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Guzzi engineers would have trouble going with higher compression, largely because of emission laws. You can't just enrichen it and still pass emission testing. Yet in 2003 or so they actually went with higher compression and got a fatter power band I guess they improved the oil flow to make that happen, and presumably they changed the timing and fueling. I am not sure how this did not mess up the emission testing. ...Did all bikes with the higher compression get a catalytic convertor? The Early v11 six speeds and the v1100sporti have 9.5:1, the later six speed single plugs have 9.8:1 and the Breva has 9.6:1 and from the description of its smoothness, the Breva could easily go to a higher compression, if you are prepared to remap the ECU. Going to High compression pistons like the FBFs is theoretically almost as easy to compensate for as aftermarket mufflers. Yet, people fear it like some bad memory of a race bike in the 1970s that would not idle and needed race fuel. Sure you can have the same problem here, but the majority of high compression upgrades are successful. Or maybe we should start ordering extra gaskets to bring compression down to 9.0:1 so we can run on 86octane and ride for 200,000 miles!!! I don't see people lining up to go in that much cheaper and easier direction.

You can't even lose gracefully...good night JohnBoy!

From Google The most relevant being: "* denominational: adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination or party; "denominational prejudice"" and "* partial to a particular party or person, often political in nature. One criticism of federal politics, especially regarding Congress, is that some politicians spend more time and effort trying to promote their party's platform than trying to develop laws and policies which serve the American people." So, I say that you are partial to, and you tend to adhere with great regularity to the views of the right wing. The definition does not indicate that you must be a member of the Republican, Libertarian, Conservative, or cetera party. I have mentioned previously the positions of yours that coincide with the right wing, and the one exception of seen is you not liking Bush(but disliking Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and probably other Democratic Presidential hopefuls even more) Heck, despite your position on Guns, Metrosexual and Liberal BASHING, Global Warming, Economics and more, you could be a registered Democrat...heck it is a more or less free country, still

So if adding fuel did not fix it, you think retarding the ignition would NOT help and only one of the mechanical solutions would work???? Or retarding the ignition enough to help would have undesireable consequences???

completely non-partisan and objective??????? So, the Sun revolves around the USA, not Remulac???? Your nationalism is about as swollen as your head. How do you ever find a helmet that fits? We could go on for years about why people want to come here...and why they leave. Don't get me wrong, I am not about to leave unless I get a job as a spoiled rich kid in some other country with nice paved curvy roads. It would be a better world if the honest and those at the bottom had a fair chance. And you say you are not a partisan right winger Sorry, I am not that way. And I don't give guys spankings either Great! So, you also understand how the wealthy use them to offset the taxable income. Or do we have to go back to addition and subtraction lessons? When you get rich I'll show you how to avoid taxes...for a fee.

Go back and read again....if you care. What do yah think?!? Should we make taxes more regressive, or more progressive?!? No, the rich look only at the tables and bitch about the progressivity of the tables, and then they hire the accountant, who finds the write offs to actually make it regressive. If you were rich, you'd know that. (joking, but you do seem to be ignoring the whole concept of write offs)

Nobody is saying the tables are not progressive. It is the write-offs and payroll tax that can have a regressive effect. Not to mention the use of tax havens that I'll bet does not fall into the average.

What a bunch of crap. They really got you hook, line and sinker. Here is a much better analysis... http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/TaxModel/tm...amp;DocTypeID=1 Depending on how you look at it you can say it is progressive or regressive. Perhaps unfairly, from memory of statistics from years ago, I only took into consideration Individual Federal Income Tax and Payroll Tax(social security,etc.) I guess I assumed people work for a living. Add in all the corporate and estate taxes and then the average effect is progressive. There are many wealthy with lots of write-offs and many without lots of write-offs. So some of them are paying tax progressively, relative to you and me and some are paying tax regressively, relative to you and me. But I am surprised to learn that average million plus per year pays more. Add in sales tax, state tax, local tax, excise tax, property tax, etc. and I am not sure what happens.

