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Been to Sweden and Denmark twice. My wife has family in Sweden. We might go again this summer, but this time it will be Sweden and Norway, specifically Oslo. A very good friend moved back home there after spending 30 years here. I'll be there with family, so riding is out, but dang, Norway has to be riding heaven.

Geez @Tomchri, I think your place is listed as a place to see in the Norway travel brochure. There's the fjords, and then there's your shop.

A well timed reminder. I needed a router bit that the usual suspects did not carry. I'll have it Wednesday.

New bars and relocated pegs. Looks clean.

Geez, you guys don't mess around. I couldn't do that without stopping for another meal.

I won't comment on why you have so many spares hanging around...nope, not gonna do it.

Interesting @docc, looks like mine is the longer one.

If @gstallonscan't find one, I have one.

Glad you did the road test and all those calcs...too much figuring for me though. I took the easy way out. I judged the book by its cover.

Because there aren't many bikes as beautiful. Pretty simple for me.

I've been known to dabble...

I like driving with the windows open and adjusted properly to limit wind noise around town, not at highway speeds. I like resting my arm on the door sill. Easy to do on my 2007 Chevy pickup but very uncomfortable on newer cars because of the higher belt line. Car designs have changed over the last decade or so and sleekness trumps convenience. Tiny ribbons of glass seems to be the trend now.

I knew that was coming. I should've said like the two hybrids in my garage.

Could be because of the exhaust note. My Stelvio sound pretty nice with the GPR pipe, the new one sounds like a Toyota.

I have a 2012 NTX. I drove the new Stelvio, decided I liked my old one better.

@audiomickI'm very clear on why the pressure needs to be handled, just don't understand why a line that is connected directly to the sump has to be part of it. My older Ducatis just had a black rubber hose that came from the top of the crankcase and was strapped to the frame under the seat. Maybe that system is ancient now, but it worked very simply. Why the oil line is part of this system now is what I question. I'll stop beating a dead horse.

Sure was. Dry as a bone now.

Interesting. So it is not truly a closed system, it has an open line to the airbox. So when the engine is running, especially at higher rpms, there is negative pressure pulling out of the spine. So I'm not sure if that helps or hurts this condition of possibly getting oil contaminated, simply because there is an oil line open to the spine. Does oil ever get pulled up there? IDK. I'm no engineer. All this looking around though has me finding a crack in the rubber tube coming up from the engine. Time to visit the old thread on replacing it. How many tubes have you replaced on your high mileage Sport @docc?

Hence my previous concern about a risk of contaminating the oil. It seems like it is a closed loop system, where the give and take changes in pressure take place in a rectangular steel tube. Am I seeing this right?

@gstallons, take another look. On my two Sports in the shop the rubber breather hose connects from the upper rear of the engine to the underside of the spine frame at the front of the tank location. The metal braided tube at the rear of the sump land on the side of the spine approx mid tank. Pg 75 of the parts catalog shows this. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Great, no rust, just water.

SOLD!

@audiomick, that seems like a wonderful way to introduce water into the crankcase. Putting the vapors into a steel tube, then draining it back to the crankcase? I can see condensation happening in colder months.

Thanks @gstallons Will there be a test in the morning? Seriously though, most crankcase vents I am familiar with are venting air, and are situated at the top of the crankcase. This one is at the bottom and has oil in it. Must be an Italian design. I will look at the parts book when I get back to the shop. Maybe then I will understand the process.