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Indeed it was. Yeah, when the Ag bikes came out, they fairly quickly replaced the postie bikes. The Honda had the advantage that it was dirt cheap, indestructable, and ran on the smell of an oily rag. But for following a herd of milking cows down a muddy lane, it wasn't really the optimal weapon of choice. Even the "Trail" version. The only real difference to what the posties rode was that it had nobby tyres on it. When my dad bought the AG100, he actually got it registered and bought a helmet. I reckon he thought he could use it to whip in to town and stuff like that. Thing is, the bike was flat knacker at about 80 kays. I grew up in this house https://www.google.de/maps/place/Cobram+Victoria+3644,+Australien/@-36.0113031,145.6649717,195m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b20ad39d2ab550d:0x40579a430a08b40!8m2!3d-35.919227!4d145.6395916!16zL20vMDY5bTFq Zoom out a bit, and notice the abundence of curves. That means, "whipping in to town" on the AG100 meant about 12 km. in pretty much a dead straight line on a little 2-stroke which was screaming its head off, and not all that comfortable for a bloke about 6' tall. I don't think he renewed the rego after the first year. The second year at the most. Nevertheless, an anecdote: When the AG100 was still fairly new, dad rode it in to town to the Cobram Agricultural Show. I think he was involved in the organisational commitee. That year, there was a Police Formation Riding Squad at the show. Dad got to talking with one of the riders. The Scout Hall was (is?) on the edge of the Showgrounds, and there was a log in front of that lying on the ground. No idea why it was there, but I reckon it was about 2 1/2 feet high. If I remember rightly, the conversation got around to what the AG 100 was capable of, and the Police Squad rider demonstrated how it was possible to ride it over the log.

Is that better now?

Ok, wait a bit. I'll go looking for a source that is not fb. Don't like that mob anyway....

I've already mentioned it in a PM to Pressureangle, but in case anyone is runnig a book, I'm in for one.

Sounds like that might be a good idea.

Aren't they visible? I can see them. Here are direct links to the images. The first one, Honda CT 90 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/1972_Honda_trail_90.jpg The second, Yamaha AG100 https://scontent-fra5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/110312302_2728076920800395_1532777877354103891_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=973b4a&_nc_ohc=HuOYv-1V7GkAX-WeaOz&_nc_ht=scontent-fra5-2.xx&oh=00_AfC63kRp_umdaTyVj3ipkXz5gY4uDUwJuWEmc_NWxOH_9A&oe=647D0348 and the third, Suzuki DS 80 https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/139975528_5181891508495351_8949689658165696973_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=4onCcN_cYt8AX9SUptv&_nc_ht=scontent-fra3-1.xx&oh=00_AfBc9bvq4l4oIBd8_vnUhfpC6Ixf-Jw71jersCNNlZFe7g&oe=647D11DC

One more... The other bike we had on the farm was one of these: My dad won it in a raffle at the Barooga Sports Club. My youngest brother got it. The bike was about the right size for maybe a 12-year-old. My brother was about 14 or 15, and well on the way to his adult height of around 6' tall. But he loved it. We all rode it, me and my three brothers and my sister. But my sister gave up on it after she parked it in the electric fence. She left it there, walked back up to the house in a sulk, and demanded that someone go and fish it out. I think my oldest brother rescued it. Surprisingly enough, we didn't manage to kill it. No maintainance of course. In the end it got passed on to the youngest son of a neighbour a couple of miles away.

PS: the reason we (i.e me and my siblings) were allowed to ride the CT 90 is because my dad had upgraded to one of these: I can't remember having been allowed to ride that. Too powerful... ( 8.3 h.p. ) As I started looking for pictures of that, I found this: https://supply.unicef.org/s0004120.html apparently the thing is to this day "standard equipment" for Unicef missions, and this article from 2017 https://www.mcnews.com.au/yamaha-ag-legend-back-better-than-ever/ The bike was great. Indestructable. I expect my dad never did any maintainance above putting fuel in it, and it went for years. I'm don't think ours had it, but newer ones had a side-stand on both sides so one could safely park the bike pretty much anywhere without having to juggle around to get it facing the right way to match the lay of the land. But I'm quite simply amazed that they are apparently still being produced. My dad bought his in about 1979.

Have fun with her Tom. I'm sure the good weather is just around the corner.

I'm almost a little jealous of what you guys could ride at that age. In Victoria, Australia there is no way for a teenager younger than 17 years 9 months to ride anything at all with a motor on the road. At that age, one can (or could when I was that age) get a learners permit. These days I believe it is a power to weight constraint, in my time it was a maximum 250cc motor. That's why the japanese 2-stroke 250cc pocket-rockets sold like hot cakes a few years later. When one turns 18, one can do the driver's license test (car and motorcycle). The constraint remains for at least a year, might be two years now. My first bike was a Suzuki GSX 250 E. I would have sold my granny to get Kawasaki KR 250. I learned to ride in the paddocks on our farm when I was about 16 on one of these Just about every farm in the area had one, and they all had a couple of feet of black plastic water pipe strapped, bolted, or wired on to the side away from the exhaust, pointed up at an angle to stick the handle of the shovel into. The shovel was for opening and closing the irrigation channels. The thing doesn't look quite right to me without a shovel sticking up out of the back. If I remember rightly, ours was red, which may mean it was the "road" model and not a Trail.

