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Do I want that? L NO!! et me think about that for a minute...

I rather suspect that it never will be. A quick glance at the site indicates that they are all about selling maps that they have made, so the "T-800" interface is likely more equivalent to the the IAW Writer tool than to Guzzidiag. If they are (only) interested in selling maps, I don't expect their tool will ever be able to do more than write to the ECU. I hope they haven't pinched the code for the thing from Beard....

I had to go looking to find out what that is. Did Randy actually ride in the Boxer Cup, or did they just use his name? Whatever, I'd be interested in your impressions in comparison to the V11 Le Mans. It seems to me, they are "natural competitors". Similar figures, similar date of birth... Not that I would ever consider buying a BMW. I'm just curious...

Why does that cause me to think of professional bicycle racing and doping?

Go for it.

Maybe docc or Jaap could just change the title of this one? This one seems to be running pretty well.

That is a truly fascinating photo.

Of course it is. Live in the belief! PS: mine is dark grey. I've got a slow one....

I don't think so, but I haven't looked into the pricing on new vehicles for years, as I'll probably never be able to afford one.

Everyone knows that red is 10% faster (that's why most Ferraris are red, for instance), ergo "X" must also be 10% faster.

That is probably exactly what the marketing department is aiming for. The company earns much more on accssories than it does on standard equipment. The "premium" car manufacturers having been following those tactics for decades.

It's all been said, but here are my two cents anyway: I'm definitely with Marty there. Poor connections have a higher resistance (loose, oxidised, whatever...), and that generates heat. When it gets bad enough, the connectors end up looking like the ones in @droydx's photo. In most cases, the problem is exactly that: the connector has just gone bad. Repair it (and maintain it in the future), and the problem is solved. No. Yes. If there are spikes, the regulator has a problem, at least as far as I know.

In the course of thinking about various aspects of the starter circuit, I "extracted" the circuit by hand from the circuit diagramme. It looks like this: @docc has already pointed out that the side-stand switch is normally closed, so we can deduce from the sketch that (when the wiring is in its original state...) The ECU only gets power when the side-stand is up, or the bike is in neutral (or both, of course) and, over and above that (or "after" that in the circuit) the starter button only works when the clutch is pulled and the clutch switch is closed. Hope that helps.

My V11 Le Mans had an SW-Motec Evo ring on it when I bought it. I can't measure anything, I'm afraid, or look for a number, as I've already passed it on to someone else. I did have a look on the SW-Motec site the other day when I saw your first post the first time. I thought it was there that I had seen diagrammes of how the measure the rings, but it might have been Hepco-Becker. Anyway, you're looking for "universal ring", I think, and some way definition of the diameter and number of screw holes.

Very pretty car, Joe. I've always liked them. Critic on the film: that is apparently an advertisement from a "classic cars" dealer. Using a camera that has so much "wide-angle" distortion and having obviously no idea how one collects good audio is no recommendaton for the dealership in my opinion. Maybe I'm too critical, but.... no, I wont go on.

Indeed. Pity that motorcycle is blocking the view.

Could very well be possible. Professional sport has, after all, long been a way to get out of "the ghetto". Why not with motorcycle racing and the "developing countries"?

Yeah, there are not all that many dirt roads in Toorak, are there. And that's where those things tend to live.... PS: for those who are scratching their heads, ask the internet what "Toorak Tractor" means.

My opinion: if that is an argument that carries any weight, then "professional motorcycle racer" is the wrong job for the person in question. Yes, it is hard to be away from home and family, but it is part of the deal. PS: about 35 years as a freelance sound engineer, in which profession most of the work isn't close to home, and doesn't get you home at 6 in the evening for dinner, allows me to make such a "harsh" judgement. I survived, and I didn't earn nearly as much doing that as those pro riders do. I still work as a sound engineer, but now I'm old and I've found a cushy job in an opera house close to home.

I want to get onto that as well. Maybe I'll get around to it one day... In the mean time... My V11 Le Mans has the hiccough, and I haven't been able to do the "decent tune-up" yet, so it is still there. The Le Mans is a 2002 Model. My Breva 750 IE is a 2005 Model. It has (apparently) the same problem. I must admit, I messed up the "decent tune-up" on the Breva a bit. I messed around with both of the bypass screws, and one should only mess around with one, as I learned afterwards. Anyway, disregarding that for a minute: since it has got cooler here (autumn...), the Breva runs extremely badly in exactly that 2.800 - 3.100 r.p.m. range. I reckon it's probably a conspiracy. Luigi doesn't like cold weather (understandably...), and consequently didn't spend enough time setting up the motor for cooler conditions. Or something like that ...

That's not strange, Phil. That's their job. They're there to "prove" that the brand that they work for is the absolute best thing ever on the market. That observation is for the most part based on having been involved in the sound installation for a good half a dozen motor show presentations for a German "premium" car manufacturer at various motor shows. Interesting from a sound technician's point of view, but the hurrah involved is somewhat tiring.

Wouldn't expect anything else at that mileage.

It depends a little bit on which ones are running (currently 4 bikes, one car and one bicycle), but... I do think about practical things, what I need to take with me and so on. The bottom line is, I open the drawer that the keys are in, and take the one that is calling the loudest to be ridden. Even if that goes against the "common sense" planning. It's sort of like baby birds in a nest when the parent turns up with food. The loudest one wins.

It might be, perhaps, to avoid conflict with Land Rover. @p6x even if the engine design is not patented, there is, at least here in Germany, a thing called a "Musterklage". It is a kind of watered down copyright breach: if the thing looks too much like a thing that someone is already selling, you can claim damages. I don't know any details. An acquaintance, a lawyer, told me about that. He was doing a reasonable amount of business with that sort of thing at the time.

That's something that gets me here. In Melbourne, the engine number is recorded in the rego papers. Seems logical to me. Here in Germany, the country that invented inflexible bureaucracy, the engine number is not recorded. Doors wide open for exactly what you described: buy an empty frame with legit papers, fill it up with stolen parts, and flog it off as a "legal" bike. I know that would work here. Apart from the fact that the parts actually weren't stolen but rather the parts from the bike that I bought, that is exactly what I did. And the registration office didn't bat an eyelid.