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This origin of this topic is an epistemological debate, along with a power struggle. What distinguishes a justifiable belief from opinion? And who gets to decide? It's at the basis of almost every disagreement.

This discussion brings up the question of just, exactly, what is money anyway? It's nothing more than a social construct that serves as a store of value and a medium of exchange. The earliest societies used physical items (e.g. shells and rare minerals). the only reason gold is valuable is that everyone agrees it is valuable. It has some value in manufacturing, but most gold in the world doesn't get used for anything, it just sits on pallets. Sure in the old days, there were gold coins. But the rise of central governments gave rise to imprinted tokens on more common metals. So long as most people believed that most other people would accept the tokens they served as a medium of exchange. But when people started to not trust a failing government, they no longer accepted its currency. Then we (the societal "we") got into paper money (at first backed by actual silver or gold, then only by the "full faith and credit of a government), central banks, promises to pay etc. That's when we realized that money and wealth could be created by ideas, not just physical assets, and that money and wealth need not be limited by the supply of a raw material. That in order to raise the standard of living globally, wealth would need to be created. Poverty is not created - poverty is the default state. Only wealth can be created. I think what we are seeing, especially with the rise of crypto-currency, is a distrust in government and a search for a medium of exchange that is not regulated by untrustworthy governments. This, in part, explains why the US dollar is so strong right now. There is enough uncertainty in other markets to make the US dollar more trustworthy by comparison. And most people are not ready to place their trust in the largely unregulated crypto-currency markets. We've been using digital money for a long time, because we don't need to be physically present to exchange value (e.g. you don't go to your electric utility's office to pay your bill). In the US, M1 is the amount of bank notes and coins in circulation. M2 includes amounts on deposit at financial institutions, and M3 is more abstract, and beyond that equity and debt markets are treated by most people as a form of money. M2 is essentially digital money, there is far more on deposit than in circulation. If you have more money in the bank than you have stashed under your proverbial mattress, you are already using digital money, regulated by your national government. With the advent of credit cards, we saw the first mass dissociation of money from currency (I can use my US-based credit card to pay for motorcycle parts in Euros), and it took a long time for cards to be widely accepted. Visa, MasterCard, and American Express were the winners. Others, Discover and Diners Club for example, didn't fare so well. We're seeing a similar dynamic in the peer-payments networks. Square (aka Block), PayPal, Stripe, etc. The winners will be whoever earns the trust of the people to serve as a store of value and medium of exchange. PayPal has obviously lost the trust of many people recently, and probably raised suspicions of many others. It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out, but personally, I think PayPal is going to recover from this. The good news is that we all still have choices about what medium of exchange to use, and we are not limited to use only one. But if enough people stop accepting PayPal, it will eventually go away, just like the deutsche marks, francs, lira, and Slovene Tolar.

So you can see the pretty gold Ohlins reservoir. IMO the Nero Corsa is even better looking than the Rosso. Maybe you could expand your search to include that - Or a solid red or black LeMans and upgrade the suspension on your own.

Given the price, effort and time of working with such a remote shop, perhaps you should consider swapping out for a known good transmission. It's a fair amount of work, but it would also allow you to inspect and/or service the clutch while you're at it. There are several topics here with photos of how people have removed the transmission by "crabbing" the frame.

That looks like an incredibly poor move by PayPal - and a quick reversal. While I agree that misinformation is a problem, PayPal seems to be one of the lowest risk places for that to occur anyway. I've been using Venmo more than PayPal in the last few years. I'm going to keep my PayPal account because it's convenient for all the small spring payments. In my business, we dropped PayPal a few years ago and moved to Stripe for payment processing. It looks like Stripe allows accounts for personal use or small, unregistered business activities (e.g. clubs or sole proprietors).

Dang - those are good prices. You can't even get an old seat recovered nicely for $150.

Those look like Staintune.

Taking advantage of today's strong US dollar to make Euro-denominated parts feel cheaper. This is probably a good time for US members to buy from Italy and UK too. My Joe Caruso gears would have felt 20% cheaper if I bought them today.

Sorry to hear about that. I know a lot of people rely on oil heat in the US Northeast. Here in California, we're getting ready to ban sales of new natural gas heaters (in 2030). So I guess electricians will be busy installing new sub-panels in homes to provided dedicated power to heaters. I've got solar panels going up in a few weeks - Federal tax credit of 30%, combined with reduced electrical bill (and protection against future electric rate hikes) makes this an easy financial decision.

Then, the next day, was it a Blue Monday?

