Lucky Phil

Doesn't this represent child abuse of some sort? I mean an EV first bike, are you trying to turn him off motorcycling or something? What next, a Fender Stratocaster with rubber strings to protect your hearing. What's the world coming to. Ciao

Well if you get some Carbon seat cowls made I might be interested in one myself if they are high quality. Ciao

Don't have around 1 hour total spare time to invest? That's all it takes in total spread over 2 or 3 events. Ciao

Yea I know docc but thats all I got Ciao

http://www.fastguzzi.nl/ Look under V11 parts. Contact Paul he may still make them. Ciao

This is a no brainer seriously. Repair the cracking with some fibreglass repair kit if it's minor and possible on the back of the cowl. So a fibreglass repair patch to regain it's strength and fill any slight issues on the visible face with the glass resin and the sand it back with wet and dry carefully. For the matching matt finish buy a can of matt clear 2 pack and spray it. Quality carbon will always have a clear coat to protect the resin from the sun and all the differences are is if it's clear or gloss matt. I've done several carbon repairs this way and even patched carbon parts with carbon cloth scraps. I bought a set of carbon side covers from a member here and he had cut out a keyhole section of the L/H cover for a rear shock reservoir hose. I repaired it with some fibreglass resin and some scrap Carbon cloth I have laying around. I just put a patch on the back of the panel and let it dry then cut out a couple of keyhole shaped piece of carbo matt and resined it in place to fill the cut out and level it up. I didn't even bother with getting it perfectly flat with resin and sanding it back and shooting a bit of clear over it as it was so good I didn't bother. I've taken an image in the worst possible light and angle to show the repair and then a general shot of what you'd see from a foot away fitted to the bike. 99% of people wouldn't even spot it when fitted unless I pointed it out. Another hour of messing about and it would be nigh on a perfect repair. Almost no skill required and a $12 fibreglass repair kit and some give away carbon matt offcuts. Ciao

Thats not a full seat but a seat cover only. Looks quite nice. Ciao

Well, factory riders have always historically had to do the bulk of the "real" parts testing. For all the hype and focus on Factory test riders not one of them is genuinely fast fast enough to offer the factory racers any assistance with setup for getting genuine pace and qualifying class speed out of a GP bike. Mick Doohan pointed this out years ago when he mockingly mentioned it for the Japanese testers in his day. He considered them as parts endurance testers and he was right and it's pretty much the same today. Dani Pedrosa is about the quickest from recent races and qualified .8 seconds slower than pole which wasn't a bad effort and was 19 seconds down at the end of the race in Austria. He knew the track like the back of his hand though with a mountain of testing he does there. Pirro in his last outing was 1.2 seconds off the pace in quali and a massive 28 seconds down in the race. Broadly speaking even these top testers are around rookie class speed and you don't go to rookies looking for information for the factory guys setups. The truth is testers are there to endurance test parts and ensure new componentry actually works reliably and does what it's supposed to do. Then it's handed over to the "racers" to see if actually translates into faster lap times or other advantages. Testers simply aren't fast enough to determine major development directions and modifications. It's the last 2-3 tenths that determine the winning bike from the also ran machines and as Doohan pointed out back in the day unless the test riders are within a few tenths of his lap times then their feedback on bike development and speed is pointless. You notice in the last few years the testers are doing a lot more PR type stuff for the manufacturers simply because they need to try and get maximum value out of them because their impact on bike speed is pretty lame. They have a genuine role to play but lets no overemphasise their importance. Ducati fell for the backlog of 2 years worth of development waiting to be tested and overloaded the factory riders with new parts and options to sort through. It's happened before. Then again Pecco has been hyped to the sky in the off season and I've been waiting to see if he's actually up to it. Personally I think he's a sook compared to Miller who's just sucked it up and then kept his head down even after the factory Ducati team messed up his entire race for him. Ducati have gone "all in" with their choice of Pecco and are now in the position of needing to either blame themselves for poor management or allow the commentariat to question their total commitment and hyping of Peccos chances for the championship. I notice lately that the hype in MotoGP is getting to F1 level which is sad. I see hardly any sensible information coming from any source these days it's 99.9% hype based on speculation. Even the new commentator Fox has is a pain and my wife said she won't be able to watch the GP's this year if he continues with his 5 words/second speed babble which is just too much. Last years pair were good but only 1 remains. One things for sure this year, nothing would surprise me and I'm strapped in already. Ciao

