Lucky Phil
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1 hour ago, LowRyter said:
Phile, why did you go with a fattie on the greenie?
You must have a wider wheel, it's not stock anyway.
Because it looks good and I'm a racer
17X5.5 inch rim.
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I bought these. Metzler Sportec M9 RR 180x55 on the rear and a 120 on the front. I liked the look of them and the tread pattern looks quite sexy and they seemed quite expensive so I figured they must be good.
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Here's a tip, anything made of rubber buy as spares when you can and treat them with preservative and a clip lock bag and store them away out of the light. Rubber parts are a PITA to replicate or find an alternative to. I have my stash.
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10 minutes ago, mikev said:
doesn't look modified unless they did a really neat job of it
No it's modified. Had the bell cut off it to fit the pod filter at some point.
https://www.officine08.com/p69547_intake-joint-moto-guzzi-1100-sport-i-e-air-filter.html
Airbox seal
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9 minutes ago, pete roper said:
Does it look like it has been cut/chopped/modified in any way? If not I'd think it's probably the original part.
I can't remember exactly how they seal to the box. Usually it's some sort of lipped flange but if push comes to shove you could simply install the box and then seal around them with silastic. Not ideal but a zillion times better than pods.
Yea they just have a full circle grommet style seal on the airbox Pete and the trumpet inserts from the airbox and connects to the T/B. The rubber seals are still available I think but the trumpets are hard to find, new anyway.
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Martin lost the championship because he's a hot head that rides on emotion and bravado and lets his emotions on the track overwhelm him which leads to poor choices. The crash was his fault entirely. I can see an argument for a rider in Marquezes place not engaging with a guy in the title fight at the last round UNLESS that rider has made the total balls up Martin did then it's a straight fight for track position. Bezzecchi is correct Marquez is a protected species and caused his crash. Marquez is a PITA and gets away with way too much in my view. Getting towed around to a decent grid position in Qualifying is a joke. All it means is there is a slower rider without the actual raw speed further up the grid to @#!#$# everyone else around and get in their way come the race.
It should go to the old WSB style Qualifying of the one lap shootout where each rider has a warmup lap and then he's got one lap alone on the track to lay down his best time. A true reflection of the riders actual speed and all the yellow flag bullshit is eliminated. BSB has gone back to this system. Then you don't have riders that don't have the actual raw speed without getting a tow in the way at the front of the grid and causing mayhem in the first 1/3 of the race. Marquez knows he hasn't got the raw speed so goes high risk at the start of the races and rolls the dice which often either takes another rider out or at the very least ruins their race by holding them up. Chances of this system being implemented? Zero.
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I suspect those will be gold anodised alloy screws. I have a ton of them in a box in the workshop.
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42 minutes ago, audiomick said:
No mate. I moved to Germany in 1996. I bought the jacket when I was in Melbourne over Christmas and New Year 2005 / 2006. That was a kind of "10 year anniversary" visit. The receipt came home to Germany with me in the luggage.
I'm pretty sure I wore the jacket during the trip back, because it would have made the luggage too heavy.
Thank god for that. I moved house literally around the corner 18 years ago and tossed out just about everything so I could buy stuff all over again.
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The last place on earth I'd go for those is a Guzzi dealer. The tank cap ones are All M5 but 3 are long and 3 are short decorative ones. Remove the gold ones and you'll find they are the long mount ones at M5X30mm. Buy some Titanium ones off ebay or stainless ones from the hardware store.
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So Mick you took that receipt to Germany when you moved there then! Take your used disposable ear plugs as well
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I moved away from leather jackets a long time ago. To hot for summer and too heavy (as in weight) for the colder months and various other issues like a lack of storage pockets of any practicality. Modern materials have made the classic leather jacket a bit outmoded in every respect but style. On top of that they shrink every year and no longer fit in a few short years
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On 11/27/2023 at 2:08 AM, p6x said:
Unfortunately, Jorge Martin got desperate and confused speed with haste. Clipping the back of Bagnaia one time should have been a warning, but he ignored it.
