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What do you mean by #1 cylinder?

I'm quite sure there will be panniers available. A bike in that segment that doesn't have them would not sell very well at all.

Bad for the rubber bits, I think. It sweats out the plasticisers. Think about what a newish car smells like on the inside when it has been standing in the sun all day.

For the sake of clarity: I gather you mean it didn't release because the new clutch is thicker, and the system didn't provide enough reach without the 3-and-a-bit extra from the spacer?

Tyres probably.

About 1988 or thereabouts I rode from Melbourne to the Gold Coast on my Z900. There was a girl on the pillion seat, and the reason for the trip was that she wanted to visit someon there. Three days to get there, 4 or 5 there, and then back to Melbourne on my own. The bit with the girl didn't last long, which is no doubt a good thing. The trip was perhaps not "life-changing", but very much a "forming experience". PS: not many curves when one goes up "through the middle", but slowly watching the landscape change over the course of 500 km. is definitely a meditational experience.

Well done, that man. Please let us know what you find out about the pushrod.You know, longer, shorter, whatever...

Yeah, I took a while too. I grew up with the Stevie Nicks era, and sometime much, much later I found out that they were, before that, one of those british blues bands that were perhaps not better than USA blues, but different, and equally good.

Have fun.

Let us know. I'm still in the market for one, but not in any hurry.

and really is fully releasing.

Nitpicking, but... @Lucky Phil : I know you already know this, but not everyone does. It is not true that Guzzidiag is not accurate enough. All that it does is show you the values being delivered by the ECU, and it does that precisely. The ECU sees values for the TPS in largish steps, which is to be expected from a fairly low resolution analogue-to-digital convertor. For those who don't know what one of those is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter they are in a lot of digital devices. I've had to learn about them because they are used to digitalise the analogue signal from microphones and deliver it to digital audio devices. For the sake of completeness, the other end of the chain is a digital-to-analogue convertor. It turns the numbers back into a voltage, but that is not relevant to the subject at hand. Having said that, the voltage outputs from the ECU for the various things that it supplies a voltage to will most likely have D-A convertors in them. The TPS delivers an analogue signal (a voltage) to the A-D convertor, which turns the voltage into a number for the computer (the ECU). An A-D convertor always produces a series of values that increase in steps. The higher the resolution (the number of bits in the number it delivers...), the smaller the steps. The one in our ECU is fairly low resolution. I believe it is 8 bits, but that is a bit by-the-by to what I am getting at. The resolution is low, but it is nonetheless sufficient to adequately track the throttle movements. The smallest number the ECU receives and can deliver to Guzzidiag, i.e. the lowest step the the A-D convertor can deliver, is the aforementioned 3.9 ° . This first step equates to "nothing is happening yet". Over and above that, the numbers tell the ECU how far open the throttle is. By comparing to previous numbers, the ECU can caculate if the throttle is closing or opening, and how fast it is doing so. Below 3.9°, i.e. when the voltage delivered by the TPS is too low to register above that first step, the throttle is closed as far as the ECU is concerned. The bike is "running at idle". Setting the TPS accurately requires reading the real voltage that is being delivered when the TPS is (really) fully closed. Because the ECU sees everything below 3.9° as closed, one must use a multi-meter to measure the voltage directly on the TPS. As mentioned at the outset, Guzzidiag shows you the numbers that the ECU is seeing. The ECU can't see anything below 3.9°, so that is the lowest value that Guzzidiag can report.

I seem to recall reading (from Beard) that the ECU can only read a minimum value of 3.9 degrees. To set the throttle bodies manually, a multi-meter is recommended. The voltage at fully closed should be about 150 mV. .

That the door-bell got rung about a dozen times yesterday evening in the hour after sunset. Little kids who have no idea why they are doing it, but someone told them they will get lollies and stuff if they do. As my girlfriend and I are both grumpy old farts, we didn't answer the doorbell.... PS: I reckon, if German kids are going to be taught to go from door to door annoying people, it should rather be for something like this than something that has absolutely no base in German tradition... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinisingen

I've got that on the Satellite here. I'm just out of the habit of watching the races, and it never occurs to me to look for when they are happening and being broadcast.

You were supposed to be looking at the motorcycles, not the young lady.

Ahh, thanks for the explanation. I don't follow the racing, so I didn't get the reference. I used to watch the races before I came to Germany, but when I got here, they weren't to be found on "normal" TV, and I got out of the habit. When I left Australia, Wayne Gardner had only stopped riding a couple of years earlier, and Mick Doohan had only two of the five titles he finished up with. Since then, I'm just not up to date.

I don't quite see what you mean. The man seems to have shown considerable taste in his choice of motorcycle (ok, Honda in the past, but I'm willing to caste a blind eye), and to have achieved considerable success with the only acceptable japanese marque. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Rea

Yes, indeed. And he plays very well. By the way, I've listened to a bit more in the meantime, and yes, there is definately a conventional "acoustic" pickup in the guitar in addition to the visible "electric guitar" pickup. As far as the violin goes, I've had to deal with much, much worse. One that I have had to deal with annually over the last decade or so only produces a small band around 3.5 kHz. I took to mounting a middle-priced headset mic on it (because it happened to be there one year...), and that made a world of difference. Yes, I understand that a violin too prominent in the mix can absolutely dominate. That's not what I'm talking about, but rather the sound itself. My weapon of choice would be one of these. https://www.dpamicrophones.com/instrument/4099-instrument-microphone The violin in the video does have a mic on it, which may or may not be one of those. But it is not pointing at the right part of the violin to get a sound that actually sounds like the instrument should sound. Ok, I'm picky, perhaps even a bit of a snob. Comes with the job... PS: @docc I think I might really enjoy sitting down with you over a beer or three and philosophising over music and sound and such-like really important things in life.

That's not all that difficult these days. Added to that, he's got an "electric guitar" pick-up on there. There's a switch on the guitar, so there might be a more conventional "acoustic" pickup in there too. I was much more impressed with how the banjo sounds. Banjos are quite difficult. That one sounds good. The mandolin sounds ok, too, but the violin sounds really crappy. That's disappointing, because that is also not that hard if you use the right gear.

Sounds right to me. Brilliant description. Hits the nail right on the head, and is just what I needed to describe the sound of most Harleys here.

Do I want one? Yamaha? No. It's probably a good motorcycle, but I prefer to remain one-eyed. If it is going to be a japanese motorcycle, it will be a Kawasaki. I nurture my prejudices.

Yes, I know. He was all over the place here up until about 5 or 6 years ago. He was due to play at Klassik am Odeonsplatz back then (that also not for the first time), but had to cancel because of health problems. Tendonitis, I think. Obviously, he is back at work now. I think he wasn't able to play for a bit over a year.

Shitty audio, though, that Moonlight Sonata. As far as Debussy goes, always good. And Lang Lang, I've had him, I don't know, at least six times going through my mixing desk. Most recently at the "Klassik am Odeonsplatz" this year in Munich (again...). Always a pleasure, that man.

"Video is not available in your country". I was afraid that might be the case. It is from the Mediathik from Arte, a German-French state-owned broadcaster. Funded with public money, and apparently not available outside of the country. Same as the BBC and the Australian ABC. Pity.... The bunch of old farts call themselves "Deep Purple". I didn't know they are still playing concerts, and if I had known that they were in Stuttgart this summer, I might even have gone to see and hear them.