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We (company) just went to our bank for a short-term building loan. By the time it was over, I had to decline; I had to put up my *personal* assets against the loan. I told them, 'if I'm a corporation and you're a corporation, and my corporation needs a loan and you're in the business of loaning, and my corporation is viable with cash flow and assets, why should I expose my personal assets? After all, the primary function of incorporating is to separate the two". The response was at it's base, "Government regulations now demand it. We have no discretion". So that's the primary reason Private Equity has gained so much traction and market share. We just went out to PE, showed them our prospectus for the new building, and got the money. Simple papers, no hooks, no mountain of IRS returns, officer affidavits, etc. Just cash and business. Terms were agreed in about 10 minutes. Penalties in 5 more. Too easy- but, a predatory or dishonest PE could be Satan. As probably many are.

No, soldered/shrink tubing. No room for wondering. On the Sport I can remove the stator and regulator as one piece.

Mine had marginal charge voltage for a long time, eventually started coming home discharged and eventually quit while riding. Long story short is my stator-to-regulator wires had poor connections under the gas tank, evidenced by heat browning. I secured the connection and charge voltage went from ~13.2 to 14.5 immediately.

Perhaps @pete roper will chime in here. Don't Centauros have the same potential cam issues as Grisos? Would Griso ghetto be a more knowledgeable forum? There's a wrecked Griso nearby for -$1k.... if the price goes down I may have another project

Didn't get to work on it, but compared the first TB screws to the second- obviously, the first set was a production error where someone didn't go deep enough with the peen and went back for a second bite, but still not very strongly. The second TB screws are definitely going to have to be ground off as they're very well smashed over.

I was very surprised to find the screws so lightly secured. I'll try to remember to photo the other TB. The bushings came out fairly easily, a 9mm tap halfway in and a punch from the other side. The new ones seemed a bit tighter in the bores, but not enough for concern. Only the one bushing on the bottom RH side showed any perceptible wear, but I have them and I'm there. The seals were the big shock, they were loose on the shaft and in the bores. I used the *very* expensive ones listed in Lucky Phil's thread, CA Cycleworks TB shaft seals they're about $12 each. I searched for a couple hours and found zero else available, I could have put together 2-3 purchases of old Yamaha stock but these are viton and should last the life.

Back to work...Throttle body day Thanks to Lucky Phil's thread [ link ] this is easy enough for anyone to do at home. I didn't think to take a lot of pictures before starting, but the bottom of the throttle shafts were DEEP with what looked like the bottom of a '74 Ford 460 oil pan. My throttle blade screws weren't peened or center punched, they had simply been hit once with a chisel, looked like; turning them out was easy enough probably could have without damaging anything. I used a set of duckbill pliers to squeeze the end together a bit while not flattening the threads. Came out surprisingly easy though probably won't go in as well. Certainly going to touch them with loctite going back, may try new screws if the hardware has the correct pitch in brass. Went to the very back of the 'special tools' drawer and drug out a 5/16" valve guide driver (8mm) a perfect fit for the bushings. 8mmx10mmx8mm bushings (I have plenty left over if you're in a hurry, but you get 4 for the price of eBay's bag of 10 due to ... The Chinese Conspiracy) Easy to feel when centered, a couple medium whacks and when the seal shoulder stopped, stuck the old bushing on to drive the new ones home to the shoulder. Easy peasy. The old seals were so dead they actually fell out as I pulled the shaft. Finish tomorrow, everything soaking in Boraxo/dishsoap to soften the road armor covering the linkage arms and TB bodies. Upside-damn-down again, WTF Turn your head lol

Aesthetically and dimensionally, it may matter but electrically it doesn't, as long as it accommodates a 2-wire stator. My rec/reg is suspect, I'll replace it with a Shindengen if I can fit it in the space.

Never the hybrid, but my 1100 Sport did like the straight lithium battery. Motus. I think I've seen you on the Cherohola Parkway during the South'n Spine Raids twice.

