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All the languages are now a "pot pourri" of many others.... The French have espoused many words from the English language, such as "week-end", even if the pronunciation remains French; the English have also made theirs many words or expressions from European languages, also keeping their own way of saying. I discovered "A tout à l'heure", which means see you later, which English pronunciation makes completely opaque: Toodeloo???? what?

I see a list of important words 😅 Let s not forget Hamburger.

Guess we know what you're doing this weekend...

Finally took some pictures 🙂

I just found a new one. Still finding them periodically, even after nearly 30 years here. Souper ... supper. The word occurs in the Opera "The Rosenkavalier", and I just looked it up to see if it was a "real" German word. The libretto features a lot of "Vienna dialect", some of which may have been invented by the author. Anyway, Souper is a real word, means "a festive evening meal", and is oviously the origin of "supper".

I don't think so. I have to say, I'm guessing a bit, but it makes sense to me. I believe the shield is there to reflect the light that would go "straight out" back in to the reflector at the back of the lamp, and distribute it more evenly across the lens at the front of the lamp. If the shield wasn't there, there would be a very bright point in the middle of the lamp. This would be, on the one hand, a "waste" of light energy that could be better distributed across the whole lens (as with the shield...), and on the other hand a great disturbance to traffic coming from the other direction. Whether the LED lamp needs that depends, I think, on how the light element is constructed. If the LEDs don't light forwards, and I believe they mostly don't, then the shield may not be really neccessary. However, if the LED light source doesn't light forwards at all, and most of the pictures I have seen indicate that this is the case, then the shield wont make any difference, and taking it out would also not be really neccessary, unless the LED element were too long to fit underneath it.

Notice that this is biased.... They should have included someone from the Netherlands, and Greece....

Aber nur ob sie eine Aufenthaltsgenehmigung haben!

I understand @docc, and agree. After sleeping on it, I thought I might try the air gap method, afterall. The difficulty is however, it must be filled with only the cartridge installed, no spacer, no spring. Thus, I mist disassemble more of the previously Andreani installed internals. Wihtout special tools, this can be a pain, much easer to just pour in the correct amount. of fork fluid. But that's the rub, lol, can't figure out what that amount might be, 400, 370, etc. Heading out to the garage now, I'll report back.

Regardless of the stated volume, the air gap is used to further tune the effective damping. FWIW, YMMV, my [100 mm] air gap yielded a 370 330 ml per leg volume. [edit: corrected after referencing my notes.]

I am going to have to disagree on this one, but not completely. The German language picked it up from French.... In Biblical use, the principal meal of the day, corresponding to the Greek deipnon, Roman cena. Applied since c. 1300 to the last meal of Christ with his disciples before his crucifixion, at which he instituted the Eucharist. also from mid-13c.

Kindergarten another example Beer…Bier Salad…salat Bratwurst und so weiter…not to forget of course the famous VW ad…Fahrvergnügen!!

I had him in my mind as a Strat player. His sound is mostly "typical Strat", bearing in mind that he uses his fingers rather than a pick. Having said that, the intro to "Money for nothing" does sound more like something with a glued-in neck, and the video shows him playing a Les Paul. Looking at the pictures here, it seems that he does swap around a bit, but more Strat than anything else, if the selection of pictures is any indication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Knopfler

For some reason I always feel a lot of sympathy for Rory Gallagher.

It seemed our own @swooshdave might speak to this Frisian business......

Indeed. Also: water, father, mother, forlorn, astounding, butter, and wiener schnitzel, amongst many others.

That includes the infamous "F" word.... I wonder if many English native speakers know that.... the five letters word that starts with an F and that perfume many conversations is actually drawn from German...

Yes. German is a good language. Very precise, very flexible, and the long words come about because there are no gaps left between adjectives and the noun. For instance, "racing motorcyle" is not "renn Motorrad" but rather "Rennmotorrad". And for the puposes of that video, they should have taken a variety of Languages, and not 5 with common linguistic roots, and one with a whole different background. Incidentally, an amazing amount of English goes back to German. So there...

40 mm is the fork tube diameter for this iteration. Rob

The Historic plate here in Maryland is still an "every two years" deal. But it is cheaper and avoids an inspection at time of purchase (vehicles here are inspected only at time of purchase unless they get a safety ticket out on the road). So people here are seriously abusing the Historic plate option, ignoring the rules relating to usage and miles. People will buy an old beat up Honda Civic or the like and get a Historic plate for it. That way they save some money on registration and they don't have to get it through inspection (more money saved, plus the vehicle probably would not pass). Generally when people start abusing the system like this the system gets changed. It is why we can't have nice things. Give people an option to keep truly historic vehicles on the road for light duty usage and the next thing you know people are driving dangerous pieces of junk to work and back to save a few bucks. Maryland bases registration date on date of original registration. A trick I used to do years ago is if you are a day late renewing your registration you can move the registration month back one month, the new stickers would use the following month. But they seem to have caught on to that and I don't think you can do that anymore. Now the renewal only gets you a year sticker, your month sticker never changes. If you want them all to renew at the same time in Maryland you can do it, but you would probably have to cancel all your plates (perhaps at the end of the riding season). Then at the beginning of the next riding season you could re-register all your vehicles at the same time (or at least in the same month). That would give them all the same renewal month. Seems like too much trouble to me, but if it really was something you want it can be done. I would think the same trick would work in almost any state.