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The english word, no doubt stolen from the french, is "pannier". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannier

That seems to be the case. I assume that this is the two-adapter kit you are referring to: https://www.lonelec.com/product/guzzidiag-3pin-interface-cable-kit/ The first sentence in the description there is Whereby the "please see here" is a link to the one I got.

You do here, occasionally. I know of three (I think...) owners. Going by the posts in the german forum, there are several more members there who have, or have had one.

The Lonelec adapter works fine. On this computer, an oldish Fujitsu Laptop with Win10, the driver installed automatically. I didn't try the adapter with this computer, but am convinced it would work. I have another laptop, also oldish, a Dell Latitude with Win10 that I will be using in the garage. On that one, I had to install the adapter manually, following the instructions on the Lonelec web site. Otherwise, everything worked exactly as foreseen.

I got an adapter from Lonelec yesterday. Only a couple of days delivery from UK to Germany (not a simple as it used to be since BREXIT). This is it: https://www.lonelec.com/product/guzzidiag-jpdiag-ducatidiag-tuneecu-kit-kl-1talia-3-pin-connection/ I haven't tried it yet, but am absolutely confident that it will work. What I like is the elegance of it. I really dislike having adapters plugged in to adapters. Messy, fiddly, and too many possible sources of poor contacts and what have you. This thing has a connector for the plug on the bike on one end, and at the other end a connector for a standard USB cable. There is a socket on the side of it for 12 DC in, and a pair of alligator clips to connect to the battery with an appropriate plug for the socket on the device are supplied. Alternately, one could use a 12V DC power supply with the appropriate connector. There are four LEDs on the top, labelled respectively "power OBD", "power USB", "RX" (receive) and "TX" (transmit). The text on the website emphasises that "It uses a genuine FTDi chipset", which Bernd stipulates as a requirement for the OBD adapter on the Guzzidiag download site, and in his documentation in the german forum.

What was his name again? Waddington, wasn't it?

I've got one of those too. Came with the bike when I bought it.

Nothing done to the V11 today, but hopefully soon the first attempt to get Guzzidiag connected. One of these arrived for me today: https://www.lonelec.com/product/guzzidiag-jpdiag-ducatidiag-tuneecu-kit-kl-1talia-3-pin-connection/ I hope it delivers what it promises. I like the elegance of it: the three pin plug on end, and a connector for a standard USB cable (of which I have an abundance...) on the other. The option of power from the battery, or plugging in a 12-Volt power supply. Very neat, I think. I will, of course, report on how easily (or not...) it made the connection.

oops, didn't look hard enough at the drawings when I went looking for that link... I've got a Scud spring here, too. Should have got it out to help me in the search. So, for the record: Stein Dinse has two alternatives. One, the cheaper one, has a -Z number, the other might be original Guzzi: https://www.stein-dinse.biz/product_info.php?products_id=455347 https://www.stein-dinse.biz/product_info.php?products_id=1680 Wendel has one too, possibly original. The page says they have 4 in the store. Don't know if they can get more after that. https://wendelmotorraeder.de/feder_gu04238300-p-1028588.html?ref=expl HOWEVER, that is not meant as a recommendation to buy them instead of a Scud spring. Rather, it is more to show that is not always as hard as it seems it might be. As mentioned, I have a Scud spring here waiting to be installed...

I learned to ride on other bikes, but the first one I owned was a Suzuki GSX 250 E. One of these, mine was silver. The one in the picture has side covers from a 400, but the caption in Wikipedia, where the picture came from, says it is a 250. At the time, the japanese 250 models were commonly a downsized 400. Japanese laws were such that "up to 400" was a class, our laws made 250's a class, and the japanese manufacturers catered for the market by sleeving down their 400 models. Otherwise, the 400 and 250 models were identical. As a learner and probabtionary license holder in the state of Victoria, Australia, one was allowed to ride a bike with up to a 250 cc motor. The 2-stroke wave started just after I bought my first bike, so I got a 4-stroke. There was much discussion about what was the best 250. I think the GSX that I had was one of the better ones. I really liked the bike, rode it for a couple of years, and then sold it on to a mate to buy a car. About a year after buying the car, I got a 1976 Kawasaki Z900. After riding that for a while, I had a ride on "my" GSX 250 E, which the mate was still riding. The dominating thought was "did I really used to ride around on this tiny thing?". How quickly one's perspective changes.

A couple of more simple things: Are you quite sure that you got everything connected back up to the battery? Have a really good look and make sure there is not another wire there somewhere that should be connected. Check to make sure the plug to the fuel pump is properly connected. Quite possibly those things are ok, but it is always good to have a quick look to make sure the really basic simple stuff is really ok before one starts delving into the more complicated of the possible faults. Also, check the fuses with a multi-meter. They might quite possibly look ok, but be actually faulty.

A proper Bolero. More than a quarter of an hour long, consisting of only 4 musical elements, and it never gets boring. I chose this version because I have helped mix a concert featuring this piece with that conductor, but with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor is truly brilliant.

I think that might be very closely related to the Honda 90 that I mentioned. Maybe a precursor.

