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And I found it is a lot longer than it seems like it is. Interesting bike, but not my cup of tea. I have no use for a bike that big with that small a gas tank. An "around town" bike should be much smaller and nimble.

Yeah, a bummer about Binder in the feature race. It seemed like Binder was a candidate for a great race, given the wet conditions. A few people had bad races.

I enjoyed this past weekends race. It was great to see a guy get his first win, and it was great to see Morbidelli do well. Morbidelli has struggled of late, so it was great to see him prove to everyone that he hasn't forgot how to do this.

But as I recall the system on the Griso measures resistance at each turn signal and if it measure too much or too little resistance it flags it as a problem. It could be anything from a failing bulb to dirty contacts at the bulb to a bulb of the wrong wattage. As an example, it often has issues when people replace their turn signals with LED turn signals. The LED signals usually don't have the correct resistance to mimic the stock bulbs. Or the system that checks for bad bulbs at the turn signals is itself having issues.

That has been a gripe of some riders, all the paved run off around the track has led to some racers being less careful about it. The minimum penalty for blowing a corner is not always what it used to be

I remember the TT650, but not the Baja.

I really like the flow of the Portimao track, and hope they will make the needed safety improvements to keep racing there. It is an awesome track. But basic safety aspects like rubble in the gravel trap can't be ignored. The "gravel" in the gravel traps there is crazy. The size of it is insane. I would love for them to outlaw the aero crap. I don't think it adds to the racing in any way. It only adds to the expense. And they are supposedly against excessive expense. The aero does make the bikes faster, but not in a way that adds to the show.

I have a massive amount of respect for Marc's talent. He is clearly extremely talented. But he is not perfect, he is not an overly precise racer, one who can do the same thing over and over like clockwork. He is also not a racer who has much respect for his fellow racers. He seems remarkably willing to hit other racers. Contact does occasionally happen when two racers go for the same piece of the track. But sometimes he seems to go out of his way to hit other racers on his way by, like when there is a gap and he seemingly takes it but hits the other guy even though the gap was big enough for him to make it through without hitting the guy he is passing. I feel like that is on purpose so that his reputation intimidates the other racers. The other way Marc seems to make contact is in incidents like this past weekend where he looks to have made a massive mistake and hit other people. Had he been on his own, either out front or in the back, likely it would have only been one of those many "amazing saves" we see from Marc. But when he is in a pack of riders those mistakes go from a possible amazing save to a bad day for other racers. To paraphrase one of the other racers from that day, a lot of racers went into that corner in a tight pack, only one was unable to do so without hitting others.

Perhaps, I am not sure if their rules allow them to adjust penalties. But I am pretty sure their rules would allow them to assess a new penalty to Marc for not serving the first penalty. If he gets a penalty and doesn't serve it they can certainly issue another penalty. Or their rules may allow them to adjust the existing penalty, I don't know. So, either way he is likely to have to serve the penalty. Whether the penalty is right, that is another question. I would like a more severe penalty for Marc. He has a long established record of making contact with other racers. But he is rarely penalized for the contact. So, I would rather a more severe penalty but I am happy he is being penalized at all.

Is that about Honda appealing the revision of the penalty to make him take it at whatever the next race he is racing is? I am not surprised the team appealed the adjustment to the penalty, I kind feel they had to. But I also think their appeal will fail as I think it is completely within the rights of the FIM to make Marc take the penalty at a later race if he doesn't take it at the race they (mistakenly) specified. If nothing else, they could simply issue a new penalty to Marc when he doesn't take the existing penalty at Argentina. So, one way or another Marc will end up taking the penalty when he next lines up on a race track to race.

I suspect Quartararo feels slighted because last year he took out Aleix Espargaro with a similar move and was rightly penalized. But to be fair, Quartararo's move was way more aggressive. He threw it in there really late and it was never going to work. I have not studied Marini's move but initially it appeared to be just a case of loosing the bike while inside another rider. Perhaps Marini should also get a penalty, but from first glance it did not look overly aggressive. But there's the rub. Judgement calls are tricky. Where is the line that, if you cross it, you get a penalty? Some moves, like Marc's, are clearly over the line. But other moves aren't. Where is the line between hard racing and dangerous riding? I am not sure there should be a penalty every time a racer hits or crashes another racer. Some incidents are racing incidents. But figuring out where the line between the two is can be tricky.

That is enough to both put the stand down and flip it up? The Daytona stand has basically nothing as I recall, but I am not looking at it now.

