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Buon 2021 a tutti

Just a poseur doing what he does best . . .

Thanks, bud! Haven't ridden anything in a month. Perfect riding gift-of-an-afternoon before the rains ring out the year. If you want to feel like your V11 is a big, powerful motorcycle: don't ride for a month, then take your 30hp Honda single out first. Rolling out on the V11 Sport: "Bad To The Bone! "

What a badass! Your jacket really goes great with you silver V11. Very cool!

Hi, from Italy (Tuscany)

Not to answer for Our Chief Whip, but until the sun circles back to Varsseveld . . . Looks like the girl left when the Centauro engine showed up!

And even space for more IPA,,, cheers tom

Christmas bin berry beery guut to mi.

We shared the Scotch later in the day. (But as you know from our campouts I do like my scotch in a coffee cup.) The cup was given to me by the same friends that gave me the shirt. It is the "disappearing wives" of Henry VIII. Fill it with hot coffee and the wives fade to white outlines like ghosts. As the cup cools, they reappear. I also thought the image of King Henry holding court with a scotch and cigar seemed to go together.

That is the most righteous paint schemes of all time on a Guzzi .

Nice, Jaap! I well remember your custom V11! But don't recall "the girl next door" . . .

Beard is too short for a boxer rider.

Docc, I'll tell ya that my V11 makes 77 horses at the wheel. And those guys are Clydesdales. They ain't shetlands. OTOH, I don't know how many horses are in my Ducati but I'm thinking they are Thoroughbreds.

Docc, you look like a serious dude. ( I'm thinking it must be cold.)

Bellissima! Dovrei avere la mia al inizio di Gennaio. Non il modello Rosso Corsa, pero sempre "Le Mans".

As for running LEDs in the indicators you will need a different flasher unit, the OEM flasher operated on lamp current. The current would heat up a bi-metal strip which would bend so the contact sprung open then cool down to close and repeat the process. The only way to make this flasher work with LEDs is by adding huge resistors to take the place of the incandescent lamp load, this is too crude. With LEDs you need a flasher unit that will open and close at zero current, these flashers normally have a third wire connected to chassis. Then you need to re-wire the idiot light, it came from the factory connected between Left and Right indicators the current drawn was insignificant compared to the incandescent lamps in the indicators, about 100 mA but with LEDs that tiny current is many times what the LEDs draw. All you need to do is wire a small diode from each side pointing at the idiot lamp with the other side of the lamp to chassis. The diodes prevent the lamp signal getting from Left to Right indicators, even if you change the idiot light for an LED you will need the diodes. This change takes place inside the dash, no additional wires except the new ground for the lamp. If you decide to change out the incandescents in the dash for LEDs don't even think about using the original lamp holders. BTW, if any of you also have a CARC Guzzi you do need to add a shunt resistor (just a tiny 1K 1/4 Watt) to some LEDs to keep the lamp alarm happy and stop the lamps glowing with the key off. I tried to add a sketch file but it's even too large at only 200 dpi

I did this as I had a spare mudguard so got rid of the number plate lamp, the LED lamp has one built in

The problem is this wire has too much resistance, it has to carry the same 30+ Amps peak current as the Red positive wire from the battery back through the regulator to the other end of the stator winding. The Red positive wire can afford a few Volts drop, the Voltage regulator takes care of that but the Black Negative cannot afford any Voltage drop, half a Volt there is taken directly from the battery Voltage Reference. Remember the voltage regulator is hanging on a bracket that's not even grounded properly, just accidentally grounded where the paint scrubbed off. A short wire from the regulator case to a timing cover screw is like a massive cable through the mass of the engine/gearbox to the fat battery ground. It's only the earlier Ducati Energia regulators that need grounding, the later bikes have a direct connected regulator as shown, item (22)

After reading docc's original post on this I liked the idea he had and the way he did it so I went out and looked at the 30 fuse receptacle on my Greenie , even though it was still functioning it was indeed burnt and starting to disintegrate ..so looking to head off a future issue I followed docc's link for the aircraft breaker mod and ordered one up, and then try to copy his install ....fun little project and satisfying as well!!

By the way .... if you've ever had a chance to look at a Mulo motor up close you wouldn't associate it with the rest of the V motors .... in fact about the only similarity is that it is a V ....