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How did they establish engine RPM? Tach on the bike is not a certified, calibrated instrument. Crankshaft isn't accessible with engine running while keeping oil inside. Your bike has easy access to ignition wires; mine that's 8 hours of disassembly and reassembly. Lots of older bikes have no...

If it was silver (unless it's been repainted), I've seen it in that area a few times. Older chap who has owned it forever. Gamma 500. Can't say I blame someone for being gentle with something that's made from fragile unobtainium.

What percentage of stuff found on the internet, random articles, stuff that comes up when you let a search find things for you, is some combination of AI, clickbait, misinterpretation, exaggeration, and general BS? I don't know what that number is, but I do observe that it is getting higher...

Mine doesn't. Easing into the accelerator off a stop vs using it as a switch. Works on all vehicles 🤣

In. Be ready for a longer route.

Yes, but only if there's enough diversity in the lineup to actually boost the production numbers. Yamaha MT07, Tracer 7, Tenere 700, R7, XSR700 all have the same core mechanical bits but nowhere near the same customers. And Yamaha does the same thing with the 900cc models. Nobody is...

I've only gone when it has been somewhat-unexpectedly warm in the spring or fall (contains the crowds), and I go via a backroads route. But June, July, or August? Nope. I'll head the opposite direction.

Sunny here. We're on.

I'm in if it dries out. Looks like there's one more line of weather about to go through.

HELOC doesn't need to be repaid, either. If you have other income that covers day to day, you don't need to withdraw from the HELOC unless you want to. If the HELOC is at a lower interest rate, that even furthers that choice over a structured reverse mortgage. My sister and brother-in-law are...

I reported to Waze, another new one that's sure to be a money-printer: Creditview Road (major 4-lane) southbound south of Wanless Drive.

Historically, Ducati hasn't supported Irish road racing much, but that may be beginning to change. Michael Dunlop's Supersport-winning bike is Adrian Huertas' World Supersport championship winning bike from last year.

Racers have been reporting something wacky about the full-drive-by-wire throttle used on the ZX10R and ZX4R (same part). It's something like only allowing a quick-downshift if the throttle is being forcibly closed. I'm not sure how much of a real-world issue it is, or whether it's just a...

The OEM implementations that I've used, are pretty good. A lot of these trick features become almost free once the manufacturer has made the jump to drive-by-wire throttle control, ABS, and on-board network communication between control modules. Quickshifter adds one strain-gauge sensor on the...

Quickshift-down has sometimes been called an auto-blipper, because it has to rev-match in order to do this smoothly. I have an aftermarket QS, upshift only, on my race bike, because that's the only way to do it on that bike. All it does is cut spark for a preset number of milliseconds. It works...

I'm planning to be at Superburger for lunch, probably a slightly late lunch, in case anyone is wandering around in that area.

Weather radar has showers in the area. Grrr. I'm going to do a longer ride tomorrow instead. edit: aaand, it's raining. Out.

I'm in if it stays clear ... and that could go either way. (Already got rained on this morning)

I dunno about that. Speed cameras are universally despised ... except for the one you want them to put on "your" street.

Factory race bikes can have situations like this at the end of the bike's racing career. NVIS paperwork, "a little damage" ... there may be a whole lot of history, with lots of parts swapping involved. Ask questions ... lots of them. That bike may have seen a lot of hard use, and may have been...