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23 minutes ago, docc said:
Spoetzl Brewery. ("Spötzl?")
I would have assumed that the name was originally Spötzl. The bloke apparently came from Bavaria, and that would fit. The Wiki, however, writes it as "Spoetzl". That might be accurate, but it might not. We'll probably never know.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoetzl_Brewery
Germans and Austrians seem to have been generally quite significant in exporting beer culture to the rest of the world. I linked to Pilsner Urquell further up, the original version of that what we know as "normal" beer these days. That was developed by a Bavarian "Braumeister".
Quoteand hired Josef Groll, a Bavarian brewer, to brew a bottom-fermented beer. On 5 October 1842, Groll had a new mash ready and on 11 November 1842, the new beer was first served at the feast of St. Martin markets.[14]
So we have a lot to thank Germany for. Quite apart from people like Berthold Brecht, Wagner, Neumann (microphones), Karl Marx, and the list goes on...
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11 minutes ago, Lucky Phil said:
I chose Mobil1
nothing to do with this, of course...
No, only taking the piss. Thanks for the explanation.
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11 minutes ago, Rox Lemans said:
Y'all wanna hear my glove rant???? Got pics in my phone for that one..
Yes. Always gloves. They start saving skin when you mess up putting the side-stand down, and never stop being a good idea.
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8 minutes ago, po18guy said:
At least the 2 ounces I drink yearly.
Yeah, that would be good.
The standard glass in southern Germany is a half-litre. Two of those of smoked beer is enough. It gets pretty penetrant after a while.
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On 4/1/2024 at 11:52 PM, p6x said:
Is body armor pads part of your attire?
No.
I always wear gloves, and a jacket that claims to be a motorcycle jacket. I don't really know how much protection the waxed cotton jacket really offers, but if I think I might be on a ride where I might get a bit silly, I wear the leathers. And always a full-face helmet. I saw one a couple of years before I started riding myself that had abrasive damage on the chin-piece. That was enough to convince me that a jet helmet is not such a great idea.
When I had "my accident" in 2017 I was wearing a full-face helmet, thick gloves, and leather jacket and pants without armour.
The helmet lost about 3mm of material just below the visor above my right cheek-bone. The leathers got some nasty abrasions on the front of the right shoulder, and on the left knee. The broken bones were in the left hand from the impact of the handle-bar against the hand, and in the right forefinger where something (probably the wing mirror of the car that took me out) went through the glove and the finger.
Body armour wouldn't have stopped any of that.
That all doesn't mean I consider armour to be not necessary. I got lucky in that accident, it could have been lots worse. What I'm getting at is more like "take precautions, but the most important one is to not have an accident".
Armour might help, or it might not. My leather stuff doesn't have any, and I took it out of my ventilated textile summer jacket because it compromised the ventilation. I choose to take the risk, and concentrate on not having another accident. But always some kind of motorcycle jacket, full-face helmet and gloves. If I'm going out to play, leather jacket and pants.
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13 minutes ago, activpop said:
...life is getting in the way again.
Yeah, it does that, doesn't it?
Thanks for the number (128mm). That is for the rear shock, I take it, as that is what this topic is about. I've been looking for a number for that.
I'd be interested in a number for the 43mm Marzocchi forks with rebound adjustment on both legs too.
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12 minutes ago, p6x said:
Out of curiosity, why do you need 60?
One of the bikes is a Breva 750 ie. The specifactions that I have found for it are also contradictory, same as what I have been able to find for the V11 and the V35 Imola, but one of them is 10W-60.
The valve-train on the small-blocks has a fairly hard time of it, and needs a heavy oil. At the other end, I ride in winter, sometimes at temperatures below zero. For that, I'm interested in oil that does it's job with a minimum of warming up.
10W-60 should cover everthing I have, as far as I understand it.
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7 minutes ago, GuzziMoto said:
If it is the seal you will know it fairly shortly. If you don't see more than a few more drops it was likely spitting out the breather.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for that.
7 minutes ago, GuzziMoto said:If you are really worried about it dust the rear drive housing with talcum powder or similar.
Yes. I'm not so much worried as annoyed, but the talcum trick is likely to be the next step.
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Sorry about starting another oil thread, but I have tried several times to get a definite answer to this question, and no-one ever seems willing to confirm or refute it. So I'll try it here too...
The background is, more or less, that I would like to be able to use the same grade of oil for all of my bikes. Specifically, a 10W-60.
The question is:
Is it true that one can extend the viscosity range below and above that which is recommended with impunity?
That is to say, if a 20W-50 were stipulated, a 10W-50 or a 20W-60 or a 10W-60 would all be ok, but a 20W-40 or a 30W-50 (if it existed...) wouldn't.
