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  1. You may be able to bend the connection that is supposed to go onto the sparkplug to get it to fit. It is just a metal fitting crimped on the end of the wire. It may have been squished or otherwise bent so it no longer fits. Just bend it back. That should make it work. If you can't bend the end to get it to fit on the spark plug, you could cut the old end off and install a new end on the stock cable. Being less then an inch shorter should make little difference. As to replacing the spark plug cables in pairs, that doesn't seem important to me. As long as the cables are the right type, and the same type, it should make little difference.
  2. Yeah, their stuff seems good, but they don't seem to understand how many different versions of front fork were fitted to the V11. That seems to be where their bad reputation comes from with the V11. I thought we had made it clear in this thread that your forks should be the one fork model that their kit actually fits.
  3. Honestly, I am not yet very concerned with where Marc Marquez goes. He is not the top guy, yet. And he may never be that guy. Time will tell. Who was really impressive in last weekends race was Bagnia. He was amazing. But I get that many are still focusing on Marc because of what he has done on the Honda in the past. He is doing better then he was at the end of his Honda career. But he still is not one of the fastest guys on the Ducati. Side note, how mean is it that Audi gave Marc an RS6 and only gave Alex an RS4.....
  4. Interesting development for the Marquez brothers. This does seem to strengthen their tie to Ducati. https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1045629/1/marc-marquez-given-audi-worth-six-figures-he-pens-new-sponsorship-deal
  5. I get why someone would want cruise control on a bike, but I have no need or desire for it. I do use it in 4 wheeled vehicles, where I am just getting from point A to point B. But when I am on a bike I am there for the ride. But others, no doubt, are on their motorcycles to get from point A to point B, or maybe they just have a different idea of what "the ride" is.
  6. What docc said. The vent goes into the frame at the top. What is vented is a mixture of air pressure (from pistons moving up and down changing the volume of the area in the crankcases, plus some blow by past the piston rings) and oil that is carried in the moving air. That oil is something of a fine mist, typically. Once in the frame at the top the air slows down and the mist of oil collects and drains down to the bottom of that section of the spine frame. There you will find drain lines that route the collected oil back into the sump at the bottom. Some spine frames have 1 drain line, others have a pair. I have no idea why they would use two lines back to the sump, one should do. Meanwhile that air pressure that carried the oil into the spine frame is then vented into the airbox. Ideally it is just air at that point, no oil. But if you overfill your sump with oil you can end up with excess oil being blown into the airbox as it can overwhelm the system that is trying to remove the oil from the air that it vents.
  7. In the USA this year it seems it is going to be broadcast live on TruTV, a sister channel to TNT. At least it was for the first race, although it was a little chaotic as the deal was signed the week prior to the race being run. So the guide did not have info on it until a day before the race at most. This is much better for Americans vs WSBK, which is being broadcast on MAV TV. Sadly, MAV TV is only available in about half the homes in the US, as Verizon and Dish don't carry it. We have Dish, so no WSBK for us. But the coverage of MotoGP on TruTV was excellent. Sadly it did not seem to include the Moto3 and Moto2 races, but the MotoGP coverage was great, and even included the sprint race on Sat. Last years coverage of MotoGP on NBC did not include anything but highlights of the other races.
  8. The width of the wheel does affect the tires profile, for sure. And a wider wheel will tend to flatten out the profile. But to suggest that a 160/60-17 tire is being pinched mounted on a 4.5" wide wheel seems wrong. Someone may prefer a wider wheel for a 160, but that is not how the tire was likely built. Sadly, specs like that are harder to find then they used to be. I appreciate that Dunlop still publishes info like that right up front. Not all tire manufacturers do nowadays.
  9. Not sure where he got his info on wheel widths vs tire, but often the recommended width wheel for a 160/60 tire is 4.5" Here is a shot from Dunlop's web site for their Sportmax Q5 in a 160/60-17. The width in red is the recommended width, the width in black is acceptable.
  10. Click on the link a couple posts up in the post from me, MotoGP in “advanced talks” to change its US TV broadcaster MotoGP is reportedly set to switch to a new TV broadcaster in the United States. The motorsport series is in “advanced talks” with Warner Bros Discovery to move onto their channel this year, Sports Business Journal reports. The move is an attempt from MotoGP to “look for growth in America”. MotoGP has been broadcast in the US by NBC since 2020 but the report claims that their partnership has expired. The deal in negotiations with Warner Bros Discovery would mean all Saturday sprint races and Sunday grands prix would be live on linear cable TV. Warner Bros Discovery own TNT, TBS and TruTV. Warner Bros Discovery and MotoGP are already TV broadcast partners in other territories including the UK. TNT Sports, owned by Warner Bros Discovery, broadcast MotoGP to the UK audience.
  11. It sounds like it might be TNT. But it doesn't seem to be final yet.
  12. The season is about to start, and MotoGP is in talks to switch broadcast partners for the US. Shouldn't this have been done long before now? https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1045052/1/motogp-advanced-talks-change-its-us-tv-broadcaster
  13. A longer shock can change the total travel of the rear suspension, but it does not always do so. It can mean that the shock is simply longer with the same amount of travel. Whether it is 128mm, 120mm, or even 100mm, the sag number is not going to change that much. Using 25% sag, the difference between 128mm of rear suspension travel vs the other extreme of 100mm of rear suspension travel gives us a sag of 32mm vs a sag of 25mm. So, even between those two extremes the difference is only 7mm of sag. To each their own, but I would not worry about that difference for a streetbike. To me that is over thinking it. If you split the difference you would undoubtedly be fine. I think you would be fine using any number in that range. Set your sag, see how it feels, and adjust as desired.
  14. Rear suspension travel should be around 128mm. So, 20 - 30 % of that. For doccs 25% it would be 32mm of sag with you on the bike from fully extended.
  15. Yeah, I respect his talent but not the man. He showed everyone who he is, and I lost pretty much all respect for him as a person with his behavior. Another factor is, while he is very fast he is also lacking in respect for others on track with him. He has a tendency to hit others. Sometimes it is because he is not fully in control of his bike, other times he is fully in control but chooses to make contact on the way by even though there may be enough room to do so without contact. I think he feels that contact like that will intimidate others so next time they will give him more room. Dale Earnhardt did the same thing in NASCAR. And I was not a fan of his, either. One possible outcome of Marc being on a faster bike is more people may end up on the ground. I hope not, I hope he is past that sort of riding. But I will believe it when I see it.
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