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Except for the fragile rear axles. The only car I've known to break a rear axle shifting between gears with the clutch in. Ciao

A "certified brake technician" I've never met one of those. I've met technicians that are certified in breaking things though. Ciao

You can usually just carefully rotate the fitting to the angle you want. I've made tons of brake lines in the past and it's not an issue. Ciao

I seem to recall Brembo stopped selling rebuild kits for everything some time ago due to litigation issues and not being able to control the competency of the workmanship. I know I couldn't get one for the front master on my 1198 and had to buy a complete new assy. I "think" it affects our bikes also.Somebody had issues getting a rear master kit from memory although the rear is available new and fairly inexpensive. Earlier seals are still around for stuff from the 80's and early 90's I think. Ciao

Hey Scud seeing you have the wave front disk and you need to replace the rear why not use one of these. Galfer P/N DF005W https://www.vividracing.com/galfer-front-brake-disc-honda-silverwing-400-p-152495773.html Ciao

The truth is docc a lot of this political correctness/prudishness we live with these days is an Anglo/Protestant rooted and propagated thing. So a US, Australian and British thing. The Europeans are a little more liberal with this sort of stuff. That wonderful Fiat add would generate public outrage from certain quarters here and not last on air. Ciao

I'm just a conduit for info docc. The most unfunny person I know. Ciao

No 6 axis antilock braking and traction control Ciao

So 115HP and 105NM torque. https://www.motoguzzi.com/de_DE/v100-mandello/?fbclid=IwAR3ydDQQmm8YrBvlG3shbF1BivqLEDTuVjtDFfoRDMC3wO7F7maL660SKY8 Ciao

Some generally interesting relay info. https://www.12voltplanet.co.uk/relay-guide.html Ciao

What confuses me is that I seem to have moved into a parallel universe where the normal laws of physics are reversed. For every 1 KG of food I consume I put on 2 KG of weight, sigh. Seems my body has turned into a perpetual motion device and actually runs on thin air and stores double what I eat. Ciao

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If your hands go numb after 20 min of riding you either have a serious issue with the bike or your body. The V11 isn't that bad for vibration. Ciao

Honestly the FE's position was a redundant one, they just weren't necessary in the newer generation of aircraft. In older piston engine days they were working their asses off on transcontinental flights and to some extent in the early days of jets when engine reliability was low but as with the navigator which was still there when I started in aviation they went the same way. You can't imagine having a Navigator in the cockpit now can you. The computer that took Apollo 11 to the moon had the capacity to actually land the Luna module on the surface ( it already took them down to around 8,000" from the surface) but the Astronauts insisted on having manual control of some sort which turned out to be fortunate or they would have landed in a field of boulders. manual flying got them out of that situation. I still want a human directly involved in some way in the cockpit with ability to override. Ciao

Nope don't agree. The AP is used to relieve the pilots from hours of tedious "stick and rudder" work that simply tires them out mentally and is of no benefit or utility to maintaining or improving hands on flying skills. Better to have the pilots mentally fresh and alert for the approach/landings and take off/departure phases and also better monitor systems and navigation. A commercial pilot gets plenty of flying practice in the sim and daily approaches, landings, take offs and departures. Do your riding and driving skills improve by hours or endless droning along a freeway manually keeping your car exactly on speed to avoid speeding fines? Of course not, same with piloting. I have friends that use similar arguments about "Active cruise control" which is one of the best things with a modern car. Brilliant thing that relieves the driver of mentally sapping tedium and allows them to focus on more important aspects of driving. A functioning AP system is such a high priority on a commercial jet that trying to get approval to fly without at least one system operational even for a short leg to a main base/port for repairs is almost impossible. It's a very high priority system. The majority of commercial piloting issues these days are not about automation but training and discipline in the cockpit and in the airline and regulatory body systems of governance. Ciao

Yea it's a compromise alright. Big sprockets like that compromise suspension settings and suspension performance. Another thing i thought was a "bit naff" as the English say is the oil cooler lines of rubber hose and attached by Cobra clips. I like Cobra clips and use them on my bike for fuel lines but oil lines deserve AN fittings on a bike like this. Just sending me "engineering messages" here and they're not terribly good ones. Ciao

Ok so they have gone from a 270 degree balance shaft engine back to a 180 degree engine, is that correct? I didn't look back at the original Garner engine but what you say rings a bell. Personally I don't want a bespoke bike again after the Bimota ownership experience and that had a Ducati engine. I'd prefer a commonly available bike, well engineered and personalise it with quality aftermarket parts if I feel the need. best of both worlds. Decent engineering with hopefully ongoing development and source of spares and the ability to create an individual bike to some extent. Ciao

Of course I have 15M maps for the hi cam engine if you need one John. Coilovers wouldn't look to special on a hi cam engine I don't think either. Ciao

Looking at this bike from an engineering perspective what I see is what I saw when they were first released. Something that looks like a cobbled together backyard special. The Giveaways? the appalling looking banana link gear shift arrangement and the massive rear sprocket. Both indicate a sense of not having the funds to redesign things correctly and having to "make do" with out of date designs and componentry. The massive rear sprocket indicates to me that the primary drive ratio is very long to spin the transmission much faster than normal to reduce the torque loading on the trans to cope with the extra torque from the engine. Then you need to have a silly final drive ratio to bring it back down again. A transmission that's adequate in the first place is the proper engineering solution. A 180 deg crank in this day and age for a parallel twin, no not really. No balance shafts, pushrods. This is just stuff I see from the outside as an amateur, good knows what the engineering's like inside. Good luck with it if you end up with one though. Ciao

No Hi Cam engine has ever used the 15M ecu as standard John. It was either the P7/8 or the 16M. Ciao

Wrong end of the stick means "am I mistaken" and the abbreviation of assembly is "Assy" not assay. I once had an Aeronautical engineer (pommie girl about 25) hand me work scope instructions for a repair to the airframe on a 737. I read through it and went to her office and said I'd need the instructions amended. She looked a little surprised when I advised her that the term "greasy print" ,as in "please send the hard copy of the results to the structural engineering office" wasn't really acceptable on a legal document. The connotations that the guys working on the plane were going to be "greasy" of course and would dirty up important records probably wouldn't be to popular either. Ciao

Ok interesting. On my bike with the old/original engine it exhibited a distinct cough at the typical area but only under certain atmospheric conditions it seemed. I couldn't get it do do it at times when I was deliberately trying. The engine definitely has a failure to combust on one cylinder when it happens and I don't see any reason why it would be a random failure in the ignition system itself. Almost feels like the engine loads up on fuel and then fails to burn for a cycle and clears. You change the ECU and even with different maps it clears the problem which is interesting. My Daytona engine with an identical Efi system save for the TPS has always been fine even with the ecu that ran the 2 valve engine. Ciao

You can't just re engage the autopilot with the aircraft in an out of control attitude and it'll fly you out of it. Ciao