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And it seems you do start over as a new member by creating a new account with your old user name. At least that is what happened to me.

Dig a path through the snow from the basement, up the hill to the driveway, check.
Driveway still covered with packed snow, check.
Not a ray of sunshine to be seen, like the last three weeks, check.
So much rain a few days before that the salt was washed off the road, check.
The roads are more or less dry, check.
25 MPH winds gusting to 45 MPH, check.
The temperature is in the high 50s to low 60s, check.
An absolutely good, fine, great, PERFECT afternoon for a ride.
I took a 75 mile, more or less, ride down the highways and byways south Medina and North Wayne counties.

The scooter fired up as if it hadn't been over six weeks since the last ride and ran perfect.
The roads were dry and smooth and the traffic was light.
The sight of the damp trees against the snow covered ground was stark and beautiful and they were in their winter glory.
Not a hint of the colors of the promise of spring.
I took the Interstate home and insanity took over. I was going 90mumble mumble before I knew it.
12600 miles on this beast and I still have problems holding it down.

It was a great ride. Now to wait for the January thaw that may or may not come. It is snow squeaking cold outside now.

Oh my, that scooter looks really good. The best I seem to do is to get a finish that looks just more or less OK -- from 15 to 20 feet away -- if the person looking at it is near sighted -- and does not have his glasses on.

Any sources with some details?

1000 miles in 24 hours. Yep, completely beyond what I can do with my TMAX. big cruiser indeed. My favourite big cruiser for distances like that is called a Buick.

In the early days of air cooled engines there was a learning curve about cooling them. They tried thin cylinder walls then found out the motor cooled better with thicker cylinder walls. I wonder if the cylinder you get start with a different casting than stock so that the cylinder walls are still thick.

Back in 1967 or so I had a Suzuki 305 twin two stroke motor. At about 9000 miles there was a manic rap tap tap tapping for about a quarter mile at 60 MPH or so. I got home, removed the right head, and found a chunk of casting polishing stone embedded in the piston crown. The only damage was the piston crown and combustion chamber surface. It ran fine after I removed the stone. Almost a half century later I still wonder how that football shaped stone, about 1/4 inch diameter by 1/2 inch long, got through the engine intake and transfer ports at 6000 RPM without tearing up the whole motor.