I may have to go back to driving a Hyundai! Thanks for your insight

It does not sound fair. As I said, it is a matter of weighing the laissez-faire that benefits big corporations vs. small businesses right to repair enforced by government interference, so I tend to side with the small businesses and the government interference. I don't know exactly how a law would be written but I would hope it would be reasonable. I do think the auto-makers are entitled to some profit on the distribution cost associated with disseminating the information. Personally I think the auto makers are shooting themselves in the feet if they don't make the information available. I would wish the fear of making a bad name would be incentive enough, but I don't think it is. I wish Marelli would make available the detailed info on the 15M to the general public, but they don't, and I am not sure they should have to. Maybe if I owned an Alfa Romeo authorized shop, I could access the information, but it would not be fair if a Guzzi shop could not access the information. It does get kind of complicated about what should be open information. Do you guys have the Axeone software or the TechnoResearch software? I'll bet you had to pay serious money for it. Maybe Guzzi should switch to Cliff Jeffries ECUs which use free software to control it and almost all the parts are available on the open market. I like open source freeware and wish the same attitude would proliferate more businesses.

The tax system is both regressive and progressive. Now that I make enough money to buy a house and have a mortgage, I actually pay a lower percentage of my income to the IRS. Wealthier people are somehow elligibe for more tax write-offs. This makes the tax regressive. Also FICA contributions are capped, effectively creating tax relief for the least needy. The wealthy pay a lower percentage of their income on taxes. This is REGRESSIVE taxation....maybe we need a tea party?????

How cheap? I can probably give $4000, maybe more if I know the details. With Piaggo Guzzi parts prices, it may be time to buy used Guzzis for parts...

Did I read that right? You are for gun permits? ME TOOO!!!!

I have a Corbin. I can go about twice as far on it as stock before reaching that same discomfort level. My typical weekend ride is 200 miles. If I was going ride successive 500mile days, I would consider adding sheepskin or an airhawk. I tried a gel over-saddle but it was unstable. I tried a gel insert in my stock saddle but it got too hot, I should have added a layer of neoprene rather than polyfill. Here is my Pro and Con list for the Corbin. Pros Love the weather resistant leather. Because is so firm it is easy to adjust position. When sitted towards the rear the slope keeps the pressure off the perineum (taint) Much better comfort range than OEM. Looks good. Pretty durable. Cons Because it is so firm and sloped down in the back, it is difficult to maintain a position to the rear of the seat. It is much heavier than OEM. Rearmost position is too rearward...aesthetically it looks nice to keep the lines long, but a more forward position would be better for just about anyone under 7 feet tall. Some have gone directly to Corbin for a custom saddle. Same price, just a bigger hassle. Keep in mind having them redo their factory saddle will cost the same as a new custom saddle...I think that is because most of the effort is in the upholstery. I would highly recommend their custom saddles and I regret not doing it that way. I guess I could sell this one and get a custom...but it really is not that bad either. I have alot criticism for the Corbin factory saddle, but I would not dare go back to Guzzi OEM except to ride two up.....

replacing battery is kind of an expensive diagnostic, but considering if the battery is original, you may is well get a new one anyway. When my last battery went bad it would drain through the ECU, but if the ECU was disconnected it would last, and when I replaced the battery the overnight voltage drop was many times lower. But no fluctuating voltage...maybe 0.1 V less with the bad battery

Got glasses?

Here comes Ratchet, as always, with not so unpartisan, not so unbiased views....why does it always get so personal? If he says my eyes are wide shut, may I say his head is up his ass? Cheap shots, no content. You want content, read the Bills. When Verizon advertises, "Its the network", they mean it is Verizon's network, you are just paying for what they control. Verizon just released a phone called Chocolate, and it almost has internet access, well, not really...it has the type of internet access that the powers that be want to limit you to....Chocolate, limits you to VCast a tiny little world where you can get news, music and video from them, and them only...how is that for freedom??? And guess what?!?!? They even let you chose from a list of which news organisation to get brainwashed from, CNN or CBS!!!!! Fantastic! The sheople will be lining up for their pseudo-chocolate rations. It ain't real chocolate, it is sugar coated crap!! Now, how would you like it if your internet connection headed in the direction of these limitations?? It is not going to happen overnight, it will be slow and sexy like a pole dancer prying you from your money...but it is your choice, that is freedom. My friends have gotten nasty letters from their ISPs for downloading copywritten videos from peer to peer sources. Under the guise of copywrite protection, they are in the early stages of preparing the internet, so that you download videos from them and their friends. At first they are not going to stop you from downloading from who ever you want, but they will start with the peer to peer. Then they will give favored internet speed to the services that they chose. An express lane for powers that be to suck more money out you. Freedom of enterprise vs. personal freedom, that is what it is all about, and it is not what Al Gore envisioned when he helped pave the internet super highway....or is it? The sly bastard!!!!

