motortouring

No hammer on this picture?

Yes, I want

Ooh, well if it helps you to cover the costs I like to make my order one more, 3 in total. Always a good birthday present for the V11 friends in the neighbourhood.

O yes, you are right. This is because the steering head and fork are not parallel. And I finally understand the difference between offset and rake.

I think fork length is not in the equation.

It is maybe a bit difficult to see, but the aluminium colored is 44mm and the black is 42,.. mm Very provisional measurement. The reference is the frontside of the triple clamp and the inside of the triple clamp tube. So the rake is smaller for the later models. It will give 8mm more trail(estimate).

Very interesting!! The first proof I have seen. I am going to the shed this evening to measure. I have a 1999(KR, redframe) and a 2002 (KS)

Count me in as well (2 times). Five and six.

Same here.

I did the same. It takes a bit of patience.

The diffuser is necessary for old H4 bulbs. The ones the sell today have a diffuser on the tip of the bulb. If your diffuser is still not touching the reflector, you might be able to get it out through the hole of the light-bulb. Then it is good to go again.

You can buy a new reflector at Stein Dinse. It is not in the catalogus, but they do sell it. Or the Dutch representative of SD has another source for this. JRE Robers motoren.

Hi Stewgnu, Do you stil have them? Motortouring?

Your right.

As a vehicle dynamics engineer, I must say I did not really see what you did. But, when loosing grip sideways and releasing the brake to find grip again, that is exactly what would happen before the high-sider. He must have found grip on the front end.

Are these still for sale?

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Around 30mm raise of the front would have done the same for geometry, but that is not always possible. Or do you mean that the weight on the front was the essential part of the solution. Interesting point, I did not consider that. We should make a separate topic of this discussion :-) I made an EXCEL sheet that calculated the theoretical values for geometry. Can I share that over here?

A short offset is larger trail. So more stability and less handling. I hope they didn't change to much on that.

And there is Jutta Kleinschmidt, a Dakar Veteran and Champion.

We are a bit off topic, but: Volvo uses Peugeot Diesel engines, good decision.

You might touch a good point here. A car or motorcycle is a machine but it is considered by many users a consumer good. When treated like a machine it has substantial longer life. If you ride an Audi or BMW like a world touring championship competitor, you will need a sponsor for an annual drive train replacement. My Peugeot 306 Break just past the 560.000 with no drive train parts replaced so far. Not a very inspiring car by the way 😀.

It even looks like they have a special ribble part for the throttle assist

This was posted on the MGCN forum. I do have a kind of déjà vu.

I hope this is a very good camouflage :-)