audiomick

or should that have been in "what are you listening to"?

And another thing. I haven't had the problem yet, but when I bought my Le Mans I was advised by a very, very well informed acquaintance to get in, amongst other things, a spare timing cover gasket. In his opinion, which I trust implicitly, the gasket is prone to developing a leak. I haven't actually seen anything to that effect here, but perhaps other members could comment. As far as localising the leak goes, clean everything up impeccably. Go for a bit of a ride, and then dust the suspect areas with talcum powder (scented or not doesn't make a difference...). That tends to make a frightful mess, but shows up even very small leaks very well, and helps a lot in seeing where the oil is really coming from.

Apart from anything else that it might be, be aware of the breather hose that runs from the frame behind the steering head to the top of the motor just in front of the gearbox. This is the hose part #18 on the parts diagramm https://wendelmotorraeder.de/oelpumpe-v11-nakedle-manns-01-02-ex-30_3006_300602_30060202_3006020230_300602023003.html The hose gets old and hard, and cracks. The cracks seem to generally happen at the first bend away from the ends. When the front goes, it can look like a leak from the front of the motor somewhere. When the back goes, it can look like the rear main seal is gone, i.e. the seal around the output shaft to the clutch. If you have just bought the bike, it is a good idea to have a look at that hose as part of the "getting to know the bike" ritual, even if it isn't the cause of your current leak. It is a part that has to be replaced periodically.

I expect you'll find out sooner or later. But I can't imagine a helmet producer not having thought about that. I expect that the mechanism is more or less water tight. If you really want to know, put the helmet on, and go under the shower.

Different strokes, and all that. I have the audio on my navigation device switched off all the time, in the car and on the bike. I absorb information much better visually than aurally, and having to try and figure out what the machine is telling me is far more distracting that a quick glance at the screen. Unfortunately, tinnitus is not only caused by exposure to loud noise. Mine is most likely to an extent due to noise exposure, but probably not entirely. As far as I know, it is not really understood what all the causes could be, but I believe stress could be a factor, as well as who knows what else. Fortunately I mostly don't notice mine unless I actively think about it, but when I do, it is really loud.

I started writing an answer to that, and then realised that it is probably too late at night for me to formulate my thoughts coherently. Nevertheless, in the course of thinking about it I found this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_vacuum and realised that I had a "turned around" view of what the throttle does. One tends to think that opening the throttle is "urging on" the motor. As the article points out, in fact opening the throttle is more like "releasing the beast". Closing the throttle is not "turning down the fuel", but rather "cutting off the air supply". Without the throttle, the motor (disregarding load) would run at maximun air intake and maxium revs all the time. Introducing the throttle into the equation provides the possibility to choke off the air supply, and keep the motor at idle, or lower than maximum revs. So "intake vacuum" is kind of an indication of how much the motor is being held back by the throttle, and "manifold pressure" is the actual air (or gas, or air/fuel mixture) pressure in the manifold at any given state of throttle opening. I think.

It seems logical to me to state the pressure relative to 0 Bar, as is the norm for pressure measurements generally. You are quite right that the manifold pressure in a normally aspirated engine will be lower than the current ambient atmospheric pressure. However, ambient amtmospheric pressure is far from constant. I am also fairly convinced that the difference in pressure in the manifold compared to ambient atmospheric pressure would vary depending on what the ambient atmospheric pressure currently actually is. Therefore, stating the manifold pressure in relation to the ambient atmospheric pressure would be likely to be rather complicated, and require an accompanying statement of the current atmospheric pressure.

I never doubted that. And being a nerd is not entirely a bad thing, as long as it doesn't get out of hand.

Very interesting. But the bloke is a bit of a nerd, isn't he.

I could live with the polished aluminium. Brushed might be better. Chrome would not work at all. But the original red was very good.

The blinking LEDs remind me of a garbage truck doing its' rounds....

Trio. Now that you mention it, indeed there is. Funny, I've been familiar with that song for at least 15 years, maybe 20, and never noticed that. I'll put that down to good production: little things that the listener doesn't notice, but put the final touches on the finished product.

And since we've mentioned Don Walker

I'll see your flame trees and raise you a choir girl on saturday night. Even more homesick now...

I've got one. I actually never liked them all that much at the time, but they were kind of omnipresent. Having some of their music here helps me not feel so far away from home. And some of the songs really are very good.

It is the bit between the final drive box and the rubber dampers in the rear wheel. Part no. 18 in this diagram https://www.stein-dinse.biz/etkataloge/etkataloge.php?l=de&m=88&t=3973&c=W Here the picture from Stein-Dinse of the drive side and the wheel side I haven't actually read or heard of one of those "breaking", but the teeth can wear if it is run dry too long. It should have some grease on it on the splines on the drive side.

So sew the patch onto your favourite pair of shorts...

Mate, you have got a hold of the wrong end of the stick. There is no policy of "population replacement". What there is, is lots of countries where the people are having a really hard time, harder than we can imagine, and a few countries (i.e. where we live) where life is good. Any wonder people are trying to get from the bad places to the good places. If you can't see that, you need to get out more.

High on the endangered list, unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef#Environmental_threats

Yes, my Le Mans has a number of issues, but I have grown to be quite fond of it.

I doubt it. Red Bull sponsors sportspersons and events to advertise Red Bull. Full stop. They're not likely to be interested in carrying a motorcycle manufacturer along for the ride.

Yes.

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".

Well, sort of. "A" weighting. It refers to a frequency weighting applied to the measurement that reflects the sensitivity of the human ear across the audible frequency spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-weighting