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Thanks for everyones help to locate this. I was able to get in touch with Rawn Fulton who is the producer from Searchlight Films. He gave me access to the Vimeo video for $25. For anyone interested this is his contact: Rawn Fulton (rfulton@searchlightfilms.com) The movie was well worth the price, to see the world as he saw it pre WWII and untouched by modern technology along with his narration was fascinating. It's put together fantastically and the music composition is beautiful. The book just came in the mail as well. Super Happy! Thanks again @FJ12Ryder @Mohawk, @Stray Mondo Enduro is on my list as well. probably next 🍻
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thanks @FJ12Ryder but the registration link goes nowhere either. Through some good ol' fashioned searching, this time Yahoo, I came across this site: https://stevenschoenberg.com/album/twice-upon-a-caravan/ Steven was the composer for the movie and I reached out to him. He put me in touch with the producer from Searchlight Films. contacted him and got a paypal request for $25 for a vimeo access. So waiting on the guy to now send me a link. Hoping this works out, I will update you guys. Yeah it's pretty wild to see him ride across the globe in shorts lol
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Thank you, I saw this as well. but the download link doesn't do anything 😞
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Hey guys, Been looking for this DVD for a while now: "twice upon a caravan". About a around the world ride on a Douglas in 1932. All leads point to the now defunct http://www.whitehorsegear.com/. He wrote a book as well and it's on Amazon but I can't find even a trace of the documentary. Looks really interesting. You can see a clip here: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/video/2012/aug/14/around-world-by-motorbike-1932-adventure-travel-video If anyone has any info, much appreciated. Thanks
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thanks @Auspanglish and @JZH. Axle that's the word. 'Assembly' <== haha what a noob I am. just for my understanding the pinch bolt is the screw that's at the bottom of the fork? why is that hole there? The rust was there when I bought it 6 years ago plus I park is outside all year, NYC apt living man.
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Hey guys, I have a 4th gen and the front wheel locking screw seems to be missing something. The bolt that goes across the front wheel hub that holds the wheel, should it have some kind of pin, screw or nut on the other side? It has a hole but I don't know if whatever that was there fell off. I attached some pics. thanks.
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Thank you for all your help @auggius @Marooncobra @MadScientist @TheDutchy @CandyRedRC46 @Auspanglish @thtanner *fingers crossed* the bike seems to be charging now. I put on the roadstercycle mosfet RR. shows a constant 14.3 and ran for about hour half and no issues. The headlight issue was just the bulb, not sure why my good bulb didn't work when I switched plugs previously but I pulled everything apart and checked wiring, adapters etc and all seem good. Going to get a new headlight soon.
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I looked at the ground wire, seems to be fine.
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hey guys, back at it again. tore down the fairings and trying to see if there are any short connections in the wiring before i put the new RR back on. especially trying to solve the one headlight working. do you know if it's suppose to be one or both headlights working in stock form for the 4th gen. any places that you guys can think of that might be the issue? wiring around the headlight and the cluster seem to be fine.
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Thanks MadScientist Auspanglish The pic clarified a lot!! Going to get a crimping tool, good to have one in the arsenal anyway. I'm going to put the RR on but will be tearing down the front end at the same time to see if there's anything burnt and get the headlight issue sorted before riding.
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Thanks Marooncobra I'm going to give it a shot. I will update the thread soon as I get the part in.
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hey guys, I finally got a MOSFET type R/R from Roadster cycle. Going to put this in when the weather is nicer and start testing all connections and the ground wire to the engine block. Can anyone tell me what these little blue rubber plugs do? Am I suppose to insert them into the cut wire, put the metal crimp thing on and slide it into the hole after plugging the metal connectors? Where does this dielectric grease go? Do I have to solder the wire to the metal crimp? Sorry for all the questions, I don't want to fuck this up.
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Thanks CandyRed. that;s a good idea, I will try that. I will have to wait fir a sunny weekend if I'm riding without any lights. but it's good starting point!
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Thanks Dutchy, I'm gonna look into that. Stalled on the highway on the way back. pushed it off and pulled all the fuses out other than ignition. the battery was at around 11v and managed to push start it. once running i noticed instead of volts dropping like a countdown it was at a steady 12v. which i hadn't seen since the morning commute. my hunch is 1 headlight not turning on has to do something with this. probably a burned connector somewhere that's draining the battery and RR over heating and crapping out.
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All that have replied to this thread. I spoke too soon. On the morning commute the RR crapped out again. soon as I was stuck in traffic the bike heated up, the fan came on and from then on I just watched the voltage drop steadily while praying I don't stall in the middle of Manhattan traffic. managed to get to the office, battery at 10.9v. I wouldn't start blaming Rick's yet cos I rode a handful of times last week one ride being around 50 miles with no issues but all highway. Think there's a burned wire or a fuckity connector somewhere. As I said previously only one of my headlights are working, where as last year both were working fine. I tested the bulb. gonna pull everything off. and maybe set it on fire. just kidding. maybe not.
