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No, not mine. A customer's bike.

Here's how mine looks now Pete I know, I know, took a work of art and butchered it Not sure, possibly the Classico & the Arturo were before it. Anyway as already said "Eye of the Beholder", personally I think they are things of beauty, compare them with Guzzi's offering of the time, the LM 1000 from which it's derived

Cash1000 & I with others about to set off on a cool Autumn morning.

It's a thing from another age. It's beauty is mainly from an engineering standpoint. It was I think the first reactive drive to ever be used on a Guzzi.

And the funny thing is that the Nuovo Hi-Cam runs absurdly cool because it has a separate cooling circuit that doesn't have a thermostat! theycouldnt run a brothel in an army camp!😂

You can buy banjo bolts with a bleed nipple on them. I just as the last processes unbolt the master and tilt it so the reservoir is higher than the connection and then just work the lever in the "slack" gently and the air in that location comes into the master. Only takes a few movements of the lever. The other thing is to remove the calipers off the disks one at a time and pump the pistons out maybe 2 mm each (put a 3mm spacer between the pads) then lever them into the caliper again gently until they just slide back over the disk. This releases the seals from the pistons and allows them to reset at a different position. This alone even without bleeding will reduce the lever travel to the bar. Ciao

Probably the Moto Spezial 'V' sump. From memory it deleted the oil cooler but it did have the pick-up cast in to the bottom of the 'V' so exposing it was pretty difficult. When the CARC bike's were launched Guzzi actually said that the sump had been re-designed to prevent pick up exposure, (Although it was hidden way down in some press release. Heaven forbid they admit that the earlier design was shite!). The later system the pick up, although it still comes down from above, sits slightly recessed in the casting and has a cast in weir behind it to discourage the rearward slop of oil. It seems to work as I haven't heard of anybody having the 'Flickering oil light of death' on a CARC bike.

Uhh, maybe just buying their airline tickets would be cheaper?

Ok, I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations are up. Wayne posted about this last winter, so I'm no longer sworn to secrecy. When the Daytona/Centauro etc. engines were certified, Guzzi, in their inimitable way screwed up and used the wrong chip. It was way too expensive to go through the certification process again, so they sent correct chips to Will on the west coast, Wayne Orwig on the east coast, and Karsten (from memory) in Germany. These were well known Guzzi Guys with electronic experience. They modified the chips and sent them all over the world. Naturally the epa, et al would have blown a gasket if known. (whistling) Will had a Daytona RS that he used to improve Guzzi's baseline chip, so I would expect he would know what you need. I would imagine Wayne could still burn you one, too. Probably it is still not general knowledge, though..

This man , I started listening to yesterday and can't get enough !

I'm sure all these things are great, and I might sound like and stubborn old git (I'm actually 37, is there a youngest Guzzi rider trophy? ) but I have never had a problem with a loop of clear tube with one end in a glass bottle of old brake fluid; just pump out the old stuff and the air bubbles, it goes out into the bottle and the bubbles rise up, can't get sucked back in.

Today I finished the new motor transplant and took it for a nice long spin! Fresh oil lines and a sweet new roper plate