As I said, I have posed the question several times on various German forums. I got answers like "use this oil", or "using a too thin oil will destroy the motor", but never a straight up yes or no answer to the question. Is anyone game to make a statement?
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8 minutes ago, p6x said:
a syringe to measure the exact cc.
I'm quite sure that I was very close to the right volume. I added one of these for the molycote, and as the last drops of that went in, it started to run out of the level control opening at the back.
https://www.louis.de/artikel/motorbike-mos2-shooter-20-ml/10080192?filter_article_number=10080192
However, I don't exclude that possibility that it might still spit a bit, even if it is theoretically all correct.
That's why I'm looking for opinions here.
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Thanks for that link. I had forgotten that topic was there.
I neglected to mention in the first post, that the rear wheel was out not so long ago, and the final drive got new oil when it went back in. The bike hasn't been ridden much since, so it is fair to assume that the new fill of oil is still "settling down".
It may be that the bike always did blow off a bit from a fresh fill. This is the first time I've filled it, and I have to admit to not having checked the level in the rear drive at any time since I bought the bike up until I refilled it.
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I noticed it today: a patch of oil on the inside of the rear rim, consistent with it having dripped off the final drive whilst parked.
It is a bit hard to tell with that lovely wrinkle paint, but it seems like a fair bit of the outside of the final drive housing is oily, and the breather valve thingy looks like it is oily enough to perhaps have been the source.
I dare say I'll need to clean it up and do the talcum powder thing to get a better idea where the oil came from.
Would anyone care to speculate in advance about where it is likely to be coming from?
A good guess might save me looking up some blind alleys.
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1 hour ago, GuzziMoto said:
I think you want the suspension to ride high enough that the suspension doesn't bottom very often, if at all.
But also not so high that it tops out...
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7 hours ago, po18guy said:
Smoked beer.
Yeah, tried that in Bamberg when I was there for a week for work some years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoked_beer#Bamberg_Rauchbier
Interesting, but not something I could fill an evening with.
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I've had a Kölsch a few times. What one needs to know about it is, people from Cologne think it is the best thing ever invented, and people from most other places don't concede that it qualifies as beer.
I tend to prefer beer from southern Germany. One of the best is, in my opinion, Tegernseer Hell
https://www.brauhaus-tegernsee.de/tegernseer-biere/biersorten/
Beers from the Czech Republik are often very good. Prime examples are Pilsner Urquell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilsner_Urquell
and Budweiser. No, not the goat piss that is sold in the USA and some other countries, the real Budvar that is made in the Czech Republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery
Over and above that, a good Schwarzbier is a fine thing, and yes, I do really enjoy an Indian Pale Ale.
I tend to pursue the policy of "try the beer from here", i.e. wherever I might be, I try and find a beer from a local or regional brewery. An interesting and sometimes rewarding pursuit. That means, if I happen to be in Cologne I would drink a Kölsch, or in Düsseldorf an Alt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altbier .
One should know, between Cologne and Düsseldorf lie about 40 km., and a magnitude of differences of opinion that exceeds that between, for instance, avid supporters of two opposing football teams.
In the northernmost parts of Germany, the favoured beer style is Pils, brewed to be markedly bitter. That can be ok too, but is sometimes too bitter for me.
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On 3/30/2024 at 10:47 PM, po18guy said:
Aber nur
obwenn Sie eine Aufenthaltsgenehmigung haben!No worries mate, I got mine neary 30 years ago.
22 hours ago, Bill Hagan said:You need that for beer?!
Only if you want to drink more beer than you can get in within the 90 day standard Schengen area tourist visa.
So @docc , come on over. I'll buy you one or three.
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3 hours ago, p6x said:
I am going to have to disagree on this one, but not completely. The German language picked it up from French....
Ok, your point.
3 hours ago, p6x said:I discovered "A tout à l'heure", which means see you later, which English pronunciation makes completely opaque: Toodeloo???? what?
So that's where that comes from. I've always wondered. That was fairly common in Australia in my younger years. I think my maternal Grandmother used to say that.
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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".
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23 minutes ago, PDBoulder said:
Is it to shield the lens for the bulb heat?
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.
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47 minutes ago, motortouring said:
Oh, I was talking about Mark Knopfler in the Dire Straights clip.
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.
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The thing with the keyboard is probably the only way to get a burnout happening on that chook chaser.
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Indeed. Also: water, father, mother, forlorn, astounding, butter, and wiener schnitzel, amongst many others.
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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...
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10 hours ago, p6x said:
the sound prowess.
Yes, he does exploit the sound possibilities of a Stratocaster rather well.
Oil on the rear rim.
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Thanks for the pictures @docc.
As I already wrote, mine seems to be oily all over the final drive case, so I reckon the breather might be the candidate. We'll see when I find time to have a closer look.