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Rear wheel rubber pads, schockabsorbers,,,, seems just ready for a treatment with M 321 and beemer grease,, after some more cleaning. None in there since 03. Did read quite a few ARGUMENTS back from 2007 about all the rubber ideas , drilling holes, removing pads? Thats more than 15min ago, any conclusions? My pads dont feel hard hard,,, so drilling holes,, nææ, looking at my splines all good, so I will keep on listening to her up and down in the mountains,, splineswear or not,,, in a month or. Ipa time. Cheers tom. Sent fra min SM-G903F via Tapatalk

Hi, #314 currently resides in Hampshire, England. 17 yrs old and only 16k miles; I must work on that!! Rgds. Noel

docc- I think $8 -12 for (shorty) beer. You can get *free* water to fill your bottle. I went to first day of first Moto GP and they took a 5 year old's PP&J. The kid was on special diet. True. You can bring anything into Barber: booze, food, contraband. I've camped there 3 times. I think they were doing drunken motorcycle jousting one night -at least I was told, I have no memory of it.

As I said earlier if you touch a wire from the battery + to the spade connector that bypasses the start circuit Ignition switch and some connectors, this is how the starter should work, not thru a bunch of spaghetti wiring. You have probably seen me rant on about how the solenoid draws over 40 Amps i know of a couple of VIIs that burnt up because the main ground was connected to the bolt of the seat lock rather than a gearbox bolt. The seat lock bolt worked loose so the starter return current found its way back to the battery via the ground wire from the Voltage Regulator to battery negative. If you connect your meter from battery Negative (I mean the actual battery post not the lug) to a grounded bolt on the engine a bad main ground will show up as Voltage drop while cranking, I would expect to see less than 0.5 Volts I think Docc's 2000 may be wired with the Start Relay/30 wired direct from a fuse (not switched) Notice how the starter relay/30 terminal on this earlier bike is powered from an always live fuse 5, these early bikes never suffer Startus Interuptus but if you look down at the starter solenoid like all other Guzzi schematics its drawn wrong, one coil (the Grunt coil) is missing, the one that draws 40 Amps to pull in the solenoid. Fuse 5 can easily provide 50 Amps for a split second, the solenoid will slam the gear into mesh (in about 15 milliseconds) and the starter will spin. Now look at this one from a few years later, Luigi has completely changed the way the start relay is powered, terminal 30 is now fed from the Ignition Switch and a lot of spaghetti wires with several plug in connectors for good measure, he had another attempt at drawing the starter solenoid but again completely missed the Grunt coil. The supply to the starter relay is now seriously compromised, it will sluggishly draw the starter into mesh if it's a good day. Once engaged it will spin ok. On a bad day the Voltage drop will be too much, it won't engage and you get the dreaded click, it might also blow the 15 Amp F4 If you click on this drawing it will be easier to read. BTW, most of the modern Guzzis are compromised in the same way, works ok while everything is nice and new but as the connections start to deteriorate and the switch picks up some resistance the coil inrush current drops off until the grunt coil isn't able to do its job. MPH has made a small fortune selling kits to correct the situation. Both Veleo and Bosh starters have a Grunt Coil, I think the modern starters are a different brand but they will also. BTW, I recently purchased an 07 Griso, I made the starter solenoid operate 3 x as fast as Luigi had it just by increasing the wire size from relay to solenoid. If the factory would only draw the starter properly Startus Interrupts would soon be extinct LOL Sorry I added this just to show the Grunt Coil in the solenoid ( 0.25 Ohm)

Brexit is still mithering on 2 years later, with UK politicians wanting to have their cake and eat it. New Zealand just had some bad news last Friday too. Our biggest mass shooting ever. A white supremacy nut killed 51 citizens and hurt lots more. The police caught him while he was on the way to kill more, within 21 minutes, without firing a shot. Good job NZ Cops! Then the NZ government, within 6 days, outlawed military style semi automatic rifles, and high capacity magazines. Now I'm a gun owner, but I think NZ failed badly not to copy Australia's lead on gun control 2 decades ago. Good job NZ Government! Even though it is too late for 51 citizens. Now we need to get to work on the reporting and treatment of haters who enable/encourage mass shooters.

So . . . I could not be more jazzed!! Immediately, the sound change is so apparent. While the motor does definitely "spin up" *easier*, the tonal sonority is so different, so enticing. It's as though the harmonic resonance of the intake has found the exhaust note of the Mistrals! Throughout the rev range it is obvious, but 5,000 to 7,000 is just addictive. My fuel economy is going to go to crap cause I keep slowing down to row the gears again and again! The resonance is fabulous. Curiously, the idle did drop maybe three hundred rpm (I like my idle on the high side, around 1400-1500). (I was only reading this from the Veglia, not Guzzidiag.) Rather than just bump the idle, I checked the throttle body synchronization and found it off ~20-25mm Hg at 3,000 rpm (that's a lot). Bringing the linkage into synch and adjusting the air bypass screws to balance the idle smoothed it all out and the idle came up a bit. I feel like I'm riding with the Tower of Power Horns!

This has to be the best forum thread I have read in an eon. This is really the way forum's should operate. Everyone admits to drinking and impaired judgment (not that this is the case here... just in forums in general. But at least here we are honest about the booze!) and then sitting down to work on a motorcycle. Awesome, simply awesome. Good taste in beer too! I'm going to have another martini and then go finish framing in a bathroom addition. Cheers!