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Bugger. Hope it works out in June.

Yes, you've mentioned that before, and I've taken it to heart. The Le Mans is growing on me more and more. But the tail-piece, at least when viewed from above, is very wide.

I wouldn't either, apart from the fat arse. Very nimble to ride, though.

Same bike as mine, and the same problem. It "coughs" occasionally at a constant 2,800 revs, like when I'm going through a town after a stretch of open road. The difference is, I believe mine has a standard exhaust. I was going to start my own topic about that, but I think I will now wait and see what comes up here. PS: I don't have the impression that mine is running too lean. It feels more like some kind of "interruption".

So they have presumably been stored somewhere for a couple of years. Since I can't imagine Pirelli producing something that developes that kind of fault so quickly, I must assume improper storage along the delivery chain somewhere.

Bernd doens't use Mac, so he can't easily test the Mac version. Considering that, I think it is a pretty good effort on his part that a Mac version of Guzzidiag even exists.

That seems like a logical place to go looking...

I can't help myself... But, for the general cultural edification: We had Don Giovanni recently where I work. Listen to this, and tell me that the Pythons had never listened to a Mozart opera. Incidently, Don Giovanni is a lady-killer bastard. You can tell right from the start, because he is a baritone. The good guys in operas are generally tenors, a bit like the black hats and white hats in western films.

The wood can wait. It will still be there next week.

True. Pity I haven't got any of that part of the country. @ScuRoo Do you live down there somewhere? I did a trip out of Perth with my girlfriend at the time, who was visiting in Perth for a couple of months, about 35 years ago. I don't remember much, but I know we were in Margaret River and Collie. Beautiful country.

Well, if it's sealed now, get up there on the bike. There's no straight bits on that road. When I was up there, it was in the late 80's or thereabouts. The road was blue-metal or gravel. Good fun in the Sierra, but not that appealing on a road bike.

@guzzler : is the road up to Tanjil Bren still dirt? We went up there a number of times in my brother's Suzuki Sierra, which was enormous fun, but I wouldn't have liked to have to get up there on a road bike.

Too bloody right, mate.

No, he hasn't. I've been to Noojee. The father of a mate of mine, he was a bit of a recluse, lived in Tanjil Bren. Look here, Noojee on the lower left, Tanjil Bren upper right. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5704950553#map=12/-37.8683/146.0893 Zoom out for the big picture. Beautiful country. Practically undisturbed bushland. Incidentely, the second Video with the V50 III that Joe posted is not Australia. Probably Britain. The trees are wrong, you don't see stone walls in Australia, and the number plates on the cars are too long for Australia.

Silly handlebars. I'm convinced that I personally would find the original clip-ons more comfortable. If not, I would still put up with the clip-ons for the sake of looking cool.

Indeed. That is most definitely Australia. The bloke has another video posted showing "a ride into the city, Melbourne", so his territory is apperantly, as I thought from the first video, withing range of Melbourne. At a guess, I'd say north-east of the Greater Metropolitan Area (Kinglake or maybe further up towards Seymour), but it might also be further west. Homesick now.... PS: yes, the sound quality is pretty ratty, lots of wind noise and crap. In the clearer moments, however, you do get a pretty good idea of how those things sound for the rider.

Yes, all of that, exactly. My V35 Imola, identical to the Monza exept for the motor and primary drive ratio, has even less power than the Monza. Allegedly 33 Cavalli, of which probably several less than 30 are really there. But boy is it fun to ride. I love it.

That is very pretty. My Imola is red, and not quite so nice and shiny.

Perfect!

And what do you mean by "rebuild"`? Replace electrical components, or restore the "programming"?

Ah, something I'm better at than someone else! After about 30 years of heading off to "somewhere" for a job as a freelance sound engineer, I can pack a suitcase for two weeks to cater for all foreseeable weather conditions, and catering for work clothes for set-up and tear-down and something "respectable" for the show, in about 15 minutes. As long as no-one distracts me in the process. One time my girlfriend asked me a question about something trivial (she thought it was important at the time...) in a critical phase of the process, and I went off to Berlin for 8 days without having packed any socks. The problem with having lots of luggage space is that one starts thinking "oh, I could take that too". Inevitably, the available luggage space eventually becomes "enough -n", where "n" is probaly not really critical, but you really, really want to take that item with you too.

A suggestion: I had a leaking battery once in one of my bikes. I think I probably put it down too hard, maybe on a little stone on the garage floor or something. Anyway, I confirmed the leak, a barely visible crack in the base, by simply drying off the battery thoroughly and leaving it stand in an acid resistant tray for a week or so. If you do that, and yours really have a leak in the casing, they will be at least moist after that.

I used to think that, and then I put one on the GTR 1000 (where it is admittedly not such a break in style). I would rather not have to do without that practicality. Besides, my Akubra fits in there.... Got one. Use it on the V35 Imola regularly (because it has no panniers), but I don't actually really like it.

Did you have the batteries on a charger over the winter? Not that the charger is giving the batteries a hard time. Edit: and the really, really obvious question; you are sure it is battery acid, of course?

Lazy buggers.