Lucky Phil

The thing weighed 321KG wet! Thats not a motorcycle it's a big fat wide horrid contraption of some sort. Any bike that weighs 321KG is a disgrace. Phil

It is 1mm pitch. Phil

Red frame. Smaller diameter. Phil

Yes Pete. My RE 650 fuels perfectly, and I mean perfectly all the time. back in the late 90's I owned 2 Triumph Daytona triples a 98 and a 99 model. Both had Sagem injection and were a year apart in manufacture dates and in the 12 months Triumph had learned absolutely zero about how to get them to fuel nicely despite numerous map updates. Still stalled pulling up to traffic lights regularly etc. My mate had a customer Daytona race bike in the shop and retro fitted a Motec ECU to it and we went to the dyno to map it and Pete had it perfect in about 20 min on the dyno. Sagem and Triumph couldn't get them right for years. That dyno run was interesting in that Pete ran the bike up to redline in 4th or 5th gear and on the run down unplugged the original Sagem ECU and installed the Motec and it just continued running as it came back to idle. Then the fine tuning started.

I know I'm a grumpy old man these days but there isn't a bike in that video I'd have any interest at all in owning. If I was the owner I'd sell all of them and buy 2 decent bikes with the money. Funny these days how people lust over motorcycle that we were all puking over back then.

Mitsubishi or Dakin. I have both. Phil

Because it's "cool" Mick and it's like a MotoGp bike clutch. Anyway dry clutches are the overwhelming majority out there in the Automotive world. An Aussie company is now making twin disk automotive clutches that are "universal" and don't rattle at idle like all other performance car twin disk clutches. https://uniclutch.com/about Phil

I was thinking more of single point threading it and there is a larger ID visible on the outside of the nut that means you can thread all the way through. Phil

I haven't been able to figure out how to take images of the future yet docc. I'm still busy figuring out how to take images of events that didn't occur Phil

I'll check it out in September. Phil

Racings great these days isn't it! You limit electronics that are eventually developed and filter down to the road bike market to enhance road riding and safety and replace it with the rabbit hole of aerodynamics that has zero road bike application or benefit and just causes extreme tyre management issues on race bikes. Pure administrative genius on the part of Dorna. Phil

Congrats on retirement Pete. Time for travel. You and Jude are welcome here of course. Melbourne would be like a summer holiday for you right now weather wise, lol. Phil

The Griso motor is far superior to the Daytona engine in every way. Phil

So what was the "appears to be a spacer but it won't fit" turn out to be? Phil

The problem here is all this speculation is just that, journalists speculation. What amazes me is that with a whole army of jurnos involved in Motogp all the news is just second guessing. It's all just background noise to me these days, like the hum of passing freeway traffic. Even the Commentators know zero details about anything and they live and breath it and work in the circus itself. I often wonder why the hell they have things like pitlane interviews with team principle or riders because you can't hear a thing over the engine noise and the interviewee is trained to talk a lot but say nothing. Totally pointless. I turn the sound down as much as possible. I wish there was an option to hear the bikes and not the clowns that commentate. Matt Oxley posted on social media a few days ago that a request for an interview with a particular rider was met with a condition of submit all your questions, they will choose which ones they want to answer and no deviation from that. It's not motorcycle racing anymore it's F1 on two wheels and who the hell wants that. It's the old story, popularity has it's happy zone and when it goes beyond that it's detrimental to the endeavour. We have gone beyond the happy zone in MotoGp and now it's a business first and foremost. Phil

No images available but the only spacer is the one that goes on the axle between the bevel box and the wheel drive spline so axle ID, 2mm wall thickness and about 20mm long. The other "spacer" is a washer between the bevel box and the swingarm. Phil

Got this delivered today and noticed the warning! Looked up the website but all the usual nonsense. Am I missing something here?

True I misses the S Phil

"Hand me your hammer" is what she's saying. Phil

Check the rocker arms for hard chrome flaking and the cams for damage. Phil

This is true.

As a general principal I'm not sure I see the point in rebuilding a component with an inherent fault when a later superior iteration has been released unless you have the ability to reproduce the update to the original unit. Always opt for the latest version unless there is some other issue. I'd personally opt for the later unit with the better magnet retention system if indeed that is the case here. Phil

You can get "LV" ATF these days as well. "LV" Low Viscosity. Phil