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At least one fellow had one. Producer HTMoto has gone defunkt (retired I think) and their plastics business, sold off, may also have died with the subsequent owner?

I agree with the thought that a 2nd V11 should be customised. I wanted a modern spine framed equivalent to my old red LeMans so went to Ghezzi Brian for their conversion. It transformed the bike and the handling and took 30kg off it. If you don't mind drop bars; that's what I'd do. I've had it for 4 years now and I still don't want anything else.

I welded up one of the holes as suggested and it worked well. I eventually replaced the fork insert with the andreani inserts and they're better still with more finer adjustability. Sent from my ELE-L29 using Tapatalk

Don't do it man...hang on to it!!!

Well its taken many years but here is my first Guzzi, a 2001 V11 Rosso Mandello, its been stored for a few years and I will bring it back to life very soon. Its low miles, 7K and has many spare parts and accesories, incliding a color matched original Magni cafe fairing

The only parts that can be removed are the filter screen the attaching nut and the circlip on the end, you cant access the internals without machining/removing the crimped over top edge of the alloy operating knob. I have one of these pieces of total rubbish on the bench at the moment. I have 2 of these,one failed ( wouldnt shut off even with pliers) so I fitted the spare and its crap also. One issue is the crimped edge of the operating nut rubs on the tap body, this I rectified on the failed unit and it works much more smoothly. The major issue seems to be the seals actually swell when they contact fuel as the failed unit now its dried out for months seems to be smoother in operation and does actually close off fully now. Long story short they are rubbish quality. Ciao

These were the Italian Alps just south west of Silvaplana, the day before I brought it back from Ghezzi Brian. You can get the bits and do it yourself - nice winter project, but I got them to do it for me by driving the bike down, leaving it a month and then driving it back. The conversion was to a V11 Trofeo but I added a few optional extras; the big one was the alloy swinging arm, but less expensive were the wave discs, lithium iron battery and high efficiency air filters. I also got the carbon fibre front and rear mudguards and belly pan - though these are cosmetic and it had a CF front mudguard anyway. This was virtually everything short of the tuning mods which Ghezzi Brian didn't recommend if I was going to use it, put lots of miles on it and wanted it to be reliable: I guess these are really for a track bike.

I have a Ti exhaust, on the bike but in excellent condition along with an unused ignition. I have also got a brand new still in box, Remus Carbon fibre exhaust system. Once I get some pics of both sets, I'll list them and keep the one of the sets. I also have a set of headers with the forward set of crossovers, same as the Coppa in your pic. I've got a bunch of stuff for sale (new gauges, fairing, tank bag, indicators, new key lock set(ign,fuel cap,seat lock), lafraconis, alt cover, bag rack, mirrors, handlebar risers, triple clamp, dash covers, dash mounts etc) so I'll get it pictures, work out prices and then list them all at once.

I've struggled with this one. I've been tempted to add a red frame next to my LeMans. But decided to have 3 very different bikes and added a Carc and a Tonti instead. Mike

Somewhere in this forum I wrote something up about how the early forks have basically zero compression dampening. I also talked about how, if you block off one of the two large bleed bypass ports in the cartridge tube, you can force the oil to go through the piston and valve stack and end up not only with dampening but have an adjuster that does something beyond the last inch of travel. The early forks have two large bypass ports that allow so much oil through them that the oil only needs to go through the piston and valving after the piston is past at least one of the two ports. And that doesn't happen until you are something like 3/4 the way through the suspension travel. Changing the oil won't help much unless you resolve that issue in my opinion. New springs are good, but we found that once we actually got the forks to have compression dampening we were OK with stock springs. At your weight, you may want stiffer springs, but I would address the utter lack of compression dampening first. From memory, I was working on the forks and happened to put the forks together without the springs installed. That made it easy to see what is going on. No matter what I did with the compression adjuster the compression leg had zero resistance to being compressed. I looked at it closer and saw the two large bypass ports and figured out that I could block one of them off and that would force at least SOME of the fork oil to go through the valving in the piston. The way it was stock it only really forced the fork oil through the valving after the piston was past at least one of the two bypass holes. So really, it was more like an adjustable hydraulic bumpstop.

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Andreani cartridges and Wilbers shock, should cost around $1200US depending on the spec of shock you chose. Ciao

also, this is what I want to do for the seat unit highroller02 by Neil Morgan, on Flickr 28_04_2016_Moto_studio_V11_sport_02 by Neil Morgan, on Flickr 14064127_1369062046440765_4707529995223302861_n by Neil Morgan, on Flickr 14212632_1371401989540104_5101921131603396669_n by Neil Morgan, on Flickr