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I enhanced my headlight wiring with relays. See this thread for before and after photos and details http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?...c=9673&st=0 Thanks again to Gary Cheek for his assistance with the wire harnass crimping and diagram. If you go that route you only have to worry about how little power the alternator produces. Plus the line from regulator to battery is not the most robust. You may find the boost from the better wiring to be sufficient. If not, there may be some better 60/55 bulbs that will meet your needs.

But it might be blogged Did you ever notice the @ sign is really a sign for @NARCHY Watch out all you fascist pigs!

The Hooters thread is a 24/7 Valentine

Thank You, I did not bother to check the source, I got it in the mail only read the first award and immediately thought Ratchet would enjoy it. What better Valentine's gift could I deliver to the RatchetMan?!? It did not cross my mind that it was fake but it did cross my mind that they might withold evidence that women tripping over the toddler might have been pushed by an employee (accidentlily) or had to avoid a hazard like fork lift running through the store, or some reasonable explanation for the award. Snopes' link to the McDonald's case is interesting http://caoc.com/CA/index.cfm?event=showPage&pg=facts They make it sound like McDonald's is negligent for serving coffee at 185 Degrees!!! WTF!?! In my home I serve my coffee to myself at 160F and could probably chug it at that temperature. My wife likes it hotter so I heat her's to 170F, and she drinks it without letting it cool down. When I am out of my home I often have to wait 5 or 10 and once in a while 20 minutes to drink a coffee because it is too hot. Once in while I scald my lips or tongue by trying to drink too soon. Common sense should be used when ordering coffee. Maybe when it is that hot I should sue them Sometimes I ask for an ice cube. My understanding is that they serve it that hot so people can drive the coffee back to their co-workers and still serve it at a McHappy temperature. But I guess that ain't gonna happen anymore.

You really are desperate. Are you sure this isn't you son replying using your identidy? Grow up!

You also wrote, "top 3 already faster than Rossi's best race lap last year" So was Valentino slow when racing a Qatar last year? Must have been raining, a sand storm, a hang over, or something

I always imagined you to be more of a player, with rich women eating out of your hand Kinda like this guy in the white suit: To keep in the holiday spirit and the spirit of the thread, here is a Valentine for you: Kym Valentine

I'll do it. I even know how to drive a VW Bus and have plenty of experience getting harassed by people with short haircuts and blue suits. Joe Camarda could play Big John! But Martin must be in it. Must save Ratchethack for a road warrior movie. So, pack up your camera and let's head for the Mojave desert!

Well said! You are probably the only one here who believes 100% that there is no need for a warning sign when one encounters circumstances akin to a farm track on a road when going down the interstate or riding around a near blind turn. You apparently either fail to see how it would be disastrous, or you are so intent on your mission to destroy the nanny state, that you would sooner see the people crash and die than put up a warning sign. You probably skulk around at night cutting down stop signs and digging trenches in the middle of the road to test people's resistance of the nanny state. Some call that type of activity psychopathic. But surely you are not, and you don't really believe 100% that a warning sign is not needed when a major highway suddenly becomes akin to a farm track???? If you don't believe a warning sign is necessary, than you are clearly the one with feet not firmly planted on Earth. I did make an error in that I interpreted farm track to mean a tract of farm land. Which would include plowed earth. None the less, I have driven cars and motorcycles down farm track, which apparently means a dirt road, often with two treadways. I have also seen my friends get their cars towed out of such muddy roads by tractors. There is a reason many farmers buy trucks and tractors. Perhaps you believe cars without four wheel drive and 12 inch ground clearance should be outlawed? Perhaps it is all part of a Libertarian dreamscape where the smooth roads are toll roads and all others are farm track, every man, woman, and child on their own for themselves.

The chain is not always up. It is taken down for lawn mowers and children to enter. This guy may have been in the habit of walking his kid to and from school and never saw the chain up. I rarely see it down because I leave for work after it goes back up and I am at work when it presumably comes down in the evening. I too have zipped my motorcycle up that driveway when the chain was not hooked up. From my recollection the chain was not hooked up more frequently in the past. My neighbors' black lab ran into the chain once and learned his lesson. This guy won't get a second chance.

Of course here I am to disagree with the assessment. If the highway workers plant rows of cabbage in the number 3 lane on I5 without putting up a warning sign, the nanny state is failing in its obligations to nanny. You may have 20/20 vision, but I believe the law only requires 20/40 vision in one eye, under ideal lighting situations. Add night, rain, 14 hours on the road, and cellphones, and one's ability to focus on the cabbage patch diminishes quickly. One has a reasonable expectation that the ground won't suddenly and unexectedly open up on them. If not we would be paralyzed with fear driving down the interstate at 30MPH. Try taking out a 20 foot section of bridge on most high speed freeways and see how many lemmings plunge to their deaths. I know I have hit constructions zones at night in the rain, that were difficult to navigate at 30mph, and if it were not for the warning signs that did not explain the dip that I nearly go airborn on, but suggested reducing speed from 55 to 20MPH, I would have crashed without a doubt if I had maintained by lemming like 55MPH. Just blame my living on the nannies.

