audiomick

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

"Knock off five and stay alive".

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

Yes, and that is where I grew up and lived until I came here in 1996, and where I spend a good part of my time any time I get back over. As I have already indicated, I like the German Autobahn. In a lot of ways a lot more relaxing than the Hume Freeway, even if you have to contend with impatient bastards coming up from behind 80 km/h faster than you are doing, and you are already doing 170 km/h. Or you are doing that sort of speed, and some whacko doing 110 km/h pulls out in front of you to pass a truck (they are only allowed to do 80 km/h, even on the unlimited sections) because he can't wait 30 seconds to let you pass. So you are very, very concentrated on the Autobahn, but it is still better than constantly watching the speedo and looking for the bacon behind the next bush. On the unlimitied sections, apart from taking account of what the traffic is doing, you can just drive at whatever speed you and the vehicle are most happy with.

Well, it is simple on the one hand, but not so simple on the other. There is only one type of decibel, but... as I mentioned further up, it is a relative unit, i.e. x dB is not an absolute value, but rather always a "more than" or "less than" value. The "difffernt types of decibel" are in fact not different decibels, but rather different specified reference values. For instance dBV states a value relative to 1 Volt. There is a listing of the suffixes here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel#List_of_suffixes A dB figure regarding the loudness of something is almost always dBA. That is included in the linked list of suffixes.

My "best" infancy failure: I was working for an Outside Broadcast company at a motor race (cars) event at the Phillip Island track, the same one that the bikes run on. A colleague and I were sent out to change the 9V block battery in the microphone pre-amp on a mic around the other side of the circuit. Maybe 1.5 or 2 km from the O.B. truck. We drove around to the mic, changed the battery, confirmed via Walky-Talky with the truck that it was working, and headed back. We hadn't driven more than about 500 metres on the way back when the truck called us up and sent us back to change the battery again. It was dead, less than 5 minutes after we took it out of the packaging.

That'd be it. Never exclude the possibility that a new part, particularly electronics, might be broken out of the box. It is not all that common, but it can happen.

Apart from watching out for the pork.... The German Autobahn has its good points.

But only when everything else is definitely sorted. There is no point dicking around with the map if a sensor is not working, or something "simple" is mechanically not working as it should.

Well, how about that. Great that you have got her back up and running. Enjoy!

PS, as far as loudspeakers go, I quite like these https://www.dbaudio.com/global/en/products/series/sl-series/ksl8/ At home, I have a pair of these https://www.genelec.com/previous-models/1031a but I must say, I'm more interested in how they sound than how loud they can be.