One of my best friends had a number of bikes that had the auto-retracting side stand. He loved it. But once down in Daytona he had parked his motorcycle in a lot where they had told him to park, then we went off to the races. They decided they needed to move the motorcycles. So they picked his bike up off the side stand to roll it somewhere else. The side stand retracted and the alarm went off. They promptly let go of it expecting it to fall back onto the stand. So it fell over. That was a Ducati, but it had the same issue. I don't do alarms anymore (easier to own bikes no one wants to steal), and I hate those auto-retracting side stands.

I agree with @KINDOY2, Marc didn't have the pace but he did what he has always done (got a tow). He has done that a lot. He is clearly talented. But I always found it funny that he does what so many amateur racers do, increase their pace by following others. Not just to get a slipstream down the straight but he also uses them as a carrot to help him go faster through the twisty bits. Seems odd to have such a talented and successful racer using such a amateur trick. That said, having him back in the middle of the front group it seemed inevitable that something like this would happen. It isn't the first time he has done something like this and I doubt it will be the last. At least the other racers (Oliveira aside) can rest easy knowing Marc will be out for a few races. II was really hoping Oliveira could deliver for Aprilia. It is great to finally have a fast guy on the Ape. But his season is probably ruined now. Maybe Vinales can be consistently fast, but that seems unlikely. Oliveira seemed like Aprilias best hope. Either way, I am enjoying the season. I like the addition of the sprint races.

My Daytona also has the auto-retract side stand. It is seriously annoying. But if I eliminate it I need to add a bracket to the side stand so I can manually retract it. The auto-retract side stand lacks a bracket like the V11 Sport side stand has. I have thought about bending up a bracket like the V11 Sport bracket and welding it onto the stock Daytona stand. What did you do?

I certainly don't think it is worth over $30,000, and I have and love a Daytona, but it seems it is to at least two people. Daytona's are cool bikes, but they aren't worth that sort of coin to me. I would say maybe an MGS-01 is worth that sort of coin, but the build quality of a Daytona is several steps down from an MGS-01. But in the end, it is worth what someone, or in this case at least two people, will pay for it.

Here in the USA a vehicle is registered based on when it is made, not when it is registered. You can buy a leftover vehicle from a previous model year and when you register it they will register it based on the original model year, not the current year you are registering it in. That is a difference between the way we do it and the way some others do it. As such, it would only need to comply with emissions from at the time it was originally made. It will have a plate on it that declares such compliance.

Yeah, registering it here in the USA should be easy. But a bike like that probably will never be registered. My guess is whoever buys it will likely leave it in the crate, perhaps removing one side of the crate to make it easier to look at. A shame, in a way, that it was left like that for so long. Sadly, it will probably never be ridden. At this point it would be a fair amount of work just to get it in shape to ride it. So many seals, belts, and hoses that would need attention.

It could be wrong oil, but that wouldn't likely result in a missing gear. As mentioned, odds are the linkage just needs to be adjusted.

That was 250 Kays, which I take as 250 Kilometers. Or in American, 156 miles.

Relays can be intermittent. And it isn't always just the relays, another possible issue is the connections to the relays. When the fuel pump won't run, clearly the bike won't run. If the fuel pump won't run see if it has power or not. If it doesn't have power, the issue isn't the pump. If the fuel pump doesn't have power then it is likely either the relays or the connections to / from the relays.

That sounds like a connections issue or a relay issue. It does not sound like a bad fuel pump. Not long after buying the wife's V11 years ago she stopped for gas and ran into the same issue. It was the relays. If it does it again, test for power at the pump. My bet is the pump was not being sent power.

They call them "Hypersport" tires. Whatever that means. In my opinion, not a racing tire. But perhaps a trackday tire. I have only ridden a few times on Bridgestone tires, and I wasn't impressed. But I don't think they are bad tires, just not my preferred tires. Also, what works best on the race track is often not what works best on the street. For race track use you want a tire that works well when hot. Cold performance doesn't factor into it. But for the street you want a tire that works well cold. Even when you are riding it hard, it is often given a chance to cool back down when you stop at a light or get caught behind a cage / car. Sometimes you will see racers crash because they backed off to build a gap between them and the guy in front of them. But then the tire looses temp and when they get back on it the grip isn't there. The window for temp in a true track tire is usually pretty small. Also, a track tire doesn't hold up to long term heat cycles. It is usually done after a dozen heat cycles or less.

All of our motorcycles, including the V11, have some wear and tear. But nothing I would call "patina". As mentioned, plastic doesn't patina like steel and aluminum do. So aside from the alternator cover and valve covers there isn't much patina on the V11. There are wear and tear issues, from where it has had disagreements with gravity and other such moments.

I believe Spiegler also allows you to rotate the fitting with a tool they include. There are a number of quality brake lines available. The stock lines appear to be of high quality. Not sure how much of the difference noted was line expansion and how much of it was new clean fluid with no air.