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That's definitely a Docc quote to remember

By comparison, the XS650 is a reliable appliance. Alternator brushes every 15K or so and ride. As to Guzzi, I suspect that the company's products emerged from some sort of bizarre Fellini-esque drama-noir tale of death by slow descent into madness.

LowRyter, thank you for making it happen! The bracket is very nice.......the paint job is aweseome.

I brought the paint. I wonder if he gave me a credit on the bill? I financed the whole deal for the plates I guess. At least my bike is still on the road, so are some here and Don's still in business. OK, I'm a generous guy. You red frame guys own me a beer. I'm going to ask for a discount on the Desmo service on the Duc.

Gotta love it when an OP drifts his own thread just to recover some perspective. We're not giving up on your left cylinder, Grim!

Back? Sooty? Rich or oil. Since you're already in there, and if compression is good, then you could swap injectors side-for-side and see if the trouble follows.

It will get easy after the 30th X. We give opinions and advice . It is up to you to diagnose and do the correct repairs . Have a seat and evaluate what you think is the problem .

From reading here and on EnerSys's website, basically, you drain it with a load to 10V then immediately recharge using a 6A+ charger, never exceeding 15V charging current, until it reads something like 14.2-14.4 volts. The high amp chargers are needed as the AGM is able to absorb a charge much faster than standard, flooded lead-acid batteries - and - because the rapid charge absorption can 'knock the stuffing' out of any sulphated areas, possibly re-activating them. The low voltage is not damaging if only for a short duration. It is the long-term low-voltage periods that can cause irreversible/non=-recoverable sulphation on the plates. Or something like that. Yesterday (one page back) at 12:53 PM, the "official" re-conditioning instructions from EnerSys are posted. Here are two short YouTube vids.

Time, time permitting... What I did do was check the starter cable which was, say, snug but not tight at the starter. So off it came, wire brushed both sides of the cable lug, nut and washer, as well as the threads on the starter. Once tight, a swab of 3M silicone grease on the metal bits and silicone spray on the boot. Next up were the cable lug at the battery end and the terminal of the battery. Once they were shiny, all was snugged up and routine starting was restored. Time permitting (New kitchen sink and faucet are job1) I'll pull the tranny ground cable and do likewise. The starter bolts as well, as it appears to ground to the engine cases. While poking around, lubed the side stand so it is now slicker than cow slobber. Still clanks against the un-rotatable header clamp bolt, so pondering that, as the snubber bolt is hiding behind the header.

...a "lone wolf" year at best.

some people claim to be mad but have yet to be tested

It’s been a while, but just to follow up: Don has the brackets. I just received mine. $42 plus shipping. It’s not much of a kit, just the bracket and four bolts. The bracket looks great, nicely painted red! I’m still wondering how to get the stud bolts out to use the bolts that came with the bracket, or a longer stud bolt. I’ll probably start a new thread to ask about how people have installed these.

http://www.leccotoday.it/attualita/moto-guzzi-covid-19-lockdown.html http://motoradunomandello.com/

FYI....This is a great place to rent a bike in Rome..Francesco the owner also has several drop off /pick- up locations around Italy so usually I fly into Rome..get a bike and ride up north to the Alps and later drop it in the North, or from Rome ride down south to Sicily and drop the bike there. He also gives tours all over Italy if you like..usually I just get a bike with a GPS and just take off on my own plan. I have found his prices extremely reasonable and he is very helpful by cell phone if you have any problems or questions while on the road..they have seveal packages you can see on their website..I'm not connected to them in any way other than have gotten great service there so just passing it on! Riccardo runs the Rome office"His claim to fame is being a Moto Guzzi rider and having been the President of the Italian Motorcyclist Coordination movement for 20 years. Riccardo will look after you when you reach our Rome office and solve any kind of issue you may have during your rental." http://www.cimt.it/aboutus.htm ciao!

It lives! Long day today. The last pieces showed up yesterday so I got them fitted and installed the tank ready to start the bike. I've been talking to Paul Minnaert about fuelling stuff which has been great and informative. Pauls still recovering from the Covid-19 although he didn't go into details he still has a bit to go.Many things affected and it takes some time. Apparently my 15M is an early one and there may be an issue with it's pressure sensor compared to later units which affects the maps you can run. I've also been getting great help from Gritman that was on here a few years ago and has done the same thing. He sent me his bin file which is a really nice of him and much appreciated. I need to see if my 15M and its differences will be ok with this bin. Hopefully it will be usable. Anyway to business. Paul and others reccon the std V11 map isnt a bad starting point anyway so I decided to just try and run it on the map in my ecu and confirm the mechanical stuff and then move onto the tuning. The bike fired up after a little cranking but was only running on the right cylinder which was a bit disappointing The other think I was keen to check was the oil pressure after my relief valve spring mod so I was watching it like a hawk ( I'd hooked up a remote gauge). The oil pressure was too high at 100 psi cold idle so I wasn't keen to to run it too much until I'd fixed that. The issue with the left cylinder was my bad. I had to extend the left injector harness and for the first time I used those new all in one solder and heat shrink joiners. In the middle of a fitted wiring harness you cant use a heat gun so I tried it with my soldering iron which is how I usually do heat shrink in these situations. I wasnt entirely happy with the outcome and went back to the tried and tested process for everything else however I put a meter across the joints and they had continuity so I left them. Bad mistake, feeding and flexing the left injector harness into place dislodged the wires. When I saw then the ends didn't even have any solder on them,DOH so back to the old way, problem solved. I then dropped the sump off and pulled the relief valve and fitted the original spring and shims and threw it back together and cranked it over with the plugs out to get some oil pressure which came right up anyway. Started it up and away it went. Cranking oil pressure cold was 50 psi as was cold idle. Once the oil got to 45degC the idle pressure dropped back to around 43 psi. I blipped the throttle a few times to 2750 rpm and got just under 60 psi with oil at 45 deg C. I was conscious of keeping the engine temp within reason as I didn't have any fans set up. So a bit of fiddling with the balance and idle screw and it sat there idling at 1100 rpm fairly happily. I haven't even checked the CO setting on the ecu so the next job is to hook up the Guzzi Diag and see what we have. No images as for some reason the site isn't happy with the formatting all of a sudden. Ciao

$61 on e bay today..:-)

Dig deeper and you’ll find the 6 amp minimum and 12.65v charge threshold. I’ve seen these things brought back from states that other batteries would not survive.

After 5 sets of pipes I settled on these, Brushed Stainless Steel Agostini's and Stucchi cross over. Excellent midrange torque and mellow sound. Ciao