^ very nice. I used to play the hell out of Dire Straits and Mark's solo work. But it's been a while. Time to revisit those timeless classics, including one of my all time favorite songs:

Loc-tite makes a thread repair kit they call Form-a-Thread. I've not used it before, but it may be worth a try. (in addition to longer bolts if possible. Edit - I see you already sealed it. There are lot of bolts on the cover, so chances are that the sealant and the ones you can get to proper torque will do the job.

Can you get the rear wheel off the ground? If so, if will be a lot easier to see what's going on with the linkage while you rock the rear wheel back and forth.

Pies, pints, and pushrod engines. The three P's of a good outing.

There's not much in the Eastern Sierras in terms of motorcycle dealers, shops, hangouts, etc. But there are seemingly endless dirt and paved roads. Are you doing the VCMC dual sport ride in Bishop? I did that a couple times, great event. Stop at the Bishop Visitor Center (across the street from Eric Schatt's Bakkery). The visitor center sells paper maps showing permitted motorized trails and OHV areas. I've been meaning to visit the Husky monument, which is actually pretty easy access from Southern California.

1) That could be interesting, so the scope here would essentially expand to include the sporty CARC bikes? Which could mean your own 1200 Sport. 2) Yeah that could be a huge task, and you'd have to deal with the transfer of personal information. If you do go down that road, there might be a member who'd be willing to act as a Griso moderator and copy over the main technical topics. But even that would be time consuming and require a lot of filtering.

Well done. Made all the sweeter because of the history of the bike. Thanks for taking us along for the ride. I haven't done a pass over the Sierra Nevadas for a couple years. This is giving me wanderlust.

Sounds like a proper adventure. Enjoy that ride through Utah today. For future reference (and for anyone else) when the spring breaks you cannot shift at all. Other types of shift misbehaving are most frequently remedied by cleaning and/or adjusting the external linkage (especially the long shift lever pivot bolt).

Getting close to steep, twisty, high elevation stuff. That's my favorite.

Sorry to hear that news. I've heard good things about that site, but never looked closely as I don't have a Griso. But it looks like I missed a good resource for my Stelvio... I do hope the site gets maintained.

^^ I am still not aware of a single failure of any V11 that has the "new" spring installed. Not one. And that's how it should be. There are other springs in the shift mechanism, and they never break. Was it really 2017 that we started doing that? Wow... time flies.

Ideally, you should put it in neutral to put the side plate back on anyway. Can you get the rear wheel off the ground? If so, you will need to move the shift selector arms along the two rods until you find neutral. It takes a little guess work at first , but soon you will find how they engage. You can rock the wheel back and forth until it spins freely - and you've found neutral. I notice you've made three posts, so assume you're new here. Chuck designed and improved "unbreakable" shift spring and I had them manufactured and still have a lot of them on hand. I'll send you a PM.

That's pretty in white. I can easily imagine a tall-bar / tall-screen version with a set of painted luggage. And a police version.

+1 on paper maps. This picture was the start of a great adventure. San Diego, CA to central Utah primarily on twisty two-lane roads. One sheet per gas stop. Just rotate in the tank bag window. I had another set for the way home. And here is Capitol Reef, the last point on the map in this picture. And I'll tell you my favorite paper map story... I'm on a 450 KTM doing a solo loop from Sedona AZ to Flagstaff and back. I get my trusty Federal Motor Vehicle Use Map from the ranger station and plan my loop. On the way back South I'm getting a little concerned about time so I'm moving quick and I get flagged by a ranger. He tells me I'm not allowed to continue on my motorcycle and that I need to turn around. This a HUGE time-sucking detour if I do it. I pull out my Motor Vehicle Use Map. I point to a spot on the map and ask, "Are we here?" He says "Yeah, I guess that road is open now, but only to motorcycles, go ahead." I make it back before dark. PAPER MAPS RULE. Now I confess, I also had a GPS mounted on the handlebars at the time and I was following the line I had laid down (based on the MVUM). On a sidenote, a "breadcrumb" GPS track can save your ass if you are off in the woods alone and get confused.

Longest reigning Monarch in the UK, and a long, full life. But from my (US-centric) point of view the whole Royal Family thing seems unnecessary and ineffectual. But as counterpoint to my own statement, I can't help but feeling the world would be a little bit better today if King Charles and Queen Diana were ascending. Imagine how much good she would have done in the last 25 years. And Diana would have ridden a Moto Guzzi. Actually, she probably would have a Triumph with a super cool flag tank.