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nah, the V11 deserves colour, not just black (which fits the LeMans better, with its big shed of a fairing ). the shapes of the tank and the fat front fender just jumps at you when painted lime. but why not lime, but in the matte finish that one can see on Honda Hornets and such. Jedione had a finish like taht on his bike.

Chilling story, MArtin. I will now venture down to the garage vaults, and silently and coldly stare at my Greenie for several minutes. Sooner or later he will speak up, and tell me if he is a properly lubed up kid... Stories like that makes me completely paranoid. Since my V11 has only covered 4000 miles since new, I bet no one has opened him up for checking and greasing. Darn, that to-do-list is getting long now....

the Michelin Pilot family has been getting a lot of praise on norwegian bikeforums, especially for being extremely good on typical nordic conditions: cold, wet, greasy roads. I am heading the Pilot Power way in spring.

these guys have made rearsets since the stone age: www.raask.se

bullshit threads like this (and a couple of other neverending ones) makes me want to just keep off this forum. its a bike forum, and biking should keep guys together. there is other forums where one can choose to highlight difference, exchange punches and kill each others golden cows if that is ones main interest. have a nice week

Bike magazine in Sweden (I think it was) ran a Lambo Gallardo against a MV Agusta 1000 on Nurburgring, the ultimate road/racetrack. The Agusta won, mostly because of its superior acceleration out of bends. The Lambo was a lot faster down straights and faster through most corners, but lost because of inferior agility. Fastest cars on Nurburgring (except the 1000 bhp Porsche specials) are the small bike engined Caterhams (300 bhp - 550 kg), and they would have toasted the MV Agusta.

consider that I recently got a quote from Maxton in the UK on cartridge inserts in the Marzocchis for 390 pounds. then the Ohlins look a bit pricey, dont they?

Fiddling about with the side panels I found cracks round all of the bolt holes. The panels themselves are veeeery thin and flimsy and I guess it would be smart to reinforce them with a thin layer of something on the inside. Especially since Im considering a repaint some time in the future (along the lines of Jediones hotrod paint). How to, what materials, anywhere I can read about this? Any fast solutions?

Bernt Pischetsrieder, then head of BMW, once said " Toyota is the best carmaker in the world, luckily for us they dont know shit about marketing". Big words indeed.

now, thats a sport!!

I lift pints, after sex

I thought we all agreed that you should whack the f***er with a huge rubber mallet? the above is worthy of a bodge point IMHO

doesnt it look more like a Ghia body? Zagatos always have double bubbles in the roofs for the heads.

indeed. but it makes for a pretty good discussion...

good point, mr R. Hack. And some you other guys too. You almost won me over there....

Thats just one of the things that comes with the role of being a man, pay and look cheerful...

my filosophy is that if fun is had on two wheels, it should also be had on four. Why suffer when driving a cage? And having fun on roads like ours in winter means 4wheel drive. So I have one of these, Audi Coupe Turbo Quattro 20V pic is the actual car). Classic, completely unbreakable and still way too fast for me. What could replace it? Looking forward to next weekend, 230 miles skitrip on rotten snow and ice. Gung ho!

note to self: buy huge rubber mallet, then go and whack f***ers

I feel I have to insult someone today Ural. Wot is it with this ancient, slow, heavy and fugly tractor that fascinates over in the US? It isnt even for sale over here cause no one wants it (you probably couldnt get it through the registration process either), and us her in Norway have common borders with Russia and could probably drive it home from the factory, thats how close it is.... We suffered badly with all these rapidly-deteriorating russian/eastern fiat-clones in the seventies and want no more of the eastern build quality. Fascination for vintage bikes I understand, and I love old bikes too, but to buy this little runt of a bike new and then throw even more money at it? Is it a hillbilly thing (did I just hear the sound of shotguns being loaded ). And whats the connection that makes Urals so apparantly frequent among MG-owners? Have I unawarely been caught in some strange and sinister cult here? Someone even said in this forum that he wished his Ural had a MG engine. Well, thats one dangerous machine for you if it had. I'll take any other nicely developed 5-10 years old modern bike any day, or a 60s Beemer. Gentlemen. Take aim. You'll find me in my bomb shelter. With a nice cup of cappucino.

hey CafeMan, where did you get that Laverda cowl? Thats something for the missus' Ghost.

do guzzisti need lawyers? "any problem we got, we just put our fists in..." (LL Cool J)

I hope not, theres too many two-wheeled SUVs out there as it is. They have all been run into the ugly tree at least two times. Give us poor souls a proper sportsbike pumping out tidal waves of torque! I want clip-ons!

its so OTP cheesy that I want it. just needs to buy a shit bike to put it on

Sorry, this of course goes with OCF, but with the more aggressive form...

Interestingly, this is also known as the Guinness Syndrome (GS). Modern scientists can explain a lot of the subjects appearing on these pages with GS. This gyroscopic thread might be the clearest indication yet that mixing Original Cabin Fever (OCF) with GS induces strong hallucinations. Another thread that indicates this is the Global Warming thread, the "What time is it"-thread and of course most of the neverending Oil threads. The ECU-threads, on the other hand, are confusing. The mix of impressively clear thinking and obvious mental confusion that runs through these are probably due to massive OCF in its pure original form, from people actually unable to induce GS on themselves. This suspicion strenghtens by the complete absence of dirty language and irrelevance in ECU-threads. Submissions to these threads are just too competent to be true. We can not be fooled. OCF can interestingly be cured by inducing liberal amounts of GS (which CAN be a good thing for most people). GS will in turn cure itself, only leaving the patient basically in a bit of a state but mentally sound. Dr Zoidberg, PhD