Here’s one:

Pic courtesy of PistonSpy.com

more to come later…

Update: some more pics.

Team JL Meccanica Corse, Guzzi and Aermacchi:

Molnar Manx, by a 67 year old rider. The engine let go on saturday morning, and it was replaced and back on track in the afternoon.

The guzzi, before the drive shaft broke..

Alken, on the Mosel.

Cheap or not?

A good candidate for my next bike.

A Speed Daytona?

Touring Kawi’s? Beautiful? Don’t know. Practical? Maybe.

Touring v-twins? Yes.

Eating. An important part of travelling.

The whole trip was great, ~3500 km, great weather all the time. Ok, maybe a little cold at the WSBK races.

UNBELIEVABLE!

Hopefully I have now seen the end of my electrical problems. Oh, and I know she will come up with more complex, more expensive and time consuming problems….

On to the one I just ‘fixed’.

The throttlebodies were synced, TPS and CO and all adjusted this spring and now she runs great. It seems that you can ride thousands and thousands of km’s with a poorly adjusted bike.. well, that’s just me, maybe. Anyway -

The bike still showed symptoms of poor starting every now and then, especially when hot or right after a very short ride.
So finally I hooked a voltmeter on to the battery and took a ride. Right after starting, at idle, the voltage seemed ok, at about 13V. But as soon as I took off, the voltage dropped to near 12V and even below. During the short ride, with various rpm’s, the voltage never went above 12V, even with the lights off!

In the evening I went online and ordered a new regulator/rectifier from the UK, from Electrex and crossed my fingers that it would arrive before we are about to leave for Belgium, in about 2 weeks. This was wednesday.

On friday I was handed a small package by a courier in the afternoon. This can’t be, it’s unbelievable!?!
well, there it was, a brand new electrex RR-53 reg/rec for my bike.

In the evening I proceeded to put it on the bike and a small test proved that the old unit was bad. At idle, the voltage on the battery was already showing over 14V.

WOOHOO! it works! Today a more thorough test drive is scheduled.

Here’s a pic of the first install, I’m not sure if I’m going to keep it there, or put it back under the battery, where it originally sits.
*NEXT-DAY-EDIT: Of course it can’t be there, it interferes with the fairing scoop -> to the original place.

So, now the trip abroad is saved, there’s still time for last minute fixes and tweaks..

And, I know - I should have fixed this problem more than three years ago…

If you need a regulator/rectifier for your Ducati (or other bikes, too) I wholeheartedly recommend electrex in the UK.
http://www.electrexworld.co.uk

ps. a new set of rennsports are also installed. During the winter, I will have to order more from M and P in the UK(again).

August is closer every day, and the planned trip also.

The idea is to go to Gedinne, Belgium to see another Classic race. After that, there is again the WSBK races at the Nürburgring. Maybe even a lap around the old Nordschleife.. well see.

I’ve already bought a Bags-Connection Cargobag for the stuff. We’re not taking tents. There’s plenty of B&B’s in Europe..

I rode the Ducati again on the weekend; Damn she works smoothly, now that everything is sync’ed, balanced and so on.

Nothing to post here… the “Eagle” works fine, and so does the duc, when ever I take her out..

Last Thursday I finished the season. I can still take her out, if the weather permits, but the forecasts don’t look good..

That’s 46617 km. When I started in May, it was something like 38xxx or 39xxx. I have to check my notes.

Now off to hibernation, expect a slower (if possible) pace of updates.

..or the next update might come pretty soon, but It could look like something VERY, VERY different. Like this or this..

A late summer ride to the archipelago. Temperature around 10 celsius, +/-3.

Waiting for the first ferry.

Here she comes.

Waiting.

This was as far as we got.
(actually, there was one more ferry we could have used, but that was 30 mins one way to an island with no other way out, and we would have have to wait hours for them. )

..without swimming.

Scenery.

On the way back, the second, smaller, ferry.

Just missed us… this thing was huge.

filling up the bikes and the riders.

Total 550km, ~10hrs.

Will have to do this again, with more time and a little better weather.

On friday, 470km in pouring rain.. back on sunday, no rain.

My rear tyre is done.

Here’s a few shots:

monday morning addition, the bikes:

Some of the tents. There was also cabins and hotel rooms.

Some of the bikes.

More bikes. Note the bevelhead and the Benelli Tornado.

Crew.

The place/location was great, a small lake with two saunas, the services at the bar/restaurant good, a lot of familiar faces. All in all, a great weekend, despite the friday weather. But, my 10-year-old Gore Tex suit worked as it should, the boots not so well.. gloves were full of water within the first 60 km… time to get new ones.

A couple of days and 1300+ km’s (and finally great weather!)

The Duo:

Lodging for the night:

Tahko ski resort:

Koli National Park:

a small break somewhere on the side of the road:

At the ‘Smallest ABC station in the country’:

Last coffee break before the home stretch:

That’s the theme of this summer.. sadly.

Today we had some bad luck at the 3hr session at Ahvenisto, it rained for 1 hour. We got a few sessions though.

Here’s a few, by phonecam.

More later.. maybe.

Baylisstic

Mercedes Tribune

Refreshments

more..