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I seriously doubt that any photos I've taken will be as clear as this, but I will post them if they appear to be so. I haven't gone through them yet. From the parts diagram:

I got one of these off of eBay last year. They're nice shirts, but since they only come in XXL, you might want to get some tent poles too so you can use it as a tent. It's gargantuan.

I see those from time to time as the local Model T club tools around. Not that it would be feasible (or wise), can you imagine a V11 Sport with wood spokes? Why buy OZ or PVM or go for regular spokes when you could turn heads with some genuine wooden wagon wheel spokes. Boy, would that get you noticed. Take it down to the local Harley hangout for exposure and then wait a week or two to see how many of them join the new craze...

I'm grateful we don't have 120 ton road trains here in the USA. That would be a sure fire recipe for disaster considering the driving skills of the rank and file citizen. Yellow cautionary signs. Yep, you can just about always double the posted speed and traverse the area - even in a car, but occasionally, you'll run across one that actually means what it says. So, if you're heading up to Mt St. Helens in southern Washington on state highway 503, pay heed to the sharp turn signs. They definitely mean what they say. This is an incredible ride by the way. The trip up to Mt. St. Helens has to be ranked among the best experiences you can have. Not all of the road is great, so I'm not ranking the ride by that, although it's mostly pretty good, but the experience is often the thing , and this one is tops! What I personally regard as the best motorcycle road I've ever encountered, is Hwy 138 coming down from the Crater Lake area in southern Oregon. Wonderful road, first rate pavement, slow corners marked for 35 - 45 MPH which can be easily navigated at 65. 51+ miles of sweepers that are wonderfully rhythmic at 80 MPH and which could probably be run at speeds of 120 by the competent few - which leaves me out. Fabulous ride. Try it on a weekday morning when there's less probability of local law enforcement.

Oh very well. When I go out to the garage to work on the V11 Sport project, I'll take some pictures. The headlight is off anyway, so this is a perfect opportunity. I'll try to exract the drawing from the parts manual as well.

Blowhard or not, I've still got the ticket and the hefty fine that goes with your "everyday" speeds. Which is to say, that your desired speed range falls more than a tad outside of that where most actual everyday riding normally takes place. At the lower speeds that are more typical, the gains from the ram air are likely to be nominal. Then too, I have had enough experience on my Sport 1100i that does have a form of forced air, to realize that unless the scoops are optimally positioned, other problems negate the value of the scoops, like severe system resonances in cross and quartering winds. I've never noticed that the scoops on the Sporti enhance the power because they've always been there so I don't know how it would run without. The Japanese sport bikes have their ram air right at the front and I would surmise that they do so for good reason. They also design it as an integral part of the fairing for both performance and appearance. That's where I differ from you in the application on a V11 Sport. I like the looks of the bike, it would be difficult to add on scoops that would not detract some from the appearance. If you wanted more absolute grunt that worked at nearly all speeds, you would want to consider supercharging or nitrous oxide. Do what you like, it's fun to play with this stuff, I just don't personally don't think that the gain from better scoops would offset the possible loss of visual esthetics.

Sorry Dave, but I have the real everyday ticket that more than negates any performance gains you think you would gain at those "real everyday" speeds. The V11 Sports are up towards the limit of their developement. If you want a magnitude of performace increase you should opt for supercharging or Nitrous Oxide. Even when not engaged/operating, those hardware additions have a "cool" factor that no amount of gaudy scoop could ever hope to accomplish. Plus a much lower coefficient of drag.

Here you go Antonio: Rev Magazine

micapeak.com/reg/bikes/MG11 I can remember when there was only one entry in this registry. It's still a bit sparse. Let's fill it out! There isn't any V11 Sport or V11 LeMans category, but they're very close relatives of the earlier spine frames so they aren't out of place here.

On my Sporti, when riding in a quartering wind, the snorkels set up a resonance so bad that the engine seems way out of tune. As soon as you head directly into the wind, the problem goes away. Ram air? TANSTAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch).