I'm all for that but it's not going to happen in our lifetime. Being from the aviation world I'm totally fine with automated control systems, BUT, you'll always have the driver as the responsibility holder just like a commercial pilot flying on auto pilot. There won't be any sleeping or watching movies while at the wheel and the driver will still be in a monitoring and control role. I'm a massive fan of active cruise control but I have friends that hate it. I explain to them that it's purpose is to relieve the driver of the mundane tasks of driving and reduce the fatigue that those tasks create so their concentration is more acute for controlling the more important aspects of being in control of a ton and a half of moving metal. Most don't see it though. Ciao

I wouldn't worry about the added complexity of the shimming the Loctite will tolerate that gap from memory and has the psi rating to deal with the loads. Ciao

Italians, probably ran out of Ohlins dampers and used what they had. Ciao

I would expect some variation due to the distortion created by frame welding but yours seems to have more than I've experienced of would expect. Has it ever had a front end crash? I'd just use some Loctite bearing mount and if you ever need to remove them then you can just run a bead of arc weld around them on the inner face and they'll fall out even with the loctite. Ciao

I do know the tank fuel tap fitting has been unobtainium new for quite a few years. Ciao

Didn't say it was a bad deal, in fact it looks like a good deal. Just saying that it would be wise to crack check it before use so you have the opportunity to fix it before getting it together and installed if it is cracked. A crack test should be on the list of things to do if you ever have the gearbox out of the bike these days I think. Ciao

What I think is it's "early doors" in a 21 race season and Pecco is a bit of a sook. Miller has a much bigger reason to complain but took it on the chin publicly. Ciao

Personally I'd invest in a Dye check kit and learn how to use it. My gearbox that I stripped and reassembles was cracked but not visible to the naked eye and showing no signs of leakage. I dye checked it found the hairline crack and weld repaired and re enforced the area and stress relieved the other mount areas that are stress raisers. My original gearbox isn't showing any signs of cracking or leaking either but you can be sure I'll be dye checking it in the future to be sure and then removing the stress raisers before any further use. Ciao

Yea I see the suspicions created by the image but I wouldn't conclude it's cracked 100%. Worth asking the question. Ciao

I watch the BSB on Eurosports and they have adds in the middle of races and you can lose 5 laps of the race. The classic was once they went to an add break and the last 2 min of the break was a "famous last lap battles" from a WSB race about 15 years ago. So these complete morons at Eurosport thought it would be a great idea to lose about 2 laps of a CURRENT BSB race to air the last lap and a half of a 15 year old WSB race you can view on Youtube any time you like, WTF. Is Europsport run by 15 year olds or something! Ciao

So what forks did you install the Andreani units in? were they originally damper rod forks? black or silver stanchions? Year model? Andreani don't list carts for the earlier 99-2000 models I think due to the axle bracket fitting internally suited to the damper rod style fork. Ciao

Any details on the maxton units? They might also be an option for me. Ciao

I was wondering how they sealed these spoke nipples. So blind nipples with an oring on the OD that seals in a bore hole in the rim. So what 36 spokes/rim x 2 rims = 72 spokes and orings with matching rim holes, made in Italy. What could possibly go wrong, lol. Ciao

I always pull the fuel pump fuse if I'm going to cycle the ignition switch a few times for whatever reason during maintenance work. Nothing to be gained by continually squirting a shot of fuel down the inlets every time you cycle the ignition switch. Ciao