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I have the long conical shape muffler in satin black on my Griso. I think the unit came flawless and the satin black looks and sounds great on the bike. Haven't removed the db killer yet.

I never noticed because I think I only pumped one. It was mentioned on another site that they are supposed to be like that. One is for compression and the other is for rebound. I never imagined each leg could act so differently. I'm no suspension expert, but I can call one come Monday to get their take. There is a shop in California that deals with nothing else. First time ever replacing seals. It was easier than I thought.

I decided to put Red Bike up for sale today. It’s had the ‘Full Motomoda Treatment’ in case anyone’s interested in Oz. [img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52767196911_28f284759f_b.jpg[/img] Shit. Can’t post pics here from a link.

What was it like before you replaced the seals? Did you notice. The cart may have failed internally before you pulled it apart and you hadn't noticed. Failing that remove the cap and spring and manually pump the cartridge. Phil

I believe the cracked piece is the stator ring.

Being constantly on podium and only winning one race is how A Rins won a championship on his Suzuki. 🤔 Marc is on a mission to show everyone he’s still got it. i hope Marc wins next too, but Jorge Martin is extremely fast. This makes for great racing drama, television ratings for MotoGP have to be up this year.

I just finished replacing fork seals on my 2012 NTX. The first one I pumped up and down after putting cap on...I felt it equalize the oil and after a few pumps, it felt like I think it should. You can feel the oil doing its thing. After completing the other one I compressed it to move the oil around, and I have no hydraulic feel, just spring. Pumped a few more times and still felt the same pogo effect, with zero hydraulic feel. And yes, same amount of oil in the leg. What did I do wrong?

I don't want to jinx it...but am hoping that Marquez gets it, now that he's starting so much farther up in position, he doesn't have to try to go from 13/14 to 2nd...perhaps he can ride a clean race and win. Mugello is a fast track...360 km/h top speed...just madness...but oh so thrilling to watch!

Having grown up in California and lived there for half my life, and felt several big earthquakes including the 1989 Loma Prieta one (living in Palo Alto then), I do prefer the "advance warning" of a hurricane vs. the suddenness of an earthquake. Now having been thru quite a few hurricanes (Rita, Ike, Harvey and some major tropical storms here as well) it's certainly preferable to an earthquake. Houston normally just doesn't have tornados, having to get above Dallas and into Oklahoma/Kansas areas to have that as a regular risk. Who knows anymore with the warming, this could be a treacherous year of hurricanes too given the rising gulf ocean waters. I've seen the last few days of amazingly large hail in towns a few hours north (tennis ball sized) that looks like it could just pulverize you on the motorcycle...smashing windshields on cars very easily. Summer may be too hot to ride again for a month or so as it was last summer...regularly hitting 115F heat index values for almost 30 days straight... On the plus side, the insurance company has been exceptionally fast in authorizing the repayment of expenses, after shelling out the deductible...so that's good...no fighting with them at least.

I'm going to have to figure out where to post photos etc. I don't know how well documented this trip will be, it's a 'ride' not a destination. Anchorage is the idea for the turn-around, but a lot depends on mileage and time. I do have a camera on the Sena talky, if I can learn how to use it...of course there will be pics when we stop. I suppose I can simply make a shared folder in Google photos and do the narrative here.

It may be worth considering . The fact thumper said it started this problem immediately , is to be considered too . There has to be deliberate diagnosis and making sure you have checked and rechecked everything .

My Godfather took a trip to Alaska is a camera bug that loves to waste film on a trip . Not this time , every turn , crest , horizon , EVERY picture was the most beautiful scene I had ever seen until I looked at the next pic. I can't remember the farthest point north but he took a picture there proving his quest and conquest was finished . He then returned taking pics just as beautiful of his return to Barlow . If at all possible , I would like to follow this voyage and see these sights.

