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Mine, in Germany, is €177,- a year. That is only third-party property liability insurance, the legally required minimum. If I were to take out comprehensive insurance, I would be paying within 4 or 5 years what I paid for the bike over again, so I don't. I choose to try and avoid throwing it away instead, and if I do, it's my own stupid fault. If anyone else should drive over it, the bike would be covered by their obligatory third-party property insurance. But I try and stay out of the way of that too.

A Gretsch and a Marshall... Jealous.

Yes, what Guzzler said.

Didn't manage to watch much of that, and skipped to the final review. The bloke strikes me as being an arrogant little wanker, and perhaps not all that bright.

I know two personally. The German forum that I am involved in has about 3,500 members. Really active, maybe a hundred or so. No idea how many look in regularly but don't post. Since the V100 came out, there have been a number of new members who joined because they bought a V100, some of them as their first Guzzi. There is a thread that someone started to record the last four digits of the VIN to see who has the earliest one, and to try and keep track of approximately how many may have been produced. There are currently 29 VINs recorded. The lowest is 0136, and the highest 2135. The bike seems to be selling rather well, at least in Europe.

That's not a Guzzi. It's not even a Vespa. Nice bit of a chuckle though, with the boots and the Dr. Martens logo. Or is it an ad? For these: https://www.schuh.eu/de-de/womens/dr-martens-chesney-heeled-black-boots/1448897020/?gad_source=5&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3d6W2-3igwMVfYpoCR2W7Q32EAQYAiABEgJNI_D_BwE

Quite apart from the music (yes, it is good....) that was very interesting. I'm convinced that one is hearing microphones at the positions that are clearly visible. I'd love to know what is really inside the housings. Somehow, I can't really believe that they are as old as the housings look. Or maybe something new in "retro" style. Also interesting that the recording is pretty much mono, although the two mics lower down should be sufficient for a more-or-less stereo image. Not really important, all of that, but interesting. I reckon.

Yeah, German engineering. There is quite a lot of stuff on various channels (particularly youboob) that is not visible here due to copyright issues.

All I can see there is: Video nicht verfügbar Dieses Video ist nicht verfügbar

An anecdote from the former East Germany: Apparently the winter 1996/1997 was very cold. A colleague related how the had repeated power failures. Most, if not all, of the power was being generated with brown coal. It was so cold that the coal froze to a solid block in the transport wagons, and they couldn't off-load it to feed it into the power plants. EDIT: 1996 was after the re-unification, of course. But "only" about 15 years, and a lot of the infrastructure in the former East Germany still hadn't been renewed by then. The power in the DDR was almost all from brown coal. Even today, there is still a power station a bit south of Leipzig that is still using brown coal. I think it is planned to be closed down in the near future, but at the moment it is still on line.

We're just coming out of a cold spell. About 2 weeks, a number of days not over -10° C. and nothing over about -3°C. That counts as "very cold" for Leipzig. Today is about +1°C. Snow predicted for tonight and tomorrow, and again later in the week. This week it apparently wont get much over +2°c, but also not much below -1°C. That is about right for here and this time of year, but I still find it too cold for my taste. The week after is predicted to see temperatures around 5 or 6°C for the whole week. Maybe I'll finally be able to get a couple of hours in the practically unheated garage in.

Make sure that is covered in the final price.

Perhaps you were distracted?

Thanks Pete.

Bullshit.

Yes. As I understand it, if you dial in too much preload, your suspension will top out when the wheel "falls into a hole". If you have to dial in that much preload to get the ride height to where it should be, your springs are too soft for the weight to be carried. If the springs are too soft, they will bottom out regardless of what you do with the preload.

I can't verify that 100%, but I have heard and read many times that springs can get shagged out. And I've ridden and driven a couple of vehicles where that was obviously the case.

No worries, mate. You don't get to choose your genes. EDIT @pete roper : thank you very much for the video. Best explanation I have had yet. I assume that the difference for a V11 is that one does have to adjust the throttle stop on the V11. Otherwise pretty much the same. One question, does the principle of "only adjust one bypass screw" also apply to the V11? I suspect it does, but haven't been able to find a clear statement to that effect. I also assume that pretty much everything in the video applies equally to the Breva 750 ie. Is that true? Thanks again. Mick

Yeah, mine too. The explanation as well. EDIT: found it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_it_play_in_Peoria%3F

No. Preload can help to get the ride height right, as long as the springs have approximately the right rate. If you are bottoming out regularly, the spring rate is perhaps too soft, or the springs have maybe lost something due to age. Having said that, I'm nor exactly a suspension Guru, but I believe that is correct.

Mr. Bonham really was a shit hot drummer, wasn't he? Oh, yeah, and the others weren't that bad either. I read the other day that Jimmy Page has turned 80. No, looked it up: yesterday. Hope he had a good day.

No stress, mate.

She wasn't called Alice, was she? The one you were living next door to...

Probably not, if the paint is absolutely perfect. I believe so. At the end of the day, it is better to talk to an inspector about changes before they are done. Some are "better" than others, and even though the inspection is compulsory, the inspectors are commercial service providers. One can keep looking until one finds an inspector who is interested in something out of the ordinary.

They weren't, but I don't think that was the plan.