diameter is different. Phil

I put a zip tie on my right fork and after commuting to work and home again, ~ 50 miles, its about 42 mm from the bottom. Both still feel dry.

My Griso 1100 has a right side exit pipe from GuzziTech in stainless steel. It is well made, looks great, and sounds great. The stock muffler works well enough but the one I have from GuzziTech is better in every way. I get that pipes that are too loud suck. But a pipe that is louder then stock but not too loud can be a good thing. There is a clear difference between a two into two setup like the V11 runs and a two into one setup like the Griso and other newer big bore Guzzi's use. I would not say one is better than the other (although clearly Chuck would) but I will say I prefer the more aggressive sound you get with the two into one setup. It makes more of a snarl sound versus the rumble that the two into two on the V11 makes. The same was true of my Buell X1, it had a 1200 Sportster motor but sounded nothing like a typical Sportster. The X1 ran a two into one pipe that gave it a snarl a Sportster did not have with the standard Sportster two into two setup. Our V65 Lario has stock pipes but a slightly opened airbox. The wife's Monster has stock pipes, and it really needs aftermarket pipes. But we will probably sell it first as she doesn't ride it enough. Our baby Husqvarna 401's have stock mufflers but an aftermarket down pipe that deletes the cat. Slightly louder then stock but a little better performance. My Daytona has StainTunes. And the wife's V11 has the Guzzi / Mistral slip-ons.

Thinking more about @thumper's stumble, it seems GuzziDiag is a great way to watch sensor values as the bike warms up. It would be telling if one of the sensor outputs suddenly goes open at operating temperature . . .

I decided to fine tune the fuel mapping on the Daytona engine. The bike ran very nicely but at town speeds the initial crack of the throttle needed some refinement. It didn't jerk around or anything like that but I could here from the exhaust it wasn't perfectly clean although as I said it didn't present any rideability issues. I'm being super fussy here but I also now have access to original .bin files for the Daytona and Centy engines and my original map was quite a bit different so I decided to make up 5 new maps and load them and evaluate by the old seat of the pants methodology. Once I got to the second of my new maps I stopped there because the bike was running as close to perfect as you could ever want. Anyway here are the Delta main and offset maps to show the differences between my original maps and the new map I came up with and decided to stick with.

Noisy pipe doesn't make it faster. Less said about the 'Tune' the better. Snake oil salesmen gotta sell snake oil....

Hello. Yes, the audio is truly abysmal. Not just the wind noise, it also just sounds really weird.

Hey guys I have been here fore 20 years just looking fore a little help. Dont need or want to be picked apart phil keep your sarcasm to your self PLEASE.

It's the sensor. Why would you chose the ECU ( the expensive bit) over the cheap less reliable component? As the engine warms up the trim reduces to zero at 90 deg C and then goes negative the hotter it gets after that. I think if you disconnect the sensor the ecu goes to a default temp setting. Phil

I'm riding from El Paso to Fairbanks in July on the BMW... won't have much time for maintenance on the yellow missile, I guess I'll just wipe it's ass again this year lol

A big welcome, @WildRover1916! Yours is the kind of inspirational story that deserves its own thread, IMO . . . (If your up for it, I'll start it with these posts. You can ask me to edit the title to your liking later.)