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It occurs to me "she rides a Moto Guzzi" would scan equally well, and paints a perfect picture for me.

And for some completely unknown reason, this just popped up. PS: by all respect for Mr. Young, I always hear "somewhere on a desert highway she rides a motorcycle". I can't quite come to grips with a Hardly Driveable in that lovely song.

Inspired by a post elsewhere in the forum this evening...

so make sure the clutch is separating reliably. A dragging clutch can do that. EDIT: Bugger, @docc was faster. Again. I hate it when he beats me.

So do that first, and then see how the shifting goes. PS: regarding the question "can you do this wrong?": I'm not a great expert on gearboxes, but as far as I can tell, the short answer is "no". Of course you can possibly get the gearbox back together wrong, but then nothing works. It sounds like you got yours back together right; it does shift, you said, so it must be right. My impression is, a gearbox can't be "a little bit wrong". It's either right, and shifts, or it's wrong and doesn't work. Make sure your clutch is working properly, and report back if it still isn't shifting properly. And report back if it gets better with the clutch bled so others can learn from your experience.

I just looked back at the first post in this thread, and noticed this: I'm rather surprised that no-one has pointed to this yet: They are still available. @Scud has them.

Forget the power commander. There are maps around for the V11s, and they don't cost the earth. Putting them in is, by all accounts, very easy. Ask here when you are ready to go at that. Why not the power commander? Because it "fools" the ECU. Why that, when putting in a different map is easy, and there are alternative maps available for very little money.

Nitpicking: if you're going to use German words, do it right. Not "spritzes", "Spritzer".

Tonight it is this: It is interesting to watch that and see if I can recognise anyone. That orchestra plays in the opera where I work. The recording is 12 years old, but there are a couple in there that I definitely see regularly in the opera. EDIT: a note for the non-musicologists: Beethoven was functionally deaf when he wrote that. A bit annoying: it would seem that the capsule on the right of my headphones has just shit itself. Annoying, because the headphones are only about 25 years old. The good bit: they are Sennheiser HD25 headphones, and you can get just about all of the bits as spare parts. EDIT: false alarm: pulled all the plugs, checked left against right, put it back together, and now it is working correctly again. Just wanted some attention, I reckon.

Why would you want to do that? The music is fantastic... Seriously, though: the video is from Stein-Dinse, so I would be inclined to trust it. It looks good to me, but I haven't had the heads off mine yet, so I can't say for sure. Perhaps @pete roper or someone else with appropriate experience can comment. The texts that appear in the video mean, more or less, this: Take out the spark plugs and undo all the valve cover screws. If the valve cover sticks, it can be loosened with a couple of gentle taps with a hammer Loosen off the valve play adjustment screws, and turn the crank to TDC to take the pressure off the rockers Undo the bolts holding the rocker shaft, and remove the shafts. Attention: take care not to lose the washers when taking out the shafts. Remove the push-rods Remove the "stopper" Loosen and remove all six head bolts, and remove the rocker block Remove the oil line Remove the head and the head gasket Remove the cylinder block Put something (a rag, for instance) under the piston to prevent small parts falling into the crankcase Remove the clip on the piston pin Remove the piston pin and then the piston Hope that helps.

Yes, I try and cultivate that attitude. Most people are good. Unfortunately, one must indeed be a little cautious here in Leipzig. Petty crime is present, and I wouldn't leave helmet or tank-bag or keys on the bike unsupervised. I have had someone tamper with the V11 Le Mans here. It was parked outside the opera whilst I was at work, i.e. in the city centre until about 11:30 p.m. . The bike was where the green marker is. The red marker is where the police station is, only 90 m. away. https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_foot&route=51.341318%2C12.380776%3B51.341499%2C12.379438#map=19/51.341405/12.380149 I don't know if it was an attempt to steal the bike or just wanton vandalism, but someone broke off the back of the ignition lock. A similar senseless act was someone breaking off the battery powered LED tail-light on my bicycle outside the theatre in Heilbron whilst I was at work there. The light was fixed into the mount, and would not have been able to be mounted on its mount after being broken out, even if the thief had the right mount for it. So yes, most people are good, but there are some idiots out there. The theft or damage is all the more annoying when it is senseless.

It is easy to check if it is good or not. That is described in the first post in the "decent tune-up" thread that docc linked to. Interpreting the results of your check is also easy: either the resistance through the TPS changes continuously and smoothly as you turn it, or it is broken and needs replacing. PS: have you already done some research into using GuzziDiag? If not, do so. It is quite easy to use, and can show you, among many other useful things, a graph that shows what the TPS is doing. Quite apart from your current issues, look into it. It is worth the effort.

Yes, I know. I lived where the orange dot is for about six years from January 1996 onwards. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/119942092#map=16/48.12638/11.58873 A bit over 10 minutes walk to the Deutsches Museum.

Ok, will do. Thanks.

The bloke who was interested apparently encounterd domestic stress when he mentiong the idea. @Lucky Phil if you're not dead set on off-loading yours, I'll get one from Scud if it goes through. If you want to get rid of yours, you put your hand up first, but I think it is a good thing if a couple are "in stock" in the southern hemisphere. @Scud can you remember what the total cost, including shipping and so on, was to Europe? The bloke in question needs to know that to continue negotiations in the domestic context. Another thing, if you have a lot left, I might consider taking a couple extra, just in case someone else over her wants one.

Although Dvořák no. 9 "From the new world" is pretty hard to mess up. Incidentally, the concert hall that that video was filmed in is the old Gasteig in Munich that I have mentioned previously in a couple of posts. For those who happen to not be Musicologists, the "From the new world" bit relates to the U.S.A. Dvořák went to New York in 1892, and the piece reflects the musical inspirations he found there.

Look at this, or better still, listen to this. All those saxophones, and not a single squawk.

Just for the sake of completeness, the muffler has found a new owner.

This popped into my head earlier this evening. Don't know why, but it's always good. Could be that I have posted it before, but as I wrote, it is always good.

Fishing for girls in a boat, maybe? I think I'd be up for that.

Yes, that is all on the schedule, just not for tommorow. I'm currently in the market for a round tuit.

If I had a boat like that, I would most likely be able to die happy.

I know where mine is (not in the bike yet), but I'm not giving it up.

Or put one of these on it. I did, and it is great. With that, you can bleed the clutch like this:

Ok, thanks Phil. I'll be in touch in the next couple of days. Off to work right now...