So he deprived the public from a grand finale by exiting the race quickly, taking Marc Marquez with him for good measure. Marc Marquez already had a first race incident with Marco Bezzecchi resulting in Marco crashing.
Jack Miller was looking good to win the race, that would have been a MotoGP win on a third different bike brand. That same turn 10 that had just previously caused Binder to lose top spot was fatal. Another DNF.
So the last race did not live up to the build up and expectation. It fell flat on its face. Bagnaia did a home run, even if FDG came back to challenge.
Let us see tomorrow what is going to happen when Marc Marquez tests the Ducati GP23 for the first time.
Brains beats bravado sums it up. Martin gave a perfect example of how not to conduct a race strategy in his situation. Unbelievably he got up blaming Marquez for his off and before that seemed to expect Vinales to just step aside and let him through after he ballsed up his race at turn one. Not to mention his dodgy re-entry to the track just before turn 2.
Factory rider class? I don't think so, not yet anyway.
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6 hours ago, audiomick said:
The 15M ECU can, as far as I know, not take an input from a Lambda sensor. If anyone knows different, please say so.
That means, to have any benefit from the Lambda sensor, you would have to change to the 15RC ECU from the later models.
EDIT: no, wait, there is one possible benefit. If you were to want to start modifying your map, the ability to mount a Lambda sensor would make it possible to use a Lambda mapper to see what effect any changes have had.
Yes Mick you would need the 15RC ecu to run Lambda. Strange how my bike runs and rides perfectly without Lambda as did the WSB race bike I worked on at one point. On the WSB spec bike one of the mapping mods needed after the usual dyno tuning to Lambda output was for the rider who in various areas needed something other than what was best torque/stio correct to get the throttle feel he needed.
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I think Teslas have their place like all EV's just not in my driveway. When owning a car or motorcycle for that matter becomes the same to me as my fridge, washing machine or vacuum cleaner then I'll be in the market for an EV.
No automated system to date is perfect and requires human oversight. The 737 NG's I specialised in and did many, many cockpit hours in would at top of descent under autopilot control overspeed the aero six times out of ten unless the pilot intervened. The interface between the autopilot and auto throttle used to get it all wrong and it was never resolved to my knowledge. The Active cruise on my cars is the same, good but not perfect and require monitoring. The issue is the operators, the systems will never be perfect. The worlds been made so safe now all the stupid people aren't naturally culled from the herd anymore and end up taking out the smart people. The future looks promising
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It gets worse. This guy Greg is a commercial pilot/Captain that flies for a US airline. All his stuff esp on WW2 aircraft is excellent and very detailed. He has a Car gig on the side and has authored books on Turbocharging cars etc. He's a long way from some sort of conspiracy theorist.
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3 hours ago, p6x said:
From minus 7 to minus 21....
Martin said his rear tire was the culprit. He was lapping 1 second slower than the front men. Curiously, Bagnaia had a similar issue during the Sprint race.
Unless something drastic happens, Martin is out of the title chase in Valencia.
How could tires be not uniform across the board? surely Michelin test each and every of them for defects before they are released.
They do but they can't control what the teams do with them. All heat cycles on the warmers are monitored and logged. A tyre thats been on the warmers and done a cycle is not as good as a fresh tyre with zero heat cycles on it, etc. Slightly too hot setting on the warmer? Tyre is junk. This is how stupid MotoGP is getting,. Becoming like F1. Aero, suspension jacking it's all going down a blind alley just like F1.
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23 hours ago, docc said:
With "up to 10% ethanol" in US fuels, I have asked before about other countries; Germany in particular.
Is this 10% ethanol thing worldwide?
We still get a choice here docc between E10, regular standard(91) 95 octane and 98 octane PULP thank god. How long it will last I don't know.
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5 hours ago, GuzziMoto said:
Simpler solution was to install a battery that didn't need help after the Shorai battery failed fairly early by my standards (lasted a couple years). But yeah, adding something that would put a load on the battery would probably have helped. Not sure a tail light would be enough load, a head light would be better, even just a switch that went straight from the battery to the stock head light would probably have done the trick, no extra parts to carry. But I should not need to do that. That is solving a problem that should not exist. And now it doesn't.
