Lucky Phil

Just throw the thing in a small jewellers ultrasonic bath to clean it. Ciao

So the issue was the electric fuel tap connector wasn't connected correctly? Ciao

The left handlebar lever isn't a choke and doesn't change the mixture. Ciao

You can always just put it in gear and rotate the engine docc. Ciao

Have you had the fuel tap out and checked the fuel filter on the tap? How much fuel is in the tank? The last 3 litres are unusable by and large and your symptoms are also aligned with running out of fuel. Spluttering on the flat and running again if you point it up hill when the fuel runs back to the fuel tap pickup. +1 on the water as well. Ciao

I've been using one of these for about 3 years. You use a 1/2" knuckle bar to actuate the stand. Easy and safe, unlike trying to use your foot. Ciao

Not from where I'm sitting:( Ciao

The gearbox output shaft has around 1-1.5mm end float, thats normal. The output shaft bearing floats in the end cover. Ciao

They are like this std. Ciao

Yea you need to check them about every 40,000klms! My 2.3L turbo 4 cylinder car has NO valve clearance check schedule, ever. As for water cooling, if you want high specific power then you're stuck with water cooling. Ciao

Not as bad as you think docc. I owned a Ducati ST2 for a few years that I'd bought off a friend and he's always complained about it's vague steering and asked me to take it for a ride and see what I thought. I suspected it was an unevenly worn front tyre. Anyway I ended up buying it from him and used it to commute to work for a bit and it started to display varying front brake lever free play. Come to a stop at the lights after a straight road and a previous straight stop and the lever was fine. After a few bends and use the brake and lots of lever free play. Had me a bit confused until I pulled the front wheel to replace the tyre and noticed with the callipers off the wheel had about 1-2mm of lateral movement at the rim when you tried to twist the wheel. The bearings were badly worn but not falling apart. 1-2mm at the rim is probably only .2 or.3mm in the bearing which means it's totally gone of course but not spitting balls out or anything. Anyway new front tyre and wheel bearings the steering's perfect and the lever free play back to normal. I'd say 90% of the steering issues and 100% of the brake problem was wheel bearings. Badly shot rear wheel bearings on a V11 Sport = clattery off beat vibration/feeling through either foot peg on a floating throttle. Ciao

Variable brake lever freeplay is also a symptom of bad wheel bearings. The wheel moving around pushes the pads back into the callipers during cornering. Ciao

It's not called "cobbling stuff together" when you're improving the OEM by 200%, it's called "enhancing". Why would you want plug and play garbage? Ciao

Yes I agree and that's because you've compromised the length of the secondaries to "get the look". Overly long secondaries. Ciao

Personally I think they look "less than optimal" Doesn't suit the style of the bike. The V11 is a "GT" style bike, a sporty all rounder and those pipes are for a "track weapon" type of bike and mimicking the Ducati 916. I'm always amazed that people think a particular style of major component can be swapped onto another bike as if a motorcycle is just a bunch of separately styled sub assemblies combined together rather than a harmonious integrated whole. Besides all that if you fit those then you may as well take the pillion pegs off it because it's totally impractical for a pillion now. Ciao

I'm thinking more a tighter "class" of thread. Bit like cylinder stud fit the crankcases the first half of the thread is neat and they firm up after that due to the class of thread. If you run a std bottoming tap through them they end up loose all the way thats why I don't do that. Ciao

Just the usual engineering stuff. Straight cut take up less room, simpler to make, more efficient due to no axial load generated than a helical gear set. Their disadvantages are less strength for the given dimension and noisier in operation. Straight cut are the gear of choice for camshaft drives as most exotic engines with gear driven cams demonstrate from Honda to Ferrari to Ducati Desmosedici. Ciao

Good image and explanation docc. I've not experience one that's broken so don't know what the failure mode is. Ciao

Not a great idea I'm afraid. Ciao

Yes docc they get that way but seriously they are getting on for 25-30 years old now. I have 3 sets of Centauro/Dayton T/B's as well as my original V11 set and the adjusters are still functional. Not sure what the original is made from but the disadvantage with Nylon is it swells when subjected to moisture which A POM like Delrin isn't affected by. Considering the knob has a close fit in the pivot fitting and it needs to have some thread friction I considered Delrin a decent choice of material partly because it doesn't have the water swelling issue, is easy to machine and chemically resistant. Happy to be educated otherwise. Aluminium wouldn't have the natural thread friction and where it engages with the pivot fitting would be subject to fretting from engine vibration I would think. Ciao

I'm willing to here about other plastic options. Ciao

Forget the aluminium it'll be a loose sloppy mess in a few thousand klms. It's also needs to have a relatively high natural friction in the threads so it has an inbuilt stays where it's been adjusted to anti vibration design. Plastic is perfect for this and as I mentioned on another board Delrin would seem to be a good choice. I'd be interested in one or 2 myself in plastic but not aluminium. There's a reason the oem is plastic. Ciao

I haven't and they dont have knock sensors either. Same as the Lambda closed loop system only operates in steady state conditions and as the V11 is a Sporting motorcycle it doesn't see a lot of steady state operation unless you're droning along a freeway. That's why you can disable the Lambda system which many do and the bike runs equally as well if not better. The 15m/rc has no ability to adjust for different octane fuels. The octane rating of the fuel and what Lambda reads are not related. Ciao

My fairing and front guard look 1x1 to me docc? Ciao

They can, easier that way. Ciao