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Hope you can hang around for the Tattley Rappit (NZ Moto Guzzi Rally) on Labour weekend at Methven

Just reviewed this entire thread after the Lemon Drizzle Gang video came up. Pretty amazing that @wavey_davey1 performed this "recommission" in three months! I thought that these links to the video belong here . . .

It's been several years since I've stopped into Mike's place in Hempstead...we had a few guys drop in one time for a little rendezvous. He's not too far off the route we do from time to time from Hempstead to Belleville, we swing right by the road to his house. Agreed, it's a bit of a stretch to get there, and logistics are a bit more of a challenge. I'm lucky to have a motorcycle trailer stored at a friend's place so I could drop off a bike there if needed. Let me know if that becomes an issue for you...easy enough to arrange it. Perhaps he can only do so many jobs...did you get the idea that Mike would be doing the work or Davey from time to time?

@docc it's a great book, well written. Actually should be a movie. IIRC, the expansion chamber, power valve and rotatory valve were invented here...inspired by the V1 rocket. Betrayal and tragedy are in the offing. As well as inventiveness with poor resources....

Are the NOS or take-offs from a parts bike? Did you have to order the plates as right and left part numbers and the pins as separate numbers?

My sideplates came today from TLM Netherlands. They took the nuts off the pivot bolts. I am angry, and my email said so. I am still angry. I didn't need the side plates or the footpegs, or even 2 pins. I needed a pin and a nut. Angry

I had to laugh at your comment, "And it gets worse." Makes me think of this Tom Clancy quote:

Very good read, @docc better than plenty of fiction.

this: Spying and racing and WWII and Communism and Suzuki. And it gets worse. https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Speed-Biggest-Scandal-Motorsport/dp/1844259757

It was the legendary shooter Elmer Keith who wrote a book but the title, "Hell, I was THERE!" applies equally to Kevin Cameron.

They don't use air, but fat from your love handles to inflate it.

You still get free air on every gas station on the highways in France. They also have rest areas, with tables, so you can take a break and relax a little bit. None of the gas station around me have that. And yes, free air does not exist at gas station, you needed four quarters to inflate, with most of those stations out of order. There is an exception, though. Costco offers free air to anybody. So you can as it was meant to, fill your tan and check your tire pressure.

I knew that was coming. I should've said like the two hybrids in my garage.

Geez I just posted it too...didn't show up in my 'unread topics'. Great video.

What, like this? or maybe more like this?

Could be because of the exhaust note. My Stelvio sound pretty nice with the GPR pipe, the new one sounds like a Toyota.

Windows down. Had a looong roadtrip in the US in 82 with a 66 Catalina. Bought from the Norwegian seamans church in Brooklyn, 250$. Windows open in Death valley, no AC. Keep arm inside, or severe burned. No ac was intentionally, feel nature. Today, of course not . Cheers Tom.

What kind of adapter goes for the prick inflator ? i would like to see the pressure readings before doing ANYTHING down there

I've officially ridden my first 1000 kilometers on the Lemans now!

I have a 2012 NTX. I drove the new Stelvio, decided I liked my old one better.

I assumed there would be a post about it. Now I get to have @wavey_davey1 be mad at me for posting the LDG video before he did.

That's this bike. The photo of the front tire, first photo in the thread, turns up in the video about 20 minutes in. @wavey_davey1 great to see the bike on the road, and on the correct side of the road into the bargain.

He did not learn to say Guzzi properly, but I will forgive him. This Guzzi 2013 is a mirror copy of the one I am after, pending the sale of my Quota... This guy has published a lot of videos about the problems he experienced, which are very educating to me; I did not know the 2013 Stelvio had a clutch recall. I did not know about the throats wearing off either.

Two of my favorite two stroke experiences were racing a TZ250, which was a lot like the above mentioned TZ350, and a KTM 440 EXC dirtbike. The TZ250 was the classic two stroke, no power, followed by some power as you rev. Then, around 8,000 rpm it started to make noticeable power. At 10,000 rpm it kicked in and went, pulling hard up to around 13,000 rpm where it was done as quickly as it started. That bike was serious fun on a track. My other favorite two stroke was the exact opposite. The KTM 440 was a monster that didn't have to rev to make power. It was almost friendly at idle, but at some point just above idle it turned into a beast. It quickly went from making some power to making massive power. It was a dirtbike, so it didn't have a tach. But it didn't need one. The power was always there. It was a case of too much power being too much fun. I was not really faster on it then I was on my DR350, but my smile when riding it was way bigger. It would plaster a smile on my face the way it yanked me out of corners. It was like the way spaceships hit warp speed or light speed in sci-fi movies. Expansion chambers can make two strokes deliver amazing power. They don't automatically make for a peaky motor, they don't always means power up top. They can make power wherever they are designed to. Thinking of them as acoustic resonance is a good way to look at them. Depending on how they are designed they can make power down low, in the middle, or up top.