Who says you can't make one out of a sow's ear! Tahnx, I never knew the name of that song http://www.smokecds.com/mp3/151081.mp3

PS Just to make sure.... you did set the valves to 0.15mm intake and 0.20mm exhaust or looser, right? Also , TPS is 150 mV +/- 5 mV when the ignition is on, throttle linkage detached and right throttle is completely closed, set screws backed out and cold start throttle advance detached. With everything reattached, at idle the TPS should be about 500-525mV. Idle should be set to 1050 +/- 50RPM

Right now there is a NEW PCIII USB in Classifieds for $240US, which is about $100 off retail. TuneBoy is probably about $300 to $500 Australian. They don't post the price because they have not finished the product. The map editor works fine, but they don't have a working diagnostic software yet. You can email them for a discounted price for not being ready. The price should not be over $400 Austrailian unless the diagnostic software is ready. TechnoResearch divides their product into two software packages also. Direct Link is for mapping and they have another software for diagnostics. To me, the mapping software is more important than the diagnostic, but having the diagnostic could give piece of mind when you have a pinging problem like yours that could be caused by a bad sensor or ECU error. The Axeone is out of your price range, and is probably no better than having the two TechnoResearch software packages. FIM is another alternative. But expensive for what you get. Techlusion is another alternative. Cheap, but you can't map with it. It gives you three broad brushes for painting it richer. Kinda like painting the Mona Lisa with only three colors and a mop rather than a paint brush. Cliff Jeffries' tuneable MY15 ECU is about the ultimate alternative. Also somebody in Europe makes an ECU that fits inside a tachometer!!!! Cool, but a little more expensive.

or maybe it is a squeezebox. I thought it was a helmet.

Looks fine! But I think you should strip the paint, polish the aluminum and then paint the letters on the covers Rosso Mandello Red for the fully overstated effect Or maybe not.... MAYBE JUST CHROME IT! BLING BLING

On WildGuzzi Don(or actually Frederik) revealed that the bike is a Le Mans 1000 See http://wildguzzi.com/forum/index.php?PHPSE...=8484.msg122465 Bike owned by and Guzzi Logo made by René Visser Apparently more of his artwork can be seen here, but please excuse me if the art is by someone else. I don't speak Dutch and was simply following the hyper links It is a very nicely done logo. Guzzi should use it to move into the 21st century (IMHO) http://www.mgcn.nl/dameijer/images/zoom/CAOOVR/huisvlijt.jpg

My PDF parts catalog says CODE No. 01 74 17 30 Description: "Cup" FWIW the complete taillight is CODE No. 01 74 09 30 Description: "Complete headlight" And just for whatever it is worth, the reflector on the rear is called "Cat's eye"

I think a nice thing about the design is that if the bolts bend or snap, the skate wheel should lie between the valve cover and road, protecting the fins. Presumably the wheel will also have more impact absorbing capabilities than billet aluminum.

All others are like a boob without a nipple

When I ran with an open airbox lid, my bike was prone to pinging, but was fixable by adjusting the timing and fueling with TuneBoy. Tuneboy, Axeone and Techno Research's Direct Link software can all adjust timing maps and other maps. As far as I know, there is no Creedon Chip for our bike. When I put the airbox lid back on and ran the "interpreted" PCIII map, the pinging went away, as did some of the power and fuel efficiency. I can run it on 89 octane without pinging, but 87 octane will make it ping. I usually run 91 Octane. I bought a WBO2 sensor and logger to tune it better, but am procastinating.

It used to under featured items, but maybe they don't sell them anymore????

Foreign debt is a resource? All I know is that there should be a huge tax break for all motorcyclists, especially the ones that own Guzzis. The US has a comparably very low fuel tax. I suppose if I lived Oregon I might not care much about air pollution. San Diego is tolerable. Los Angeles is tolerable for millions of people, but not me. Turn half the cars in LA to battery powered and it could be a happier place UCLA, when the smog clears

It could all be part of a conspiracy to tyrannize. First they entice the good people, with green hearts (the suckers?) to buy the fuel efficient vehicles, then slide in the GPS chip to bill you for not consuming enough the corporate Mo'Go dead dino energy fuel. Of course the bad people screaming across the desert at some speed deemed unacceptable by The Man will get an extra bill in the mail or deducted from their retirement fund. The GPS will also put you in the vicinity of a crime and immediately you will become a suspect. Brilliant! Terrorism will then be more and more difficult to commit without the ultimate self sacrifice. The sucess of the program will inspire Emperor Schwarzenegger to microchip everyone on the planet, and we will finally have law and order, minus much of what we now cherish. Or it could all just mean Hummers for the chosen ones