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Recent content by oldGSfan

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    New Stutter at WOT

    Thanks for posting that link for the NGKs. I searched for the straight ones for my Laverda and could only find knockoffs in the USA, and found real NGKs only from overseas. They are about $20/ea, plus shipping, customs, and tariff. I'll get 3 at a fraction of the price - their site says "NGK...
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    Kawasaki Eliminator (451cc) - anyone with experience?

    Thanks, I think it is a bit small for him. The Triumph looks better to me than the Enfield, but it's his choice. I'd really like it if it were a twin, but that'd cost a fair bit more. Triumph has done well, so many other tales of legendary marques have bitten the dust. Norton's back again after...
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    Kawasaki Eliminator (451cc) - anyone with experience?

    My 8-year-older brother is in his 70s and likes to take rides in his 'quiet corner' of CT. He has an early 00's HD Super Glide and an '07 Moto Guzzi. Both are quite heavy for him now, and his riding has diminished. Maybe that's just a sign to hang it up, but he's ridden for over 50 years and is...
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    SH775 Regulator/Rectifier Units

    I used some $7 Chinese connectors, and yep, they are a pain to get on and off, but they do the job. A wipe with a bit of silicone spray helped.
  5. oldGSfan

    SH775 Regulator/Rectifier Units

    On the Laverda, I'm seeing 13.3 surface charge right after a ride, settling to 12.8 after a while. Now I can confidently ride with my (LED converted) headlight, which is great. It doesn't matter which terminals you use for the two wires, as far as I understand from Googling. I used the outer two...
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    SH775 Regulator/Rectifier Units

    I have two of these from Ed, and they are fantastic - but quite large, which of course is solvable. On my '83 GS1100E, I mounted it where the CDI ignitor box was on the right side of the battery tray, moving the ignitor to the location where the original reg/rec was. On another bike, I have a...
  7. oldGSfan

    A Unique Guitarist

    Very cool. Oh to have such talent. In '99, I got a CD of Paul Galbraith playing Haydn, he used an 8-string, to play Brahms, I believe. Collaborated with his luthier on it. He plays on a resonator box he sits on, cello-style, with a steel pin that rests on it. I find this song of his to be my...
  8. oldGSfan

    1974 Laverda 3C

    I'm well into the ignition retrofit, having fabricated a plate for the new coils (rubber-mounted!), and mounted the control box, wired it. It even gives sparkies. Documentation is very primitive or non-existent, a shame for a $900 setup. I have bought $10 parts with better instructions. This...
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    Anybody got a nice 82/83 GS1100E 'train' headlight chrome ring for sale?

    Thanks for looking. I have a stash of 1100E misc stuff in a big tub, and should have laid them out and taken a picture before stashing them. I've dug into that box enough times, occasionally with success!
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    1974 Laverda 3C

    Not there yet, coil and ignition plate to be mounted, wire it up. But getting the alternator off and the box mounted was a step forward, so I posted it.
  11. oldGSfan

    1974 Laverda 3C

    Working on the ignition. Got the stator rotor off with a borrowed puller, no issues there. The crank seal is doing its job. I mounted the ECU in the toolbox. Still some room in the battery compartment, it's huge. My replacement battery (18AH, 320CCA) is large, but nothing like the original. The...
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    1974 Laverda 3C

    I wouldn't mind this shaftie.
  13. oldGSfan

    1974 Laverda 3C

    Went for a ride on the 3C today and stopped in at the local HD place for a burger. Saw this next to my bike on the way out. There's a show nearby, called 'Born Free', and this must've been there. Had to fight through the crowd taking pictures of my Laverda to get a shot of it....:ROFLMAO:
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    Anybody got a nice 82/83 GS1100E 'train' headlight chrome ring for sale?

    mid 90s CBR900RR, no idea where the bracket was from, maybe custom fabbed.
  15. oldGSfan

    Anybody got a nice 82/83 GS1100E 'train' headlight chrome ring for sale?

    I actually prefer the blue, and have another painted set - painted over the red on that one. Different strokes, as they say.
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