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the wonderful wizard of Oz(tralia). Given that I am here often, I thought I'd mention that for the next three weeks I probably wont be. We're flying to Australia tomorrow to visit my family. My last visit was in 2016, and I haven't seen one of my brothers since 2013. Flying in to Brisbane, where a former flatmate of mine lives, the brother I haven't seen since 2013 2 hours south of there. 1400 km down to Canberra to my sister, 450 odd km south of there to my mother and another brother, 1 1/2 hours west of there to my father and another brother, and then 300 odd km south to Melbourne for a couple of days. I'm expecting to cover about 2,500 km in three weeks. I hope it all goes to plan. PS: also my first long trip in a camper van. With my girlfriend. Hope that works, too.

https://www.probolt-australia.com/stainless-steel-brembo-caliper-pinch-bolt-m8x40mm-pack-x2-ssspduc01-2/?sku=SSSPDUC01-2G&srsltid=AfmBOopk-AB4Mo-YYXdnwqhZCyOLUVtL9Z0cLXEEnDZt7ffZUYLhLdBgues&gQT=1 You can also carefully clean the surface of the heads with Scotchbrite and brush on some flat silver paint if you're worried about pennies. Phil

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And whats wrong with the morons doing the sound in movies, seeing a boxer with a screaming 4 cyl for sound, and other vehicles . Cheers Tom.

You should do an Aussie trip yourself docc. Between exchange rates and tariffs we might actually have to pay you to visit

296km today up in the mountains. IPA time for sure. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-S906B via Tapatalk

you sure thats not an african graduated cylinder? it's all a matter of how you grip it... My beloved Red needs some of that TLC. Looking and running fine, but has been a dearth of V11 riding this year so far, so for me its "what have you not done to your V11 today", sadly. I watch your goings-on with some jealousy. But sounds like I may be back in Mandello, briefly, in September.

I’m in Bungendore. It’s almost directly east of Canberra on the way to the coast. We’re about twenty minutes away from Queanbeyan which is the town just over the border from Canberra in the ACT. 26th/27th would be fine but I’m off to hospital again for another of my interminable heart procedures on the 28th so I might be a bit squiffy for a day or two after that.

03 Cafe sport in Northern Ireland

I think I saved mine from when i converted to Knight lowered pegs. Just have to find them. Their yours for $1 million dollars (cue Dr. Evil). Or possibly free + shipping...

I was on a fly and ride home from Maryland when I was taken out by a pickup driving out of a parking lot right in front of me. Thankfully hit him at pretty low speed leaned over to the right and no paint of plastics damaged just some parts. What I'm looking for now is a right side front footpeg. They seem to be total unaobtanium now. Does anyone out there have one they'd be willing to part with? Feel free to PM me if you can help me out. Thanks.

Bugger, I thought it was but not so! Don't know how to get in touch but if we can you're quite welcome here mate! Cheers Ps I'll be at work but on a/leave from the 4th August and hanging round the house till the Friday before we head off ourselves!

If you’re in the Canberra region and fancy a beer give me a yell. I’m about 35km from Canberra

I love this plan! Bon voyage (however an Aussie might say that . . . )

This might help someone. (and apologies if it has already been noted) I had carefully set the TPS by the book and the bike (2002 LeMans) suffered from surging when hot and abrupt on/off throttle transition and slight pinking at full throttle. The surging and throttle transition made the bike frustrating to ride. I retested the TPS it was still 160mV with throttle plate closed = not significantly different than where I'd set it last year. I then noticed that when the throttle was pulled open that the first motion was to take up throttle shaft wear. (to check for wear, grab the throttle shaft nut under the throttle body and move it side to side. The right side has more play that the left, perhaps because of the return spring. There are rubber seals on the shafts but may be unable to compensate for the wear or have failed after 23 years.) In one of the TPS discussions KiwiRoy suggested that because the voltage increase with rotation is not linear that the goal of setting the TPS was not so much to achieve precisely 150mV (or 157mV), but to make sure the setting was on the tail of voltage increase. I pictured the voltage increase as a curve similar to exponential growth with 150mV somewhere close to the baseline suggesting that at 150mV the computer can sense the TPS but is not yet altering fuel settings. After setting the TPS the manual states that throttle plate angle should be set to 3-3.5 degrees. I wondered how to do this because I don't have Guzzidiag computer setup, but another post (I forget who posted) stated that throttle plate angle at idle corresponded to 470-480mV. Another post stated that instructions for installing a new mixture map that the idle throttle stop should be set at exactly 475mV. My idle stop was at 311mV so I decided to experiment with changing it. I set the TPS to show about 470mV just as the throttle starts to lift off the idle stop. As the throttle linkage is pulled the first movement takes up play in the worn throttle shaft and the mV increases. All the play is taken up and the throttle starts to open at about 470mV but my TPS reads about 420mV when the spring holds the throttle against the idle stop. (differing amounts of wear should result in different idle stop mV) With the throttle plate fully closed (as in setting by the book) the TPS shows about 220mV. I then balanced throttle bodies side to side. The result is dramatic! There is no hint of surging even at low rpm and low speed and the harsh on/off throttle transition is mostly gone. There is no pinking. It has really improved the bike. Yes, I know there someone has posted a tutorial for replacing throttle shaft bushings. I have even bought new bushings and seals and will get to it eventually, but I am very happy with the way the bike runs now.

Texas calling @p6x . . .

Just feeling a bit funky.

My Tenni has been back with me a week and running smoothly after its sojourn in Bungendore. Can’t praise Michael of Moto Moda enough. With help from Pete Roper they replaced my cracked (oem) aluminium flywheel and clutch with a RAM assembly. Just in time apparently with the 24 year old flywheel cracked to billy-Oh! For the non Aussies this basically means it was f…ed according to Mr Roper! While apart Michael attended to a few leaks, valves, replaced the shift spring as a preventative and then gave the bike a tune. Moto Moda is a pleasant 3 hours South West of Sydney so definitely consider these guys to keep these ageing bikes in fine fettle.