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Re: Europe trip trouble
« Reply #60 on: October 15, 2022, 05:30:01 PM »
I've read your posts and seen the pictures about that incident.  It seems the pinion  nut came lose and the pinion was floating around.
 I've been thinking about how it could happen.
I noticed how the bike jumps with a little throttle. I feel a kick in the rear.
It also does the opposite when letting go the throttle at mid revs, 3-4000 rpm.
Can this back and forth create sudden torque at the rear pinion to undo the nut?
I've been riding more gently lately.  Opening the throttle slowly and letting go gradually.
We might benefit from a fuel map that is more gradual.
But who wants to go slow on this bike!?  I wish it had ride modes.
You’ve got all the modes you want in your right wrist.
Yours being an ‘07, has no rubber in the  end of the torque arm, you can fit one in each end and it softens the response.
Also in the lower gears, I just crack the clutch as I roll from power on to off.
Also, the torque could not undo the nut unless the splines were shagged.

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Re: Europe trip trouble
« Reply #61 on: February 02, 2023, 05:50:03 AM »
Well she’s back home finally.
The familiar long legged feel was a welcome reminder as I headed up the freeway towards home. So many times on the V85, I’ve reached for another gear at 120 kph and there is none…
This time there was…!
The first thing I saw when I walked in the depot.


I just never get tired of it…(damn comfortable too).
Anyway home now and will do the rest of her time in Australia.

The end…
« Last Edit: February 02, 2023, 05:50:43 AM by Huzo »

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Re: Europe trip trouble
« Reply #62 on: February 02, 2023, 07:14:48 AM »
Welcome home!  If only the bike could talk.
Ben Zehnder - Orleans, MA USA

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Re: Europe trip trouble
« Reply #63 on: February 02, 2023, 10:02:02 AM »
As much as you like that bike have you considered getting another just like it? Might be fun to start looking for a low mileage one that you can make the improvements you like on that one. If it’s not in the budget you could call it “assembled spare parts” . That’s how the government does it here if they want another and it’s not in the budget. You could keep it on another continent, saving shipping costs.
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Re: Europe trip trouble
« Reply #63 on: February 02, 2023, 10:02:02 AM »

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Re: Europe trip trouble
« Reply #64 on: February 02, 2023, 01:28:01 PM »
Welcome home!  If only the bike could talk.
Yes Scout.
I’ve never heard it talk, but it speaks to me constantly.

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Re: Europe trip trouble
« Reply #65 on: February 02, 2023, 01:59:17 PM »
As much as you like that bike have you considered getting another just like it? Might be fun to start looking for a low mileage one that you can make the improvements you like on that one. If it’s not in the budget you could call it “assembled spare parts” . That’s how the government does it here if they want another and it’s not in the budget. You could keep it on another continent, saving shipping costs.
That has to be a good idea John, no matter which way you look at it. It has crossed my mind both times that this happened.




Once in Australia and once in Italy.
But here’s the thing…
If I did that, the donor bike would eventually sit in the workshop with enough pieces gone from it such that it was no longer a bike, but just a reminder of what it used to be. I would feel the same as if I’d cafe’d my Mk 2 Le Mans, although I never really got to like that one.
But in any case it would have been a “wasted” bike in my view.
Also.
When the bevelbox let go a couple of years back, I could easily have bought another one on e bay, but I didn’t want a REPLACEMENT one, I wanted MINE…
Thanks to Roper and Michael, that’s how it turned out… :bow: :thumb:
I now look at it and like it more BECAUSE it blew up, not in spite of it…
Finally.
I think the late, great JFK put it best when he said.
“We choose to do these and the other things, not because they are easy…
But because they are hard…”
Sending your bike to Europe every year is not hard, but IS damned expensive and that is why I work 10 months, to spend it in two.
When I’m half way between Brisbane and Alice Springs at 3 in the morning in the truck as the very first glow of the Summer dawn begins to hint at it’s arrival and I feel like no one else on Earth is awake, I’m reminded of why I’m not at home in bed…


Moments like this


Warm Sun and freezing dawn air is a strange combination, but an intoxicating one…
May it always be the same.
 When I walk into the depot in London, I don’t want to see a red Norge, I want to see MY Red Norge.

Any other way is too… “easy”.
« Last Edit: February 02, 2023, 02:07:01 PM by Huzo »

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Re: Europe trip trouble
« Reply #66 on: February 02, 2023, 06:55:42 PM »
Thanks, that’s a good way to think about it. When I did that I eventually took the best of both Ambassadors and made one. It took a while to get the second one going and it eventually became parts for other ones . i miss em
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