Ok thanks for letting us know. Looks like a few things to replace to bring it up to scratch. What part of the casing is cracked? Phil

Looking like you need to give her a good lookover and some maintenance. 20 year old bike... But by the look of that air filter, she's had a neglected life. I doubt it'll take much to get her up to snuff.

Thanks for those, I have subscribed to all. However, they are all only covid-vaccine related, and they all seem to think the vaccine harms were an oversight or an unacknowledged mistake. But when you consider that the replacement of ICE with EV (which won't even work in the absence of nuclear power) can be dismissed as an unacknowledged mistake, and start looking for other such oversights and unexpected bad-turns, there seem to be a lot of unacknowledged mistakes to be found nowadays! I am actually hoping to understand what's going on with the society & economy, and especially the changes that are happening, particularly in Australia, and why (e.g.) immigration has been drastically increased. I don't buy the surface-logic «explanation» that 'fake degree seekers want citizenship' (although they do), and nor do I think all the rich kids getting their money from the casino and driving recklessly in fancy cars are doing it «just because» as they could be doing it elsewhere instead. I want to understand why that is, why the money is flooding in and can't be stopped, when I, personally, have a devil of a time transferring piddly amounts for perfectly legitimate purposes (like buying motorcycles, haha). I want to understand why there seems to be a policy of deliberate population replacement in various G-7 countries such as Ireland, Canada, the US, Netherlands, Germany (thanks Merkel!), Sweden & possibly Australia. I don't buy the low-birthrate argument either, because the societal disorder that has resulted was clearly not a necessary feature and there are many immigrant communities that are not violent. I don't believe we have just stumbled onto this juncture in history, unplanned & frazzled, I think we were led here and I want to understand why. Bearing in mind that paranoia (on my part) is a perfectly easy explanation, I am too dumb to allow for that explanation to suffice either. One isn't paranoid when they are actually out to get you. And one shouldn't be dismissed as a conspiracy-nut when there is an actual conspiracy! So! I realize I may be opening a can of worms, but I'm all outta cans of beer, and apologies to those that might be offended. PS the closest I have found for Australia is Matt Barrie (Great Australian Scream talk) and for Europe it's Ayaan Ali on her restoration blog (she blames the Russians as far as I can tell). I am looking for more material like that, and I prefer explanation over alarmism (so Eva Vlaardingerbroek for example seems to lack the explanation part, though she did indicate that the farmer's problems were part of the larger ongoing societal upheavals). PS2 now that I see where the thread started, we are way off-topic, so perhaps I should've started a new topic altogether.

Well , the bars are still there , it's the people that are missing .

Hmm I added a jpeg2000 file and it's not showing in the preview, so here's a lower-quality version instead.

@Lucky Phil thank you for asking, I hadn't realized it had been left unsaid, and sorry for the late reply. Yes, the left-hand side throttle body (or is it boot?) had come off, and that was the primary issue. In trying to re-seat it I ended up messing up the screws with the yellow paint, and then the throttle bodies also had to be re-synced. Then all sorts of other issues came to light. For fun, I made a little collage if anyone wants to have a go at diagnosing what was discovered! V11 collage issues.jpg

I think a lot of people these days are very self- absorbed and lost in their digital world (s).... Exception being us bike nuts,we seem to be able to talk to each other without any dramas.I've even found that it's (the bike) a good conversation starter with some er normal people too!

Saving Private Ryan.

There are certain songs close enough to the heart that I do not listen to them. 'Mad World' is one, and a couple other Moby makes.

Bruh. The first time someone said "Wait! Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings??" was 1985. You're late to the party.

And in a few short years...the Beatles. Phew!

This world in my hand dissolves when riding thru the bush in the hills to the syncopated beat - pulling into a no reception pub my pint filled hand soon becomes more than the sum of its parts In reality it’s a lovely break… from the matrix! My Guzzi rides are my grounding Cheers 🍺

Uhh, yeah. Titanium is another thing entirely to cut.