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    Possible bad rectifier?

    in Technical Topics

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    Last year, I noted that cranking speed on my '04 V11 was slowing significantly. With a charge, all was fine. However, I noted that the rectifier has a multi-pin connector at the left front down tube on the subframe. Rather exposed to weather. I undid it and cleaned the terminals with contact cleaner on a pipe cleaner, blew it our with air, then applied Caig De-oxIT and snapped it back together. All is well since. Water from rain or washing runs into the connector and corrosion begins. It doesn't take much before resistance rises. Anyway, as easy fix if that happens to be the trouble, and a maintenance item if not.

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    Is this true? 170 mph and Texas police would not arrest him?

    in Special place for banter and conversation

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    Such pandemic/de-fund the police driving behavior has become a pandemic in itself. About 3 weeks ago near me, an 18 year old in an Audi was blasting down a 35 MPG suburban street at a measured 112 MPH. Sadly a van filled with home school kids was making a legal turn with a green light. The van driver and three children were killed instantly. Two of the van driver's children lived, but now have no mother. The Audi driver was broken up, but survived to go to prison. Licentious behavior carries unseen and tragic costs.

     

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    Can you spot the intruder?

    in Special place for banter and conversation

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    6 hours ago, audiomick said:

    Yeah, tried that in Bamberg when I was there for a week for work some years ago.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoked_beer#Bamberg_Rauchbier

    Interesting, but not something I could fill an evening with. B)

    My son uses it in his homemade barbecue sauce. He looks for malty beer and avoids the too-hoppy stuff. I am not a beer drinker, or a drinker at all really, but I found the smoked beer more tolerable than all the others. At least the 2 ounces I drink yearly. 

    Odd starting issue.

    in Technical Topics

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    A properly sized pipe cleaner with something like naphtha or denatured alcohol can enter the female spade connectors for cleaning. Then Caig DeoxIt is a good reassembly precaution. In short, there are too many vulnerable weak links in the starting chain. The sidestand switch, neutral light, clutch safety switch and all relevant connections in addition to fuses and relays can truly confound troubleshooting.

    My malfunction, which has been chased away temporarily, is key on, pumps powers up, but not even a click at the starter button. Nothing.  After a bump start and the usual riding vibration, all is again good. 

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    How low can you go? 9 months and still for sale?

    in Older models

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    8 hours ago, audiomick said:

    You can look at that ad without signing up (I'm allergic to facebook too....).

    But here's a summary:

    2003 model California, 38.600 miles, $2.500. Comes with a set of panniers, looks like Hepco & Becker. Looks clean in the video and photos.

    It asks me to sign in(?) I think that potential buyers view the 38K miles with suspicion, as many bikes are in need of freshening at that point. As well the Cali was meant to evoke the 1060s-1970s San Francisco PD Guzzis and that may narrow the field even more. It is getting to the point where listing compression check results might help. These bikes are exotic, rare and eccentric in the grand scheme of things, but that does not always translate into desirable. The sporting side of Guzzi always attracted more eyes, as the US market is awash in cruisers. 

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    V11 Sport - Oil FIlter Change

    in How to...

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    At the prior change, I noted that the HifloFiltros have an unusually thick and compressible gasket (about 8mm). Therefore, I tighten the filter until it bottoms, and one can easily feel when it does - less than that I would fear oil pressure blowing past the "spongy" gasket.

    V11 Sport - Oil FIlter Change

    in How to...

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    GASKET REMINDER! Just pulled my HiFlo Filtro out and the rubber gasket remained in the engine. I noticed that as I tipped the filter over to empty it. The gasket came right off of the filter boss, but I seem to remember someone having oil light issues related to threading a new filter and gasket over the old stuck gasket. Best to check the bike's prostate and do the finger wave around the filter gasket boss. 

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    Curious...

    in Technical Topics

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    I take an angle grinder and feather the tires to the edges.  Then I bevel the pegs at 45º. Then I pull up to the local bike hangout, hook my pants leg on one of the pegs and promptly fall over. Honestly, roughing the tires out to the edges might actually have benefit, in case you go in a little hot and have to tighten a corner up.

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