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I've had a pulsing vibration at wheel speed from the front discs for ages, so took my Brembo discs ( on the Aprilia) to Maidstone Motoliner a few weeks back to have them trued. But I still had pulsing, so, today I cleaned the discs using fine emery and Scotchbrite pads, and I also cleaned the pad f...

The fuel-injected Varadero engines ( which are based on the same engine) will possibly have one, but I don't know for sure.

I've had a pulsing vibration at wheel speed from the front discs for ages, so took my Brembo discs ( on the Aprilia) to Maidstone Motoliner a few weeks back to have them trued. But I still had pulsing, so, today I cleaned the discs using fine emery and Scotchbrite pads, and I also cleaned the pad fa...

Not as standard. They're only needed with fuel injection systems. But I added two lambda wideband sensors in the downpipes and connected a display to show real-time air/fuel stoichiometric ratios when riding, to aid carb setup, on my tuned firestorm. It saved the cost of repeated Dyno runs whenever ...

Bet he tries to leave before the sidecars- old habits die hard.

I think the hire company did me a favour now, the 900cc engine might be the perfect size for these type of roads on this island, where the 1200 V4 might have been too much of an animal. I have only found one road on a steep uphill climb where I didn’t have enough grunt to fire out of the turns as f...

Hope you can forget recent events for the day and enjoy your holiday
Get your Ducati towel on the sun lounger early!

What a difference a day makes. USB port fitted and working, tracker reconnected. Only the seat and one side panel off. Mind you, I was thinking about how to test each wire and diagnose yesterday's problems most of the night... Time for a BBQ and some cold beers :beer: 💨 Bloody Italian bikes. It'll a...

Well, considering that all I wanted to do was to replace a usb port with a new one, it turned into a day's work. https://i.postimg.cc/jwLg0nx1/PXL-20240511-115122825.jpg The display and all electrics failed shortly after I disconnected the old usb port, and resisted all attempts to get it back to wo...

You also need the brackets to suit the std under tray, assuming that the aftermarket one required non standard brackets. Then it's a simple process: unbolt the required sump bolts, bolt up the standard brackets, and fit the tray. Me thinks your thinking belly pan ? Yellabelly is talking about the u...

Hope you had a good day, Kev.

agentpineapple wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 3:46 pm cheers gents...

Took you a while to shake off the hangover, Marty!

AMCQ46 wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 6:28 am Worked out why it feels flat, it’s only a 930cc 115bhp engine. they stopped The v2 with the 1200cc engine when they brought out the V4.


I am going to have to thrash the life out of this to keep up with the Aprilia V4s

Think of it as a Storm on stilts.

You don't do too bad on one of those.

There are MOT rules about lighting, you might get get a pull.

You also need the brackets to suit the std under tray, assuming that the aftermarket one required non standard brackets.
Then it's a simple process: unbolt the required sump bolts, bolt up the standard brackets, and fit the tray.