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I have high hopes for BSA, their models have the right look and with the resources of Mahindra behind them will have no cash flow problems. Considering the success of Royal Enfield and the competitive nature of Indian corporate philosophy, BSA should become a viable marque and handsome motorcycles.

Did you watch the video? The car on the front is only their test mule.

Ha... I see the sails on the horizon, my ship is coming in Oh wait, it's the Flying Dutchman. I expect to see one locally in 2025.

Back about '99 I got to tune and test drive a kitted '53 XK 120 with the triple Weber carburetors. I put about a hundred miles on it, and would have liked to put a hundred thousand. The only car I've ever driven that was a more rapt experience was a '72 Ferarri Dino GT.

What it could'a, should'a, been without the forerunners of the green weenies stepping on it's neck. This with a 6 speed TT sequential gearbox, blackout coating, Heads-up FLIR and active LIDAR jamming.

There's a current thread about stalling, with electrical schematics posted in it. I'd start by checking all fuses, order up a can of Caig DeOxit from Amazon because you'll need it. It appears that the electrical path is Battery-> fuse-> ignition switch-> neutral lamp-> neutral switch.

You knew Jaguar was purchased by Ford Motor Company back in 1991, right?

Be sure to lube the tip, feeler, and arm before you feel 'er gauge.

I am as appreciative of perfected high technology, over-engineering, as I am of simplicity. These things are beautiful and ridiculous. I would love to have them, but hardly anyone else would see them and I'm certain that having that Italian beauty make me a moka Cuban would suffice.

So between the grinder and personal espresso machine, I'm $10,000 in? That's insanity. I suppose if my income had 2 more zeros, I'd probably go insane. And hire a live-in Italian baristina to operate it for me.

That was kinda my point, the pleasure is not in utility. Sometimes, pleasure is in overcoming shortcomings. I don't know if you're familiar with the American Amish; Christian fundamentalists who to lesser or greater degree, depending on their sect, reject technology. To wit, John Deere manufactured steel tractor tires until about 1985 to accommodate the Amish. Many still use horses, build magnificent barns with A-frames and ropes, run sawmills with overhead belts a century old. The Conundrum comes when asking, 'how can you have a modern tractor but insist it have tires given up as inefficient before 1940? How can you use a hay baler with a gas engine mounted on it, but not one that uses the tractor PTO? None of it made sense until an old Amish man told me, 'it's not about rejecting or accepting technology. It's about never doing it the easiest way; the easy way is a road that leads to fast results and low quality, in product and life'. There's a fundamental truth to that, that in my mind extends to such simple things an making coffee.

Says who? Daily driver, no. But the modern world has options. My autistic tendency is to routine and hyperfocus. When I had a drip coffee maker, I couldn't actually focus on anything else because, well, that job wasn't finished yet. I've never been what others call a multitasker. So, since the coffee machine will be in view 100% of the time but only in use at most once a day, I may go for form over function. A brass press and a ceramic grinder would please me every time I saw them. I'll never be without a Moka pot, and those who know me understand that I'm not an entertainer, so making more than 2 cups at a time isn't mandatory.

Right? Then, there's this gray area of capability; that of the motorcycle, and that of *me*. If the motorcycle is easy to go very fast on, and doesn't have any bad habits before it gets to the end of *my* capability, that can be a recipe for trouble. I'd absolutely love to have a hypermotard bike, but I probably never will because the temptation is very high to do things I probably never should have, and probably haven't been able to for decades. Truly, my next purchase is probably a good used trials bike. Great fun, slowly.

Must also test hot. Mine was good cold, but failed open at about 150º.

The thing that strikes me about this video, and so many others, is that the notion of 100 horsepower being something less than fast, is ridiculous to the point of being absurd. My '87 Suzuki GSXR 750 had probably 90 horsepower, and ridden to it's limit *on track* was terrifying. So the remaining 110 horsepower of todays superbikes is simply wishful thinking and posturing under the pants-covered ego of anyone riding them on public roads. It's not so much about downsizing your bike, it's about downsizing your presentation and focusing on your personal reward from riding. My Aermacchi 350, at ...um... maybe 35 horsepower, is the most fun to ride in my entire garage. No, it won't go cross-country comfortably. No, it won't handle 90mph sweepers like a locomotive. (yet) No, it won't power wheelie, it has no brakes, and no, it isn't reliable enough that I take it any farther than I want to Uber back to my motorcycle trailer. (Yet) But it is the most smiles per mile, because it *never* cuts into my fun by being too heavy, or too thirsty, or too pretty with impossible to find parts to worry about crashing off of it. This is why it's on my keepers list. There's a huge fun reward in driving a motorcycle to it's limits, and when those limits are attainable (and exceedable, be careful) on public roads without breaking many if any laws those rewards come with little or no consequences.

There are clues in the improvement after removing the side stand switch; that it went 1000 miles but returned to failure, and the low measured voltage, says that the sss circuit has some failure back to the source. Something common to the sss and the ECU/fuel pump has a poor connection, most likely. Everything on the bike is either 12v or 5v, if it has any low-voltage engine sensors. The sss is 12v and there is no way it can see less unless you have a circuit failure upstream. Run switch, ignition switch, relay, fuse holder, battery terminal. The easiest way to identify the failure is to measure voltage across each connection until you find the one that has 12v on the battery side and 7.5 (or whatever less, .5v is maximum allowable drop) and the drops can stack across multiple connections. A secondary possibility, and easier to test, is that the sss circuit is shorted to ground, pinched somewhere so contact is light, intermittent or increased by heat and vibration. Again, testing voltage at the sss point and the source point of that wire will guide you.

Well, not actually...*looking*... just sayin'. If'n.

Reminds me that if I come across a nice Bultaco Streaker or Metralla GTS, I'd have it.

Anybody who rode a SX650 for more than a couple seasons is probably the right guy to own a V11. For a lot of reasons...no wait, for *all* the reasons.

I've been looking for a very nice vintage coffee grinder for a *long* time. The only ones that aren't rodent-infested nesting boxes are the huge ones that came from some General Store. I suppose few people outside the New England area had the wherewithal to own a nice one. Bialetti Stainless is the best, though I have one I bought in Uruguay that's ceramic coated inside and out I like best- but my son pilfered it because it's smaller than a 2 cup Bialetti but uses as much coffee. It travels well.

Definitely not LeMans, the 5 speed trans has the shifter 90* to that one. The brake side is interesting, made for a shaft so I'd say it's for something with mechanical rear brake- could be literally any japanese or british bike up to the 80's, maybe somebody can ID the peg mounting to get a fit. ....Aaaaaand they'd look really nice on my Aermacchi.

I'd go in with a lowball offer, maybe $3k Canadian. What can they say but no? After 2 years, and it's a towing company so they got it for nothing beyond the paperwork to recover the title- they're not invested. Cash is King. At $3k, I'd jump on it quick. At $4k, it's probably a pretty good price, if it doesn't need every single rubber bit replaced and every electrical connection made secure. Which it does, certainly. Pretty.