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[2bims]

Sounds like my upbringing, parents got me the best they could afford and I learnt to look after it and improve when I could, still recall my father maling us a sledge for the winter that was made from the door of the old outside toilet. Said Sledge was later converted to a go-kart with the addition of old pram wheels from a scrap yard and a plastic "bucket" seat from an office...Ah them they were the days Eh?

The plaque in Germany is the only place I've ever seen selling them, they are always blank, you simply use nail punch stamps, with the number and letters to make the serial number on the plaque, simples, most hardware/engineering shops would have had them.

Finished articles look like this if you need to copy the font, the plaques on ebay are exact replicas I have to say as I scanned and compared them, though maybe I might get one as a "dog tag" The numbers are shortened from that on the headstock, thus just DB2 and the series No of the bike

[Desmo_Demon]

We pulled the fairing off the bike, hit the starter button so I could check the voltage at the starter, and.......the Effer started. I tried it at least 15 times during a two hour period before we pulled the fairing off the bike. Now I don't know if it will ever act up on me while I'm away from home. I'm going to clean the starter post and put some dielectric grease on it.
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[2bims]

Cheers for that Desmo, It gave me a good laugh late on a Sunday night, you gotta love Italian electrics they're like "Mistresses"... demand all your attention by playing up, you give them the attention they ask for, and Oh, no, theres nothing wrong, they just wanted you to play with them and give your time... I try to balance between each bike, if one gets something extra or something done, then I follow onto another or it then starts playing up. I don;t know how those Americans with 10 wives manage, it would put me in an early grave for sure!

[Desmo_Demon]

Finally had soem nice weather and had the time to ride, so I pulled the Db2 out, hit the button, and "click". The Effer did it to me, again! I showed it, though, I pulled out the 748 and took it for a spin.

I didn't even mess with the DB2 when I got home. I simply pushed it into the corner and installed the rebuilt shock and installed a fan over-ride switch on the GSXR. I may pull the fairing on the Bimota and try to figure out what's wrong in the next few days. I'm hoping that maybe it's just a bad cable. I really don't feel like going through all that work to pull the starter off the bike.
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[2bims]

Feel for you Desmo, and thanks again for assistance on fitting Oil temperature gauge, the screw in connector with sludge filter finally arrived last week and has now been duly fitted, clothes back on and out for a spin, A newly fitted and functioning temperature gauge, most pleased. Although as I expected it runs at a higher temp than my other Bim and Ducs, but seems fine on it, perhaps a larger oil cooler would help, or reposition away from the bottom to up top.

Had a spin over to see Vort at the weekend and played swapsie with each others DB4's, most enjoyable and thanks Vort, although me now wants some Keihin Flatslides..... A nice sight for passer bys seeing 2 "twin" Tricolor DB4's running together, although they both rode entirely differently from brakes to carbs to suspension, entirely different. 140 mile round trip, and getting to like the DB4, very comfortable (always a relative thing with Bimotas - although nose twitchy at speed)

Clothes off and temp gauge thermistor fitted and wired in




Please note lounge rug laid out on driveway in preparation for fitment of fairing, an essential....




And a few of older and younger brother together for the first time with all their clothes on



Note the recently fitted V-due headlight unit on the DB2, far better throw of light and freshens the old girl up nicely, although a very tight fit with the projector beam depth of casing









Was enjoying my ride so much back on the DB2 and liking the new look clocks and functional headlight, kept going well after dark, closing shot of the funtional triple clocks. It was good to be back on the "old girl" with her flatslides and corse straight through, although Jeeso does she feel cramped by comparison to the DB4.

Cheers again to all those on the Forum for their various assitances with both bikes recently and over the years, you all know who you are so no names needed, but a special mention to ....well he shall remain "nameless".... for advising me to hardwire the temperature gauge direct to the battery, and thus it now registers a reading continuously whether the key is in the ignition or not. Cheers Big Fella Fuse pulled in the meantime....



Hopefully both now sorted ready for more riding, well that is until the next few bits start to arrive that is.......Got a week off over Easter and thats when the Pup of a Duc gets her stripdown done and damage assessment carried out...

[Pompey]

so, see you in April at the meeting then?
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[Desmo_Demon]