Recent content by Raymond

Last couple days, playing with the suspension. I feel things have been set much too stiff. I wanted to soften the back. Investigation showed the pre-load has been set to the softest of the three positions, so I left that alone, but fiddled with the damper screw (4mm Allen key). Due to...

I like to set mine so it idles at 1200 rpm once thoroughly warmed up - after a few miles of riding. But this means I have to hold a small amount of throttle for the first few junctions or it stalls.

. . . and many a PO.

I'm truly shocked!;)

Have managed out a few times in the past few days. Yesterday, was out on both W800 and Interceptor. So how is the comparison going? Uhm, no conclusions yet. The Interceptor sounds great. Especially when I give it a bit of throttle to pass a lorry. More throaty than the Kawasaki. Feels more...

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You are of course right, @650Skull as I should have known - I was thinking the JWST image used clever software to compensate for the brightness and low light shadow. After all, many space images show us phenomena we cannot see with the naked Mark 1 eyeball by collecting light in different parts...

I guess we're looking at the solar wind. The Sun emits a constant stream of charged particles, and also has a powerful and constantly changing magnetic field which pulls those stream of ions into patterns. Sometimes, photos of the Sun show great arches when the magnetism pulls the stream back to...

Laffing and swallowing a hot drink at the same time? Not recommended . . .

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This thread underlines what me Mum told me - it really is all in the preparation.

There was a wonderful documentary a few years ago about the female pilots of the ATA - Air Transport Auxiliary - who delivered aircraft to service squadrons in WW2. They interviewed a few of them, all of course very old ladies by then. They had marvelous anecdotes to share about their...

With due respect, that is exactly the kind of fairly easy tricks to impress people that I intended here - https://www.xs650.com/threads/should-we-be-afraid-of-artificial-intelligence.63904/post-835841 The robot is programmed to activate servos to rolls its eyes and frown while it 'listens'...

I love those old American pickups. And so does Mrs, which is of course absolutely great. Except, well, from time to time she sorta looks for ads on social media. And when she finds some luvverly old Ford or Dodge or Chevvy or whatever, she comes to me with a wistful look . . . They fetch...