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Hmmmmm . Let's go over this "clearly " mentioned STUFF . You think your wife doesn't know you purchased a bike ! Every night you go to sleep , she gives you the Vulcan mind probe and finds out every thought , act and muse you have done that day . She isn't going to bring it up , simply for the fact she "can and will use it against you" when the time comes ! You cannot ration or reason ANY discussion about this motorcycle . The day will come you will simply say "oh , I thought I told you?" ..... Then_____________________ buy her a pair of Jimmy Choo high heels and a pricey purse .

There should be plenty half dismantled old T3 availlable around with bashed body work etc,better resucitated into a Café than left to rot and waiting for the scrap yard. Anyway you dont need any bodywork or wheels if they are cast. Also,You will find plenty low mileage ugly ex police T5 in Italy for E3000 or there about ,you can swap the barrels for new 940 Gilardonis round fins and get Le Mans heads. Good Luck from Cork, Ireland (Pics are before and after)

I wanted to delete text in a reply and I deleted the whole thread.... sorry for that.... I will put back the pictures tomorrow. I was answering Docc's question about the differences between the V85TT engine and the V7 III engine for 2021. It is "derived" from the V85TT, as it will comply with the EURO 5 pollution European protocol. Here is my source from Moto.it

Thanks, bud! Haven't ridden anything in a month. Perfect riding gift-of-an-afternoon before the rains ring out the year. If you want to feel like your V11 is a big, powerful motorcycle: don't ride for a month, then take your 30hp Honda single out first. Rolling out on the V11 Sport: "Bad To The Bone! "

Bad To The Bone

That green really looks good !

I'm not criticising you. Just stating that the information given in the piece is wildly wrong and inaccurate. We did a full engine and driveline rebuild on a 750S a couple of years ago. The owner decided to call it quits before we got to the cycleparts or cosmetics but my oh my wasn't it a slow, disappointing POS. There is a lot of nonsense and folklaw promulgated about the 750 Tontis. Even more so than other Guzzis and that's saying a lot! The one huge advantage they have is they are really smooth and the rod/stroke ratio seems to work really well in this regard but they struggle to make mid forties HP while weighing as much as any other roundfin Tonti. They are grossly under carbureted as well which means they run out of puff when they should be getting into their stride and the camshaft, contrary to popular belief, is the same 'Lawnmower' cam used on all other Tonti's until the MkIV LeMans, (And before anybody starts telling me that the cam timing is different for the V7 Sport I suggest that they go back and look at the setting clearance difference between the Sport and the S. The Sport is a different cam but it's nothing special and yes, back in the day I graphed them both using the same setting clearance, they are very similar.). They are exceptionally pretty though.

Moto Inspections cost a whopping $7 bucks in Houston...MPH did my inspections for years but any car place can do them as well. Sometimes where I take my cars they don’t even charge me for the 3 Guzzi inspections

You can't put roundfin top end on a T5 squarefin case.

@Lucky Phil I believe that it was you, yesterday, who answered about an opinion that Guzzi was going to bring back the Le Mans using the 850 cc engine. The media I follow for Italian news are based in Italy. Those media are often lead by former motorcycle racers. My main source of information for anything Italian is Moto.it. There guys are my age, and they are just as passionate as we are about anything and everything motorcycle. They don't usually make click bait articles, and I came to respect their insider's views. Nico Cereghini, who was 17, that 55 years ago, and on a Gilera 68. This is one of the main guy behind Moto.it. I don't pretend to convince anybody, but there are still some good guys that write about the stuff we like. Sure, they still need to make money, but I don't think this is their only concern in this case. So back to a Le Mans with the V85TT engine, why wouldn't Moto Guzzi expend the line? wasn't the very first Le Mans a 850 cc powered one?

Well, the last time you embarked on an epic (10,000 mile circumnavigation of the Continental US) ride, you managed to work the South'n SpineRaid in! Swing by again, then ship your Guzzi out of Atlanta . . . Or better, swing by on the way back home!