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So.... Samantha is playing the same type of Guitar as Angus. Must be good. I don't want a pickle either. I saw Ian Dury in Melbourne when that song was current. The man is brilliant. 'Nuff said.

Yeah, that's not just Melbourne, mate. I reckon it has got to do with the (a)social media and stuff. I'm good, and the rest of you are losers if you aren't good too.

Mate, what are you like....

Definitely. One can see him playing what one hears, and there a a couple of slight mistakes. It is real.

Tourists. Firstly, I grew up a bit over a mile east of the dot. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3167694079#map=12/-35.9438/145.6857 The river that Cobram, the nearest town, is on is a very popular tourist destination. The gag is, the river forms lovely sand beaches on the inside of the curves. Even 50 years ago, when I was still a kid, the beaches were wall to wall caravans during the summer. We locals were slightly irritated by the tourist, but knew that they brought money into the town. Moving to Germany, I have been here about 8 times, I think: https://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/tourist/index.htm The first time in 1994 or so. At that time, the ticket kiosk was in the gates of the castle. Some time later, the ticket booth was a hundred metres below the castle on the path up. The last couple of times it was down in the village below. Fair enough, the way up is hard work, and one doesn't want people going up only to find out the can't get in for the next two hours, or even not at all. The last three or four times I was there, the tour groups don't even go in until they are full, about 50 people. The trick is to hang back a bit, and try and be the last one out of each room, and then you get to see it almost empty. That works, but a "shepherd" follows each group through, so you can't overdo it. It seems like they are more and more wanting people to book on-line before the even go there. I have been to this museum 5 or 6 times, I think https://gruenes-gewoelbe.skd.museum/en/visit/ There, you can't get in without a ticket you have booked on-line. You get a time slot, and have to front up at the right time to get in. I'm fine with the systems at both of those places. It is obvious that if they didn't take such measures, you simply wouldn't be able to move inside, and would never really get to see what you came to look at. I think that it becomes unavoidable to take measure to limit access. Another example: cruise ships stopping in the lagoon at Venice. That just has to stop. Saint Marco Square is really lovely (saw it in 1994 or so on the same trip that took me to Neuschwanstein the first time...), and parking a cruise ship in front of it is just wrong.

Or it has got wet and emulsified the water.

134,000 miles, didn't you say? Some things don't heal themselves... If it gets urgent, I've got a brand new set of valves, and my motor has "only" (according to the speedo) got 65,000 km on it.

I don't think I ever used one, but yes, I know what that is. Those were the days....

Yep. Not so much the sound altering "something", but the bean bags and LPs for sure.

A few minutes ago, I caught myself groaning about the slow W-LAN ( I think that is called Wi-Fi in many places outside of Gemany...) where I am right now. That got me thinking about where the "state of the art" was 20 years ago. If I remember rightly, I did have a wireless LAN at home 20 years ago, but the internet access was still via an ISDN Modem. Go back 20 years, mobile phones were not a matter of course, and could only make phone calls. Back anotherr 20 years, CD was a brand new, exciting, and revolutionary audio format. 20 years before that I can't remember, as I was only just born, but I can remember cars from that period, for instance. And I know that there was no TV in my home when I came home from the hospital as a new born. I think there was a phone, but it had a cord. The car had a push-rod motor, and cross-ply tyres. The world has really changed, hasn't it? Why the W-LAN got me on to this train of thought? I'm on a train from Hamburg to Munich (and it's the middle of the night, I'm bored and I should actually be trying to sleep...), using the free on-board W-LAN. On a train.Once again: free on-board W-LAN on a train. Wonders never cease, and it never ceases to wonder how quickly one becomes accustomed to the wonder. And impatient when it doesn't work as well as one might wish.

Great song. I actually have a copy of that album on vinyl, I believe. Not 100% sure, because if I do have it, it has been in a box in my sister's garage in Canberra, Australia since the beginning of 1996. When I came here to Germany, I left my records at her place. I intended to have them sent on, or collect them myself, of something. It hasn't happened yet, and that album is amongst them.

He was no doubt in a hurry to get the race over and done with quickly because his finger was hurting.

Beryl no doubt being a hurricane. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you all...

Yes, we are talking about the same thing. The first time I noticed it was getting off a plane in Brisbane. We had flown from Melbourne, and in those days one exited the plane direct into open air. It felt like getting hit in the face with a warm, damp cloth.

Yes, absolutely. I fortunately got one of those with the bike when I bought it. This is the article in question: http://www.casperselectronics.com/cart/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=853

Take one for a test ride, I reckon. From what I've read, the Stelvio is good, maybe in some points better than the Mandello, maybe not. The size of the rider seems to play a part in preference. Take one for a longer test ride. Go there on the Mandello. Then you have the direct comparison, and maybe a better idea what suits you better. Or keep the Mandello and add a Stelvio...

