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Well I grew up in the aviation world where if a tool from you toolbox is missing after a job it's a massive deal and often sleepless nights. It could be sitting somewhere waiting to jam a flight control. Funnily enough I tend not to lose tools:) My 1/4 drive Snapon ratchet went missing a year or 2 back. I couldn't find it for about 20 min and wasn't worried about it jamming in flight controls more the fact that I'd bought it like 45 years ago and had it my whole professional career and now it was gone. Very, very sad I was. Then I found it, joyful it was. In my back pocket all along. Ciao

Well, finally managed to get out on the bike yesterday! After 10 weeks of covid lockdowns ( total of 3 x weeks ) crap weather ( plenty ) family commitments ( 1 x weekend catch up between lockdowns ) and household chores I was asked to help out at one of our metropolitan branches due to staffing shortages yesterday. ( been working from home last 12 x months ) It's about 80 kays ( 50 miles ) away and I thought bloody ripper I'm taking the bike even if it fookin snows!! So 5.15am and a balmy 6 degrees I'm togged up and hit the starter.Jeezuz, she's not been used for 10 weeks and she explodes into life at the slightest touch of the button. I reckon she's looking forward to this as much as I am! So even though it was just a commute/drone down the highway it was great to be on the bike again and I can take the longer twistier fun way home after work! Well it wasn't quite meant to be, the weather decided to turn, really strong winds down by the coast not so much fun and knackered after a crazy day so thought I'll take another less fun but better than the highway way home. Bugger just before the turn off the low fuel light starts flickering on so that's out as no gas stations that way. No choice but to just drone down the highway again and stop for gas at the servo close to home. Ha ha bloke at the servo really loved the bike and could'nt get over the colour! Surely that's not a standard paint job ha ha . ( she's a greenie ) Anyways hit the back road behind the servo and gave her a taste of the redline in second third and fourth just to clear the cobwebs ! Ahhhhh SUBLIME before constabulary paranoia set in.I'd seen a few rozzers about as this is the first weekend of freedom after the latest lockdown. Home, change and a glass of Shiraz in front of the fire with the wife and the weekend to look forward to. Bloody Marvelous. Cheers Guzzler

Preparing to "sport-tour" rather than local riding, the time has come for mySport to slip on a long-sleeve-shirt and a tight-fitting cap . . .

That I very often find myself in this situation.

You are a better more daring rider than I. What I have is a twice-scraped center stand. OK, it is from supporting the behemoth for pictures. Sidestands. On my TX650, I removed the sidestand and ground the mount off after it put me in a ditch on a fresh set of Dunlop K81s. Oddest thing I leanred from that is that Mikuni VM38s will idle upside down.

If I remember correctly, the distance between two opposed faces which determines the size of the wrench you need to use is based on the standard used for that particular fastener. It is either ISO, or DIN and at the manufacturers' choice to follow. Either one works, but for the same size, the nominal wrench size may change. This always has been a major pain in the back side. In the oilfield industry, early on, some accessories, instrumentation, metering systems were manufactured in the USA, and installed on equipment manufactured in Europe. So you would always need to have a tool box with imperial and metric tools; sometimes the temptation to use the wrong tool would result in a lot of frustration. That included tap and dies, and screws that looked alike but with imperial threads that you may want to install in a metric threaded hole; same size, different thread pitch! And the cherry on the cake were with the early British standard for threads, which fortunately got discarded when they embraced the metric system. Initially, British threads would screw anti-clockwise against the universal standard to screw clockwise, excepted for gas connections.

Getting back to mySport after an uncharacteristically extensive wrenching session on my little Honda, I had to stop reaching for the 12s and 14s and fall back to the 11, 13, 17, 19 for the Guzzi. "Odd", I know . . .

You need to fashion that story into some kind of Greeting Card. From one Guzzi rider to another what its all about.

For reasons I cannot explain, I have more 10mm wrenches than any of my others. After reading this thread, I am beginning to wonder if they belong to you and some others here. Cue ... Bill

swear to God... 20 years ago I made a special trip to Lowes and bought FIVE 10mm wrenches of differing types, brought them home and hung them all on ONE peg at the bench. They added to the TWO in the box that I can never find. Not a problem now

I actually shimmed the gear/ cam wheels inwards toward the gear shifting pins to improve engagement in the cam slots. With only 0.3mm clearance, this meant some fiddling with the neutral switch seal washer.

Only in YOUR mind. !

