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Lucky Phil

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  1. People miss the point of cruise control, it's an anti fatigue device not a motorcycle or car driving/control device. Let me explain. I've been dealing with aircraft autopilots all my working life and the reason they exist is to relieve the pilot of the mental fatigue caused by hours of stick and rudder flying. There's minimal skill required on a commercial jet to hand fly the plane but it does fatigue mentally over hours of doing it. So the concept is to relieve the pilot of that low level mental fatigue that accumulates so he has more resources to focus on the important things like navigation and the upcoming landing. Keep the pilot as mentally fresh as possible. In the commercial aviation world the restrictions of flying a jet with inop autopilots is very severe indeed to the point where we never did it. We just fixed the issue. Commercial pilots don't consider the autopilot system as some sort of slur on their flying abilities which a lot of car drivers do with active cruise control. So car/bike cruise control is exactly the same concept. It's mentally draining over medium to long drives/rides keeping the vehicle on the speed limit or desired speed all the time and now with draconian speed limit tolerances and enforcement it's worse than ever. The cruise control is there to relieve the driver/rider of that mentally fatiguing process so he is free to focus on more important issues like the next corner or the road surface or surrounding riders/drivers. The best invention ever, well almost is Active cruise control. My auto cars have it. The car will hold a set speed up hill down dale apply the brakes if needed when it come up behind a slower car etc. All I need to do is worry about the surrounding drivers and dodging the road kill on the freeway and timing my lane changing. Brilliant. The difference in mental freshness on the regular 9 hour drives I do is dramatic. You get to your destination much less fatigued then before. It's not a system designed to insult the rider/drivers skill level which a lot of drivers seem to think it is but primarily an anti fatigue and therefore safety device. Other electronic aids such as lane keeping assist which is used to help mitigate inattentive drivers behind the wheel I'm not so thrilled about and I turn them off because they are generally too intrusive and not there for fatigue relief but to assist lazy bad drivers not focused on the task of driving the vehicle. Anti lock brakes are another great aid. Lets face it how many people practice their threshold braking to become or even keep proficient at it. Phil
  2. Here's something interesting. I was talking to my SIL's father a few months ago about this. He's a retired physicist thats spent a good deal of his career in the oil industry. Our long held beliefs and education of the origins of oil are quite possibly flawed. In the history of all forms of drilling for exploration nobody has ever found fossilised material below a drilling depth of 16,000 feet. So thats the maximum depth ever recorded for buried originally organic material, material that may under the correct conditions be turned into a hydrocarbon or crude oil. So why then is a large percentage of our oil derived from wells between 28 and 32,000 feet? This may be the answer and means that oil reserves are instead of being a finite resource are more like a continuing by product of the earths naturally occurring geological conditions. So oil is the product of dead forests under the influence of pressure and heat? Quite possibly not as it turns out. Saturn's larges moon Titan has also been speculated to have vast subsurface deposits of crude oil by both NASA and the European space agency after reviewing probe information. There's never been forests on Titan as the surface is a sea of Methane. https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/41889 As for the death of ICE vehicles, don't worry it ain't going to happen in my lifetime. Phil
  3. Usually the latter Mick. I once bought a Ducati ST2 off a friend as a "favour" to him. He needed the cash. It was out of rego, been dropped on the right side and the Termi can carbon cover was held on with cable ties, the rear disk was undersize and required replacement to get through rego, the LCD fuel gauge was broken and didn't work, the front wheel bearings were shot, the r/h fairing was cracked from the drop and he hadn't washed it in 18 months. He wanted $7200 for it when they were asking $7400 for a low mileage mint one, so probably get it for $7000. I offered him $6000 and I'd take care of the rego inspection and repairs and he didn't have the hassle of advertising it. It ended up costing me an extra $1800 to repair plus rego. So $8400 all up and lots of work to own a well used and unloved ST2 as a favour to a friend when I could have had a mint one for $7000 maybe $7200 tops and zero work. Outcome. I now owned a bike I never particularly wanted to own and he thought I'd taken financial advantage of him and he never spoke to me again. People, go figure. Phil
  4. Ha, just checked MCS and the last V11 year model listed is the 2003 Ballabio. Here's me thinking they made them until 2006. I told you I find the year model thing confusing. Phil
  5. What about later bikes post 2002 to the US like the Le Mans and all the other naked variants from 2002-2006? All 15M in the USA? Phil
