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That makes no sense, yup. Well, maybe Scooters, yes - they usually have their engine mounted in the swingarm instead of the central frame, which reduces vibrations at the handlebar. As for power, that doesnt correlate, eg. I have a 20yrs old KTM single without a dampening balance shaft. It only has 48PS but boy, does it vibrate. 45min ride = tingling feet and hands. So, number of cylinders, crankshaft configuration and number of balance shafts make the difference.

Also: Vibration spectrum and power distribution probably also make a Zuge difference (for the iphone's lens/autofocus mechanism)

Electric motorcycles are also really smooth.

Answering dharmab's response

Ugh, pulling and especially re-inserting the camshaft shouldnt be done in a hurry. At least from my experience with the V-Strom's V-engine. Needs to be cooled down and insertion of the camshaft needs proper care (no dinging of the bearing shells) and one must make sure to not skip a tooth at the geartrain/chain.

That depends on the number of cylinders, valves per cylinder, and so on. Your parallel twin is probably easier to service (accessability of valve covers, valve mechanism). Some designs require the removal of the gas tank and even camshafts (eg Suzuki V-Strom).

(Old) Ducatis are also a pain with the desmodromic valves (i.e. springless valves). Some of their valves have 0,0 clearance and the mechanic needs to hone down shims to an exact fit. Also the reshimming needs to be redone on older Ducs after only a few thousand kilometers/miles, or annually.

In contrast, BMWs older air/oilcooled boxer engines are a joy to service, easiest accessability (cylinder heads stick out sideways), only 3 tools needed for adjusting valve clearances (two types of Torx/allen keys and a feeler gauge set), 20mins of work or less depending on your routine.

Sure.

But for mapping lots of POIs this is a PITA and doesnt scale. What if the owner declines? This is non-copyrightable info anyway.

Shall one ask house owners if one can map their address or their house' outline?

Why ask the owner in the first place. Its public information anyway. Google does not ask either.

You can type a sentence and Maps will start A-B Routing. Its a thidden shortcut that's been working for ages and is still supported gladly:

E.g. "from Berlin to Rome"

Not only that, but also city and village-names (especiqlly when the map is in directions-mode). Total bollocks for a maps app.

Theres are portable options for professionals:

https://www.bartscher.com/en/Kategorien/Kochen/Induktionskoc...

It's not that 2016 devices are outdated per se, as a counter point, see the iPhone 7, which runs now on iOS 15.x from 2021, but still receives updates [1].

It is cheap Android handsets stuck on Android 6 Marshmallow or worse that never have received an OS upgrade.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213811

Theres examples, though. Stephen Hendry, the Snooker professional played with the cheap 40£ cue of his youth for a long time into his professional career and won championships with it. It broke in 2003:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/sep/02/snooker.clivee...

Axis is cool, they once even had (still have?) their own CPU / ISA (ETRAX CRIS) plus a Linux port:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cris/README

Edit: Official Linux support was removed with 4.17 in 2018

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/3/142

The trick is to use screws from the start and throw away the nails. Also make notes on the back, to mark what part goes where and in what direction.

And lastly, have a 90° gage to make sure all corners have right angles. This is very crucial. Sometimes floors are uneven and trick you into assembling the furniture askewed

Only when I'm in the mood.

There's a bit of a lower than street/asphalt-level manhole cover in a calm corner here. I just go over this one with a bit of an angle, started very gentle and increased speed/leaning angle a bit over time. Not for race bikes, though.

Then, when I see long-drawn-out mended cracksin a corner when its hot, sometimes I try to induce a slip on those. Takes some courage though, but the slip wont be as bad, because the patches are only one to two centimeters wide (the cracks are parallel to the road).

I ride a light dualsports bike, a KTM 790 Adventure. It has spoke wheels and takes the abuse without an issue. And it also has all the electronic features (6-axle IMU, traction control, etc).

It's just that my bum knows how a slip feels and to prevent a bad reaction in case an (semi scary) involuntary one happens. That has served me well so far, saved me from reacting badly when I was surprised in a shady & moist corner and so on.

Edit: added more text to clarify + typos corrected

Not sure why this was downvoted, i really agree with that.

And patched cracks (using bitumen with a lower melting point than asphalt's) are also slippery af in the summer heat.

I keep doing some controlled slips to stay somewhat accustomed to the gut feeling which prevents driving errors when a minor slip happens (like going over man hole cover when leaning, or having a slight/controlled slip on mended cracks in a corner).

Exactly, 99.999% accuracy (wrt. to zeroing HDDs) is not enough. And the stop-gap measure for the remaining 0.001% is to have a policy that mandates shredding HDDs.

Maybe until there's 100% disk encryption

Firefox mobile's reader mode was usable

One of my favourites is the Honda CBX 1000 6 cylinder motorcycle:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MBbskqcgs_o

The Niche Zero and the Mazzer Robur have the exact same conical burrs. The Niche is just a bit smaller and meant for home use.

In my case it was an embarrassing success story... my great uncles name was globally, or at least unique in Germany, i misspelled it, got the postcode wrong, forgot street and house number (sent from abroad)... and it arrived a month or so later. Boy got I laughed at. I'd rather wished it had disappeared. Thats was back in the 90's.

Horizontal gene transfer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer

Binding your shoe laces wrong with an easily loosening granny knot instead of a proper square knot.

Not answering strictly according to "you've done your whole life", but I see this often when deliberately looking at other's shoe laces. I just recently tried to correct someone's 40yr old habit :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_knot

The issue is probably a missing A/B firmware update for the config section.

If a firmware update needs to alter the calibration data or other rather static config, and that update process is interrupted by an empty battery then it can't recover. It should of course be more conservative in killing all of the config section... Or could reset to some sane default. Or have a copy of the old known good data around and restart the procedure

I just stopped consumption of TV and streaming formats.

Music that im interested in gets bought (eg. Bandcamp) or yt-dl'ed.

And https://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

> Why is it that Europeans can't build themselves up without putting America down?

If you read the article more closely you might get the idea that the writer is an American expat wife...

Plain Brezel along Weißwurst and sweet mustard is also fine for breakfast :)

I'd say it depends on the use case.

For example I own a cheap non branded wire stripper (an upgrade to using a knife) instead of the high quality 150€ self adjusting Knipex equivalent (which "only" makes life easier and saves time).

But with safety features I wouldn't budge (eg. saw and grinding tools). For example Bosch blue has anti kickback in certain angle grinders which detects jamming discs and stops the motor.

Newer wifi chips allow passive scanning while the bulk of the silicon is powered down. I.e. it could/should also work in flight mode

Seconded. I have one and a lot of other Knipex tools, the Cobra adjustable pliers being the most loved one. My oldest got handed down from my Dad and is 40 years old, love the W-Germany imprint:-)

I assume 4000K (cool white) and 2700K (warm white) are mixed up.

Definitely seconded, makes a huge difference (I also have a LED bar with 4000K + 4800 lumens in my office room)