Rats. I was hoping you were asking about buying the house Descending order of preference, from left to right. 1997 Sport 1100i, 58,000 miles (all mine, except about 200) 2001 V11 Sport TT 28,000 miles (all mine, except about 750) 1997 California 28,000 miles (all mine, except 3300) 1984 V65C (42,000 miles of which 3,000 are mine) 1971 Ambassador (16,600 miles, none of mine and hasn't run in ten years - now in pieces)

I want to know if that's a sidestand or a removeable prop.

I finally got it to work in 16x9 aspect ratio. Irritating that creating the file only takes 45 minutes but burning the DVD takes 2 hours. Next step, find out how to edit out the ads and what software it takes to do so.

I don't have iDVD, so I'll give it a try with Disk Utility. I can watch the .avi file full screen 16x9 on my 23" Cinema Display and it looks good. Sound is scratchy though. If I can watch it, I ought to be able to convert it.

I downloaded the client-1.1.5-DevRel_macos-gcc3-pb_all_clients and then renamed it to all_clients-helix-20041219-macos-gcc3-pb, though I have no idea if any of this stuff is correct. I'm running it again right now, but I may have (once again) chosen the wrong options.

I downloaded the .avi file last night (2.2 hrs), went through all of the throws of installing the various software bits (confusing, had to change directory names rather than point to it) and then ripped the file (1.5 hrs). Mounted that and tried it out, ran the DVD player on it - and got only black! Try again tonight I guess.

In 1966, my father was flying for Air America out of Vientiane Laos. Our family was returning from vacation in Hong Kong and the last leg was on Royal Air Lao out of Bangkok to Vientiane. My sister and I got seats in the front row of the aircraft. We went to fasten our seatbelts, and they weren't bolted to the seats. So we threw the seat belts in the overhead rack. After we got airborne, we noticed the seat was moving. It wasn't bolted to the floor. So we turned the seat section around and played cards with the Air America "kickers" in the next row back. The whole time we could hear the cockpit radio - until it went silent. The flight engineer got up, walked over to the radio, and kicked it until it started working again. Third world airlines are so much fun...

Dave, you're right, they're both Sporti's (damn cataracts...). John Hardy. Drat. Why can I not remember names so well anymore? Naw, I'm not senile, but I am recovering from Aspartame poisoning and it takes a toll on the brain cells. It's been a weird year...

Absoflogginglutely. If I get up to B.C. that is.

It's been stalled at this point until now. I just recently got the nerve to cut the Daytona fairing to fit around the V11 tank.

I'm willing to go through the additional conversions, but I still need a file of some sort.

That's the 2003 Prescott, Arizona Rally. The grinning fool in the foreground with the V11 Sport TT is me (and that's the bike that got totaled last year and is still going through re-build). In the background, it is indeed a Daytona RS, I think that one's Will Creedon's, but I'm not certain as I can't see any velocity stacks in the photo. Behind the Daytona is the 1997 Sport 1100i belonging to John of Ramona (last name escapes me at the moment, probably because I'm trying too hard to remember) and behind those two bikes in the black and red jacket is Mike Stewart. Mike's bike is the green V11 Sport with red wheels of which only the rear portion is visible in the right foreground. I don't think you guys understand. Being retired means I get to go to more rallies, not less.

How do you ride a Volvo? I certainly don't own one.

Barring some unforeseen circumstance, I'm movng to Oklahoma. Oklahoma? Yep. You read it right. While everyone else seems to be leaving the great Pacific NorthWet, yours truly has decided to retire and bail out of California. Next summer I'll retire (age 54) and move to a nice house on 2 acres on Hwy 66 east of Oklahoma City and just west of Chandler, Oklahoma. I'm planning on having a Moto Guzzi barbecue to celebrate. Date unknown, I'll work out details after I get moved in. Here's one of the local Hwy 66 landmarks. It's about 100 yards from the entryway to my (next) neighborhood. I'm really looking forward to exploring Hwy 66 , but for now, I remain in California until it's time to move.

Probably the one for a proper DVD. I don't even know what DivX is although I'm certain I could find a way to use it. Currently I have a 2x2Ghz Macintosh G5 with 2.5Gb memory and enough hardware to burn a DVD, just never bothered to learn how to do it. This woulld be a good opportunity to get my head out of the mud and learn how.