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You have fun with that now, otherwise I'll have to chastise you. Yes, I know it has too many wheels for a fair dinkum motorcycle enthusiast, but I drove a Tesla once. Only for about 10 minutes, but the experience was absolutely convincing. Good thing, no if's or but's or even any considerations about the environment. The thing was just good fun. And on top it really is good for the environment.

Not me, not me.....

Yeah, it could probably be made to work. The thing is, the car is very light. Unlike some others on the market, or that were on the market, it isn't "just a chopped up 2CV". It has the 2CV gearbox, apparently, but everything else seems to be new, specially built, and light.

Thanks for the "resolve". I always helps to hear (read...) what the solution to any given problem was.

The only country that speaks better English than the English themselves is, of course, Australia. No accent, no dialect, no slang, just perfect unadulterated English.

Very front heavy, I dare say.

That video is getting around fast. I just now saw it linked in the german language forum that I am involved in.

That is no doubt a wink in this direction:

I reckon a leather cover would be likely to get as hot as the tank itself, i.e. not much use. You need something that leaves an air space between the cover and the tank. If your cover is sitting directly on the surface of the tank, you wont get much heat protection. This sort of thing can be had fairly cheaply, and the cheap ones pack up fairly small as they are made from thin plastic fabric The problem is, because they are made from cheap plastic, they have a nasty habit of melting onto the hot exhaust pipe when you put them on straight after getting off the bike. For the specific purpose of protecting the tank, I would be inclined to make something out of the sort of material that cheap tents are made of. Velcro around the handlebars and the rear blinkers or something like that. Length appropriate to that, and width such that it hangs down to the bottom edge of the tank or thereabouts. That should be slightly over a square metre of fabric, which should pack up to about the size of a pair of thick winter gloves. Lead shot sewn into the edges along the length would help stop it flapping in the wind, or a cord in the middle down to the footpegs.

Once again, I heartily recommend spending the money to get custom moulded earplugs. Mine look much like these (one of the current models from the manufacturer of mine, which are about 15 years old) They are made of a fairly solid silicon compound, and are actually easier to get out than to put in.

What a beautiful boat.

Wasn't there a (fairly) recent Bond film with a lady on a bike? Someone who was being forced to work for the bad guys, but was actually good.

I always thought it was 12 Monkeys

Nothing at all to do with the topic, but do you still work for them? A mate of mine works for them on the rigs in the Bass Strait (or at least he still did last time I spoke to him...).

Ouch, that is hard.

The high frequencies go west first. The nominal normal hearing range is from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. I can clearly remember being able to hear the whine from the bit in a vacuum tube TV that times the electron beam for each horizontal stripe (German word is "Zeilentrafo". I'm not sure that I ever knew the English term...). The last time I remember hearing that is probably more than 15 years ago. That is at 15.8 kHz. I'm 59 years old now, and I can't hear all that much over about 12 kHz, which is normal for my age. I know for certain that I have a significant dip in my left ear close to 10 kHz, but fairly narrow. Tinnitus is also an issue. Surprisingly enough, I can still do good work as a sound engineer. Whether the loss of the high frequencies is simply an aging problem, or a function of the ever increasing environmental noise in our industrialised society is a matter of contention. Undisputed is the fact that long term and repeated exposure to high noise levels damages your hearing. A very common problem amongst older people is not being able follow conversations in noisy crowded rooms very easily. The brain needs the signals from both ears to filter out the garbage, and if the ears don't work equally well, it starts to have problems. There is a long article here explaing how it works, if anyone is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect I wear earplugs, and have done since my mid-twenties. I wish I had started a bit earlier. I can only recommend everyone to do so in high-noise environments. PS: regarding this: It doesn't need much clever technology to let the important stuff through, although that is a desirable function. The filters I have for the moulded plugs I mentioned further up provide 15 dB damping, and have a very neutral frequency response. That is enough. It suffices to reduce the level to a point where your ears can deal with it a lot better, and you can hear what is going on around you quite well without damaging your hearing.

Don't know about hearing aids, but as far as hearing protection goes: I've got some from this company https://www.hearsafe.de/ Moulded inserts that accept either a noise filter or a driver designed for in-ear monitoring for musicians on stage. The in-ear bit doesn't fit under the helmet, but the filters do. The filters I have provide 15 dB reduction in noise level, and the reduction is nearly neutral across the frequency range. The biggest advantage of the moulded inserts is, you can wear them for more than six hours at a time (multiple experiences thereof...) without any discomfort at all. The problem is more likely that you will forget you've got them in. The disadvantage is that they are expensive. On the other hand, you only buy them once in about 15 years. Apparently one should have them re-done after around that sort of time period as the ear canal changes a bit with time. Mine are at least that old, and still work fine. My advice is, look for something along those lines from a supplier in your country. It is a bit of dicking around to get it organised, but the result is way above any "universal" product on the market.

I'd be inclined to take the starter apart an have a look inside. I did that with mine recently, and established that it is not that hard. Marty NZ was kind enough to provide links to instructions. There were early on Valeo Starter Motors in which the magnets came loose and caused the starter motor to jam. Maybe the one that is in yours is one of those.

The law here in Germany and in Australia is similar. The speedo is not allowed to show less than the real speed, and the abberation is allowed to be, if I remember correctly, up to 10% above the real speed. I assume that the USA has a similar regulation, because it makes a certain amount of sense. Yes. My V35 Imola shows 120 km/h where the Garmin shows 100 km/h. Doesn't surprise me with 40 year old Veglia instruments. Maybe I'll get it calibrated one day. The Kawasaki GTR is pretty good. Speedo is very close to the Garmin, but just under. My car, an Opel Astra, shows a couple of km/h less than the Garmin. Indicated 160 km/h is really about 153 km/h, and the difference gets less as speed decreases. Real 50 km/h is indicated 53 km/h or 54 km/h, depending on whether the summer tyres or the winter tyres are mounted. I haven't checked the V11 Le Mans yet, as I don't have a mount on it for the Garmin yet. Going by the speed of other traffic, it indicates a little over the real speed, but I wouldn't expect anything else. Indicated 100 km/h seems to be pretty close to reality, as I don't get "bothered" by other traffic on country roads.

I've read here and there that brake cleaner will do it too, but I've never tried it. On the assumption that the clutch plate is otherwise junk, one could give it a go.

A mate of mine in the first couple of years at boarding school came from King Island. I was there a couple of times during the holidays. But that is even further off topic...

Diesel in petrol motor is not good, but I think we all know that. An anecdote from my youth: on King Island, that is between mainland Australia and Tasmania, about 36000 gallons of diesel got pumped off the delivery ship into the petrol storage tank at the dock. Somehow no-one noticed until it had destroyed several motors on the island. but that is way off topic...

I would have to agree completely with that.

A mate posted me a link to an auction a while back. HK Monaro 327 GTS. It went for about $ 375,000 . I used to have a brochure. Might still have it in a box in Australia somewhere. The new price in 1968 was around $3,800, if I recall correctly.

The one I had was white, and had a fair bit of rust by the time I bought it in about 1985. And it was "only" a 186S, unfortunately not the 327. It was still a fantastic car that I miss to this day.