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Joe, you're giving me funny ideas again.

Hi. I haven't seen the B + S Monitor, but going by the photo I found, yes, I reckon they would fit under a helmet. Having said that, their site says that the B+S is an end-of-life product. The new one is B+S Monitor II As far as the mould goes, I got mine done at a Fachkongress of the Verband Deutsche Tonmeister, i.e. something like a trade fair. I also organised the possibilty to have moulds made at a hearing aid shop in relation to a job I did some time ago. The point is, the mould is taken by a professional. I expect that these days practically any hearing-aid specialist shop could do it. You'd have to go asking in your area. My plugs look like these ones: They do fit under the helmet with the noise filters in (like the one on the left in the picture), but don't with the in-ear monitor drivers in (like the one on the right...). I couldn't use mine to listen to the navigation device or anything like that. As far as the different levels of damping goes, that works with mine. The circular white bit in the one on the left is the filter. The ones in mine are Elacin filters, and I believe Hear Safe still uses them. Look at this: https://elacin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/elacin-b2b-de-productsheet-05-er.pdf as you can deduce from that, Hear Safe is not the only manufacturer offering moulded ear plugs. In fact, they are just making the moulds and using filters that someone else (Elacin) has developed. I'm very sure that Hear Safe is not the only one on the market (by a very long stretch...) that is doing exactly that. The Elacin filters seem to be in fairly common use as far as I can tell, but I expect there are others with a similar product out there. I would suggest going to a couple of hearing-aid shops in your area and questioning them a bit. Do some research, whatever way. There is likely to be a supplier closer to you than Germany. Having said that, the German stuff is, of course, very good. It just might be complicated getting the taking of a mould co-ordinated.

Alles klar, schon verstanden. A bloke in Australia had a visitor. The Australian bloke did the right thing and showed his visitor around, as one does. The visitor was from Texas. They went out in to the countryside, and the Australian explained that the farms here were fairly large. The Texan said "oh, right, you should see how big the ranches in Texas are." The Australian pointed out the cattle, and how well they were adjusted to the environment in Australia. The Texan said "yeah, nice. You should see how big the horns are on our cattle". And so it went on.... Eventually, they were driving down a back road looking at the landscape and the bush, and a Kangaroo came bounding across their path. "Goddamm" said the Texan, "what in the hell was that?". "Oh, " said the Australian, "that's a native mouse".

I'm not likely to ever have to make the choice. However, going by that video (what on earth did that brainless girl think she was producing?) I think I would also go anywhere else first. To the extent of walking a mile in these shoes with a canister in my hand to get the fuel from somewhere else.

I believe their only purpose is to keep the spacer more or less lined up with the hole in the bearing so you can get the axle in.

I believe I have read here that it is supposed to be 113 mm. . Is that correct? Relevant to me because I expect to be changing the wheel bearings in the rear wheel of my 2002 Le Mans in the very near future. I'd like to be able to check the length of the spacer while I'm at it.

at Stein-Dinse: https://www.stein-dinse.com/en/item-2-1021625-01634000-.html from this parts diagramme: https://www.stein-dinse.biz/etkataloge/etkataloge.php?l=de&h=MG&m=222&t=5455#a177240 at Wendel: https://wendelmotorraeder.de/hinterrad-v11-03-04-corsa-ex-30_3006_300602_30060204_3006020410_300602041024.html part no. 6 and a parts list at Guzzitek.org : https://guzzitek.org/parts_list/gb/1100/V11LM_Nak_RC_Cat_2003_122002_PL.pdf part no. 6 on page 116 So it looks like your part number is correct. Incidentally, I didn't put in three links to be a smart-arse, but rather to give an idea where one can go to check on part numbers. PS: docc beat me to it, but I worked so hard on this I'm posting it anyway... PPS: I read somewhere about spacers to fill out the missing length on the spacer. Don't know if it was here or somewhere else. That might be an option, if you can figure out how much too short yours is. Apparently a bit too long is not as bad as a bit too short. Having said that, I can imagine that an additional short spacer in there would be an absolute pain to install.

Today I took the front end off to have a look at the steering head bearings. Not that there were any signs of trouble, but I wanted to see how much grease was in there. Turns out adding a bit more wasn't such a bad idea. Bright idea of the day (or week, or month...) obvious really, to hold it in place whilst putting it back together. But I was a bit chuffed that I thought of it in the heat of the moment and all by myself, and how well it worked. I poked around and looked at a couple of other things as well. All part of getting to know the bike, and being able to contemplate longer trips without worrying too much if the wheels are about to fall off.

That's still cheaper than here. The converts to about € 1.22. According to here https://www.benzinpreis.de/preise-deutschland.phtml we're at €1,88 at the moment. That works out to $ 3.14 AUD.

Yeah, thought it must have been fairly long. Thanks. Looks like your mate John did a very good job.

Thanks docc. I had seen that, but forgotten. And yes, gorgeous.

Very nice photo. If you would care to oblige, I'd be interested in knowing focal length, f-stop, exposure time and ISO. Getting back to motorcycles, after 6 years you pulled a more than 50 year old motorcycle out of the shed, kicked it in the guts, and rode it around the block? Go on, tell us the full story. I'm curious for one...

Just tried it myself. It's about 20 past midnight on a Saturday night here. Your answer 45 minutes ago would have been about 11:35 pm here. I can get to the home page without a bother, but the shop wont open. Given that it is the middle of the night on Saturday night, I reckon they're probably dicking around with the internet shop on the assumption that no-one would be stupid enough to try and access it right now. If you're really interested, try it again in about 36 hours or so. Not important, though.

Yes, a truly horrible thought. Just as an aside, I'm surprised they are allowed to print a photo of the accused. I don't think that would be possible here. It certainly isn't done.

That'd be these, right? https://shop.held.de/en/clothes/functional-underwear/1010/infinium-skin?number=022230-00-1-DM6 Interesting. The shop I prefer to buy my stuff at carries that brand almost exclusively. Seems to be good stuff. The only problem I have with it is the name itself. It actually is the surname of the boss (and probably owner...) of the company. However, it means "hero", and I feel a bit odd running around in bike gear that has "hero" written all over it.

I found this just now: https://www.kardanwelle24.de/kardanwellenkomponenten/kreuzgelenke-kreuzgarnituren/kreuzgelenk-kreuzgarnitur-fuer-quad-und-andere-anwendungen-22-x-50-2-mm/a-3339 Looks like the right size, and "Zentralschmierung" should mean it has a central grease nipple. Hmmm.... I also have a tip for a place that re-conditions drive shafts. That would include balancing.

I may just get back to you on that. Depends on how I get on here... When are you back at home?

Well done, that man. Wouldn't have thought of that myself. Thanks very much.

Nothing wrong with that, mate.

Have one for me too, mate. Shame to let it go to waste when the bottle is open...

Might be hard to tell what is too much, though. There is a lot of pressure change going on in there even when everything is running absolutely normally.