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I just received my shirt today. I must say it looks much better in person than it does on my computer. The shirts are top-notch. Grab them quick if you still can! Thanks Stuart for sending me one, I'll be wearing it (out) this summer, no doubt. Wish I could join everyone there, perhaps another year....

Wonder if they have that sort of thing in my area on this side of the pond.

Got to love how much many of these engines jerk around the public. "Oh hey! We are building it." then you never really hear about anything in the pipeline and you forget about it. Probably looks good to the shareholders though.

A version of Murphy's Law, apparently. When ever something fixes itself, it will do so in the most confusing and non-sensical manner possible.

.... Looking at your pictures you may want to install you driven clutch first as your drain tube looks like it will hit where your turbo is mounted.... Assume you mean Drive clutch or Primary Clutch. The terms are confusing. Driven is the Secondary clutch. as in it is "driven" by the prim...

Sounds good. Seems like a pretty recent bike, sorry that it is giving you so many growing pains.

What 1.6? None listed above...? VW? I was referring to an engine not on his list. It's a VW 4. They used to put them into jetta's back in the day. You can find them easily and cheap, a 1.6l Turbo (i don't know if it included the turbo or not) for about 2300$ rebuilt from the web: https://www.gex.co...

India is a form of organized anarchy with some really hair raising roadways. It must be a very interesting place to live, but only if you are the right caste. There is a lot of corruption as well.

Honda John used a pond aerator for his. He's still working the kinks (he needs to increase the ratio) but he's put 4 psi into it so far. Here is the link to the thread. It may be an option.

The 1.6 is probably lurking around somewhere as well, it clocks in at about 223lb and seems to be about the best balance of size, output, and weight.

I've seen a lot of experienced riders who have trouble with the mixed surfaces. One thing I commonly see is a death grip on the handle bars, trying to force the front wheel to straight instead of letting it meander a bit. Our bikes want to stay up, it's rider input that brings them down more often t...

That rig is from india, where the rule of the day is to drive like an insane maniac and hope you don't die horrifically.

Growing up on miles of gravel with the FJ1200 I know exactly what you mean. Curiously enough, I found the solution to instability was often to speed up a bit: the same patch of gravel/mixed terrain that felt shakey at one speed often felt fine at another.

Stuart wrote:There's a few shots in this thread that show my arrangement. A bit over engineered maybe but solid.

Better a little over (so long as you aren't blowing it out of proportion) than any under.

I understand completely. I still am having a little trouble visualizing the system (they keep changing the dosage of my epilepsy meds, and it's messing me up.) But my question was specifically if the rider had some sort of force multipication from their foot to the system to keep the shift effort lo...

hey bert, what is the function of the torque feedback? Or, if you have it in another thread, please do link that in here!

I think I see what you are talking about in my head, but wouldn't this burn the loose belts when the alternative gear selections are made? Also, are you actuating the camshifter directly as the rider, or how is that working. Even the rototiller version of this requires significant pressure to work (...

.... RE 4 speeds can be found at a reasonable price here in the states... Assume RE is Royal Enfield.... buttttt... one should not assume..... cause well.... just as it's spelled... Ass (of) u (and) me if one assumes wrong I've always felt you are making an Ass of Ume, and she already lost her pare...

Of course that inludes correcting bores and getting the best possible cross hatch when honing cylinders. I got a whole bunch of flack on another forum where guys claimed I really was a screwup for using a stone type hone to bore out a cylinder .75mm oversize. "Boy, what a jerk!" Did that ...

Some great information there. I really don't think you are reducing engine life that drastically unless you are doing some serious boring to the cylinder wall, enough to give you heat spots or the like because you've reduced the thickeness that much. Especially with an OEM kit like the one you speak...

It's a real shame. Imagine how much easier things would be for us all if companies didn't have to deal with loss and they didn't need to make regulations upon regulations to protect idiots from their own screwdrivers.

Just here to wish you good luck with this issue, sounds like a real pain.

Just remeber in the words of Scottie from Star Trek (with a Scottish accent) "the more complicated the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain" :? So if you don't need to make it more complex don't 8) To quote someone else: "Truer words have never been spoken." I firmly a...

... Kohler now own Lombardini don't they so LDW1003 should be available in the US? No Ecu, No electronics....... Yes and suprisingly the same engine in the US is model # KLDW1003. and it's on Amazon, amusingly enough. http://www.amazon.com/Kohler-Diesel-Engine-Interchange-KDW1003-1001/dp/B001C3PUF4

Stuart wrote:Cheers for the offer. I will PM a small request if that's ok?

Already done! Just need a place to send it.

Stuart wrote: As Ola would say, "why do we cultivate hair on our face when it grows from our backsides for free".

Ola is truly wise in this statement.

They are Petit Mal (Absence) Seizures so it could be worse, still makes a mess out of your day sometimes, I have them quite frequently and they like erasing the parts of my day directly before they occur, which is what first alerted me to them. It could be worse though.

Yeah, I've had similar experience. By the way Stuart, if youneed any graphics or anything for the forum, I do that for work, and would be happy to assist you.

coachgeo wrote:PS- if all goes well...... engine will be with me here in OH Tues. Night and to Curis in TX in Dec.

Great to hear that. If you need help shuffling the engine around TX at all, I'm still here and would be happy to help.

XLerate wrote:To my dim reollection most motors become generators when the shaft is spun, don't recall if that's AC or DC or whatever.

That's always been my knowledge on the subject. I believe in a modern system you can get some solid-state in there to increase the efficiency, but it should be doable.