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On to the electronics at last. I'm sure that Pete is mad that I haven't made progress yet, but without going into a long story, I'll just say that work has been difficult. No time off, including holidays – St Patrick's Day or Easter – and any time that I have had for fiddling, I've had to fix problems that have arisen with family cars. This morning I at last found what is wrong with the latest problem, a Renault (spit) diesel and as it is the May bank holiday weekend, I am now taking some time to move on to the Griso. Bike, as people know, has been running badly since recall cam/tappet wreckage and replacement and only made worse the couple of times that it has gone to MG 'service agent'. Apart from anything else, I'm only getting a consistent 70/71 miles to a tank of fuel and the display says 17m.p.g. consumption – which is atrocious. __________________________________________________ With Axone connected, the first problem is obvious. The throttle position is 8.8 degrees and it should be 4.6 or so (isn't that right?). The first job that I wanted to do was to get the 'sacred screw' back to an approximately correct position, using the Axone readout to go back to 4.6. I know the screw has been upset, but as the TPS has never been reset nor anything else adjusted, I had high hopes of getting the screw setting back. However, looking at the throttle linkage adjuster, it looks like it has been turned. Why? I don't know. So my plans are derailed at the first step. Working with both screws, I can't get the TP below 8.7 degrees (idle on hot engine). This is even with the sacred screw backed right off beyond where it has no effect. When I started the work with a cold engine, it was 8.8 at 900 rpm (12.2 at 3,000). What does this mean? Am I missing something? How can I get the tps down to 4.6 I need to get a better base position before I to a tps reset. Don't I?

I'll have to do some updates. Sorry there hasn't been as much info as there was last year. Get back to you soon.

I laughed when I got to the Italian one: > SOCIALISM > You have 2 cows. > You give one to your neighbour. > > > COMMUNISM > You have 2 cows. > The State takes both and gives you some milk. > > FASCISM > You have 2 cows. > The State takes both and sells you some milk. > > > NAZISM > You have 2 cows. > The State takes both and shoots you. > > BUREAUCRATISM (eg. Brussels) > You have 2 cows. > The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the > milk away. > > > TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM > You have two cows. > You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd > multiplies, and the economy grows. > You sell them and retire on the income. > > > SURREALISM > You have two giraffes. > The government requires you to take harmonica lessons. > > > AN AMERICAN CORPORATION > You have two cows. > You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. > Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead. > > > ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. > You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of > credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, Then execute > debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all > four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of > the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island > Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights > to all seven cows back to your listed company. > The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on > one more. > You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving > you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. > The public then buys your bull. > > > A FRENCH CORPORATION > You have two cows. > You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want > three cows. > > > A JAPANESE CORPORATION > You have two cows. > You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and > produce twenty times the milk. > You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market > it worldwide. > > A GERMAN CORPORATION > You have two cows. > You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and > milk themselves. > > > AN ITALIAN CORPORATION > You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have > lunch. > > > A RUSSIAN CORPORATION > You have two cows. > You count them and learn you have five cows. > You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. > You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. > You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. > > > A SWISS CORPORATION > You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners > for storing them. > > > A CHINESE CORPORATION > You have two cows. > You have 300 people milking them. > You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. > You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation. > > > A BRITISH CORPORATION > You have two cows. > Both are mad. > > > AN IRAQI CORPORATION > Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. > No-one believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your > country. > You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy. > > > AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION > You have two cows. > Business seems pretty good. > You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate. > > > A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION > You have two cows. > The one on the left looks very attractive. > > > AN INDIAN CORPORATION > You have two cows. > You worship them.

Go large, small blocks

MacEuan: I know you weren't sure to be free, but any more thoughts on getting over for the end of May meet here?

Jaap will be needing a salary raise. The current (future traditional) forums are good and useful if they are used properly. They get a bit messed-up when the wrong things are posted in the wrong place. FAQ and How To could be combined. It would need strict management by a moderator, because it's a sure thing that it will get filled up with general and repetitive tech queries. Your suggestions are all good. A difference that I would have, is to keep the CARC (the current bikes) as a discrete section, as I think it will be active and useful in the future.

Dress code?

I think you're right, Hubert. There are enough forum divisions. I do think that there is a good reason to have the Carc forum, as these are the current and future bikes and what many of us have purchased and others will move to. Unfortunately I have posted about problems because I have had so many and forums are the (only) places where we get help from. I have posted pics and descriptions of the good times too and would post more if there were more. The validity of the Carc Forum will depend upon people (other than me) posting stuff on it. In the past, as far as I remember, Jaap was adamant that this is a V.11 Forum only: and it worked tremendously well as a one-model garage. The V.11 is no longer current and as we have said before, most of the problems, fixes, issues, subjects have now been covered: so activity here is just not as lively as it used to be, because of that. Now (for the past year or more) Jaap, and a lot of us, think it should move on in a slightly different or expanded or updated way. The V.11 content should remain the vital essence of the site; and I think tht the CARC section should stay and that people should/could/will use it more in the future. I sympathise with the idea of adding 'oldie' content: but I think that we could agree to a tolerant attitude to posts within the already existing sections. Rather than adding more, there could even be a slight culling / tidying /rationalisation / combining of some of the fixtures here? David

Any excuse to dress up. I'll come over to yours.

quite right - keep that sort of thing on the other side of the ocean, please

ah, Moderator Power hmmmm wonder what I could do..............???????????

I bought it in RR, in Lisburn. They went out of business at the beginning of last year. I then had to deal with Coleraine, who have been diabolically awful. Clifton Auto / The Motorcycle Centre has a new Griso for sale.

No new poster this year: I have modified last year's. belfastguzzi.com Download poster: Poster on Flickr

Brilliant necessity > to > bloatware LM Mk l era > V.11 Scura era > Griso era >

It's when he talks in the middle, Jaap – between the two songs. "very few people talk to each other anymore you've got tv for that, who needs friends, right? and because of this, people feel kinda dirty and when they get on that bike, it's like a hyper-bath it's that air rushing by and cleansing you and making you... and also the feeling that you can determine where you're gonna go" - - - Excellent Iggy: at least 5% of that makes sense

"it's like a hyper-bath" – is that what he said? (about half-way through) Old school Iggy (41) with Steve Jones Iggy

I was watching the rerun at midnight, but didn't see it all. Around the time that Stoner fell off (second time around) the house shook. Car bomb, timed, no doubt, to coincide with devolution of policing powers, transferred at midnight from London to NI Assembly. Memories of the old days indeed.

Jaap, it will normally be on BBC 2. The night-time race from Qatar has just now been shown live on BBC 3, probably because there is golf(!) on BBC 2. There is a repeat at midnight (UK time) on BBC 2. It was a good enough race with a storming finish. Stoner's crash gave it to Rossi. Hayden lost out on a podium just at the very, very end, by a whisker. Honda going stronger than Ducati.

Casey down just like the old days. Rossi storming the front just like... Though how come Nicky Haden is in 3rd? Not like him.

Not like olden days, chaps.

Yes there are lists of alternatives here, but the general view that comes across from many examinations, is that the oe filters are best or as good as the best – and there are other makes that fit but they aren't as good. That's my understanding anyway.

Looking good! The garage especially is looking good.

The emulsion can't be avoided. Too many short journeys. The bike (or the car) doesn't get warmed up by the time I get to work.So just have to live with that.