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I have recently inherited my father's 01 V11 sport and it seems to be having a bit of an electrical issue. The battery was shot when I got it. I live in Kansas City so I picked up a new Odesy out at Harper's. When I put the battery in it was reading between 13.4-14 when running. Took the bike out yesterday and after about a 25 min ride the tach started to sweep as if the bike was just being turned on and would then return to the RPMs the engine was running at. This would occure about every 30 seconds -2 mins. I turned around right away to get the bike home and aside from the tach it was running like a top. Got home and the battery was sitting at 12.65v while off and only 12.85 - 13.2 volts when running. I would have to have it between 3-4k rpm to get over 13 volts. I put the bike on the tender over night. This morning it was at 12.96v when sitting but when I started the bike up it was hovering around 12.5v at idle. Electrical issues are in no way my forte and I'm probably just going to take the bike out to Harper's and have them go through the whole charging system but figured I would post here for any tipes between now and a few days when I can get it there. Does this sound like the problems could be caused by a bad rectifier?

Hi guys, so following on from my oil leak thread , bike starts and runs great but the last few times that I've started the bike the battery light stays on for maybe 5-10 seconds. I had the battery off the bike for a few weeks, put the bike back together and ran it in the garage to see to all was ok, next day started the bike light stays on for 5-10 seconds, rode a mile to gas station-light not on when idling or after gassing up, went for an hour's ride, no probs, measured 13.8v @3000rpm when home.went to work this morning battery light stays on again, rides slowly to gas station no light after setting off, lights and dash all ok-rode 15mls to work bike starts like normal runs fine, regulator cool to touch when home and measured 12.8v engine off when I got home, the light always used to go out as soon as the engine fires up i've only noticed this recently- I will check connections and earths etc, any help would be great! just a thought does the regulator body need to touch bare metal? should I scrape off the powder coat where its bolted to frame? thanks sorry if its a bit long winded!