LowRyter

Chuck, great suggestion. I eat a lot of tomatoes, yogurt, lettuce & potatoes every day. OTOH, I barely eat sweets and still have borderline blood sugar levels. So perhaps my body knows what it wants but I just need more (or less)? Bananas aren't bad but not my daily diet. I'll make a point of more potassium (actually Bev and I talk about whenever I've had a bad day at the gym. Sometimes the weights can feel pretty heavy.) I wonder about having a banana or two on those days where I am making a long 300-500 mile ride? Sure couldn't hurt. I'd still like to know the best leg exercises.

My biggest discomfort riding the Sport (and my Duc) comes from my legs, specifically my hamstrings and occasionally my knees. When I ride for more than an hour, I need to get off and stretch. I've been doing elliptical training (as well as upper body and core). My thinking was elliptical would strengthen my legs (as well as cardio). Certainly exercise has made me feel better with more strength and stamina but not so much regarding riding distance. So the gym has these leg stretch machine, where I can raise my leg on a movable ramp and push a bar with my toe. I am wondering if that is the right exercise or the wrong one? I tried it today and was only able to do about 55 degrees, whereas the Mrs can do 90. I also get an occasional charliehorse at night, sometimes my knees will ache and wake me up and sometimes my feet get cramped when I wear flipflops or when I am reclined. So I know the stretch machine will likely benefit me but I'd still appreciate advice for the right exercise to help when I am riding like a jockey. Thanks

a little more than a quarter inch?

1/2 degree? That really seems minuscule. I'm surprised that production tolerances are that close. Could even a little debris in the fork clamp could count for that?

70 mph on Brit roads 80 years ago on a Brough should equate to 120 on a V11 today.

I clean my bikes' (not Guzzis) chains and wheels with WD40. For sure I get some on the rotors. I just just ride the brake a bit until it's all off. Lots of heat on those rotors. I just assume the seal is fixed.

All the news about Tulsa today, got me to thinking about Johnny Cale. They don't care about Dallas Texas They don't care about Wichita When you're ever in Oklahoma You better move around the law

That's more or less how I feel about my 939 Supersport.

Did someone perform a colonoscopy on that? 3 replies in a row is probably one or two too many.

That's always ticked all the boxes for me. I looked at owning one but thought it was way over my head to keep it running. I can't think of a single bike that would be up there unless it's V4 Panigale and I am pretty sure that one is also way over my head.

Ahhh Beemers are ugly and slow. Go ahead. Probably wouldn't be any worse.

Yeah, I could murder out my Greenie with flat black paint...............maybe I could wrap the exhaust with asbestos tape too. Might put knobbies on it. Then I'd lower to the ground. Man, would that be cool.

I hope those bikes were pretty well trashed before they were "customized".

I heard this for the first time and it was announced the singer, Frank Bey had passed away

It's been so long ago since I ordered it, I'd forgotten the details about it.

My goodness. They did send me the alt cover. I have to admit that it's a pretty piece, smooth clear coat, solid thick and light as carbon fiber. I think it is a carbon fiber sandwich over fiberglass real carbon fiber. It even matches the carbon weave on the Guzzi headlight fairing. I suppose that I shouldn't brag until I try to install it but looks gorgeous out of the box. (I wonder if they make Ducati parts?) It only took them 4 months but they did deliver.

don't plug the petcock plug into the fuel level sensor. It'll burn the sensor up.

We have a tradition of "flashing lights" to oncoming traffic when sighting a speed trap. I remember years ago that the Highway Patrol (Texas?) was ticketing the flashers. How could that be wrong when they're only alerting traffic of road hazards ahead and reminding folks not to speed but to follow the law? I still flash. It would be interesting to see what a lawyer might say about that, particularly with prosecutorial experience.

Well just another story how I am dangerous with tools. I decided I'd spend $4 whole dollars and purchase a new set of feeler gauges at HF. So I got the old gauge out to actually compare it to the new one, when I realized that old gauge was fine, but another feeler was stuck on the bottom of the one I was using. So rather than measure .020 + .019, I was adding another .018. Man it was really stuck. Probably should shoot some WD40 in 'em. So now I wasted $4 (Guzzi content). I should've kept my receipt. Just glad I didn't bugger $75 worth of spark plugs (iridium).

What the hell was that?

ouch.

Miles' "Kind of Blue" is my favorite jazz record from 1959. In 1970 Miles invented fusion with "Bitches Brew" after seeing Hendrix. Miles added electric bass and electric guitar and lots of rhythm to his music. This spawned Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, Mahivishnu, Larry Coryell, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, etc, etc. I recently saw documentaries on Miles and Jeff Beck. So if Miles was trying to be Jimi Hendrix with "Bitches Brew", was Jeff Beck trying to be Mile Davis after hearing "Jack Johnson"? Only two cuts on the full album, A side and B side. I just discovered this after watching the Jeff Beck doc. After hearing it, I think it's perhaps the very best of the fusion genre, at least Mile's "Right Off".

Well "shhheeee-it". But I'm not buying more drinks. (Guzzi content)

Thanks Docc