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I'll tell what theyre like next week sometime as I have had a set for six months sitting in the box waiting to be installed and sometime in the coming days i'll put them in. Theyre well made and look the goods, so hopefully they won't disappoint

Beautiful scenery. Been there last autumn. You'll see tourist coaches on the road, passing eachother with 2 inches space. Take the boat to Positano. BTW, I only saw three Guzzis in one week, and a lot of GS's.

My visit in may 2018 (pic from Cilento)

Hi One of the best but there are a lot of traffic and cars, motorcycles and...other stuff. I visit last year in may and NOT on the weekend. A wonderfull moment and many special views. Follow the indications on this site https://www.trueriders.it/itinerari-moto/costiera-amalfitana/amp/ Have a nice holiday! (If you can visit Cilento coast!)

pm sent. what's the thing at the bottom?

I would recommend trying Meinolf's V11 map for the 15M ECU. It made mine run much better than the stock map. I backed up my original map but it is on a different computer that I can get to later if the map that docc linked is not what you want.

Springs are easy to tell. Measure sag, measure how much it sags without you on board and measure how much it sags with you on board. Using those three data points (fully extended, sag under just the weight of the motorcycle, and sag under the weight of you on the motorcycle) you can figure out if the springs are the right rate. Add preload (or remove preload) until the sag with you on board is around 20% - 25% of the total suspension travel. Then see if sag under just the weight of the motorcycle is around 10% - 15% of travel. If sag under just the weight of the bike is too much when sag with you on board is right your springs are too stiff. If sag under just the weight of the motorcycle is too little when sag with you on board is right your springs are too soft. That is because it takes too much preload to get the sag with you on board right if your springs are too soft. There are at least two different versions of 'zooki's. To my knowledge both are cartridge forks. Simple cartridge forks, but cartridge none the less. On the earlier version of 'zooki's like on my wifes red frame V11 the compression dampening is non-existent as built because there is too much oil bypassing the valving stack. To get it to work better we blocked one of the two bypass holes so that oil actually had to flow through the valving stack. It worked much better after that and the dampening adjuster actually did something. Before all the adjuster did was affect the last inch of travel because that is when the piston passed the bypass holes.

For all Pete's "colorful" opinion, I totally agree with him. I don't take issue with the small blocks or any of the other "retro" old tech Guzzi is selling or those that buy it. In fact, I kinda hope they make a bunch of money selling that retro stuff to someone else, but only because I then hope they will be able to afford to make something exciting with modern performance. Once upon a time Guzzi was a technology leader. It would be nice if they could at least catch up at this point.

I can't be doing with the retrograde technology Bill. That's all. The Hi-Cam, 4V design is ideally suited to the Guzzi 'Transverse' twin and going back to a prehistoric OHV design just leaves me cold. Yes, I know the smallblocks are 'Popular'. That's fine, they are aimed at, and are liked by, people with zero interest in any sort of 'Performance' be it power, handling, anything. What they want is a motorbike that looks like their grandads bike because it's 'Cool'. That's fine but it isn't what I want or what interests me and I'm certainly not going to to heap undeserved praise on it simply because it's wearing a Guzzi badge. I hope they sell squillions of them. Then they might be allowed to build a truly exciting motorbike again.

I don't think so. But the buyer is from California. Once I get a full payment I will direct the new owner back here. This is one of the best and intelligent forums