Well. I prefer a street tire on the street and a knobby off-road. 80/20 Dunlop Trailmax Mission are a concession to not telling my Garmin to avoid dirt roads 50/50 Dunlop Trailmax Raid are better on the street and x10 on dirt but promised /10 miles per tire I prefer the right bike for the ride with the best tires. Generally, ADV riders fall into the ^ discussed category.

I'm 100% on board with the 'Limited edition cred' crowd, particularly at shows. They exist in every domain, not just motorcycles- as car posts above show. I can't even say how many times I've had someone at a show who drove up in a ten year old F150 scowl when I tell them my Charger is not an authentic R/T, and slink off when I tell them if they actually knew anything about them at all, I wouldn't have had to tell them so anyway since it's obvious. I endured the same for a decade at H-D dealers; 'Mine's brand new' 'Mine's classic' 'Mine's limited production' 'Mine's more expensive'. These people are insufferable. But they are not the majority, only the noisiest and most obvious. I, as you, take pleasure in making something my own even if it's common (If you can call any MG common) I don't see any of that disturbing behavior here, though.

Heidenau tires are getting a lot of traction in the ADV community. Pun completely intended

I think you're falling into what I call the 'expertise trap'. When we've done something over a lifetime, particularly if it's something we enjoy, we tend to forget how difficult it was at the start and how long it took to become proficient. Personally, I absolutely dread editing videos. The burden of reviewing hours of footage, learning the program to cut it apart and assemble the pieces, smooth the changes, insert/edit audio, tracks, noises...etc. At this age I am simply unwilling to put in the hours at all, let alone to do it well. But my example for the blindness of expertise; I had to teach an Army A/C tech. His job was to go find someone who could do his job. So I taught him the recovery machine, but diagnosing functional failures I learned that he had heard the word 'electricity' but he was so ignorant of how it worked I had to back down all the way to showing him the + and - on a battery and explain not only why wires had colors, but *how wires worked*. That brought into focus that my blind assumption was that because he was there with the rating that he knew anything at all. To the point, it's easy to criticize what is easy to us and forget how awful our product was at the same point in practicing. Ok, it's early and I haven't sipped my coffee and I've been thinking a lot about the fall of Western Civilization. Don't let me drift this into a philosophy thread.

Welp, looks like no Norge. But I see that they're not criminally expensive (used anyway) so there's a year to get saddled.

Agreed- the '05 BMW RT I gave away would have been awesome... but still soulless. That bike with some heart = Norge, I think. I haven't been notified that I won the raffle yet, but it's early.

Next time I'll have a more appropriate steed...perhaps a Norge. Don't forget to upload your 'Ride Texas' mag picture as a separate stop- I hadn't seen that it's stop #0.

Even more to the point then, it seems you're quite proud of it, despite being a mongrel. Or perhaps *because* it's a mongrel. Why is it different, how you feel about yours, and why, and for others about their own?

Says the Daytona owner Lemme remember some of gramma's platitudes 'Don't put taste in someone else's mouth' 'One man's trash is another's treasure' The value in a Scura, a 1100 Sport, or a Daytona was never measured in money, but in the owner's life. That has never wavered. Owning and riding MG, particularly older ones, lets a person know that even if you can't see it directly you share something deeper than Thursday night HOG club meetings.

Where the heck did you find that? But yay! I missed the iron butt, due to the well-known but ill-considered shortage on BMW GS odometers, and my reluctance to ride at night. A few minutes short, sadly. Did get a free entry next year for siccing the owner of the Studio coffee shop in Wheeler onto David...Sponsored stop 2026. May be more as well, the chair of an organization of 29 Northern Texas Counties happened in while we were talking and was very excited. BTW the 'Tincinerator' is my fav stop pic too lol

Yes, hot water should work as well, and leave no trace.

It's hard to see clearly, but it looks like your sensor has a little bit of bulge in the center. When mine failed, it was so bulged there that it was hard to pry out. Consider. I bench tested mine simply by checking resistance while cold, heating it with a heat gun (shop hair dryer) and checking with an IR heat gun. When the sensor got to about 170*F, it opened. Measured ok again when cool a couple times.

The core tenets of humor are ignorance, misunderstanding, and plausible deniability.

Oh here.

These pieces prove my point. They're still called 'music'. Absolutely Horrid.