Thats why I have the tail and stop light elements both wired to come on together for higher load. Pick your poison. Massively lighter weight or an inconvenience in some conditions. I'm never going to be on a bike in cold conditions anyway. Cold to me is sub 15 deg C, lol.
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2 minutes ago, activpop said:
I know I have seen it on here somewhere but cant find it. Where can I purchase front and rears? Thanks!
Any retail bearing supplier. Just ensure you get either US, German or Japanese made bearings. Any of the major brands. NSK, Timken, Koyo etc.
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On 11/11/2023 at 12:50 AM, GuzziMoto said:
And that might help if you can do that. But that wasn't an option on my Griso. As I recall, the headlight doesn't come on until the engine starts. Trust me, I tried a lot of things.
I have an automotive stop and tail light bulb with pigtails soldered to it for testing stuff and removing the flash charge from batteries before testing with a meter etc. If I had this cold weather issue with a Lithium battery I'd just fit my home made tool with either an accessory socket that plugs into the std one on the bike if fitted or onto the remote charging fly leads and let the combined stop and tail light illumination of the bulb warm the battery. My simple tool cois up to the size of the palm of your hand and fits in the front pocket of a pair of jeans. Failing that any simple pair of short leads and a resistor of some kind would work. Plug in a heated vest for a while might do it as well.
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2 hours ago, MartyNZ said:
https://shoraipower.litema.com.au/contact/
SHORAI AUSTRALIA CONTACTS PHONE: 07 5504 5595, MOBILE: 0412 170 020
I fitted a LFX21L6-BS12 way back in 2016, still going strong. You should consider buying the dedicated charger for storage and "balance charging".
Yea I saw that but didn't realise you could buy online.
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Ok so I will try a Lithium battery. I've used one in my Suzuki track bike but that's a Japanese charging system not a Luigi system. Shorai batteries are a bit of an issue to get here though.
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6 hours ago, docc said:
I went back to my original notes from 2016 and found more detail. Pretty impressive your 48/52% weight distribution, @Lucky Phil. We were most interested in weight distribution with the rider on board, in gear, with typical luggage/load and "some" fuel. My weight distribution with about 1/4 tank of fuel in that configuration is 43/57.
I did also weigh the Sport by itself and got 46/54 at 524# / 238 kg.
So, redoing the math from the notes, taking out the fuel, the Stucchi+GPS and adding back the original LaFranconi canisters and fuel evap system, a factory RedFrame V11 Sport comes in at 530 pounds/ 241 kg.
Seems the Lucky_Phil V10 Sport is ten kilos (22 pounds) lighter, even with the V10 motor!
I mean, sure, that's just 4%, but just try losing 22 pounds your-own-self!
[The published weight "dry" of the 2000 V1 Sport is 219 kilos. Even taking out the gearoil, reardrive oil, motor oil, battery, and the fuel evap system I can't get any place close to that. Never ask an Italian girl what she weighs. She'll tell you 45 kilos. And they'll never find your body . . .
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I feel somewhat better now knowing that. I weighed a V11 bare head fitted with valves and springs and the inlet manifold and rubber and a bare Daytona head without valves rockers etc but with the rocker support and a cam in it. I doubt a Daytona head would weigh more than 2 Kg over the V11 head complete. So that's 4 KG plus cam drive pulleys and belts etc. So I think the engine would be in that +5 to 6kg more range. The cams alone in the Daytona engine weigh 865 Grams each and it still has a jackshaft in place of the original Camshaft.
As Mick said a Lithium battery would drop probably 5 KG. Is there any experience with the LiPo batteries in the V11. Does the charging system treat them OK? I'm sure some here have tried them in the past.
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9 minutes ago, docc said:
hmm. Let me take out my original notes and check my math. Not really used to thinking in kg . . .
I think your maths is ok docc. Maybe southern hemisphere weight is different to northern.
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air filters
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No it's the airbox sealing sleeve.
Phil