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  • DEEBS11
    XS-XJ Guru
    • Feb 2023
    • 1384
    • Connecticut

    #61
    New jumper to eliminate ballast resistor.

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    • DEEBS11
      XS-XJ Guru
      • Feb 2023
      • 1384
      • Connecticut

      #62
      Crimping coil secondary wires.


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      • DEEBS11
        XS-XJ Guru
        • Feb 2023
        • 1384
        • Connecticut

        #63
        Coils ready for install.

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        • DEEBS11
          XS-XJ Guru
          • Feb 2023
          • 1384
          • Connecticut

          #64
          XS11 at Brit Jam Haddum Neck Connecticut.
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          • DEEBS11
            XS-XJ Guru
            • Feb 2023
            • 1384
            • Connecticut

            #65
            On the road in Western Connecticut. Click image for larger version

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            • LAB3
              XSive Maximus
              • May 2022
              • 677
              • Traveling the U.S. with no permanent address

              #66
              I'm going to need to consider a sidecar if I continue to date women closer to my age bracket after taking a friend out for a long weekend a couple of weeks back. I'm running about 175 these days and I'm guesses she's pretty close to the same, with all the touring gear and the trailer my back tire was looking a bit less than round!
              1980 XS1100G

              Intelligent people discuss ideas, average people discuss events, petty people discuss other people.

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              • DEEBS11
                XS-XJ Guru
                • Feb 2023
                • 1384
                • Connecticut

                #67
                On the road, Newport RI.

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                Last edited by DEEBS11; 09-10-2023, 03:32 AM.

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                • DEEBS11
                  XS-XJ Guru
                  • Feb 2023
                  • 1384
                  • Connecticut

                  #68
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                  • Mathh
                    XSive Maximus
                    • Nov 2006
                    • 662
                    • Beek, Netherlands

                    #69
                    Great bike, great pics!
                    XS1100 3X0 '82 restomod, 2H9 '78 chain drive racer, 3H3 '79 customized.
                    MV Agusta Brutale 910R '06.
                    Triumph 1200 Speed Trophy '91, Triumph 1200 '93.
                    Z1 '73 restomod, Z1A '74 yellow/green, KZ900 A4 '76 green.
                    Yamaha MT-09 Tracer '15 grey.
                    Kawasaki Z1300 DFI '84 modified, red.

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                    • DEEBS11
                      XS-XJ Guru
                      • Feb 2023
                      • 1384
                      • Connecticut

                      #70
                      On the road. Rice-O-Rama in Spencer MA. Despite the huge Japanese motorcycle presence, my bike was the only XS11 in the entire event. Not even one part! believe me, I looked.

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                      • DEEBS11
                        XS-XJ Guru
                        • Feb 2023
                        • 1384
                        • Connecticut

                        #71
                        Some more Rice-O-Rama pictures...

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                        • DEEBS11
                          XS-XJ Guru
                          • Feb 2023
                          • 1384
                          • Connecticut

                          #72
                          I only have a brake light and tail light on my sidecar. How can you add right hand turn signal when you only have one 1157 bulb with two filaments? You add two 1N4401 diodes with the cathodes (-) tied together. The 2 anodes (+) will receive signal from each source. One from the stop light and one from the right turn signal. On my bike the stop light is in red and the right signal is in green. I wired the adapter in orange. Now I have turn signal in my sidecar tail light but it can always be over ridden by the stop light.


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                          • DEEBS11
                            XS-XJ Guru
                            • Feb 2023
                            • 1384
                            • Connecticut

                            #73
                            On the road. Riding the Trans Mass Trail.

                            The Trans-Mass Trail isn’t an “official” route. You won’t find any Scenic Byway signs like you see along the best twisty two-lanes. Instead, this set of



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                            • DEEBS11
                              XS-XJ Guru
                              • Feb 2023
                              • 1384
                              • Connecticut

                              #74
                              More pictures from the road. Nearing 7,000 miles on the build.

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                              • DEEBS11
                                XS-XJ Guru
                                • Feb 2023
                                • 1384
                                • Connecticut

                                #75
                                On the road. Not too many bikes around these days.


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