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The Boggy Creek or Curdievale Pub. Site of the Laverda and Moto Guzzi club rally ( Piss up !!) 2020. This was taken the morning after when all was quiet whilst consuming over coffees and Bacon/egg rolls before heading off on the 400 k ride home. Cheers Guzzler

Well now, you certainly advance quickly for a bona fide Luddite!

First time Odyssey here, says 0121 on it, jan 21. 12.96 V delivered. Dropped voltage a bit, and charged with 7amp CTEK. 5days 13.03V - 13.00V. Will check that my charging system can keep up with the Odyssey. $ 272,so. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-A505FN via Tapatalk

The "redline" for an Odyssey is 15V.

14.73 would be to high for an PC545 I think. Whats the charge rate with the revs up? Ciao

Is it still nostalgia if your first bike is on the lift with the motor at a mate's for a rebuild? Or is this just glassy-eyed?

Or, you can do a small job with another regulator, feeding 14.73 V idling, directly to the battery. Then you can forget about the 30amp fuse. Cheers Tom Sent fra min SM-A505FN via Tapatalk

Phil, it Don’t exceed 14.8V. Cheers tom.

This is true, yet they publish the charging range as 14.2-14.7. Once the battery reaches a 100% state of charge, the voltage can be tapered to 13.5-13.8. While correct external chargers will do that, our V11 regulators are fixed voltage (should be 14.2, IIRC).

Correct, it is a 160 Stornello.

Ok well everybody seems to have a AH3000 story so here goes mine. I was filling my car up at the servo about 6 weeks ago and there was one filling up there also. As I walked out from paying it's owner was going in to pay. "Nice Healy" I said, a 3000 is that right. Yep and thanks he said and kept on walking. A metallic powder blue it was. That's all I've got. Ciao

There's an "oxymoron" right there!

Doc Your GB500 is a beauty mate. As Phil's saying your Honda is a superior bike than a old 50's English 500 thumper. Probably not as sophisticated as a modern KTM / Husky big single, but I reckon Honda got the GB500TT model just right! Cheers Guzzler Ha ha maybe modern nostalgia ?

Heh, well, so I thought. Maybe the old thumper will become my sons' nostalgia. All my "nostalgia" goes back to 60s to early 70s "muscle cars." Dear God, their brakes and suspension were awful. My brother (briefly owned) an Austin-Healey 3000/MkIII that set the motorhead hooks in me forever. Back in those days, I thought the motorcycle guys were complete nutters and crazies. (Hey, now I "resemble" that remark! ) Living in Bavaria as wee lad, I grew up thinking the BMW opposed-twin would be the ultimate. Then, one evening while in college, a friend started up his white, pin-striped loop-frame Guzzi; maybe an Ambassador, IDK. My other nutter-crazy motorcycle buddy was there - he could ride a wheelie on his Kawi triple clear to the ferrkin' moon, but it was a loud-crazed-violent affair. In the apartment complex parking lot, the fellow lofted the Ambo like a dance with an Angel. It was so elegant and effortless! There is the matter of taking the bait, but I swallowed the hook.

On some there's a red and black Ballabio fit into one of the upper left hand sides. Saw it on Instagram from one of the Guzzi Official pages. But not enough love for the Spine frames indeed.

No docc it's not. That's just another possible catastrophe:) Nostalgia...a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past. I sometimes like the period but try and separate that from the "engineering" The engineering is "of it's time" and locked there forever. Hard to get too sentimental over the mechanical abominatios from the past I've had to engineer my way around at times. I see old bikes getting around these days and they get my attention and I like the fact that people still restore and fettle them, just glad it's not me is all. Ciao

My uncle had a powder blue 4 door 57 pontiac when I was a kid in the early 60's, It looked like a big boat family car but that thing could fly!, It had a 346 v8, with Factory Tri Power and a 3 speed Dual Hydromatic transmission..My Cousin would drag race guys in their Hopped up Chevy's with 4 speeds from a rolling start and blow their doors off..very cool car...I liked it because it was a real sleeper.

No, I'm a dedicated PC545 devotee. My theory, that I practice, is 1) since the PC545 takes significant amperage to charge, and 2) the V11 has some weaknesses in its charging system (regulator diodes, vulnerable 30 amp fuse, stator wires), I propose it is Best Practice to keep the Odyssey PC545 fully and correctly conditioned with approved external chargers/method to minimize strain on the charging system. I would not leave on my Sport with the battery under 12.65 volts without conditioning it. Some find it too much of a hassle, but I prefer to avoid the otherwise inevitable major hassle of the roadside variety.

Success! Got the correct voltage check at rpm's. Took her for a nice 20 minute ride yesterday afternoon and all looks good so far. Battery reading 12.9 this morning about 12 hours sitting.

This really is a good reminder to inspect that 30 amp fuse regularly. They are known to melt, char, or even burn off a blade without "blowing" the fuse itself. The consensus has been the fuse connections are an electrical "choke point" for the charge amperage and prone to excessive heat. I struggled with this for so long before I converted to an aircraft grade circuit breaker. This makes it a *snap* to disconnect for charging sessions. I am also operating under the theory that keeping the PC545 "conditioned," and the regulator grounded to the engine, gives the V11 charging system less need to push 20-25 amps back to the battery. Expecting our V11 charging system to bring a hefty PC545 back up from 12.5 volts (50%!) may be expecting too much; and adds up to a formula for charging system failures, IMO.

Actually I remember now..after having the bike in my garage a few months I pulled the fuse before putting it on the charger as I had read that is a good idea to prevent feedback to the voltage regulator..and I simply forgot to put it back in ( I had 3 V-11's at the time and lots of stuff on my benches..including spare's from the tool kit, I remember finding a lose 30 amp on my bench and just figuring it came out of the tool kit...( my memory is for Sht these days)..Not to worry it wasn't intentionally pulled because it was blowing and sold to you with that knowledge..I'm not that sort of guy. Thats probably what the root of your charging issue is..just that fuse...everything else was new before I got the bike from Surj.

You start with getting the engine running and putting a multi-meter on the battery terminals and seeing if you get around 13.8 to 14.2 volts when the engine is revved to say 2500 rpm. Ciao

Tom's Le Mans in the act (sweeeeeeet, buddy!):

Let's hope not! I just ordered the L brackets, but got the ones that look a little beefier https://www.ebay.com/itm/Odyssey-Battery-Copper-L-Adapter-Terminal-Brackets-Kit-Yamaha-Rhino-BMW/401458934022?hash=item5d78d13106:g:tjQAAOSw9a9gXRy6&vxp=mtr

Dear god no, don't wish that on us. The world, and especially Guzzi, does not need yet another prehistoric, pushrod powered shit-stick masquerading as a motorbike......

Speaking of looking in the right place.... all enterprises have to be concerned about what will be in the marketplace vying for their customers too...

I thought maybe it was just a static display, but I see a chain off the gearbox output shaft. Probably a traditional Big Daddy Ed Roth shift pattern . . .