So you're losing slightly over a Volt through the wiring. I find that too much. Quite apart from your brake light problem (or maybe in connection with it...), I would be going through the wiring harness and checking and cleaning connections all the way.

I'm fairly sure that Marty meant "vapour lock" there...

Quite apart from the brake light working or not, that strikes me as being rather low. If your battery is healthy, it should be providing at least 12.3 or so with the motor off. So you're losing about a volt through the wiring harness. I would be having a good look at things (cleaning connectors and so on...) to try and get that back down to some (few) tenths of a volt. Or your battery is tired. If you can only see 11.5 Volt across the battery terminals directly, the battery is not charged properly, or is not holding the charge properly.

Yes, there has been mention of that in the German forum I'm active in. I've been convinced from the start that there would be more models based on the V100 platform. Seems like the next one is on the way. I hope it turns out as well as the V100 Mandello appears to have done. Incidentally, it wouldn't surprise me if those photos were "officially "accidently" leaked". They seem to have done the rounds at a remarkably cracking pace.

Don't want to de-rail the topic, but as an aside: Mine does that too. Constant throttle at about 2,800 revs and 50 km/h through the small towns between open road stretches, it coughs occasionally. You mentioned 50° F and that it didn't do it at that temperature. Mine was doing it at about 6°C. Whatever, the subject has been mentioned here recently, seems to have something to do with the map, and actually has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

I would, as I assume it is there for a reason. I don't know for sure, however, how critical it is. As far as replacing it goes: When we moved into the apartment we are in now, I "built" the kitchen cupboards, workbench and so on out of second hand stuff. I decided to put the oven above the bench, and built a cabinet for it out of 18mm "built up" oak, i.e. glued together slats about 8 inches long and 1 1/2 wide. Cheap substitute for solid oak panels. Anyway, it was obvious that the inside of the cabinet had to be insulated, so I went looking. Turns out the most readily available source is shops who sell stuff to people who hot-rod and custom build cars. It seems there is a need for that sort of insulation foil to cater for blokes who put silly turbo chargers in inappropriate places and what have you, to shield against exhaust heat and such. So if anyone is looking for a source, start at your local hot-rod tuning shop, or search the same in the Net. I very quickly found any number of sources for self-adheshive foil in various thicknesses and for various temperature ranges. If I remember correctly, the stuff I used for the oven was rated at something like 850°C.

That sounds like it was a really great concert. The one I saw was just Deep Purple, in Melbourne (in a horrible venue....) in about 1984 after "Perfect Strangers" came out. Sure, they were a bit older, and Gillan wasn't quite up to the high notes as was in his heyday, but still a glorious concert with the "right" line-up. In later years I encountered John Lord a couple of times at events that I worked on as a sound engineer. The man was truly brilliant, polite, friendly, relaxed, everything one could wish for. I feel honoured that I was able to support his performances with my efforts. One of the the best, if not the best, Hammond players ever.

I haven't had my tank off to have a look, but just so I know what to look for when it comes off: Was there insulation on there as standard from new?

Bear in mind that the light circuit requires a connection back to the minus pole of the battery. I haven't studied the wiring plan von my V11 to that extent yet, but I assume that it is the same as nearly every vehicle of any type on the market, i.e from the socket back through the frame to the battery. Have a look at it, and make sure the connenctions "after the light" are also good. Edit: after a quick look at the wiring plan, it looks like the tail light, brake light and number plate light share a common "earth". This might be the common mounting bracket, or it might be wiring that comes together and is connected to the frame somewhere close. As I said, have a good look at it and check that side of the circuit too.

You lucky, lucky bastard. I only got to hear Deep Purple live. Brilliant, but Led Zep would've been nice too.

I have nothing to do with them, so I can't help. Send them an e-mail and see if they respond. I expect that they can deal with english, but to be on the safe side, try using this translater: https://www.deepl.com/translator in my experience, it delivers much more satisfactory results than the google thing.

you could try contacting Steve S. Maybe he got a few spares....

I have the impression Keiff didn't do much rehearsing for that.

That's the one. Thanks very, very much.

I've just spent about 40 minutes looking for a topic that I'm sure I saw here, but I can't find it. It was about an adapter to set the passenger pegs a bit lower and a bit further forward. I found one thread from years ago from someone who made one, but that wasn't it. I'm pretty sure the one I read described an aftermarket part, or maybe a BMW accessory. Does that ring a bell for anyone? Can anyone point me at the thread in question?