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Don't know what you're getting at.

Go up there and ride it down. It's less than Melbourne to Brisbane.

I'm not sure I knew that, it is a long time ago. But as I mentioned further up, the NSX came out during the period when Honda engines where dominating Formula one, and Mr Senna, may he rest in peace, was a major factor in that.

I think that is the one that I have on mine. Having said that, mine has the long tank without the chin pad, so the ring doesn't have to sit as high. Nevertheless, I like the system, and have it on my Breva 750 as well. Good point. Only every other screw is long, and really goes into the body of the tank. So yes, I wouldn't load the ring up too much.

Yes to both points. I'm not that big, neither vertically nor horizontally. About 175 cm, and about 65 kg. Duckdiving the first two metres or so is an effort, after that I'm more or less neutral. All the diving I did was in Port Phillip bay, Wilson's Promontory, and somewhere on the lower east coast of Australia. Water temperature between 16 and 18°c, so 7mm wet-suit, bouancy vest and weights. I can imagine that, even in tropical waters, maybe a 3mm suit would be good, although I heard from diving colleagues that one can dive the Great Barrier Reef in a lycra suit. Whatever, weights might help, maybe only one, and maybe a suit. I had a slightly nasty experience during a holiday on Sardinia. Diving without a snorkel but with fins, I went down, down a bit more, saw something interesting and down a bit more, then realised I needed to breathe soon. I had "forgotten" that I wasn't scuba diving, and went too deep. I only just made it back up before the urge to breathe became uncontrollable.

Not that relevant if you are diving where you don't need a wet-suit, if I recall correctly. It's a long time ago...

Yes, at least mine does. Dies when you put it in gear to ride off, and have forgotten the side stand. Been there, done that... I think @docc is probably on the right track with the neutral switch / sidestand relay.

That strikes me as being a bit odd. Mine (2002 Le Mans, which I believe should have the same wiring as a Coppa Italia) will start with the side-stand down, but the motor stops when it is put in gear with the side-stand down. However, it is too late at night for me to be able to understand the wiring diagram to that depth. Maybe I'll find time to have a closer look in the next couple of days. Or maybe not.The next few days at work promise to be fairly full. It is indeed the brain thing.

So the sidestand wasn't on the bike, or what? PS: you really do need to clean those bikes.

@docc that would be quite pretty if it had a sensible motor sticking out from under the tank.

Indeed, that looks good. Expensive, but good things tend to be expensive, and I wouldn't like to trust my life to something cheap.

For the foreigners, that road is quite famous in Australia. I've never been down it, but looking at the map, I can see why one might go along there on a bike. https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=putty+road%2C+australia&zoom=5&minlon=-29.663085937500004&minlat=40.81380923056961&maxlon=29.487304687500004&maxlat=60.1524422143808#map=16/-33.50645/150.81744

"Don't bury me, I've got a show to play."

Because somebody was looking at this topic, I had a look, and looked at the Avon site. It seems that they are still in the game. https://www.avontyres.com/de-de/reifen/?cartype=motorcycle

Very good idea.

No, I couldn't work out which one it was. Changing the t-shirt fooled me completely. I will refrain from comparisons to Jon Lord, because that would be silly. I had the great fortune to encounter him on a couple of jobs. Polite, friendly, a real gentleman. Musically: the second time was one of those "rock meets classic" things. The orchestra was a combination of a semi-professional orchestra and students from a commercial "music academy". The finale was a Deep Purple melody, of course. They rehearsed it once without the man, and it was all correct. Then he came on stage. First thing was, the organ sounded different (better) when he played it than when the organ-hire bloke played it after he set it up. How does that work? A Hammond organ is a machine. You push a button, and a noise comes out. And on top of that, the rehearsal without was, as I said, correct. With him playing along, all of a sudden it also grooved. One man pulled an entire orchestra into the groove. Not bad, I reckon... So it would be silly to draw comparisons between a teenage girl and someone like that. The same applies to the guitarist that played the solos. She has potential, but needs a few years. Ritchie Blackmore was an experienced and creative guitarist when that song was produced. No comparison, so no comment.

If you claim that it is art, then no-one will criticise it. In fact, I rather like photos that are taken into the light.

Ahh, I wondered about the colour. A different colour alone would explain the different part number, even if it is actually physically the same part.

Yes, he is very good. And not just bashing away, he is focussed on the bass player, and she is doing a pretty flash job of it too, I reckon. What say you @docc

I'm pretty sure loctite only works between metal surfaces. The data sheet here appears to confirm that. From the product description https://www.farnell.com/datasheets/24239.pdf EDIT PS: further evidence that loctite doesn't cure against plastic is that the cap on the bottle never gets glued on like, for instance, the one on the super glue tube does.

Maybe not. The parts lists at Wendel in Berlin show a change in the part number, at least for the "stick", around 2002. Subsequent lists refer to "Seitenständer V11 neu", i.e. "sidestand V11 new". The first version, part no. GU02432100 https://wendelmotorraeder.de/fussrasten-v11-sportmandello-99-01-ex-30_3006_300602_30060201_3006020110_300602011003.html https://wendelmotorraeder.de/fussrasten-v11-nakedle-manns-01-02-ex-30_3006_300602_30060202_3006020210_300602021003.html and the new version, part no. GU01432190 https://wendelmotorraeder.de/fussrasten-staender-v11-02-le-mansskura-ex-30_3006_300602_30060203_3006020310_300602031003.html https://wendelmotorraeder.de/fussrasten-staender-v11-03-04-corsa-ex-30_3006_300602_30060204_3006020410_300602041003.html https://wendelmotorraeder.de/fussrasten-staender-v11-03-05-cafballabio-ex-30_3006_300602_30060205_3006020510_300602051003.html However it seems that the new version might fit on the earlier models. Stein-Dinse only lists the newer part number. There is a comment in the list and in the listing in their shop "Nachfolgeprodukt für Artikel: 02432100", i.e. "replacement product for article: 02432100" https://www.stein-dinse.com/de/moto-guzzi-seitenstaender-v11-le-mans-naked-ballabio/item-2-1020771-01432190-.html and under "Geeignet für" i.e. "suitable for" they list pretty much all the V11 Models. The thlot pickens....

I read just about every test I could find about that car when it came out. It was developed and released during the time when Honda was, to use the words of a motoring journalist that I read once, "showing the world how to build motors" by their dominance in Forumla 1. The tests of the NSX that I read were all more than positive. And it was pretty...

Pete, it seems we think alike. As far as I'm concerned, your attitude is exactly right.

Yes, very boring. Wouldn't want one of them at all. For sure. Really. Not jealous at all.

Yes. My Z900 did that, as did my GTR 1000 and the Honda CBX 650 E. The Suzuki GSX 1100 motor was particularly good at it.