Considering how fussy this is to set the last thing you need is "spiked" wires to get your reading. Just add another layer of fussiness you don't need. Ciao

Super nice day for a ride on the Scura in the forest and surrounding areas…with a nice stop for cool drinks at the Classic Rock cafe to visit Cash and Mick! Had to celebrate the good news that the Stones are back on tour again and coming soon…with the last show at COTA in Austin! Still have tickets so it’s a go!

I spent my whole career working on US built aircraft, so all AF (plus a lot of years on Airbus, and Fokker come to think of it) and the metric system is by far and away the best. I can measure out 900mm OR 35 and 27/64ths", spare me. The only thing I still convert is 10ths and hundredths of a mm, thousandths of an inch seem more relevant to my brain for some reason. But I always do the calculation in my head, I'm not mad enough yet to use a calculator or anything. And who cares how much force a horse from 1824 could produce and the length of a mans foot from the same time. Ciao

That guzzler-mobile . . .

I have Mistral carbon cans ( no db killers ) with Stucchi crossover and open airbox lid. Some have read this set-up before and gone whoa way too much, but it's not at all. My wife who hates loud bikes ala open piped Harleys and inline 4's with race pipes LOVES the sound of the green one. Also most people I ride with comment favourably on the sound. My all time favourite bike note was a bevel duck with Conti's but this set up has nudged it from first place for me! Cheers Guzzler.

https://www.motoguzzi.com/en_EN/moto-guzzi-world/news-moto-guzzi/gmg-2022/

Guzzi is perfect for those who lost the popular sized wrenches.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Lovely, but if you want a hero grazed side stand, I have two. Swap you one.

It is still shifting quite nicely today (relief!) with the wheel properly captured. The wee roller bearing made a very significant difference for me as my original was quite knackered. Thanks, again, @Lucky Phil for the Shift Improvement procedure. Absolutely worthwhile!

Great story of the reality of the routine peaks and valleys of motorcycling. Why we keep at it is a mystery to non-riders, but we know. OTOH, I had to run it through my Ozian translator app to understand some of it. Not quite so challenging as reading this -- A History of Wales by John Davies -- which has me mumbling and cursing just now, but several words did give me as much pause as some of those characters and placenames. Bill

Am thinking of opening an internet business: "10mm Socket World" Whadya think? The slammed Honda boyz would be good for a few.

In one of my line of business, "infant mortality" was used for brand new equipment that would break down a few hours before entering service. Mainly Electrical Submersible downhole Pumps. For those non eruptive wells, you run a pump. Some of them, would fail a few hours or days after being started.

Docc, don’t worry about the clock, reset or not, W affects or not. Quit wearing watches 30+ years ago. Take care of the gal, and think about the 6000 rpm song. . Cheers tom

Once again: I am six weeks to the (Seventeenth) South'n SpineRaid and I am flirting with the Waddington Effect. Determined to seal leaks from my gearbox preselector plate, I removed it last week (and installed a roller bearing on the "indexer" arm). A circlip failed to capture and the Neutral Switch failed (Waddington!!) on a 207 mile shakedown ride. (Otherwise, shifted fabulously!) That is corrected today, but required the preselector to be removed and reinstalled/ resealed. My question: Since there was an additional service procedure, does the "Waddington Clock" get reset? Another ten hours of operation to re-establish reliability/ "roadworthiness"?

So, yep, the lower cam wheel circlip had jumped it's groove allowing the wheel to move inboard against the "banana plate" where it would not actuate the Neutral Switch. Since it was against the plate retained by its own circlip, it felt solid pushing it or striking it with a punch through the switch hole. The circlip was retained on the shaft, so it wasn't going to drop off and get onto the gearbox. I was leery of rotating the cam wheels on the bench as I knew they were in neutral (and marked them as @Lucky Phil did) and didn't want to risk getting them out of synch with the gearbox. Yet, as @Scud said: Glad to have it sorted (checkride tomorrow). Thank you all for your replies and encouragement. Thank you @MartyNZ (once again, I might add! )

Seeing as how we have largely mastered these SpineFrame beasts, there are more important TechSessions to consider . . .

Mine came with Staintunes. Pretty throaty, but not obnoxious. Db killers out. With them, it is just so wrong. Recently rotated them up for a little more spiff.

OK... we're posting Scura pics? I'll play. As for the Stones... wow, just wow that they are touring. I don't know if I am more surprised that Keith Richards or Ozzy Osborne are still with us... but they both gave us some great music. Speaking of music... maybe this would be a good time to put some aftermarket pipes on that Texas Scura?