  6. This reminds me the MGS01 came with the 15M and PF09. Next time I connect GD I'll select MGS01 from the drop down box. Phil
  7. Thats true Pete but mine and Gritmans use the 15M with PF09 TPS's. Although the images of the Sport IE I have seen uses the PF03 TPS Phil
  8. I know Mick I've done it a quite a few times. My question is probably better phrased, "What selection do you make for model from the initial drop down box". That would be weird as the PF09 never reached the V11 series, it was dumped with the Daytona and Centauro I think and didn't even make the 1100IE Sport either I don't think. Phil
  9. How old is the fuel? Does it have actual fuel pressure ( I know the plugs are wet but maybe the fuel pressure is low and that just causes fuel puddling worse than normal in the intake manifold and drowns the spark) how long since it's been previously run? Are you using std plugs or fine wire plugs? ( once FW plugs are fouled they are junk) Not sure about the GD issue. How do you select the model of bike from the drop down box? I use V11 Sport for my V10 Sport with the same ECU and TPS as you but I'm not sure if I get the IAW15M PF09 or IAW15M PF03C. I think the latter. The TPS identifier shouldn't matter as they are both non linier but what std model uses a 15M PF09 configuration? I can't think of any unless GD reads the actual TPS fitted. My bike used to be very hard to start and keep running during warm up before I re mapped the cranking enrichment map and revised the engine temp enrichment break points which were based on the V11 sport 2 valve engine in my original 8 valve maps. Now it's very good to start and warm up. There is a process however. Open the fast idle 90% and don't touch the throttle and it fires up withing a few seconds on the starter and goes to 1800 rpm. From there you can back off the fast idle to around 1500 rpm and after about 30 seconds you can use it to keep the rpm at that figure for a minute or two then ride it. Phil
  10. Yes a 180 on a 4.5 rim is wrong and I don't know anything about tyres. Phil
  11. My 1198 rear tyre. The bikes not even run in yet Phil
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  13. Relays, Ignition switch, Connectors, earths, R.I.C.E. The V11 Sport electrical troubleshooting guide. Phil
  14. Umm, really. Don't know about others but once I've set up the preload and compression damping to my riding and road conditions I don't need a travel indicator again. Besides a slight smear of grease with your finger indicates just as well when the dust seal wipes it down under compression. Phil
  15. Pete will have a little bit of wee coming out on this one. Phil
  16. The problem with the direct battery solution is there is a parasitic drain now on the battery when the bike is parked which along with the parasitic drain from the ECU causes the battery to lose charge fairly rapidly. The OEM design eliminates this because when the ignition key is turned off the reg is isolated due to it voltage sensing being from the light wiring circuit. The problem with the OEM arrangement is that the light circuit wiring is marginal in it's ability to carry the current without the voltage sagging when the lights are on and because the reg senses essentially battery voltage from the lighting circuit it reads the "sagged" voltage when you have the lights on. This then overcharges the battery. Instead of the reg reading actual battery voltage it reads battery voltage minus 1 volt usually. The solution is what I did years ago and is to run a separate supply for the headlights and fit mini relays in the headlight shell. This cures the voltage sag with the headlights on, eliminates the high current that the headlight switch normally has to carry and keeps the reg wired as per OEM which isolates it with the ignition switch off and avoids the parasitic drain when parked. Phil
  17. Was there some doubt with a 2004 build date? Phil
  18. Already been posted P25. Worth a second look though. Phil
  19. I asked only because some of my springs have a cut end on the bent arm and some a ground finish. Having trouble coming to terms with one of the Chuck/Scud springs ended up in that condition almost immediately after fitment. Something other than the spring is wrong here. Phil
  20. I'm looking at my spare springs Scud, how did you trim them? cutter or grinder? How overlong do they have to be to cause an issue with the cover? Phil
  21. Plot thickens. I scaled the image as best I could and it does appear that the right angle tab on the end of the spring is significantly longer than the stock spring. Maybe this one missed the trim process and was catching on the cover? Phil
  22. Hmm, I smell something fishy here. That image isn't from a simple fatigue failure thats something bazar and or possibly self inflicted. Does this bike have the old original and faulty oversize shift arm boss? Phil
  23. They were cheaper than my PVM Wheels. Phil
  24. The British don't have much of a handle on Aussie sense of humour. Probably something to do with brilliant idea of shipping the convicts to paradise all those years ago while the rest stayed in England to bask in the Pommie weather and warm beer for the next 250 years. You find my comment unfriendly but are happy for me to re direct it onto someone else? Jamming things into other things and applying significant torque to fasteners rarely ends well. The original mistake has regrettably and obviously occurred, no need to compound the disaster by suggesting other dubious techniques. Phil
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