Could it be, you just need to retard the timing or enrichen the mixture or modify what the ECU does with the O2 sensor output, to keep it the sensor cooler???....and or add an even bigger additional heat sink This is kind of disappointing as I really wanted to place my sensor where yours is

Once again it is the little guy against the big corporations that want to effectively demolish the roughly egalitarian free cyberspace and replace it with a corporate super toll road. The same way mom and pop shops everywhere are losing out to corporate formula malls, they have the same plan controlling what you are likely to view on the internet. John Stewart, Google, SoloNH, Craigslist, and Move-On.org are absolutely right on this. The Senators supporting bills that prohibit your ISP from discriminating and blocking what you get access to are right on this. RatchetHack, a bunch pawns in congress, AT&T and other major ISPs are wrong on this. I liked this comment on a Libertarian Forum http://www.lp.org/yourturn/archives/000213.shtml

Several years ago, I crash tested a polyurethane coated TourMaster Dupont Cordura (500 I think???) suit at over 50MPH and I remember nothing of it melting to me. I got only a hint of road rash, really just a rug burn. I was wearing sweat pants and polartec underneath. Some of the polartec on the inside got holes where the outer cordura did not. Broke shoulder blade and some ribs, bruised knee. I suppose if I the cordura did not hold up and I got road rash, the polyurethane would be melting into my wounds, but if the cordura holds up and you don't have bare flesh against the polyurethane, you will probably be fine. For the first couple years the suit was VERY waterproof. After the accident and years of weathering and laundering once it is NOT very waterproof. I am worried that five and a half years of riding in the the sun has reduced its abrasion resistance...time for a new suit. The polyurethane is probably the most water resistant thing on the market, but I'll avoid it next time. MotoPort aka CyclePort may in fact have the best mesh jackets and pants in the Universe. As far as I know, they are the only mesh outfits made with Kevlar, so they hold up much better in a crash than Nylon Mesh. Maybe there is some other Kevlar Mesh, but I have not seen it. Not sure about MotoPort's use of velcro...I think they use it on just about everything Tourmaster uses velcro. Velcro sucks after a few hundred rips.

Here is an interesting Act of government interference. http://www.righttorepair.org/ From a laissez faire perspective it is a bad idea. But to help Davey survive in a world of Goliaths it is a good idea

Thanks for the answer...sorry I missed it earlier. No doubt you won't be surprised that I like progressive taxes and despise the regressive taxatiion in the USA. I think a flat tax with a deductible greater than the poverty line would be a great idea. I suspect the US is currently experiencing an all time high in tax evasion that is going unreported in the news. We could go on for ever and ever about which works better, market economies or whatever. Benevolency is the key. I think that is one thing the UK has going for it a little more than the US. I also think a few of the "liberated" soviet states will be sucessful because of the optimistic benevolence that followed years of oppression. I like the last point about globalisation. Not sure about radical population reduction. Radical condom production, sure thing. Mandatory castration of the philistines, no thank you.

Your logic is amazing.

Like Mr. Lott going into the study claiming to be a proponent of gun control, you can claim not to be a Republican. While both may be true, both Ratchet and Lott, have shown a pattern leaning heavily with the political philosophies of the right wing parties. You may well be a registered Socialist, but that does not mean you are not to the right of the aisle. If I wer to pigeon hole you to one party, it would be to Libertarian party. One thing you have not done is shown yourself to on the position of the left side of the aisle on any issue. Go ahead, impress me with how open minded you are on all the left wing positions. In the global warming thread I asked you to define your point of political on various topics and you ignored the questions. I have been far more open with my views than you have with yours. Usually you talk in your code words, sheople, relativists, and philistines rather than using Rush Limbaugh's words for people on the Left. The abortion issue is about the only issue that I could see you sliding over to the left on. You make statements indicating you don't like Bush, but then you indicate that the country would be in worse shape if the Democratic likelies become President. Your position on global warming puts you in the right wing partisan camp. Your position on guns puts you in the right wing partisan camp. Your position on metrosexuals puts you in the right wing partisan camp. Your criticism of Mother Jones, Move-On, George Soros and others puts you in the right wing camp. I am not a Democrat and the first time I ever voted for a Democrat for President was for Kerry. But that doesn't mean I am not left wing in my political philosophies. Face it, you are a right winger.