Hi Tony. I reckon you're measuring something incorrectly. In case you don't have one, I think the wiring diagram on page 364 of this PDF should match your 2000 model. https://guzzitek.org/gb/ma_us_uk/1100/V11_1999-2003_Atelier(Compil-GB-D-NL).pdf Anyway, there are three contacts on the TPS. Two of them are across the complete resistance of the TPS, and you should see very close to 5 V. between them. The third contact is the slider that delivers a "split the difference" voltage depending on where it is along the resistance. When it is at the closed end, you should see said 157 mv between it and one of the other contacts. Between it and the contact at the "full open" end of the resistance, you should see nearly the full 5 V when the slider is in the "fully closed" position (spilt the difference, 5V - 157 mv...). If you are only seeing 2 to 4 mV, and that also with a new TPS, I strongly suspect that you are not getting a good measurement, maybe not making contact with the probes or something. How are you measuring (making the contacts)? Have you got a breakout to do the measurement, or are you sticking pins down the side of the plug, or how?

Some things you can't say often enough.

Yes. My navigation device (Garmin Zumo XT) is sluggish showing changes in speed, but absolutely accurate if you hold a speed for a while. That allows one to "calibrate" the speedo, i.e. know what speed is really being held when the speedo is showing a particular speed. Helps a real lot. And the Garmin tells me where I am going, is waterproof, and solid enough to have survived falling off the roof of the car after my girlfriend forgot it there and drove off with it on the roof. It was in a textile pouch, without padding, and came away without even a scratch.

Not quite. When the air is very humid, your sweat does not evaporate as quickly, and therefore your sweating cannot cool you as effectively as in drier conditions.

Not jealous. No, really, I'm not. I'm sharing about 30 qm. with three other blokes. One of them is always doing something to one or two of his three bikes. The only power in there is photovoltaic, and it is a bit damp. So I'm not jealous at all of your 78 qm. air-conditioned garage. Not a bit. Well, maybe just a tiny bit...

Because brake fluid is hygroscopic, so you have to assume that an opened container of brake fluid has taken up too much water after about six weeks. No, I haven't tested that, but that is what I have been told by several professionals who earn their money by knowing about such things.

I searched "St. Vitus Dance" and found a couple of posts from docc. https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/topic/23020-speedoodo-replacement/#comment-263381 https://www.v11lemans.com/forums/topic/22169-v-11-sport-veglia-speedo-needle-bounce/#comment-255352 Perhaps not exactly what you meant, but they seem to lead to information on the typical causes of the wobble in the speedo.

Yeah, that is pretty much exactly what I saw the mechanic using in the workshop. Thanks for the link. At that price, I might even buy one myself. PS: a different mechanic recommended "saturated silicon" tubing for brake bleeding. I got some, and I reckon he was dead right. The stuff is very flexible. When using the "pump-open-close" method, i.e. no valve in the line, the tip is to use a couple of yards of it, enough to go from the brakes up to the top of the frame/handlebars, and back down to a catch can on the floor, and hang it up in the middle on the handlebars or rear blinker of something as appropriate. Why so long? Firstly, the length allows the hose to twist enough to easily accomodate the turning of the nipple as it is cracked and closed. Secondly, the long way up allows you to very easily see if there are bubbles in the fluid or not. After swearing and sweating for years, that tip turned the job into something do-able. I still don't like doing it, but with those hoses it is almost bearable. The "saturated silicon" hoses I bought are now about 15 years old. I think I rinsed them out every time I used them, but am not sure. Anyway, they've had brake fluid through them a number of times, and are still transparent (slightly milky, as they were when they were new...) and soft and flexible.

This would seem to be the leading brand of the bleeder replacement type here: https://www.stahlbus.de/index.php?language=en I've read about blokes putting them in time and time again, and they all seemed to be well pleased with them. Personally, I would prefer the solution that I saw in the workshop that I go to when I need help. The mechanic there uses an in-line valve downstream of the bleeder, i.e. hose on the bleeder like conventional "pump-open-close" bleeding, but there is a valve in the hose, so you just have to open the bleeder and keep pumping until the air is out. As has been mentioned, all you have to do is make sure to keep enough fluid in the reservoir to stop it sucking air in. The other thing that I picked up from watching him was to remove most of the fluid from the reservoir with a syringe before you start. That means you don't have to pump as much old fluid through the system before the new stuff comes through. Having said all that, I prefer to have mine done in the workshop. I hate doing it, and one always has some brake fluid left over that you can't store for more than about 6 weeks and that has to be disposed of properly. I'm happy to pay someone to do it for me.