What you did to your Tenere today??!!

elricfate

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That's why they both have to get replaced. I've "been told" that if only one bulb is replaced the current flow is unequal enough due the difference in the old v. new filament. The old bulb can't take the extra juice and fails. But by the time the new bulbs get to the point of failure, the old non-blown bulb's filament is about the same as the surviving "new" bulb. They won't last a whole long time, they're still old bulbs. But it gives enough time to get another two.
lol, whoever told you that has no understanding of how electricity works.

I also swap bulbs two at a time in all my vehicles, it's more force of habit since I put two fresh ones in, the idea that they would both die within a specified amount of time to one another sticks with me, since they're usually only rated to a certain number of hours based on coatings and filament material (for halogens) but I also do it with LEDs.

LEDs are different though, the only reason I would swap both is color temps - LEDs inch higher on the color temp scale over time, if you put a 50k hour rated LED that actually has 10k hours on it next to a brand new one, you would be able to pick out the old one by how much more blue it had become.
 

mybackhurts

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That's why they both have to get replaced. I've "been told" that if only one bulb is replaced the current flow is unequal enough due the difference in the old v. new filament. The old bulb can't take the extra juice and fails. But by the time the new bulbs get to the point of failure, the old non-blown bulb's filament is about the same as the surviving "new" bulb. They won't last a whole long time, they're still old bulbs. But it gives enough time to get another two.

Idk about that but always good to replace things in pairs not piecemeal.
 

SkunkWorks

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When my friend from Mesa came up and spent a week with me up on Grand mesa, I think I shocked him to death!
He left 115 degrees every day, and when he got up here it was highs in the upper 50's and rain every day.....................He's probably still recovering :rolleyes:
 

POG

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LOL. I rode to the office yesterday. It was 28 F when I left in the AM. It warmed to low 50s for the evening commute. Tomorrow is going to be in the 70s. I'm playing hookey from work and doing a trick or treat ride in the White Mountains. I won't need the heated gear, so planning on riding my GL1500. The ST will come back out next week.

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Sierra1

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LOL. I rode to the office yesterday. It was 28 F when I left in the AM. . . .
Back when I was living in Portsmouth, we got a bunch of snow, but the roads were clear and dry, and I have no idea what the temp was. It had been a while since my last ride. So, my wife and I bundled up and rode my FJ to IHOP. Not a long ride, but we were frozen, and people looked at us like we were crazy.
 

mybackhurts

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LOL. I rode to the office yesterday. It was 28 F when I left in the AM. It warmed to low 50s for the evening commute. Tomorrow is going to be in the 70s. I'm playing hookey from work and doing a trick or treat ride in the White Mountains. I won't need the heated gear, so planning on riding my GL1500. The ST will come back out next week.

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Once upon a time I was a young half Canadian who thrived in the NE winters.

Now I'm in pain all the time because I need bone hurtin juice. Me like heat. Heat good...
 

Matt51F1

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I was just in the UK for a month and I prefer the cold if the choice was between the humidity of a large city or cold.
Not stupid cold though where you can’t ride the bike… just down to 40F is enough
 
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