Yes, somone beat you to the post. Look here:

Indeed it was. Yeah, when the Ag bikes came out, they fairly quickly replaced the postie bikes. The Honda had the advantage that it was dirt cheap, indestructable, and ran on the smell of an oily rag. But for following a herd of milking cows down a muddy lane, it wasn't really the optimal weapon of choice. Even the "Trail" version. The only real difference to what the posties rode was that it had nobby tyres on it. When my dad bought the AG100, he actually got it registered and bought a helmet. I reckon he thought he could use it to whip in to town and stuff like that. Thing is, the bike was flat knacker at about 80 kays. I grew up in this house https://www.google.de/maps/place/Cobram+Victoria+3644,+Australien/@-36.0113031,145.6649717,195m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x6b20ad39d2ab550d:0x40579a430a08b40!8m2!3d-35.919227!4d145.6395916!16zL20vMDY5bTFq Zoom out a bit, and notice the abundence of curves. That means, "whipping in to town" on the AG100 meant about 12 km. in pretty much a dead straight line on a little 2-stroke which was screaming its head off, and not all that comfortable for a bloke about 6' tall. I don't think he renewed the rego after the first year. The second year at the most. Nevertheless, an anecdote: When the AG100 was still fairly new, dad rode it in to town to the Cobram Agricultural Show. I think he was involved in the organisational commitee. That year, there was a Police Formation Riding Squad at the show. Dad got to talking with one of the riders. The Scout Hall was (is?) on the edge of the Showgrounds, and there was a log in front of that lying on the ground. No idea why it was there, but I reckon it was about 2 1/2 feet high. If I remember rightly, the conversation got around to what the AG 100 was capable of, and the Police Squad rider demonstrated how it was possible to ride it over the log.

Is that better now?

Ok, wait a bit. I'll go looking for a source that is not fb. Don't like that mob anyway....

I've already mentioned it in a PM to Pressureangle, but in case anyone is runnig a book, I'm in for one.

Sounds like that might be a good idea.

Aren't they visible? I can see them. Here are direct links to the images. The first one, Honda CT 90 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/1972_Honda_trail_90.jpg The second, Yamaha AG100 https://scontent-fra5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/110312302_2728076920800395_1532777877354103891_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=973b4a&_nc_ohc=HuOYv-1V7GkAX-WeaOz&_nc_ht=scontent-fra5-2.xx&oh=00_AfC63kRp_umdaTyVj3ipkXz5gY4uDUwJuWEmc_NWxOH_9A&oe=647D0348 and the third, Suzuki DS 80 https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/139975528_5181891508495351_8949689658165696973_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=9267fe&_nc_ohc=4onCcN_cYt8AX9SUptv&_nc_ht=scontent-fra3-1.xx&oh=00_AfBc9bvq4l4oIBd8_vnUhfpC6Ixf-Jw71jersCNNlZFe7g&oe=647D11DC

One more... The other bike we had on the farm was one of these: My dad won it in a raffle at the Barooga Sports Club. My youngest brother got it. The bike was about the right size for maybe a 12-year-old. My brother was about 14 or 15, and well on the way to his adult height of around 6' tall. But he loved it. We all rode it, me and my three brothers and my sister. But my sister gave up on it after she parked it in the electric fence. She left it there, walked back up to the house in a sulk, and demanded that someone go and fish it out. I think my oldest brother rescued it. Surprisingly enough, we didn't manage to kill it. No maintainance of course. In the end it got passed on to the youngest son of a neighbour a couple of miles away.

PS: the reason we (i.e me and my siblings) were allowed to ride the CT 90 is because my dad had upgraded to one of these: I can't remember having been allowed to ride that. Too powerful... ( 8.3 h.p. ) As I started looking for pictures of that, I found this: https://supply.unicef.org/s0004120.html apparently the thing is to this day "standard equipment" for Unicef missions, and this article from 2017 https://www.mcnews.com.au/yamaha-ag-legend-back-better-than-ever/ The bike was great. Indestructable. I expect my dad never did any maintainance above putting fuel in it, and it went for years. I'm don't think ours had it, but newer ones had a side-stand on both sides so one could safely park the bike pretty much anywhere without having to juggle around to get it facing the right way to match the lay of the land. But I'm quite simply amazed that they are apparently still being produced. My dad bought his in about 1979.

Have fun with her Tom. I'm sure the good weather is just around the corner.

I'm almost a little jealous of what you guys could ride at that age. In Victoria, Australia there is no way for a teenager younger than 17 years 9 months to ride anything at all with a motor on the road. At that age, one can (or could when I was that age) get a learners permit. These days I believe it is a power to weight constraint, in my time it was a maximum 250cc motor. That's why the japanese 2-stroke 250cc pocket-rockets sold like hot cakes a few years later. When one turns 18, one can do the driver's license test (car and motorcycle). The constraint remains for at least a year, might be two years now. My first bike was a Suzuki GSX 250 E. I would have sold my granny to get Kawasaki KR 250. I learned to ride in the paddocks on our farm when I was about 16 on one of these Just about every farm in the area had one, and they all had a couple of feet of black plastic water pipe strapped, bolted, or wired on to the side away from the exhaust, pointed up at an angle to stick the handle of the shovel into. The shovel was for opening and closing the irrigation channels. The thing doesn't look quite right to me without a shovel sticking up out of the back. If I remember rightly, ours was red, which may mean it was the "road" model and not a Trail.

So you're losing slightly over a Volt through the wiring. I find that too much. Quite apart from your brake light problem (or maybe in connection with it...), I would be going through the wiring harness and checking and cleaning connections all the way.