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Seems like a great band, @docc, but I couldn't listen to it. Someone needs to tell the sound guy that the red lights at the top of the level meter shouldn't be on all the time...

Could be, but I seriously doubt that a single year at your place could result in the condition that shaft was in. If the salt air were such a problem, then all of the motorbikes in, for instance, Melbourne and Sydney should be rusting before their lamenting owners eyes, and they aren't. I reckon there must have been neglect for a while before you got the bike.

I know this thread is old enough to be classed as antique, but I just stumble across it, and I did two lots of valve clearances in the last week or so, and thought about what I was doing. So... What I ended up with, which works for me really well (I am right-handed): A ring spanner on the lock-nut on the adjustment screw. Screwdriver in the left hand on the adjustment screw. Feeler gauge in the right hand. Back off the lock nut until the adjustment screw just turns. Rest the ring-spanner on the knuckles of the right hand. If it locks up, you can easily back it off a bit just by raising the hand a bit. Feeler gauge in the gap, and turn the screw back and forth with the screwdriver to find the gap. When you have it, drop the right hand a bit, and the weight of the ring spanner tightens the lock nut a bit automatically. If the last movement of the screwdriver was in the direction of "looser", it has already taken up the play in the screw head slot, and a steady hand should be able to hold it there whilst tightening the lock nut. Feeler gauge out, letting the ring spanner (carefully) fall in the process, and then nip it up tight. I hope that is not too cryptic. I don't have a film of the process...

A lack of any maintenance at all, I would think. Poor motorbike... Edit: I just went looking to see if Molly had recently posted "I just bought a V11 (something or other)". I didn't find that, but what I did find is a number of posts from Molly up until 2010, and then nothing until just recently. So I am inclined to ask @Molly: Is that the same bike as the one that prompted the posts 15 years ago (and has it been standing in a shed in the meantime), or is it one that has just been purchased recently (and has maybe been standing in a shed for the last 15 years anyway) ?

Looks like it was not so much the spline as the shaft itself that was causing grief. Is that the case?

I started a thread on that topic a while back. I found the resulting discussion quite interesting.

And now for something completely different (again ) I became aware of this bloke through a TV documentary. I had never heard of him, and was amazed. Amongst other things, hearing what he did explains why anyone could possibly think hip-hop is ok. They are all trying to do what he did, but can't. Anyway... Gil Scott Heron. Enjoy...

I don't think it is my kind either, going by that advertisment posing as news.

Doesn't look all that good...

I never knew Springsteen wrote that. Just went looking and found out. Still, I prefer what Manfred Mann did with it. While we're at it, this is great, always was and always will be... And since Chris Thomspon is such a legend, this too. Johnny Farmhand got famous (again) with it, but Chris wrote it. And since we've mentioned John Farnham, this was his first hit. I don't know if anyone outside of Australia ever heard of it...

Why not? Piaggio is, to my knowledge, the biggest scooter manufacturer in the world. Why would they buy in an engine in that category, when they undoubtably have one of their own that works perfectly well?

And now for something completely different... We studied this piece at the University. Coltrane is mostly playing arpeggios, which, at 130 bpm, is not really surprising. Interesting is how the pianist launches into his solo, and after a while just gives up and starts playing chords. Shortly afterwards, Coltrane takes over again. EDIT: for anyone who wants to have a go at it... https://musescore.com/user/498481/scores/6680232

That's the point of it all, isn't it? It'd be a bit boring if we all posted the same stuff.

And just for the hell of it, because the topic is apparently currently relevant in Texas: That should be the whole album. If not,maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwCQJcTYWzA&list=PL02pDPRbhcyYrRtZq7YM7jVvpwOVrB8ZG EDIT: PS, I was planning to go to bed shortly. I think that is not going to happen now. Have to listen to what I posted...

So, @docc Rush: there we have it with the Rickenbacker Bass. Fantastic. Spell: I like this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9gMFU7pJfg&list=PL9qljB1kuQtVkJZZrvldNLi-K_Rb-CfYC&index=2 Tom Waits: my favourite, I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPtrqvHGEg

What a gloriously silly game. I wonder how long the motors last. Running pretty much constantly at red-line is generally not conducive to high mileages.

Indeed.

There is something about old farts who have been playing together for years that is quite unique, and really nice. Anyway... Having posted a link to "Made in Japan" (in my opinion probably the best live recording ever) I got to thinking about "best albums". Amongst my favourites, the common factor being a certain David Robert Jones, these two: (not actually my favourite song on the album, but one can hear Mr. Jones singing backing vocals from about 3:40) and one from the man himself and perhaps not one of the "best ever", but certainly worth mention and a product involving the said Mr. Jones But when one is on the subject of "best albums ever", is this one unavoidable, albeit on a completely different track ...

look here: https://guzzitek.org/gb/accueil_gb.htm I think this might be what you are looking for https://guzzitek.org/utilisation/gb/1100/V11_2004_112003_Util.pdf

Very nice, and nice to know that they kept on going. Al Jackson's cousin isn't quite the drummer that Al was. He took about half of the song to get in the groove, I reckon. But maybe it was just a bad moment. What I mean is how, in a really grooving band, not everyone is actually right on the beat. A good example is this: the drummer is just a bit ahead, the bass player is on, and the guitarist is just a tiny bit behind. That is how the magic happens. And as far as Hammond players go, the best ever. And a nice bloke into the bargain, a real Gentleman...

are generally more interested in selling new vehicles than keeping old ones running. Jus' sayin'...

It's your fault, @docc and then I went looking where the song (which I quite liked when it came out, when I was about 13 years old) came from. Following the chain, I inevitably landed here. I've actually got this version on a DVD called "Remebering Otis" which features an Otis Redding concert in Europe, and the backing band were these blokes.

Indeed.

Unaccountably, that reminds me of this...

Someone is already on to that...