motortouring

Thanks for the clear explanation. I took part in the Round Britain Rally in the UK a few times and then we started to organize a similar style landmark rally with the Dutch Moto Guzzi Club. It sound very much as you describe the Texas Grand Tour. Our objective was a rally that could not be finished and it was all over the European continent from Poland to Spain, the Alps and of course Italy (and the countries in between). 150 Landmarks, and still there is always someone who visited all places. However, in 2005, before Google maps and Google Earth, it was never completely finished by one of the competitors. 2025 is the next Landmark Rally of the MGCN.

Do you have all of the year to ride the GT of Texas?

A landmark rally!

For emission testing the restistance of a vehicle is tested with a coast-down procedure. The vehicle is shifted to neutral (or clutch is applied, not completely sure about the exact requirement) at 140km/h and is coasted down to approx. 10km/h. With this a second order diagram is determined to use on a dynamo-meter. I do know manufacturers prefere tu use bearings and couplings (CV-joints, differential-gears) that are run-in for 30.000km or more. This reduces the internal friction of of the drive-line.

I heard something about these low-viscosity oils having a better performance on the emissions. Since a part of the emission tests is with a relative cold engine the 0Wxx or 5Wxx have less resistance than the 10W.

Aren't we all? It's not a binary thing you know. :-)

Very interesting topic. And I am again impressed by all the knowledge in this group. I was never in a business with these type of combustion engines that Phil describes, so please see my remark with this disclaimer. We supplied small series machines that were critical to a certain extend and used a preventive maintenance schedule. This included several of the points mentioned earlier like magnet plugs inspection. Over the course of time we were pretty good in using experience from one series of machines to the other. I wonder if this would not be a more effective way to deal with the state of maintenance of our V11s. That said, interesting to find the high amount of copper in the oil sample. It is little extra check, but when checking the valves in 20 minutes more you can easily check the bronze bearings and its axles. And then retorquing(is this a word?) the head bolds is also only a few minutes.

I see a list of important words 😅 Let s not forget Hamburger.

For some reason I always feel a lot of sympathy for Rory Gallagher.

Oh, I was talking about Mark Knopfler in the Dire Straights clip.

On a stratocaster. I thought he was more Les Paul guy.

You can always ask what you want. Buyers might do a lower bid.

Ooh, I didn't know. I was not at that small festival due to other appointments, but I saw the list of bands and this song was a teaser.