Should point out that Paioli shock cost me all of £70 and has remote reservoir and as well as the variable lengthn it also features rebound and compression damping. Last time I saw a 2nd hand Ohlins on ebay for a SS model it went for £300 which is a bit outside my budget for the race bike.

As the saying goes "Necessity is the mother of Invention"

Nice one guys - I must check out my WP shox sometime and see how easy / difficult a quick mod might be.

:D

Just measured the dimensions of the spring fitted to the Paioli and put the dimensions into my equation and come up with a figure of 600lb/in which is way to stiff, fitting a softer spring is no problem but getting the damping matched to a new spring rate may prove a bit more troublesome and could make using this shock a non runner as I want to stay in Budget.

SO then, a question close to my heart then....

How much longer can Ducati viably produce 2V bikes?

Given ever tightening environmental laws and market image, does the two-valve have much more life in it? :(

I have a question
In a wood-cutting factory, four large sawing machines stand in a windowless room. Each machine has an on/off switch attached, there being no doubt as to which switch controls which machine. Outside the door to the room are four back-up on/off switches, one for each machine inside. The power for each machine must first pass through the back-up switch, and then the machine switch before reaching the saw. The problem is, the new manager cannot decide how these back-up switches match with the machines inside the room. One day, the manager's brother visits. The manager takes him inside the sawing room where all four machines are at work and explains the problem. The brother announces that he intends to leave the room and that when he returns he will be able to match correctly the four switches outside the room to the four machines inside. The brother works alone, cannot see the machines from outside the room and solves the problem purely by operating switches. How is it possible? One for Redruth :P

You were warned, Chief! I shall be deducting points from your already negative score AND sending you an invoice for wasting my time reading that. Worse still, for the additional time I've wasted trying to think of the answer! :devil::frog::lol::P

In the absence of anything more taxing, can someone please answer these questions for me?

1. How do I measure the tread on my tyres (using some simple tool that I might have access to) and how much tread should there be for it to be road legal?

2. Is it normal to be losing something like 4 or 5 lbs pressure from the front tyre every time I ride the bike? i.e. I put it away after a ride and the next time out I check the pressures and they've gone down about that amount on average. :puzzled:

Redruth,
Is this one of those conundrum's you know like "Peter has a cake and cuts it into 4 slices......?"

How about this one.
What goes through a door but never goes in and never comes out?

Chief, you're gonna get in trouble again!

Ruthie, no it's not normal to lose so much pressure, but are you measuring your pressures hot then again when they're cold? There could be that much difference between hot and cold pressures.
Take your readings from stone cold tyres and they might lose, at a guess, a psi or two over a month but not 4-5 from one weekend to the next.

p.s. I'm off out to get drunk now, so anything I post after I get home should be considered even more crap than I normally post!

Chief, if I were the type of person who got seriously irritated by people being intentionally obtuse, which I'm not, luckily, I'd be getting the right bl00dy 'ump with you by now! :lol:;):P