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Yes. Lived in Atlanta then. The thread said "no words," so I followed the rules. I'll say this now ... December 2006. Near top of Richard B. Russell Scenic Highway in north Georgia, a lovely romp. https://exploregeorgia.org/things-to-do/article/helen-dahlonega-fall-road-trip I do not have to strain to hear that Ballabio's cans roar as I ascended. What joy. This, on nearby Ga 75 and Brasstown Bald ... Those were the days, my friend ... we thought they'd never end ... etc. sigh. Bill

I've done a few minor mods to the Supra of course and the latest is a new gear knob. I've never liked the std shift knob on the Supra with the leather shift boot fully integrated into the knob so I bought a heavier knob from the USA which is a nicer shape and 200gms heavier and it's also a threaded type as opposed to the std one which clips onto the shifter shaft so requires an adaptor. Problem with that though was the boot retention system was a bit bulky (you cut the knob off the std boot assy and use that) and the required collar to hide the cable tie that clamped the boot to the adaptor added 1/4 inch to the total shifter height. I finally bit the bullet and machined up a redesigned threaded adaptor with a different boot retention system and a Titanium collar to hide all that. I think it looks better and the shift action is slightly improved as well and the total shifter height is 6mm or 1/4" lower than the std shifter. From this To this Adaptor

I can't press the like button to this . I can only say prayers for these folks and hope for a safe exodus .

If "a picture is worth a thousand words", then we "sinners" are way ahead!🙃

@footgoose Very important... :-) Mus is pronounced like Mus in Elon Musk or Musk like the perfum, and not oo like in Booth When I was in Paris in November last year, I drank Muscadet with my raw oysters, usually served with rye bread spread with salted butter. Here in Houston, oysters are always cooked; it is not the same... Texas laws allow me to import 3 Gallons of wine, which equates to 15 liters. One bottle = 0.75 l. You pay 3.75 $ per Gallon. I tried to sneak in a 16th bottle, which was just a tad more than 3 gallons. Unfortunately, that bottle was confiscated. The CBP guy told me it would be destroyed. I bet there is one more CBP officer that now likes Muscadet....

I have finally stopped leaning (as much) in the corners as I used to ! On a lighter note , I was sitting at a light in Paducah today and on my phone was a YouTube short playing where this Ga trooper had stopped a Mustang . As the SuperTrooperGirl was walking up beside the Mustang , the Mustang (of course) pulled a holeshot and left the TrooperGirl standing. As she twirled around to go back to her Cruiser I got excited and gassed my car and almost ate the backend of a Ford truck !

I never thought of it like that, but yes, you are dead right.

It's a V11 Guzzi. First thing you do when you have any electrical issue/gremlin is do a full wiring harness/fuse block/connector/ignition switch detailed inspection. Then move onto parts replacement/testing. Phil

Mick, I reckon we keep our antipodean interpretation to ourselves, lest we offend the delicate European sensibilities mate.... Cheers Guzzler Ps no offence to those sensibilities by the way folk's!

We've been breaking @orangeokie's "No Words" rule since the very first reply from @Orson (coming on twenty years ago!) . . . "My Tenni in the Apuan Alps of northern Tuscany"

It's really bad in the LA area, and still spreading. 30 years ago, I worked in Pacific Palisades, and the fires have come close to my old office. As for losing stuff... we used to have some boxes of old photos and significant documents that we told ourselves we would grab if there were ever a fire here. But that was when the kids were home and we would all go together in a truck. Now we are actually scanning and digitizing all that. If my house were to burn down, I do have one prized possession that would likely survive it: a 400 pound hunk of petrified wood. It's made it over 250 million years, it wouldn't give a damn about a house fire. Evacuation... I too, would escape on a motorcycle. It would be the Husqvarna 701 for sure. A giant street-legal dirt bike that's good for two people with backpacks for food and water. If I am actually fleeing for my life from a fire, I am not going to be constrained to stay on the road. Several years ago, when there was a big fire in East San Diego county that was headed west, most of San Diego County was placed under evacuation. The potential routes were: East into the fire, South into Mexico (only two border crossings), West into the Pacific Ocean, and North to Orange County (with literally only one road, the I-5 through a military base) to use. I think they lifted the evacuation when they realized there was no realistic way to get everyone out.

lovely post Bill. all of it.

What with the Georgia license plate, I suspect this an archival image. Although, a re-addition of a Ballabio to the Hagan motor pool would be cause for celebration . . .

