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    "Le Mans Sleeper" V11 in Tonti frame

    in 24/7 V11

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    People just wanna have some fun Pete!

    You've made your point very clear and I think most everyone here will agree with your assertion of all things mechanical related to the Guzzi engine. You've been around these a long time and a lot of folks heed your advice like the gospel, me included, but I bet that three quarter of the motorcyclist population at large doesn't have a clue nor do they give a hoot about what's going on in their engine.

    As Guzzi legacy riders, your audience, we are an aging bunch and as such we tend to care for and try to understand our machine, but we are not all mechanics, we started as riders, young and careless - Insouciant - with a sparkle in the eye and unattainable dreams... With time, that insouciance has all but eroded and been traded for bad knees and insomnia but the sight of a beautiful bike can bring the sparkle back and the dream is still alive.

    Surely Pete, you were young and careless once...

    You like to present yourself as an old drunken bastard and you have a way with words that is rather unique and entertaining but frankly those angry people-bashing rants of yours are tiresome.

    Of course, like everyone else, you are entitled to your opinion and free to express it in any way you'd like, I just find it sad that in the context of a community such as this, where I'd like to think we're all getting along, you couldn't be a bit more tolerant and light hearted.

    IMHO... Not cool!

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    "Le Mans Sleeper" V11 in Tonti frame

    in 24/7 V11

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    Right on point @footgoose ^^^^^^  The critic is easy, I think anyone's efforts to modify, embellish or otherwise improve a vehicle to satisfy their own vision and desire is highly commendable and should be respected, be it a motorcycle, a car, a bicycle or an airplane...

    As beautiful and satisfying as production designs can be, there is always room for improvement and personalization, one just has to look at how extensive the farkle market is. 

    The result might not be to everyone's taste but, as I said before, if we all had the same taste, life would be rather dull.

    And isn't that the essence of customization in the first place -"a modification made to something to suit a particular individual".

     

    Of course there are times where some efforts might seem misguided >>>

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    Slow Going...

    in Motha of all V11 forums...

    Posted

    Still experiencing very long delays loading up pages, similar behavior across multiple devices and different browsers.

    Rebooted all devices, cleared caches and rebooted router & network.

    150 Mbps coming down the pipe and every other website behaving normally.

    I'm surprised nobody else has noticed this... :huh:

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    Slow Going...

    in Motha of all V11 forums...

    Posted

    2 different devices, wireless and wired, same results. Noticed it last night as well over cellular with great reception.

    Seems a little better now, still a bit slow loading up pictures and such.

    Maybe some routine maintenance going on in the background over there in the Netherland...

     

     

    Coming to a garage near me soon

    in Older models

    Posted

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    From the reply box > other media > insert image from url > paste your link > click insert into post.

    Edit: The problem doing it that way is the video is displayed in a continuous loop with no sound and no controls.. I guess Smugmug doesn’t allow videos to be embedded like a dedicated video app would - ie Youtube, etc...

    It also crashes my old iPad periodically :huh:

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    Coming to a garage near me soon

    in Older models

    Posted

    Attachment being limited to 1.5 MB per post, you cannot insert a video directly to your post which would most likely exceed that size. And other than a very short, low res clip, any significant video file is gonna be larger than 1.5 MB.

    You need your video to be hosted by a third party app - I.E. YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc.. - unless you have your own server of course - and post the link to its URL.

    Great looking bike btw.. :thumbsup:

    Signal indicators

    in Technical Topics

    Posted

    Thank you for that explanation @MartyNZ 

    I became aware of this when I first started to install LED emergency exit sign in commercial spaces. They come with interchangeable lenses in a 2 color option, red and green to satisfy specific code requirements by local jurisdictions. They are built with a double set of LEDs, you guessed it, one red and one green, controlled by a micro switch to allow matching the LED color to the chosen lens and optimize the light output through that colored lens.

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    Odyssey PC545 Battery conditioning

    in How to...

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