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Macrophotography of micro relays.

Looks like the kind of specimen that would fetch top dollar on Bring-a-Trailer . . .

R/R = Regulator/ Rectifier

As prolific as I try to be, capturing images along the way, I could not find anything with @Josh's 1973 V7Sport juxtaposed with @KINDOY2's 2025 V85TT. Fifty-three years of Moto Guzzi, together, on the same ride! So, I made this collage (with my 2000 Sport in the background, almost exactly halfway between the bookend years) . . .

No Goozzees were harmed in the making of these marks! [Pirellis are replacement items, after all . . . ]

Ah, yah, man: The Cherohala Skyway. I know you are fond of this source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherohala_Skyway And this image from https://cherohala.com/ . . .

There is "something" beyond definition about riding with these sorts of riders . . . Something that engenders a genuine respect and admiration . . .

Okay, proof positive:

It has occurred to me that, when we asked @Randy about where his "friends" were for the BikeWash, he pretended to be deep into some sort of TechSession. mySport came home dirty . . .

Full disclosure, @Pressureangle is an ATGATT guy, but was just pulling out from breakfast, headed a mile back to The Lodge. I will vouch that he accepts that socks is gear and "all the socks all the time" is the way to roll . . .

@Tellico Andrew on point with @Randy's Coppa Italia in pursuit . . .

Looks like an amazing cat on an amazing weekend. Don't miss next year's South'n SpineRaid !

Looks like plenty of clearance for a paddock stand to engage the lower frame side plate nuts.

There is the matter of the point in time it must come off . . .

Neither did I notice as my eye is always arrested at the awful gap of the rear mudguard over the tire and I look away . . .

After twenty years, this is now etched in binary code (closest thing to stone there is ): Weekend After (US) Labor Day. Tellico Plains, Tennessee Get There. Bring Tools.

And, there was "modernity" . . .

There were Sports . . .

There were SpineFrames . . .

Goofman would know. He has been coming since SSR VII. This year, SpineRaiders from California, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee. Conspicuously absent: Kentucky . . . and Varsseveld . . .

@al_roethlisberger last visited June 3, 2023. I looked for him at the Twentieth South'n SpineRaid on NC/TN border, but he was nowhere to be found . . . For that matter, it has been quite a long time since there was a SpineRaider from Alabama.

@OtisV11, take time to carefully measure the rear wheel spacer. Many early V11 sport spacers were undersized and shorten wheel bearing life. The correct length is 113mm, although you can measure your wheel between bearing seating surfaces once your bearings are removed.

Good point. @Paul J. Russell last visited July 26, 2024. Like six weeks ago. Having only joined the week prior, July 19, using the provided email is likely best. As always, caveat emptor .

Fair warning, from a guy that learned this the hard way: SuperClean is also good at removing/softening adhesives like those pesky glue residues that remain when some info-sticker has been removed. Yet, also adhesive wheel weights and our precious SpineFrame eagle medallions . . . S-100 was so corrosive to fastener finishes on one of my bikes, I swore it off.