Now have winter rims and snow tires mounted, still waiting for snow.. In the past we would have had a couple feet by now. Still the best car I’ve ever owned.. FYI, Musk takes no salary from Tesla, he does get bonus based on sale projections that no one thought they could meet. I despise the guy but not enough to want a lesser car. theres a paper out there saying he might be going mad, publicly. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-biographer-seth-abramson-details-why-he-thinks-billionaire-is-going-mad/

This would be a better image if it was parked across a railway track waiting for the next freight train to come along Phil

Not sure if I'm looking at the correct wiring diagram, but is fuse 3 good and the connections to it? I think that's the Reg/Rec feed to the battery 30A Is this the Ducati Energia Reg/Rec?................. @docc will know If it's the same Reg/Rec as used on the 1100 Sporti, there was quite a good thread on it on WG years back, but that in that was for a bike not charging Here's a link https://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?topic=84467.0 I'd check it's the same Reg/Rec first & I could be talking out my ass

Yes I did. But nothing out of the ordinary. I had been on the lookout for a Quota since early 2023, mainly looking for my favorite color which I am not going to ask you to guess. All the Quota that I saw for sale in the USA were around the $3k mark. When I got to Peoria to check the bike, the seller said he had attempted to set the tires at pressure, but in the process, the rear tube developed a leak at the valve. So I could not ride the bike, and had to purchase it blind. I later found the tachometer was really imprecise, the pointer jumping back and forth, which is something common for the white face Veglia of this era. Something about a floating ground inside the instrument. When you add the tires, the cost of sending the instruments to Germany for rejuvenation, the cost of substituting the collapsed turn indicator stems (the seller had stealthily wraped them in chaterton), then the actual possession went to 3k. But I still feel that it was a bargain.

More a point of academic interest, but I wondered why Stein Dinse were advertising this sensor when it was clearly the wrong part, or so I thought! I'll save you all the details but from a parts manual dive, it appears that early the early Daytona and Sport bikes used a float sensor as sold by Stein Dinse and around 96 changed to the thermistor design. Just for the geeks

Geez... I might write it down on a bit of paper, hand it to the staff and ask if they've got any of this..... Cheers Ps I would like to try it eh

It is like when US people say "deja-vu"; the "U" is pronounced the same way as the "U" for Muscadet. In French the sound "oo" is written "ou". Like in mood. We would write it "moud". The French U is not even the same sound as the U in mud, but it would be a closer prononciation. As for the way your French contact pronounces it, it also depends where he is from in France, because we do have regional pronunciation, and how long he has been without speaking French with French native speakers. When I go to France, I have some French people telling me I have an accent when I speak French. Some think I am Canadian from Quebec... they obviously never heard French Canadian speaking.

There is clear precedent. You are absolved.

I've been using the back brake on motorcycles for 2 things only for 30 years. Holding the bike on a hill at a stop sign or lights and applying it mid corner mainly on the track to get the bike to "finish off" the corner and hold the line better esp if I've missed the correct apex and look a bit wide on the exit. The second technique can also be used on the road if you mess up a corner and braking with the front causes the bike to stand up. Never used it to help turn in but I understand the concept of increasing the rear tyre slip angle to help the wide rear tyre turn in better. WSB and MotoGP riders use the rear heavily for turning the bike so the Ducati software has come from there obviously. Phil

Gee now I'll know how to pronounce it when I ask.... Although it won't quite sound the same with a Kiwi accent!! Cheers mate

Agreed. A lovely French restaurateur I worked for some years ago in Phoenix introduced me to it, and several other things. I loved the way she said moose ka day please David.

Thanks. I'll keep my eyes open for that.

If you like white wine, and if you like it dry, you should go Muscadet... this is a very confidential wine, not widely known, but so much better than all those Chardonnay and the rest of them...

You know Pete , he's so non-confrontational .....

Some colours respond well to photographing in certain lights and a fill in flash can make the paint "pop" as well. Silver V11 Sports always look great to me in images but not as impressive in the flesh. Not bad or anything but never as good. Thats why I don't choose car or bike colours from the computer, I always want to see it in the flesh. The only colour Supra I could see in the flesh was a red one so thats what I bought. I mean you can't really go wrong with red but I'm not choosing a car colour off a brochure or computer image. So now we have 3 red cars! When the wife says "do you want to take the Red car for a spin" I still know what car she's referring to though.

Mate. It looks BETTER than brand new condition...! Gotta love how greenies just GLOW in the right light eh. Cheers