Chuck

Vote number 3 for water in the tank. Let me tell you a story.. A guy called me one time saying the 65 hp engine in his Luscombe would be purring along, then suddenly miss, then continue running fine. He was getting afraid to fly it, and asked if I had any ideas. I said, "Sure. You didn't drain your float bowl during the last Annual inspection, did you?" Silence. "Er.. no." As mentioned above, water goes to the lowest point in the fuel system. Once it is in a float bowl, it stays there. Airplanes have sump drains and a gascolator that should catch the water..if.. the driver faithfully drains them before the first flight of the day. It's certainly not unusual for a motorcycle to have water sitting in the bottom of the tank.

Oh, I dunno, Docc. My biggest worry when riding is some brain dead texting (or playing games on their phone!) driver running me over. I'll be 4 or 5 hundred feet above those idiots with the breeze blowing up my shorts.

Had to stick the prop on it just for grins..

Here's the back when I was making the engine mount..

Uhh.. Docc's kid runs Imgzeit.. it's 11 bucks per year, unlimited uploads. Load it there, select "direct" and there ya go. No fooling around with "free" sites, losing your pictures, etc. Photoblockit can KMA. Right down the middle. Project progress..

Hey, no talking dirty, now..

*I'm only guessing* but I'd bet is a smaller pitch diameter.

Looks like a job for a printer if you need one made..

Good luck with that, Pete..

I remember the Ippo back in the day. They even had brochures at the dealers..

Mr. Scudder sez: +1 to all 3.

Yeah, early 70s. A little weak on the low end, but a sub cured that.

I had a pair of Dahlquist DQ10s when Dorcia and I first married, but they took up the whole living room in the log cabin. They were awesome, though..

I guess the thing is.. if you have never heard real hi fi all your life, it is an eye opener. My hearing is only as good any more as my hearing aides, but his eyes were as big as saucers.

Grand son Max, 19, is visiting on Spring break from Iowa State. He was looking at our ancient stereo stuff, and asked if it still worked. He has heard that vinyl is the best.. We had a flood many years ago, and literally hundreds of my LPs were involved. The bottom 2 inches are stuck to the sleeve, or have residue on them. He said he would try cleaning and see if it would do any good. It didn't. However, I had a virgin vinyl Steely Dan that was in a plastic sleeve that was undamaged. Put it on the B&O, and he was enthralled. "It sounds like they are in the room. If you've never heard it, you won't understand.." Probably created a monster..

Pretty sure the Mille is a small valve engine. I had a Strada, which is similar, has the great medium valve engine, and when naked and unafraid looked very much like my LM5 in the same condition.

Many. The deal breaker for me was the heat rolling out of the fairing. I liked the bike, though..but not enough to pull the trigger.

These bearings had the special unobtainium solid gold races and 99.9% silver balls?? Seriously, I don't know.. but that sounds crazy to me. (?)

When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro.

From memory.. there was a New Hampshire sticker on the fork leg.

Un freakin believable, David. I'd never seen him.. Thanks!

(sigh..)

No, a good story.. but the news makes us sick, too.