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Yes, maybe, who knows. But for sure it's one of the best looking ones. I'd be very proud if I could call it mine. hubert

See, it's not two days for taking your waters, at least not at night time. The program usually includes some calmer topics, daylight topics, too: *Line Up 1* *Line Up 2* But basically it's a pure fun event I'd say: *Ill Cow * hubert

July in Germany we used to have a lot of fun here: Treffen V11Sport.de Grebenhain Go to "Bilder ..." to get an impression of what's happening there. It's best to come with a tent as most of the available rooms were booked directly after the last meeting. Hubert

Indeed - we have thawing already. The first 5cm are gone now. 5 of 7 or 8, and the engine is still apart Man, I'm so nervous! hubert

Skeeve, please edit your post and quote me correctly or don't quote me at all. It's no good style what you do here, regardless of the quote's content or what you want to say. Thanks hubert

nevertheless they were

Anybody still in doubt whether they're robust bikes or not? hubert

It's a tiny battery. Compare it to a standard battery of the same Ah value and you might get an idea what the problem is. hubert

I wrote "sweating", not "leaking". You wrote "14V at some revs" or so, what voltage do you see at 5000min-1 for instance, lights off? (As long as the Hawker is dry that's probably not the problem anyway) How long is your commuting distance by the way? Hubert

Some might say sports has not so much to do with being simply faster or just ending a race as first.

Come on, what do you expect?! It's a 1420cc engine! I wouldn't be too surprised in case a hot pimped S&S/HD engine of this capacity would show a similar performance. If you tend to define "Sports" this way you might find *this* also quite sporty. Hubert

Could you try to make a very close-up photo of the surfaces at the braking point, please? Are there any rest lines visible? hubert

Don't forget to look whether the battery was sweating or not. Hubert

Is the battery or the rubber below it wet? If so, how does the fluid taste? hubert

What sort is it ? Looks like sort of camshaft issue ... hubert

Guys, before you ruin your bikes completely you should get used to the fact that proper shifting per se has nothing to do with a working or not working clutch. Constantly airing or UV exposition of the the box' internals won't make anything better. These parts like the darkness - that's something I was told nearly 20 years ago and this was one of the best advice I ever got. If your gearbox is broken then it's time to get into it, never before that or just out of curiosity. Instead make sure the linkage has enough play, make sure the levers are parallel to each other, make sure they are centered (same movement to the left and right) and finally make sure they're lubed. A stuck gearbox when hot in most cases is just a matter of sticky leverage, not of air in the clutch line or the wrong colour/manufacturer of the oil and other ideas like that. The six-speed box is a very good one. It's light, quick shifting and totaly reliable. Even when on some bikes "the spring" (and it's boss) are worth some attention hubert

...hmm, maybe down there on the ground?

The becker lift/stand is the most easy to use stand I know for the V11. The trick is, as with Nortons, don't use brute force. The wheels make the thing even easier to work with. Just put your weight on the far end of the stand - as with every motorcycle stand since they were invented. hubert

You're kidding, Paul!? I thought they were a bit hard up down there at Mandello? hubert PS: You've noticed Angelina Jolie sitting on the Stelvio?

To the back of the sump then. Red light on while on the brakes would make more sense, definitely If one thinks this topic is a problem for him then he could regard the RoP as the probably most easy and effective solution. Hubert

After BFG stated he had seen and felt Winter coming in, me having already taken the last shot of this year's "Winter's pending" indicator tree I thought the time had come to go on for some different objects interesting enough to get pictured. 70.000km min, as far as the PO didn't lie it's even 125.000km (or ten years). Can I say it looks good enough for that? Hubert

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Check out these: Mivv X-Cone Around here they're legal and quite popular at the moment. With a bit of welding you could nicely arrange them both on the left of the bike for instance. Hubert

Really? The text is something like "Can't you here it, how the times pass by .... the old are late, the young already old .... yesterday's today and today's soon tomorrow..." and so on. We have the right age to get the picture I think they're forbidden in Ireland, the North of GB in general - them having a fatal affection to suicidal booze orgies anyway. Last year I saw him with his actual band perform on the Bamberg Dom Place. Great evening and all that, very much like a Guzzi meeting - the youngest well over 40 hubert