Lucky Phil

At least carbon fibre has a few practice functions like reduced weight and higher strength so you don't get cracking of the front guard and side covers around the mounting holes. TPMS I can see a point to as a safety item with the bonus of a clock. Engine oil temp while I'm having a coffee! I'm more interested in the temperature of the coffee. Ciao

Precisely Chuck. There's more angst and hand wringing over what is displayed on oil pressure and oil temp indicators than just about anything else. So basically you add another/multiple failure points to indicate information that 99% of owners don't really understand anyway. Ciao

Ha, thats the least of it Pete. How about leather mini saddlebags to replace the side covers or a miniature brass old style wooden wheeled artillery piece bolted to the front of the front mudguard. Why? well because RE's old motto was "built like a gun". Everyone over there seems to think all this is great stuff. I'm just throwing up in my mouth. Oh btw, big believers in the piggy back air temp sensor modifier for the EFI tuning. Ciao

Yes I understand. I apply the opposite logic when I buy something, I'm a harsh marker and if it turns out to be a "less than optimal purchase decision" I'll cleanse my soul about it on the internet and let others know. In the car forum world I learned about confirmation bias when I bought a few "must have because the std item is shit" accessories and found when I actually took delivery of the car that the std items were quite acceptable. Not only did they overstate the usefulness of the accessory part they also trashed the OEM. Resold a few items as they just weren't necessary. The car world is quite rife with silliness, such as anything Billet aluminium is automatically better than the std plastic or steel item. Until the Billet item starts to degrade and fail of course and even then the purchasers will continue to delude themselves about it even when it's pointed out the std OEM item lasts for years and gives no problems. Visit the Royal Enfield forum and witness the stuff those guys bolt onto their bikes. Leather laced handlebar grip covers with 1 foot long dangly bits on the end and that's just the low end of the scale. Scary. Ciao

Well just to add another perspective (recalcitrant of course, because that's what I am ) I think they are very uncool and a waste of time. Just techno bling and another piece of redundant junk. As you pointed out you never really look at it anyway. Nice to know what the oil temp might be in a WCS but once you know that then it's redundant. Cool is actually only having fitted what's actually necessary, not ending up with the motorcycling equivalent of Graceland. Ciao

Hence the use of exhaust valves in MotoGP bike exhaust systems today. You can control the exhaust back pressure/density therefore the speed and timing to some extent of the reflective wave. Just another piece in the complex puzzle of exhaust tuning. Ciao

It's just a variable throttle stop. No mixture influence. Ciao

Its an Ancel BA301. Seems comprehensive and they do software updates apparently. If you select Motorcycle battery it lists a ton of different types by p/n but the Odyssey doesn't come up so I just selected Car battery and manually entered the type and CCA. I've had a few car batteries fail over the years the last one 18 months ago fortunately in the driveway. When this happens the modern electronics go mental and there isn't any warning like the old days when as the battery aged you got slower cranking etc which gave you some warning. Now they just work until they don't, so I decided to get one of these and monitor battery condition in my vehicles and change them before they drop their bundle. Voltage checks alone aren't an accurate indication of battery health. Ciao

I ended up buying this battery tester. Does pretty much everything including a load CCA test to give an idea of the battery health. Not a great image, sorry. Ciao

Was the TPS set? Ciao

Yes. Ciao

Certainly for the cam drive, that's how the Griso works. The problem for the main drive is a 2:1 reduction doesn't work mechanically for a load like the main drive on a twin because of gear tooth wear, unless it's chain. That's why Ducati always use of late 1.87:1 or some other similar ratio which doesn't work for the cam drive. Ciao

We're all guessing to some extent. Ciao

Drive to the cams is at the rear of the cylinders but at the front will probably be a gear drive to a jackshaft for the cam chain drive like a Griso engine.. Ciao

Not unit construction. Alternator at the front and clutch at the back towards the left of centreline along with the gearbox. See the gearbox bulk on the left rear side of engine.

Looks that way docc. Ciao

Some things but it ends at the cylinders and heads. Ciao

Thanks for that. I see the jagged line on the image manipulation. Looking at the shrouds on the header pipes I think they are to deflect hot air from the headers off the riders feet. I wonder why they manipulated the image of the front engine cover anyway, they also did it in one of the "whole bike" images as well. Ciao

Yep. See my edit to my earlier post. Ciao

Really, can you link me that image? Of course the master may be at the back operating the clutch through the jackshaft like a V11 does through the gearbox mainshaft. EDIT.....Ok got it. So that's interesting. Maybe a re think is in order on the clutch. It looks like the clutch master is in line with the crankcase split line so in line with the crank and it's bolted to a large removeable cover so maybe a multi plate clutch behind the engine then. Ciao

Yes I'm liking it too docc. Just want to see some technical details on the "compromises" Ciao

What do you mean by this? Just out of interest. Ciao