DucatiGuzziIndian

Thought it might be interesting to share pictures of our beloved V11's as we enjoy another popular pastime ... having a beer. Not encouraging drinking and riding at all... and I just want to reiterate how important it is that we are responsible motorcyclists. 1 beer is my limit if we are on the road and have lunch somewhere. On a longer trip we always make sure we get to the hotel early, park the bikes, then walk or taxi to a couple bars, pubs or breweries. Here in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. we are spoiled with hundreds of breweries and bars. Washington state, Oregon, Northern California and British Columbia all offer amazing riding, scenery and fantastic beer (and wine). Would love to see some interesting bars from around the world, if anyone cares to share. Pictures below are of the Last Frontier Saloon in Fall City, just 40 minutes east of Seattle. A very typical "dive bar" in this part of the world. I hope this thread is permissible and seen as being responsible. If not I apologize.

Many thanks for the kind words and compliments guys.

Yeah thats temporary just to get it into the airflow. Winter project to screw around with it to adjust its position so it is at least somewhat straight. Will also try to shorten the turn signal stalks a little, with some type of custom spacer thats a little shorter than the stock spacers currently in place.

And another couple

Couple photos of the completed LED turn signals, Mistral pipes, Rizoma mirrors, new levers and a good old polishing.

Wavey Dave, how many k's on the bike? Those tires look fine! your worrying about nothing... ;-) JK of course. Reminds me of a saying: "I love hard work, I can watch it for hours!" Good luck with this,.... fingers crossed that it's not too bad.

(Slightly off topic sorry Guzzler) Wow. So sad to read that $1.20 means you've got to watch the mail for a couple weeks! Glad I don't live where I was born! Most of the West Coast of the U.S. is $1.00 to $1.20, but if you adhere to those values you have people right up your arse on their horns. $1.20 seems to be the minimum everywhere and $1.30 to $1.40 is really common. Hell, in Los Angeles a couple years ago, a cop reprimanded me for only doing $1.30 in the fast lane, He flashed me to move over! Road conditions are mixed with everything from perfect billiard table surfaces to rough potholed roads. Would love to change the suspension on my Greenie to Ohlins front and rear for the extra compliance and adjustability because I find the stock suspension pretty harsh. So specifically, what did you end up doing Guzz? If you can avoid the roads that are rough, there is some excellent riding here. Eastern Oregon has some absolutely beautiful roads in fabulous condition. Anyway, back to the speed thing: The police here are by and large great and very reasonable, so I have found. Been let off 9 times in a row over 10 years. I keep telling my mates here, that when number 10 rolls around, I'm buying beers and lunch for everyone! It really pays to keep my down under license with me when I'm riding. ;-)

My VIN ends in 113064 and when I enquired with Piaggio they told me their records do not go back that far, <2009! I believe you will need to inspect it to determine if parts have been replaced, but good luck. Perhaps I just got an idiot that told me the wrong thing... Please let us know how you go.

Sold Thank you.

and a pie!

Ha Ha! gstallons... I wish he had more of them! You'd think there would be a better fuse block available somewhere in the world that we could use here... Surely marine or aeronautical parts would be better. I have cleaned everything in the base of the fuse block. The images show heat in the expected location.... it's just a question of how much heat is acceptable and how much is too much..... and I don't know the answer to that.

I know its non alcoholic but at least the thermal image tells me its cold!

Closer view of the RHS rear drive and rear wheel. Conditions: Ambient was around 25C (80F). The ride was quick with a blast up to 160kmh for a few seconds on the freeway (thank heaven I am not back home in OZ or NZ!!!) and the rest of the ride was pretty easy going so the bike wasn't really being pushed hard at all.

A couple more views from the rear Hot down the exhaust pipes (Mistrals) And the rear drive looks warm too. Shiny bright bits up front are the rocker covers. Warm (not hot) rear tire

View of the front right hand side of the bike from a couple metres away. Really cool to see the heat in the tires.

ECU image from RHS of the bike. Brightest area at the cross hairs is the multi pin connection feeding power to the ECU. Rest of the ECU box is dark blue / purple. Bright area under the ECU is the negative cable from the battery

View of the front of the engine with the Rectum-Frier (Rectifier) being the dark purple colored item center right of image just to the right of the cross hairs and almost touching the cross hairs. Note:.... A new Ducati rectumfrier was recently installed. Hot header pipes left and right. Big blue circle on LHS and partial blue circle on RHS are the horns..... so I didn't have to blast any idiots on the way home!! ;-)

Battery Positive terminal at the cross hairs. New Battery (odyssey) Battery is to the right of the cross hairs. ECU is bottom left corner of image.

View of the relays but from the left hand side of the bike.

Same view from RHS of the bike: Max temp reading I could get was 49 C (120 F) between the fuses (for some reason, I don't know, but the fuses were cooler than the underlying area... maybe its the input wiring temp????). Anyway thats hot, but not so bad I think. I could easily keep my fingers in the area without excessive heat. Image taken from the right hand side of the bike, same as the photo above shown for reference. Just adding that the dark areas are the fuses and the bright is the area beneath the fuses.

As requested, after a 40 minute ride back from the pub after an emergency beer (or 3). No IPA today sorry Tom! Fuse block as viewed from the right hand side of the bike.

All we ever leave behind, no matter how revered or unknown we are, is the example of the life we have lead and the good that instills in others that follow..

Any engineer with half a brain would know alloy gears are a no no.

how many miles on that Phil?

Marty Bike only has 3,000 miles on it (5,000k) And I'm a bit anal about keeping stuff in pristine condition.. I suffer from CDO (it's like OCD but all the letters are in alphabetical order as they should be!! ) Many thanks for your help mate!