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Indeed, and the water doesn't have to be leaking in from the outside. Condensation will do it. Has the bike been doing a lot of short trips? The reason I ask: I used to have a Z900, which I used in Melbourne as daily transport. The sight glass for the engine oil nearly always showed a milky white sludge. I only got clear after a good blast out of town for at least an hour. I would have been interested to know if your gearbox oil looked a little more "normal" after a long ride out of town to let it all get properly warm. When it all warms up properly, the condensation (water) evaporates back out.

No. All I've done up to now is new plugs, vavle clearance, set the TPS, look at connectors to see if they look ok, that sort of stuff. One of the next things will be to look at the various sensors, and go back to the beginning and do the "decent tune up" again. PS: Computers, yes, I can get along with them well enough mostly. Not that I'm a genius or anything, but doing the work I do, dealing with slightly "out of the envelope" computer applications is a matter of course.

I don't have these, and don't expect to be buying some, but this is the brand that is so dominant here that one could believe that they are the only manufacturer of such systems. https://www.stahlbus.de/index.php?language=en

I've seen a lot of stuff about those sort of problems, whether it relates to a V11, a CARC bike, a Breva 750, or whatever. As far as I can tell, it all boils down to getting as direct a connection as possible from the battery to the starter solenoid through a big, fat wire, so the starter solenoid gets enough of a kick in the arse to do its job properly when you push the "go" button.

I hope you can enjoy the rest of the ride home.

Thanks, I'll look at that. I'm planning on looking at everything I can think of, but am having trouble finding the time to do it. Plugs, by the way, are new, so I don't think there is a problem with them specifically.

Nothing on the V11 today. I rode it a few days ago. No change: it still works and it still has the dreaded constant-rev splutter. I had hoped that might have magically healed itself, but no luck there. Today I took the Breva 750 out for a couple of hours. I'm happy to be able to report that the rev-limiter works reliably and accurately every time.

Yeah, the 750 Breva has a "relearn" function too. The same as the CARC models, I imagine. Screw(s) on the throttle bodies that you shouldn't touch under any circumstances, and a function in the ECU that tells it "the TPS is closed now, that is your base value".

Well that's good to know. I was worried, as must have been obvious further up.

Indeed, particularly out where you are. Toorak, maybe, but out on the fringes?

Good plan. He doesn't say anything particularly interesting.

Not quite. Read this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_auto_racing_colours

Phil, you're right in all points, but the CBX motor was a wonderful thing. That's worth some points that don't have anything to do with practicality or common sense or any of that stuff.

I saw that immediately. My line of work is no where near as hard as running a drill rig, but I saw that which I see in my own line of work. When women are involved, the work is often a little more elegant, and a little less involved with "I'm a real bloke who just gets things done without all the bullshit" whereby "bullshit" is making sure that no-one loses their fingers in the process.

I fear he is sadly no longer amongst us. Something he wrote a while back to the tune of "I will never achieve that now"...

So.... Samantha is playing the same type of Guitar as Angus. Must be good. I don't want a pickle either. I saw Ian Dury in Melbourne when that song was current. The man is brilliant. 'Nuff said.

Yeah, that's not just Melbourne, mate. I reckon it has got to do with the (a)social media and stuff. I'm good, and the rest of you are losers if you aren't good too.

Mate, what are you like....

Definitely. One can see him playing what one hears, and there a a couple of slight mistakes. It is real.

Tourists. Firstly, I grew up a bit over a mile east of the dot. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3167694079#map=12/-35.9438/145.6857 The river that Cobram, the nearest town, is on is a very popular tourist destination. The gag is, the river forms lovely sand beaches on the inside of the curves. Even 50 years ago, when I was still a kid, the beaches were wall to wall caravans during the summer. We locals were slightly irritated by the tourist, but knew that they brought money into the town. Moving to Germany, I have been here about 8 times, I think: https://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/tourist/index.htm The first time in 1994 or so. At that time, the ticket kiosk was in the gates of the castle. Some time later, the ticket booth was a hundred metres below the castle on the path up. The last couple of times it was down in the village below. Fair enough, the way up is hard work, and one doesn't want people going up only to find out the can't get in for the next two hours, or even not at all. The last three or four times I was there, the tour groups don't even go in until they are full, about 50 people. The trick is to hang back a bit, and try and be the last one out of each room, and then you get to see it almost empty. That works, but a "shepherd" follows each group through, so you can't overdo it. It seems like they are more and more wanting people to book on-line before the even go there. I have been to this museum 5 or 6 times, I think https://gruenes-gewoelbe.skd.museum/en/visit/ There, you can't get in without a ticket you have booked on-line. You get a time slot, and have to front up at the right time to get in. I'm fine with the systems at both of those places. It is obvious that if they didn't take such measures, you simply wouldn't be able to move inside, and would never really get to see what you came to look at. I think that it becomes unavoidable to take measure to limit access. Another example: cruise ships stopping in the lagoon at Venice. That just has to stop. Saint Marco Square is really lovely (saw it in 1994 or so on the same trip that took me to Neuschwanstein the first time...), and parking a cruise ship in front of it is just wrong.

Or it has got wet and emulsified the water.

134,000 miles, didn't you say? Some things don't heal themselves... If it gets urgent, I've got a brand new set of valves, and my motor has "only" (according to the speedo) got 65,000 km on it.

I don't think I ever used one, but yes, I know what that is. Those were the days....

Yep. Not so much the sound altering "something", but the bean bags and LPs for sure.

A few minutes ago, I caught myself groaning about the slow W-LAN ( I think that is called Wi-Fi in many places outside of Gemany...) where I am right now. That got me thinking about where the "state of the art" was 20 years ago. If I remember rightly, I did have a wireless LAN at home 20 years ago, but the internet access was still via an ISDN Modem. Go back 20 years, mobile phones were not a matter of course, and could only make phone calls. Back anotherr 20 years, CD was a brand new, exciting, and revolutionary audio format. 20 years before that I can't remember, as I was only just born, but I can remember cars from that period, for instance. And I know that there was no TV in my home when I came home from the hospital as a new born. I think there was a phone, but it had a cord. The car had a push-rod motor, and cross-ply tyres. The world has really changed, hasn't it? Why the W-LAN got me on to this train of thought? I'm on a train from Hamburg to Munich (and it's the middle of the night, I'm bored and I should actually be trying to sleep...), using the free on-board W-LAN. On a train.Once again: free on-board W-LAN on a train. Wonders never cease, and it never ceases to wonder how quickly one becomes accustomed to the wonder. And impatient when it doesn't work as well as one might wish.