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After spending all of March away overseas on a combination of business travel & vacation, I managed to ride a V11 for the first time this year today, and a cold but sunny early Spring day. Alas, having parked to get a coffee & some bacon sandwiches 🥪 , we were ambushed by this bunch of scurvy desperados

Wow…what fun to see!! Out on the Scura, met a friend with a new Toy! Very tidy, efficient looking and gorgeous bike! Great to see one in person…am I envious? Just a little bit!! Scura running like a charm, very spirited 140 miles today and clocked 41 mpg…quite happy with that! Of course…I’m not selling the Scura!!

G'day folk's. Well after the wee issue with the battery from not riding her for awhile I've been riding as much as I can of late.So yesterday after taking the wife shopping I thought I'd take a ride and see Dad ( about 100 kays away ).The rain front seemed to be moving through but still a bit gloomy ...ah what the hell bugger the wets! So gassed up in Warragul and came across a wee Breva 750 and a Norton Dommie ridden by Hubby( ?) on the way back to Drouin and the road to Lang Lang.So I'n not the only idiot out an about... All was well bike and me running great and enjoying the twisty bits weather even holding out! Then we get to the highway and bugger me I start missing the odd gear change,hitting every pothole and bump in the road and feeling generally beaten up! Has the front end developed a slight wobble? Do I need to rethink my suspension settings ( just as I thought I had them sorted ) and of course as we're down by the coast now it's blowing a gale and the first of the showers start rolling in... Well for all of this I'm still glad I took the bike.... So after seeing Dad I fire the ole tart up and head for home and right on queue the rain starts again... Van Morrison's song or line DAYS LIKE THIS pops into my head as I head up the street. Well a few kays further and the rain clears there are no mystery wobbles in the front end and the suspension is fine still.I stop at the clowns arches for a bite before hitting the good bits home. It took care of the pangs of hunger as not eaten yet and it's 1.30pm. My patience was rewarded with a clear run through the fun bits home and we nailed it.. ha ha everything went just so and what a ride! Even the weather held out and temps in double digits now too ( just ). Ahhh home, shower and propped up in front of the fire with the wife and only a couple of hours to wine o'clock..... So what was looking like one of those days turned out to be a bit of a ripper..... Cheers Guzzler

I think it’s the exact of my 02 Le Mans …. The difference is the handle bars position which I am not familiar with . I love the bars on the Le Mans .very comfortable for me. the04 should have a different shift spring, supposedly better that the previous years . I like the suspension. but never ridden a spine with Ohlins so don’t know anything about them. real good improvement??

Maybe he is in a band? that is why he called it a sound check? I was surprised that Mistral would already have an exhaust designed for the V100; but according to Akrapovič, they work hand in hand with the factories in order to have the exhaust available at about the same time the bikes get commercialized.

That calling a you tube video a "sound check" is completely absurd. The mufflers look pretty tidy, though.

Here's a V100 equipped with a Mistral instead of the stock; What do you think?

The Sprint race was ok; the GP race was a bit of a bore. Bez went away without too much of a trouble. We had to wait all the way until the end to get a little bit of suspense with Zarco's usual late recovery, but not enough to get to the front. Bagnaia slipped again on this one. So much for not making the old fashioned mistakes of last year. I was waiting for the Aprila boys to be protagonist, and.... nada! So, when Marquez is away, Ducati has a field day... Alex Marquez has just proven that it is all about the bike. At least Morbidelli had a chance to redeem himself and shove Quartararo's critics in his throat. Never criticize your mate it can bit you back.

Ohh good thank you 😊

a P.S. to the last post: I spoke to my electronic technician colleague again today. He confirmed those assumptions, and went on to say that for our application, pretty much only the stated switching current is directly relevant.

A constructive review from that same guy:

Almost always, in my experience.

When it ends well it's great to chalk it up as a satisfying thing. I seem to miss shifts & such when I'm about 15 minutes in after not riding much, and the inevitable "is it me or the bike?" is more often me.....

Fantastic. It's good when it all works out.

docc, I just noticed that I didn't respond to this That has been discussed in "Best Relay", I think Fuses all look ok. Yes, the wiring has been changed. However, the bolt holding several cables together behind the battery is not an unshielded postive, but rather a "common ground", i.e. it connects a cable from battery minus with a connector out of the loom and an addition that supplies the negative contact to an accessory socket up behind the instruments. So it is not dangerous, even if I am not completely happy with the solution.

Hold the presses. I think that is turned around. It should be "resistive load" and "resistance". Resistance is how much a component resists the flow of current through itself. As noted earlier, work done (power in Watt) is the product of Volts and resistance. Resistance seems generally to be quoted in the spec. sheets for the switching coil, and therefore isn't related to the current capacity on the load side of the relay. Resistive load is the load that is induced by a resistance. As far as I understand it, this is related to what is called "carry" and / or "continous" load in as much as it specifies what sort of load is being continously carried.

Bulk discount on a packet of 50...

Update: All fixed! Finally had some time to get back to the project, have been busy at work and riding the Tour of Texas and other activities so the Scura was sitting waiting for attention. Anyway, a few weeks ago at Gstallons recommendation I took my fuel injectors to get reconditioned...that was excellent advice and both were in need of it, but the left one in particular was quite under performing vs. the right one. All of the other items, wires, coils all checked out nicely with no need to replace but I had bought spares anyway just in case. At any rate, after all kinds of fun cleaning the throttle bodies once they were off, sorting out stripped screws on several of the mounting spots, putting in new hex head screws where appropriate, I got it all re-assembled, set the new TPS adjusted properly at 157 mv fully closed with throttle disconnected, high idle screw loose and idle screw backed out (TPS measures 4.78v at WOT w/o linkage connected) and the tuning began again. What I found: The air bleed screws needed to be set differently from left vs. right and in all of my previous attempts I had kept them identical as per all of the prior write ups. Playing with each of the settings and watching the results on the Carbtune, despite cleaning the throttle bodies thoroughly and the bleed screws as well, there's some inherent mismatch on the throttle bodies, that with an extra 1.5 turns out on the RHS vs. LHS, they balance perfectly at idle without the throttle body linkage connected and it idles beautifully and no cough either. I managed to set the idle screws at almost identical levels as well w/o the linkage connected using a feeler gauge technique Gstallons had recommended. Once the connecting rod was reconnected and dialed in until just one or two threads were showing from the locknut vs. the plastic cup, the bike maintained its balance at idle and was perfectly balanced also at 3k RPM's on the Carbtune. Well...off on a test run we go, around the block seems perfect, so let's go for a longer run. A 100 miles later on a cold Houston day, and it's absolute perfection, beautifully smooth, not a single cough of any sort, and feels like much lower vibrations than before. Dare I say it runs better than before...I believe so. Will get some more runs on it over the next day and weeks and hopefully it stays as good as today. Big thanks to all and especially Gstallons for the time we spent on the phone...hopefully it's set and I can rack up some more miles on it now!